nate and ollyce

 sunday afternoon the family came over for dinner. nate and ollyce wanted some pictures together so mom when out with them.

i tagged along.

easter sunday - family

i figured it was time for me to update things around here. i realize, though, that this semester is keeping me busy and i probably won't be posting nearly as often, if at all, for the next 5 weeks.  school is finished the second week of may i believe, a couple weeks later i'll be in pennsylvania and then off to peru i go!  things won't be quite the same for a while, i'm afraid.  try to be patient, and please don't give up on me.


this easter we had all my siblings, nate and ollyce, and mark and heather over for dinner.  nate dislocated his knee, had surgery and is off of work for 8 or so weeks, so he's been hobbling around on crutches.  you know, i always wanted to try those things out, too bad he's just a bit too tall for me to try his.


mark's birthday was this past week, so we celebrated with the most delicious cheesecake i've ever had (made by heather, herself).  truly, it was amazing!

one more thing - you need to go check out this awesome story posted on the 'lie's young woman believe' blog.  it was written by my precious cousin, and actually, she needed me to take this picture of her for it...so go check it out!

Deanna - Another Photo Shoot - Part 2

In case you cared to know, my favorites are the second, fourth, fifth, ninth and last one.  For the one of both of us, I stuck the camera in the tree and set it on timer.  Enjoy!

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This tree was in the Japanese garden...it was beautiful.  The leaves were amazing!

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Kind of random, but I liked the framing.

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Please tell me, which are your favorites?  It helps me to know for the next time I take portrait pictures.  Thanks guys!

Deanna - Another Photo Shoot

First we took the vintage pictures.  But later I took pictures of her in her normal clothes.  I'm not as pleased with these pictures as I was with Lydia's (I think the bright sun had a lot to do with this) but that's all right because I love the other ones I got.  I was going to post all the pictures, but realized that was way too many, so I'm splitting them up.

Oh goodness, I love her boots so much!

Remember, more coming later!

Engaged!

Heather's engaged!!!

Photo taken by my mom.

Photoshoot with Heather

Heather was ever so willing to be my model, this past Saturday. :)  We went downtown (we were planning on going to the beach, but a storm was coming and we decided not to walk all the way down there just to walk all the way back up when it started raining) and I had a glorious time snapping pictures.  I don't take many portraits, if you didn't know that already.  But this time was so fun, and very good practice. :)

If you know Heather, you know she likes making many faces, especially when around children. :)

We walked through the farmer's market and snapped a few random pictures there.

We stopped by an ally and took some pictures there...allies make for great backgrounds/props.

So, what do you think?  Which is your favorite/s?

Weekend at the Cottage

As I already mentioned, we stayed at the cottage at Life Action this past weekend.  We did all that I said we would except walking on the lake (this wasn't permitted).  It was tons of fun!  I had about 6 cups of hot chocolate in the two days that we were there, and handfuls of cookies and whip cream (literally!).  We played many games, round robin, ping pong, foosball, went sledding, walking, talking, laughing, snapping pictures...etc.

So, shall we start?  First we have a few pictures of the cottage.

This is the overview of the main floor.  I am standing where the stairs are to the basement.  Isn't it beautiful?

The living area and dining room table

This is the main floor bedroom.  There are 2 more bedrooms in the basement.  The bed was made by someone who used to live/work at the camp.

Just outside of the cottage.  

The lake is on the very right of the picture behind the trees...you can only see what looks like a  field of snow.

Emily and my shadows in front of the cottage and the turtle that Ben and Christa made of snow.  The turtle was quite impressive!

When we first got there and got unpacked, Sarah, Christa and I went sledding.

So, of course we had to get a picture of each of us.

Sarah and Christa

I thought I'd go about using different color tones - to make things a bit more interesting. This one is one is a favorite!

Looking up at the sledding hill

Mrs. C, Mom, Dad, Mr. H, Mrs. H

Later that evening some more friends and family came over for the evening for dinner and games.

Nate and Ollyce

Megan and Sarah

 Ollyce and I playing card monopoly

Another overview - but this time with people! 

Scrabble and half full root beer floats

Saturday morning us three girls went sledding with dad while a group went cross - country skiing.  This is in front of the cottage.

 We all had a very good time - a nice get away for the weekend. :)