Manual Mode

I am taking a new photo class....this one is "Mastering Manual Mode." I think finally the whole settings thing is finally coming together in my head. It has taken a long time, and a ton of reading but finally I see how all the camera settings work together...

I took the boys outside the other night to try out Manual Mode on my camera. This really is a huge step for me. I usually shoot in Aperture priority mode, so going totally Manual was a bit scary. Some of the pics didn't turn out to well, but some of them did. Here are some of my favorite ones.

The boys were such good sports too. Sometimes they get sick of me following them around with the camera all the time, but I caught them on a good day!! :)

Fishin'

When I was born my father was a little disappointed...I came out a little girl, after the doctor had told my parents I was a boy. After a little while he did get over the fact that I was a girl, but that didn't stop him from trying to get me to like "boy things." Lucky for me, Dad took me a lot of fun, cool places that most girls might not enjoy to much. Lucky for Dad, I was a "tom-boy," that really enjoyed all those places..He never did get a girl but he did get a girl that enjoys to do boy things....

Now years later, I am dreaming of having a little girl....buying cute girl clothes, taking her shopping...all the fun little girl things we could do!!!

Then I have days like yesterday where I get to go fishin' with MY BOYS!!!!

Some days can be crazy living with 2 little and 1 big boy...but I never would want it any other way!! I love my BOYS!!!

We took one of Killian's best friends on our fishing trip. His name is Ben and I love taking pictures of him because he has the most beautiful eyes. It's weird that Killian is old enough to have little friends knocking on our door to "play." I love it, but it also makes me sad that he is growing up soooo fast.

Killian's first catch

Ben's first catch, he was sooo excited!!!

Ben holding up his catch!

Killian holding up his catch!!

I love this pic of all the little boys hanging out fishing!!

Ben and Killian, so cute!!

Look at those eyes!!!

Killian being brave, holding the snake that Blake caught!!

I love Ben's face in these two pictures!!

The boys found water to play in while we were waiting for our fish to be filleted..

Liam was so curious of the fish, but he wouldn't touch them..

Jodie

This past weekend Blake and I traveled to Helena, Montana for one of my Best Friend's Weddings. Not only did we stay in a beautiful Bed and Breakfast, we were able to see Jodie marry her Best Friend, Kyle Phillips in the most beautiful Cathedral I have ever seen.

I have many more pictures...but I know that Jodie is in Costa Rica right now stalking the Internet for photos of her wedding. She had an amazing photographer that was there to capture their beautiful day and I know she can't help herself but to look for her photos, probably daily, maybe more than once a day....so I posted some of my favorite pictures that I took at her wedding.

For you that don't know Jodie, she has worked for me for many years, and helped me build Ruffledale to what it is today, I couldn't have made it to where I am without her help or her friendship. I am so grateful to have her in my life. Over the years of working with her I have gotten really close to her and I am soooooo excited for her and Kyle to start their lives together. Congratulations you too...(Kyle, I will make sure to include some pics of you in the next post!!) Love you guys, have a wonderful time in Costa Rica!!!!

The Beautiful Bride

Me and Jodie

Jodie and her best friends, Krista and Heather

Me, flipping off the camera....oops

Me and Blake!!

for Shanae

I hate, hate, hate getting pictures done of myself, I guess it's because I only see my physical flaws. If I never had any pictures taken I can pretend I don't possess those flaws...haha..but then there are my beautiful little boys and sexy husband that I love getting pictures of.

I decided it was time to get a family picture done, the last one we had taken professionally was right after Blake and I tied the knot. In the picture was Blake, me, Dakota and Kenna. No kids yet, the picture would have been taken about six years ago. We don't have a picture with us and the kids so it was about time. I decided we really should try to make it an annual thing. We will see if that works out!!

My sweet Sister-in-Law Shanae has been dying to see some of the pictures. Unfortunately due to circumstances I was unable to get them to her sooner.. Anyway girl, here is some of the pics, you can see the rest when you come babysit my crazy boys for the rest of the week. :)

Love you T

Before & After

Before Blake and I moved into our Kaysville home I dreamed about "my green and brown" room. I had it all planned out, the stripes I would paint to the window treatments I would hang. I loved the green and brown room, but over time the green and brown room was monotonous and I started to HATE it.

I had sold a lot of stuff on KSL so I thought maybe I could sell the whole room together. I put the whole room on KSL and in a week I sold all of it, even the window treatments..

Now I had to decide what to do with the space......After thinking about it and asking everyone the decision was made to make it into a home office...We decided on IKEA because the price was great and I loved the look of it...Thanks to my sweet HUSBAND here is the finished product.......

BEFORE:

AFTER