A little Thanksgiving Week Photo Shoot (or three)

I have been wanting to explore myself and my photos. I have been thinking, thinking, thinking lately about where I've come from to where I am today and onto where I want to go as a photographer. There are so many photographers out there and it's hard to find my place. I think it's important to be able to take those classic portraits that could be from any photographer- but I also think it's imperative to have some art that is all your own. Some photos that give themselves away as mine. I'm still neck deep in my journey but here are some experiments with the sun. For anyone who cares.

See, I really like this first one but I'm not sure anyone else does.

You guys, I LOVE these next two but every time I show them to people, nobody really seems too impressed and I'm SO CONFUSED. But I feel happy when I take photos that express MY art, so I guess some times the photos are just for me to enjoy.

And then, you know, it's fine, it's just that my husband takes better photos than I do. ;)

Okay but I took this one ;)

Snow

The snow looked magical. But this snow day June didn't NOT want down to play in it.

She did eat some though

 And... regretted it

Buck hates this photo.

 But we love this photo. :)

 I'm okay with snow- but only in December.

For Conneticut

I guess I should put this on my blog over here too, just in case there is anyone who should see it.

Check out my photography blog to see what's up!

In Honor of Sandy Hook Elementary School

Temple Square

We did it! We got to see the lights at Temple Square. It was a little rainy so we didn't stay too long but
I'm glad we got to go somewhere that focuses solely on Christ for the season.

Santa Baby

June got her photo with Santa Clause for the first time! She was surprisingly calm and happy about it. Which was not conducive to her current "stranger danger" age. But we can't complain. It was so dang cute.

 

Merry Christmas!

Sheep!

Just so you all know, I got to "hold" a sheep today. Or more so, I got to hold its neck. And it was awesome. Sheep are funny. My friend calls them "dirty little clouds" and I love that.

And, okay, the reason I got to do this today was because my cousin asked me to take photos of them like this:

haha

The best part about this whole thing is that my cousin originally asked me if I knew where they could find some sheep to take photos with. She said, "This is a random question, but for some reason I feel like you would know the answer..." Turns out I DID know where to find some sheep. They live behind my grandparents house. And not only that but the man invited us back at the end of February to see the baby pigs. You better believe I'll be taking him up on that offer.

Christmas

I wrote this on Wednesday or something, so it's a little dated. But I'm too tired to revise it.

You know how I'm usually all over the place? Going to some lavender festival or flying across the country or going to a petting farm or dog sledding or SomeThing? Well, this Christmas has been so calm. There are all these activities- Like the Charles Dickens festival or Christmas tree farms and sleigh rides; Santa at the mall and ginger bread house exhibits. They call to me, like all new experiences do. But aside from Zoo lights and the plan to see the lights at temple square, I've said NO to them all. The biggest reason for this is that it's been the last push till the end of Buck's semester. He took A LOT of credits and it's been pretty intense for him these past couple weeks. Now Friday is in sight, and that's when it all ends.

But I've been grateful for the calmer month. I love to do things but I think that our little family needed this month to be more silent and thoughtful.

Have you all seen The Nativity? Because you should. We own it and you can come watch it. I've been watching it every year since it came out. It was in the movie theaters Christmas 2006. It's not made by the LDS church and I found that a bit refreshing. I feel like the Mary in this movie is the most realistic, and the way they focus on the character of Joesph is the best. It shows the truth of it all, how they all lived back then; what life was like. It gives insight into the relationship Mary and Joesph could have had. Even though some parts of the story are all clumped together in one night (the wise men, King Harod sending men to kill the first born boys, Mary and Joesph running away to Egypt- pretty sure that all didn't happen the night Christ was born) I felt like it is the most realistic movie of the famous tale. (granted, I'm no scholar of that time period) But it gives me chills every time. Just thought I should give it a shout out. :)

One thing we have done over here is get our Christmas decorations up. And that has helped fill our home with that Christmas-y feeling.

Okay, So can we just talk about these colors?! I'm obsessed. But I'm obsessed with colors and light all the time. But I just can't stop looking at this part of the house. The way the colors all melt into each other- I can't handle it! I just have to keep looking over. I tried explaining this to Buck how someone who loves chocolate has to keep going back to take another bite- that's how I feel about these colors and looking at them. He was silent for a moment and then asked, "Are you sure you never dropped acid?" Nope, and I guess I don't need to.

And now for some Tree time. Yes, tree time.

Our ornament from our first Christmas together- at Disneyworld!

June's "baby's first Christmas" ornament from last year.

December Date

For our date this month we went out to eat at this fancy restaurant (thanks for the groupon mom!) in Midway Utah- at the Zermatt. (I'm obsessed with the Zermatt resort. It's like traveling to Europe. Such a fun little escape. One day we WILL stay the night there...) We love Midway. How could you not love a Swiss town? It's awesome and we want to live there. Except that the winters are much colder. Gah- what to do?! But I digress.

So we ate our fancy food. Duck and lobster. Mmmm.

I requested to drink my cranberry-apple juice from the wine glass. I hate that they usually take the cool cup away when I don't order alcohol. Rude.

And then we were going to go to a community Christmas sing in thing but after we got to the building we realized that we were a day early. :(  So sad, we had planned the dinner around that. But it was still a good night. We ended up driving through the snowy canyon and then did some Christmas shopping without the June bug. So that was fun. Plus we did said shopping at World Market, so, you know, it's always a good time.

We were trying to remember what each date was this year that we went on. I couldn't remember them all so I'm glad I kept track on my blog!

Anyway, Buck is at the end of finals week (finally) so I have been lonely these nights. I really, really should have found a good book to read. I miss reading.

My view most nights

homework homework homework.

And, that's all for this post. I need to go be productive, or something.