Aperture??

Okay I have a love for photography. I love looking at pictures and love to pretent to take pictures but I don't know how to take pictures worth a darn. I decided to learn more about my camera so I can kind of learn what photography en tales and find out what exactly my camera can do... Who doesn't love photography anyways? I think everyone loves taking pictures and looking at pictures right? I just want to understand the basics, so while reading my owners manual it has terms like aperture, iso... what the heck? from then I searched the Internet- Photography for dummies.... I learned about aperture and how to focus on one thing with the background being blurry. Okay cool! So, outside I went trying to take pictures this way.... yeah right. I couldn't figure it out. My aperture settings range from 3.5 to 8. Setting it on 3.5 didn't make anything blurry in the background except my tomato plant. Allison I need you help :)... I guess this just takes lots and lots of practice. Does the object you are taking a picture of need to be so far from the background? I wonder what I am doing wrong. I took pictures of everything in my yard and only two picture semi worked. When my kids wake up from their nap we are going outside to practice on them. If anyone has any tips and helpful hints you are more than welcome to help me anytime.

Troys Blessing day

Playing in the sand again!!!

Troys Baby blessing was this last sunday (I will be posting pictures soon) It was so good to spend time with everyone. What an amazing day. Dad, You did an amazing job! I am so proud to be your daughter. You make me smile for the person you have become. The things that you have been through really have only made you stronger in the gospel that I can tell you truly love it so much. Thanks for being a Good example to me!
Sunday evening we spend out at Snow Canyon playing in the sand again and Kourntey took some family pictures of us(hopefully everyone can make it to Blanding this year for the four of July so we can get a picture with eveyone. I already asked for it off work!). Anyways, we had a GREAT time!! Easton was so cute with Samantha. He was in love with her. He kept saying "Sam is my girlfriend." Everywhere Sam went, Easton followed. He was always wanting to hold her hand. Dad and Jenny and the girls stayed until wednesday. We went swimming, shopped, laughed, talked, played, ate yummy food and even stayed up late for icecream at coldstone. yummy! Thank you so much for the great time! I miss all of you already.

Happy Birthday Kourtney!!

Kourtney is my sister in law, Zac's sister. Its her Birthday today!!! Happy Birthday Kourtney! Kourtney is an amazing person who I look up to in so many ways. Everything about her is perfect! She is talented in so many ways. She is caring, loving, and friendly to everyone. She is so much fun to be around and my kids just love her. She is always so good about watching them when she can and they always have so much fun. She also just recently took pictures of us as a family out at Snow Canyon and she does a fabulous job!! I will be posting some of the pictures soon. Thank you Kourtney for being you!! Love you and hope you are having a wonderful day!!

Craft it forward!!

Craft it Forward Exchange.... (1st 3 people to respond)Craft It Forward Exchange is based on the concept of the movie "Pay it forward". I will send a hand made gift to the first three people who leave a comment to this post on my blog requesting to join the CIF exchange. All the gifts will be made and sent out 'sometime within the next year'. How exciting to not know when your surprise package will arrive! What you need to do in return, is craft it forward by making the same promise on your blog. This exchange is only open to those with active websites or blogs. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS PROMISE TO POST THIS SAME 'CRAFT IT FORWARD' MESSAGE ONTO YOUR BLOG, WHICH MUST BE ACTIVE IN ORDER TO PLAY. YOU WILL CRAFT IT FORWARD TO THREE PEOPLE WHO COMMENT ON YOUR BLOG. I'd love for you to join me! Will you? Other comments are welcome, but only the first three will be my Craft It Forward recipients. Come and join me who doesn't love a gift or giving gifts???This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!2- What I create will be just for you.3- It'll be done this year.4- You have no clue what it's going to be or when.5- The catch is that you must post this on your blog and offer the same to the first 3 people who do the same on your blog.

Lets cook!

So I bought this book today and I am so excited about it! Thanks to my sister in law Meghan... (she told me about her and her friend cooking and freezing meals for later and how helpful it was.) So I searched cooking and freezing and I found this book. Its amazing... it has recipes that are easy, no weird ingredients and the author is from Utah (So the recipes have to be the best, lol). There is software that helps you pick your recipes and helps you make a shopping list. It gives so many tips on how to make cooking fast and easy and you can make 30 meals in one day to put in your freezer. How nice would that be not to have to cook every night and to have a dinner ready without a messy kitchen and everyone is happy. How many of us eat fast food because we are too busy to cook. I work full time and its impossible to cook on the days that I work. I am a procrastinator too.... about 4pm I start thinking about what to fix for dinner... yikes! So.... who wants to take a day and cook a bunch of meals in one day? Just think how much time will be saved! You can spend more time with your family on the days that you don't have to shop and cook. I'm in!! I am anxious to get started!

sand between your toes

We took the kids to Snow Canyon and played in the sand. They absolutely loved it!