10-5-2008 Week in Review

First of all I'd like to give a SHOUT OUT to Mrs. Nash for coming through on her challenge to get a nice picture of herself (though NOT taken by her husband) up on her blog...check out the (other) other Nashes on the left!!  Way to go!  Also, Mrs. HS for getting her beautiful daughter to take a picture, as well!

Also, I've been tagged a LOT this week so I'm gonna spread them out so as not to overload everyone (myself).  This last one made me look like I've got OCD!...I'm not obsessive, just passionate!  (I like that word much better!)

Okay, so on with the week!  Monday the new Kohl's opened up near my house!!  I am officially no longer living out in the country, the city has come to me!  I've had returns that I've put off taking back because the nearest Kohl's to me is over 30 minutes away so at 8am I was through the doors and was their first return!  I then turned around and found the frames for the kids' silhouettes from Disneyland that I've been looking for all summer! YEAH!

Dade

Corben

Ella

Sylvie

 

Wednesday I had my next photography course.  We learned about lenses and filters.  I'm really enjoying this class though I'm hating having to shoot pictures where I set all of the settings.  I'm not good enough at it yet to get most of them right so I'm missing a lot of great shots and it's KILLING me!!  Thursday was a busy day.  Sylvie at her 1 year shots in the morning.  The nurse took one look at her thighs and exclaimed that with thighs that huge she wouldn't even feel her shots!  She was wrong.  We then headed over to my nephew's 3rd birthday party.  My SIL is so brave and had over 20 kids over!!  The party was a huge hit and went so well.  I was SO impressed (though not yet inspired to try it on my own)!

 

Thursday night, Dade had a basketball game.  He's currently playing with the other young men in our congregation that are his age (the Deacons) and they play against other congregations in the area.  He was so excited because THEY WON!!  Go, Deacons!  Friday we headed back over to my SIL's for a photo shoot!  My FIL has enough photo equipment to run his own studio but let's us all play with it instead.  I'm NO expert and had never even seen the kind of lights he had.  We set up a white backdrop and 3 lights that were hooked to my camera that would go off just like the flash.  They were INTENSE and it was hard for me to get the settings right on my camera to not have them too over or underexposed.  I'll be spending some time in Photoshop fixing these later.

	Ryan's Dad doing what he loves!!
See, some came out dark, some too bright...Photoshop, help me find the medium!!

 

Saturday Ryan decided he wanted to take the boat out for one last spin at the lake before it got too cold.  It was such a beautiful day!!  We had some family come with it and it was a great day!

We had such a great day at the lake!  The big kids (and little - Ella went!) had a great time getting pulled around on the tube behind the boat and the little kids loved playing in the sand.  The following picture makes me laugh only because I was there for the audio.

 

Ella worked really hard to dig this big hole and built a little wall.  Suddenly a jet ski went by and made these waves come in.  They were hitting her wall and she started yelling at them, "NO! NO! MINE!!!  MINE! NO!  MINE! NO!"  This went on for several minutes while Ryan's sister and I laughed and laughed. It was a great day!

Sunday we spent a glorious day listening to General Conference.  Twice a year the leaders of our church speak over 2 days and 4 sessions to the entire world on topics they have felt inspired to teach.  It's so wonderful to sit and listen as a Prophet of God speaks to me right in my home.  I feel so blessed and edified!!  What a great week!