jake's eyebrow

I don't have a picture yet, but this is sooo funny.

Jake's shooting a webfilm.

He's a superhero.

He filmed last night.

When he got home he had some kind of glue on his face from the mask.

He went to the bathroom to get the gunk off his face.

When he came back he was missing several chunks from his eyebrow.

For those of you who don't know, he has pretty thick brows.

Everytime I look at him I giggle.

I'll post a pic soon, so you can join me in my fun.

He asked me for an eyebrow pencil or eyeliner just in case he has more filming before it grows back. 

giggles.

being a photographer.,,

So Emmaus has been very sweet about letting me take all the pics I want. Here are some from the most recent photo shoot. (for those of you on FB, hope you enjoy seeing these again.)RoarEmmaus is trying to crawl, he has the leg part down, but insists on using his face instead of his arms.

He has a great profile, just ilke his daddy

This was actually the second to last picture...I was sad it was blurry, but...oh so cute

This was the first pic of the shoot. He had just woken up, and is always so smiley..such a happy babyHe's been grabbing his toes for a couple of weeks now. I think the long legs help with that!

My favorite. I changed to my wide angle lens after I saw a cool pic online. This is how it turned out. reminds me of the Matrix, or Mission Impossible...future actor?

I like this one where he's holding his feet. He has a great smile, but I also like when we capture his personality too.

Can we be done with pictures mom?

Page, AZ

I've been wanting to see antelope canyon ever since I saw a picture of it...over 10 years ago.  I wasn't always sure where it was, and then Susanna went to Page with a friend of hers, and voila, the desire to see this beautiful canyon was reborn. On the way there we stopped in Beaver, and I had to take a pic in this chair . It was windy and cold, but, I got it!

We left relatively early, and decided to drive my car (not a lot of leg room.) Jake sat in the back with Emmaus, and took advantage of this diaper change stop to try to catch a snooze.  My mom took this pic while I was nursing.

When we got to Page we had dinner at a local mexican restaurant, and then headed to this "art walk" that andrea found for us. It was really cloudy/possibly showers, so a lot of the artists chose not to bring out their work. It was still a fun time though. Jake had Emmaus in his coat just in case the water started to come down.

Thanks to my friend, Corey, I inherited a telephoto lens...so here are some pics from that. I'm standing pretty far away at this point..I find it's easier to get some natural faces. Emmaus is so photogenic...I love his different expressions.

Mid yawn...thought it was cute. His mouth doesn't get too big....makes me laugh.

Yea for blowing bubbles... Emmaus is staring at our friends baby..I have some cute pics of them together, but didn't get permission to load pics of their kids.

The big day. We were driven out to the canyon in a suburban...I think cause of the kids needing to be in car seats. It was an interesting drive. To get out to Antelope Canyon, you have to be escorted by a tour guide..the canyon is on a Reservation...the road once you get out there...is all sand...we were gliding...sort of fun. Here's the entrance.

You can see why I wanted to get down here. I wanted to do the longer tour for photographers, but they were sold out...I think we still got some nice shots.

do you see the eagle?

It's  nice traveling with other people, that way you can get a family pic...and take theirs too! Love it.

Sunset

Wolf

Had to use the flash to avoid pure blurriness...but here's our group..our friends older son is being blocked...if I would have known, I would have moved. Sorry friend.

I wanted to drive in this cool open truck, but I'm still having a lot of motion sickness problems, it's probably a good thing I wasn't riding in this.

Next stop for the day (after a PBandJ lunch) was Horseshoe Bend. Only when we got there, it started pouring. Instead of hiking in that misery...Our friend suggested waiting it out in the car. Emmaus was a trooper....he's sooo cute.

and then the rain stopped.

3/4 of a mile.

The walk out there...the rain actually helped pack down the sand so it was a nice trek out there.

and this is horshoe bend. not sure if you can see how far down it is. It was very intimidating looking down over the edge. I wasn't very brave.

and then the sun came out

awww...isn't he precious.

I love how this shows how little Emmaus is compared to his daddy.

mom and dad brought some steaks, so we had a cook out in the park. (keep in mind this is all happening in one day.  we got a lot done...and the weather changed quite a bit too!)

I'm rarely in the mood for ice cream, but there was a local ice cream place across the street from our hotel...I got something incredibly chocolatey and jake got something with peanut butter. Emmaus was jealous.

When wewere packing for this trip, I thought to myself, pack light, it's Page Az in June, I don't need pants. (i've never not had pants with me on a trip.) POINT being: it was chilly the whole time. I found these awesome black adidas pants at the thrift store...it just so happened that I had brought my adidas jacket to.  This is Lake Powell in the background.

Welcome back to Utah. I love these signs that show you are entering a state...I like getting pics of them...as you can see.

As we were driving to and from Page, we saw these Sheriff's cars on the side of the road. (I can't remember the name of the town we were driving through.) Poing Being: They put dummies in the car! no kidding. we saw them both times. I was going to take a pic up close, but there were so many rv's and campers driving back to Utah on Sunday I didn't want to get behind the ones we had already passed.  So here you have it. Don't speed through small towns on road trips, their dummy cops might get ya!

as always, thanks for reading.

Emmaus' Dedication

We had already "dedicated" Emmaus to God...well before he entered this world.

However, we wanted to "formally" do it at church with our congregation, and family (those that could make it.)

Here are a few pics.


This was also Erin and Corey's last sunday with us here in Salt Lake, and we had never taken a picture of the 5 of us...It turned out really cute.
 The idea of giving Emmaus to God seems so obvious to me. We wouldn't have this baby without God. Without God, Jake and I are nothing. I'm not finding all the words I want to express what I mean here...(jake, step in at any time please.)


Point being: Emmaus is God's and we just get to be a part of it. We are soo blessed and honored to be his parents. Thank you everyone that loves and wants to be involved with our family.

just taken

I can't help it. I just took this, and had to get it on my blog. haven't edited it, or any of the other ones, it was just so cute!

spiral jetty

yea! I finally went. I heard about this place a couple of years ago, and wanted to go ....but kept putting it off.


this past sunday I finally drove up there.

we drove up there.
jake,

a friend, alissa
 mom,

dad, and emmaus and me.

we stopped at the golden spike national historic site and saw where the transcontinental railroad met up. they had a wood burning train car and a coal buring train as well.    we weren't going to pay to go into the site BUT the coal train had the number 119 painted on it!!! i had to go in.  so we did. and we got some cute pics. i thought it was fun.

then we drove down a bumpy gravel road that lead us to a bumpier dirt road with some very large rocks in the way.  i drove cause jake's back was having some problems. (not everyone can say i hurt my back while having a light saber fight!) 

i did a good job manuvering through the big bumps.  we drove and then...the jetty came into view! we chose to park the car a little ways out, cause we didn't want the car to get stuck.  we were  lucky it was a beautiful day and there hadn't been any rain....a muddy road would have really been unfortunate.  so we walked, and i took pics then made our way down to the jetty.  for those of you who don't know, its a rock formation that an artist did back in 1959 on the great salt lake.  in the 70's the water level of the lake rose and the jetty was submerged in the water. the level has subsided now, and voila...the spiral jetty. (and it didn't smell!)