These photos are actually gifts for my dad for Christmas. He never looks at my blog so I am totally safe to post these. My sweet grandparents live out in no mans land, which is a tiny sage brush town called Bicknell. They are both in their 90's, and still kicking!! Over Thanksgiving weekend Dustin and I got to drive down and visit. It was so good to finally be able to spend some time with them. We got to listen to my Grandpa talk about his stories of growing up and being drafted during WWII. I think since Dust and I have been called to family history now, the stories are becoming more and more interesting to me. Anyway I love how these pictures turned out! I seriously had to beg them forever to smile! Both kept telling me they look better in pictures if they don't smile- Ha :) Then when I showed them the ones of them smiling they were like, "oh that does look good." Dustin says that I am a lot like my grandma in a lot of ways. He is convinced we have the same laugh. Anyway I love these two people! And Grandma if you ever do get internet and look at this ...Thank you both of you for being so wonderful!
Last Sat we got to go to the Men's Wearhouse Christmas party in Salt Lake at the Marriot Hotel. It was alot of fun dressing up and going out.
As you can tell from like the 3 posts I have posted today that I am sorting through all our Washington photos. Even though neither Dust or I are in this photo I just had to post this one because I thought it was so sweet of Parker and his great grandma. My grandparents live in oregon and so we were able to stop and visit them for 2 days on our way back from Washington. We don't get to see them very often but when we do it is a treat. While we were there parker wanted Grandma to show him the photos in her little photo albums, and as you can tell in the photo grandma was thrilled to do so.
I found this photo as I was sorting through our washington photos from our vacation this summer. Maybe a little lens flare isn't always so bad-huh? I believe this was taken in the national park which is technically in Oregon. But these trees cover Washington everywhere. I miss them.
The other night Dustin and I were playing with my new lens. It is incredible! Notice how on the one of Dustin the depth of field is so shallow that only half of his face is even in focus. Anyway I am so grateful Dustin is so supportive of my photography and willing to let me practice on him and have fun!
For Halloween Samantha and Jesse had all of our friends over for dinner and games. It was so fun! Not to mention we got a kick out of everyones costume. I still laugh at this picture of all of us when I look at Nick and Dy (the two headed monster) Ha! I especially love how little baby josee is looking over at everyone in this picture and probably wondering who the heck are all these crazies I'm sitting here with. Anyway thanks Sam and Jesse- Dustin and I definitely had a good time!
So most of you may already know. But I recently started a new photography blog. Where I will be posting all my photography I have been doing on the side. The Photo above is from a wedding I did recently. So my new blog is Alyssiabphotography.blogspot.com
So here I am at the Manti Temple. I went by myself so this was my way of taking a photo of me there. And really I was a lot happier than I look in the photo :)
So when we moved to Provo Dustin had been dying to go see the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point. So we decided to take our little nephews because we figured they would help make it more interesting. They have been there so much it turned out they were more so showing us where to go. It was a lot of fun. I especially like the top picture of Kayden and Dust trying to immitate those cave men skeletons. As always Parker was in his own little world.
Ok so this was quite awhile ago but I just found these old photos on my little digital camera so I thought I'd go ahead and post them. Over the summer we went and stayed with all our friends at Bear lake. It was so much fun boating, swimming, playing games, and of course hiking to Bloomington lake. Good times!
Little Syd is so funny. I found this freaky alien creature in Dustins Halloween bin. I gave it to syd and told her to go show her mom the baby and she was so funny. She grabbed it and right away went to go show Adrien her "baby" She even made sure she gave it hugs and was rocking it. I got quite the kick out of her sweet little mother instinct to this freaky rubber alien baby.
