My New Love...

This past Sunday was my Mother's Birthday. Happy Birthday Mom! For her Birthday some of the family decided it would be fun to get her lightroom photoshop and so began my love affair with it. As most of you know i recently bought a Nikon D3000 and am absolutely in love with taking pictures with it and lightroom helps so much! Anyway I thought it would be fun to show some of the pictures I've played around with in lightroom. So here we go...

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My little Ammon. Didn't change much here just softened his skin and he had a little rash under his nose that I got rid of. 

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Mom and Dad in Cedar Breaks. I love them!

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Erin who looks good no matter what. She is definitely the photogenic one. Brat!

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Sarah at the temple waiting for Whit and John. Just gave this one more of a retro feel. No touching up needed.

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Whit's hair at the wedding. So pretty!

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I'm just going to apologize right now for the before of this one. Scary of me! The kiddies always look cute though!

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My little Easton sporting the U hat. Just made his skin more clear. How cute is he?

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All I can say is thank goodness for photoshop!

                                                                                

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Hottie Mcgee @ Salt Flats.

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Up in the Canyons on a Fall day.

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Took out all the chocolate on Easton's face (not that there's anything wrong with having chocolate on your face. Can you tell we are related?) also used the retro preset. If you have lightroom get retro preset. It's one of my favs!

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Easton the Giraffe in sepia chic (also an awesome preset!)

                                            

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Temple with autumn leaves.

A Surprise Bday Present!

So, a few weeks ago, my friends husband emailed me and asked if I would agree to be flown out to Southern California to be my friends surprise Bday present. Um, how could I say no to that? I couldn't!!

A little background: Monique is a friend of mine from the mission. We were never companions, but lived in the same apartment for 7 months. It was my first 7 months of the mission field and her last 7.  We had a great time together. When we were both home from the mission, we became travel buddies. We vactioned to Europe together for a month, went on a Mexican Riviera cruise, went to Cali, etc. We are great traveling companions. Monique moved down to Cali for her job and ended up marrying her boss, Pat who has 3 kids from a previous marriage. Monique and Pat have 2 of their own now and also have a foster daughter. So, Monique is a busy Mom and Pat wanted to do something special for her Bday. What a nice husband! So, Pat flew me down Thursday night. Monique and I spent Friday at Disneyland, and then Saturday sleeping in, shopping and a movie. Sunday we spent at the beach mostly and then I flew home that night. We had a great time and ate like we were missionaries again. We got kinda sick Saturday night! :) But all in all, it was a great trip and so fun to spend time with Mo! Here are some pics!

First of all--we spent the night at the Hilton by Disneyland on Thursday. We walk in...and there were hundreds of people in the lobby. Many of them very strange. We asked the man at the desk what was going on. He informed us it was the Blizz-con convention. Gamers. World of Warcraft. Need I say more. These pics might.

                                                                Really.....really??? 

Anywho, i only took one photo of us at Disneyland. It is the first time I have been during Halloween. So much fun! It was pretty packed, though.

Here are our cupcakes after we stood in line and ordered 3 each. That's right--3. And then we went to the gelato shop next door. We were so sick that night because we had only had sweet food and nothing real to eat that day because we were so full after. So, we laid in our beds like a bunch of slugs and talked about how we were both craving some real food at about midnight. Mexican food. Too bad we couldn't get out of bed!

Sunday at Newport Beach

                               We ate at this cute little restaurant at a beach called Crystal Cove I believe.

All in all, it was a fantastic trip and so much fun to spend time with Monique! I miss her so much! Happy Bday Mo. I'm glad I was able to be a part of it. And thanks to Pat for making it happen!

The Mitchell's Wedding 10-22-10 :)

My dear friends Whitnee and John got married last week in the Salt Lake Temple and I thought I would share some pics from their big day. Love you crazy kids ;)
WARNING: PICTURE OVERLOAD!

Waiting for the bride and groom

 It's official!

 A little wave

Buddies

 My brother from another mother

 3 Generations

 Parents of the bride

 Try not to be jealous John

 Siblings

 Friends for life

 Two of my loves

Sarah crossing the stream so she wouldn't have to walk 10 more steps in her heals. Weak!

 The reception. John and Whit waiting for the party to start

 So Angelic

 Life imitating art

 Best Friends :)

 With Ma and Pa

 The party started when Cathy showed up

 John made me take a picture of the wedding gifts so he would know if something got stolen. So John! I love it!

 Bridesmaids

 Bunch of dancing fools!

 Congo Line

 Carli and Jake

 Best girls!

 Happily ever after!

Happily ever after with photo shop!