48 faces of ren

Our little man is very expressive with his face. Many times he pulls like 10 different faces within 30 seconds. Here are a few, okay more like a TON, of his many faces:)

sure to make you laugh

I found this on a blog I was reading last night of a woman in my ward. I don't know if it was just because it was late, or these were really that funny, but I was laughing so hard on some that I couldnt finish reading to Seth. Enjoy:)

JACK (age 3)
was watching his Mom breast-feeding his new baby sister... After a while he asked: 'Mom why have you got two? Is one for hot and one for cold milk?'

MELANIE (age 5)
asked her Granny how old she was.. Granny replied she was so old she didn't remember any more. Melanie said, 'If you don't remember you must look in the back of your panties. Mine say five to six.'

STEVEN (age 3)
hugged and kissed his Mom good night. 'I love you so much that when you die I'm going to bury you outside my bedroom window.'

BRITTANY (age 4)
had an ear ache and wanted a pain killer. She tried in vain to take the lid off the bottle. Seeing her frustration, her Mom explained it was a child-proof cap and she'd have to open it for her. Eyes wide with wonder, the little girl asked: 'How does it know it's me?'

SUSAN (age 4)
was drinking juice when she got the hiccups. 'Please don't give me this juice again,' she said, 'It makes my teeth cough..'

DJ (age 4)
stepped onto the bathroom scale and asked: 'How much do I cost?'

CLINTON (age 5)
was in his bedroom looking worried When his Mom asked what was troubling him, he replied, 'I don't know what'll happen with this bed when I get married. How will my wife fit in it?'

MARC (age 4)
was engrossed in a young couple that were hugging and kissing in a restaurant. Without taking his eyes off them, he asked his dad: 'Why is he whispering in her mouth?'

TAMMY(age 4)
was with her mother when they met an elderly, rather wrinkled woman her Mom knew. Tammy looked at her for a while and then asked, 'Why doesn't your skin fit your face?'

JAMES (age 4)
was listening to a Bible story. His dad read: 'The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city but his wife looked back and was turned to salt.' Concerned, James asked: 'What happened to the flea?'

The Sermon I think this Mom will never forget...

This particular Sunday sermon....'Dear Lord,' the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. 'Without you, we are but dust...' He would have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter who was listening leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her shrill little four year old girl voice, 'Mom, what is butt dust?'

Coriann & Tucker

Same day at the park as below. Followed these two around, well more like made them let me follow to take pictures and forced them to pose for some of them. Why do all men hate pictures?:)

nephews-wood boys

Went to a park with my fam and I followed my nephews around for a few minutes. Of course I'm biased, but I just think they are the cutest, until they started throwing those rocks at me. jk, they're cute ALL the time ;)






Daddy (my bro) and 2 of his boys

will be needing guinea pigs

I've hesitated to blog about this, for many reasons, but just to name a few:

1. I live in Utah..there are THOUSANDS here already.
2. I'm just beginning. It's always hard to start something new and get it out there because you're amateur and you feel it.
3. I don't want to be labeled as "following the Utah Valley crowd"..maybe one day we'll move...maybe. ha.

BBBBBUUUUUUTTTTTT

I'm studying Photography... and I. LOVE. IT. I don't know why I didn't start sooner or try to get a degree in it. As many of my friends/family know I have been a picture taker nut, growing up. I blame it all on my mom:) (love you mom) We have thousands, no maybe MILLIONS of pictures of us growing up, and continuing on today. I fell in line and now have THOUSANDS, and I'm not even exaggerating, of pictures just from my 5 years at college. So I've always loved taking pictures, but never learned the nitty grittys about how to make your photos good. I loved catching moments in time. I guess you could say I kept a journal by taking pictures. Then I met Seth. He's not a picture taker freak like I grew up being. Neither is his family. So naturally, the personality that I have, felt shy/embarrassed to whip out my camera every five minutes to capture something. Resulting in not many pictures of our first year of marriage together.
But when I was in the hospital after having Warren, Seth left with my dad to go do some shopping for baby things. My birthday was also the next day, so I thought "baby things" was code for "birthday things". Well at least I hoped, as we all do, right? Let's just say that Seth and my family grew up differently how we celebrated birthdays and I wasn't getting my hopes up this year ;) Long story short, I came home from the hospital on my birthday and we had a little singing before we were to leave to go hold/see Warren for my first time. Seth whips out this wrapped box, I open it and it was the most surprised I have EVER been for a b-day present. He had gone out and bought me an SLR camera!!! (Seth doesnt have many pictures of him growing up and told me he didnt want Warren to now have any) Now I just need to save up for some good lenses.

I had thrown around wanting to go into photography a few times with him, but knew it wouldnt be possible for a while being newly wed and knowing how stuff can be spendy. Seth was always catching me looking at photog blogs. "What is it that you're looking at all the time on blogs?" "Photographers pictures, i LOVE pictures." my favs are Jenny Wheeler & Natalie Norton
A couple days before he went shopping he slyly asked if I still would ever still like to actually like to do photography, I of course said yes and we kept driving, I didn't think anything of it.

Another Long story short, I wanted to find a class/workshop here close to where I live. But when I was home visiting my sis's fam. she had told me about a school that sends you the material and you can do it at your own leisure. I got excited. Asked Seth. After a while, he said yes. I enrolled, got my first unit about 2 weeks ago and can't put it down!

Truth be told, my older sister, Shanae, is the main one who really inspired me by the pictures she was taking. (go ahead, click on 'taking', you know you want to) I was green with envy, ok so maybe that sounds like I secretly was jealous in a bad way. but no, I wanted to be like her. I've always wanted to be like her. I dunno if she's ever known that but it's true, nae. :)

Anyhow...my journey has begun. I still love taking pictures, and I'm slowly learning how the pros make them magical.

Soooooooooo. If anyone is brave enough to volunteer themselves or their family, or dog, or child, or whatever, I need me some practice. Hence the guinea pig title. Leave a comment and we'll be in touch!!
I LOVE my lil guy and just think he's the cutest ever and love taking pictures of him, but you know, I need a little variety:) A site is in the making, so therefore my practicing is documented here for now.

and lastly, this is one quote from many, that I think says it all for me.

"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still." -Dorothea Lange

Just a few photos from my first "Photo Project" from the school.

Miranda was my beautiful model:)

Selective Focus to make subject stand out
(for some reason it's cutting off my horizontal photos)(( insert angry eyes here))




Frozen motion.



Express a sense of motion or speed

temple square

Yesterday I went up to SLC with one of my old roommates/besties. We took a jaunt around Temple Square. It was BEAUTIFUL, the trees and flowers were all in bloom. I wondered how the flowers were all gorgeous and in bloom already and Seth said it's because Temple Square has the bombest gardeners in the world. Well, now I know :) It was weird to realize that that's where I was married and it's been over a year already. CRAZY.
I'm pretty sure Warren loves being outside, he never gets fussy and stays awake the whole time. Once we got back to the car, it was a different story.

oh how i L.O.V.E spring












Ren was loving the blossoms

a place of beauty

It takes Warren and I less than 15 minutes to walk here and I see it everyday from our house. We're lucky to live in this Temple's shadows. Such a gorgeous place with a beautiful spirit surrounding it! Here's a few shots I took on our little Saturday afternoon walk. If you would like to know more about this place, click here.






My lil guy being a good boy in his stroller the whole ride!
(I couldnt decide which one I liked best, so you get all three:))