Weekend party

Lansia, me, Holly, and Rod

On Saturday, Holly invited us to her brother's party at their place!! Her other brother, Mony, who is in culinary school out in Vermont was visiting and was the one who put together all the delicious hour'dourves  for us!! His food was awesome!! The party was great with a great turn out!! Good times!! (except for the weirdo with an asian fetish that followed us around!! so creepy!) Yeah, some guys just don't get it! I'm happily married and I'm just not interested!! Go away!!

Achievement Day

So I guess I'll post about one of the callings I have in my ward. Besides being called as one of the nursery leaders, I'm also in charge of achievement day activities with the primary girls ages 8-11. So once a month, on a Saturday, I try to plan a fun and interesting activity for the girls. The goal is to help them prepare for young womens so this past Saturday, I had the girls make their own place mats with a Fall theme. I wanted them to be creative at the same time so I asked them to bring a picture of themselves to put in the middle and then some leaves to decorate the background around their picture. I brought stickers and other things for them so that they could decorate the background even more and at the same time add a little something to their place mats. Fun idea, huh? Yeah, I thought so too!! So, their projects turned out great and I was glad nothing traumatic happened in the process!!! Very nice!! Then afterwards I thought it would be fun if they made caramel apples and then decorated them with candy so I had all the girls help unwrap all the caramel to melt in the pot and then had them take turns stirring until it was all melted. Then it was time to dip their apples in some caramelly goodness and decorate!! Oh, I'm so glad these girls had a fun time because I never know what to expect!!

Whittney

Here are a few pics that I took of my friend Whittney!! The pictures turned out awesome! I'll post some more later! Thanks, girl!

Halloween weekend pics!

me, Holly, and Jenny

looking very tired because it's late

look at Holly in her cute ladybug costume and Jason

learning the Thriller dance at the dance studio

 John had to work so I spent my Halloween with some friends! We had dinner at Fiddler's Elbow and then we headed to the Coffee Garden for some hot cocoa and some late night gossip!! Thanks guys for such a fun night!! Let's do it again soon!!

Brad and Natalee

My sister was sweet enough to let me come along to see what it'll be like to do a wedding. I definitely think weddings are lot more stressful and hectic than normal photo sessions. I really admire photographers that specialize in doing just weddings because it's really not as easy as it looks! Overall, it was a great experience for me to see firsthand what it would be like.

Oh, it's Jenny

Here are some pictures that I took of my good friend Jenny not too long ago. Sorry, it's taking me forever to post these! You look great, Jenny!

We'll miss you, Enge!

Enge and me

the family in front of the MTC

So it's been about a month since I posted something so I thought I should get my blog caught up with what's been going on in my life. Well, sad to say, there hasn't been much going on in my life lately! My adorable little sister, Enge, left for the MTC a couple weeks ago. She'll be going to Taipei, Taiwan for her mission! How exciting, huh? I'm so jealous! She'll be an awesome missionary and I know she'll have tons of fun in Taiwan! She'll be eating all sorts of yummy Taiwanese food! That's one thing I love and miss about Taiwan-the awesome food there! Well, it was definitely a sad good-bye. Right when I got to the MTC I was already holding back tears! So sad! I didn't start start bawling until after the meeting when we were actually saying our final good-byes! By then my whole family was in tears! Well, she left for a very good cause and I'm glad she made such a great decision to go on a mission! I know she will influence many lives in Taiwan and in the process make a lot of friends on the way! Well, good luck, Enge! We'll miss you so much!

Bridal Pictures

My sister was sweet enough to let me come along and practice taking pictures with her when she shot Natalee's bridal pictures! We went to Memory Grove for these pictures and I thought it was the perfect place to shoot bridals! I'm glad they didn't mind me tagging along because I'm really glad that I went! P.S. I had a lot of help from my sister so it wasn't all me! Thanks to my sister I was able to get some great shots! Thanks for guiding me along!

Enge

I took some pictures of my sister, Enge, last week Thursday just for fun. It was fun experimenting with different things and I thought my sister had a lot of brilliant ideas. Thanks, Enge, for letting me do this! The pictures turned out great and I think you look way cute!

Happy Birthday Jenny!

eating dinner at Stoneground

hanging out at D'Bolla like the good old times

Yesterday we had a great time celebrating Jenny's birthday at Stoneground, which is one of our favorite restaurants. It's located downtown right across from the Salt Lake City Library and in the same building as Cafe D' Bolla. They have great pizzas, pastas, salads, and soups. Well, pretty much anything on their menu is good! We haven't had anything bad there. John and I usually get their bruschetta and their spicy chipotle barbeque chicken pizza. Besides the great food there, I also love the ambience and the chill atmosphere. It's a perfect place to hang out with friends. 

After a great dinner, we headed downstairs to D'Bolla but before then, we made a short stop to the record store right by D'Bolla. We checked out their music and their turntables while Alex had a serious conversation with the owner about investing in turntables and records. He's considering buying a turntable in the near future. Afterwards we headed to D'Bolla for some boba drinks. Cafe D' Bolla is a sweet little coffee shop that sells coffee, lattes, boba drinks, gelato, and some delicate pastries. We ended the night at D'Bolla playing Take Two while sipping our drinks and talking.  Well, Happy Birthday, Jenny and we hope you had a great one! Thanks for letting us celebrate it with you!!! We had a great night!