Wedding Business

My friend Amanda and I are starting up a wedding business. I will do photography, she will do flowers and possibly cakes...if we learn how to do them. We need to find someone who can do catering. If anyone out there knows who to cook really good and fairly fast, let me know. We may just want to hire you :)

And if anyone out there knows how to do wedding cakes let me know also. That may take some stress off our hands during weddings, to not have Amanda doing both.

Happy Thanksgiving

This is the first year I've not had Thanksgiving with my family. It was ok though, we had it with Jake's. It was a lot of fun and I got to learn all of their traditions, which were a lot different from ours. They make klassuls (sp?) and blaukraut (sp?) which are both dishes from Germany since Jake's Grandma came from Germany it's just been passed down the family. It was fun.

I made:
A Turkey
pumpkin pie
peacan pie
pumpkin bars
yams
and garlic parmesan rolls

The rolls were the best thing I've ever tasted...EVER! My friend Kacy from work gave me the recipe just on Monday and I decided to make them for Dinner tonight. They were a big hit and sooooo yummy. The recipe is here.

Anyway it was a great day with Family, food and games.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Brittney's Wedding Date

It's officially official. Brittney is getting married January 9th! I did their engagement pictures today, I think they turned out pretty good, and they liked them so I'm happy!

Sharilee Anne Warner

My friends mom passed away this last tuesday. I'm going to her funeral tomorrow. I'm nervous to go because I'm not ready to say goodbye. I loved her so much. We all knew it was coming because she's had cancer but I still wasn't expecting it. I've known her family for so long, they've always been family to us.

Shari, I'm going to miss you so much. I love you.

Here is her obituary. It couldn't have been said better, she was a wonderful person.

I've been told I need to update

Wow. I've been very busy, I haven't had time to do much lately. Besides taking care of Jarren and working, I've been sleeping. I somehow picked up a cold that doesn't feel like a typical cold. My throat is killing me and my voice is gone but that's pretty much it.

Jarren has started saying some new words. He says "hot" "hey" and "baby", baby is his favorite. He says it like this bayyyyybeeee. It's really funny.

Work has been fun, I love my job. If I have to be away from Jarren it better be for something I love right? I'm happy I didn't go back to a corporate office. This is so much better, my day goes by so much faster. They are hiring right now, so if anyone wants to come work there it's awesome!

What a work out!

My legs are burning...my arms are burning...

I didn't realize you basically did lunges all day long for work at kiddie kandids. Then moving yours arms up and down, lifting things up and down. I love it! It's like going to the gym at work.

Proposition 8

Today in RS we had a great lesson. We weren't going to go to church cause we over slept, into sacrament meeting but I got us up and we made it in time for Sunday School.

This whole Proposition 8 thing has had me going back and forth for a while. I didn't like HOW involved the church was getting in it. It seemed like they were getting very pushy with it in California with church members. I believed the as a church we aren't supposed to get very political. We can be as individuals but I just didn't think the first presidency should be telling the members what we should do. (free agency and blah blah blah)....ANYWAY

In RS this topic got brought up, and I'm so happy it did. It's changed my entire perspective on it. Just from one sentence. When we were talking about it a lady raised her hand and said "God speaks through the prophet, if Jesus were the one going from door to door, or even just asking you to vote for it, would you say no?" That hit me really hard. I never thought about it like that and I don't know why I haven't. I've been very stupid about it all. Also another woman stated "We can love the people who struggle with same sex attraction, we just don't need to love what they do." I love all the smart ladies in my ward.

So now, I'm for proposition 8 100%. Though, I'm not going to voice my opinion all day everyday, I just don't find it necessary, I will support it.

**Edit for Kirk**
I know I do not live in California, this does not mean I cannot SUPPORT proposition 8. And, it's more like I'm supporting the church's stand on it. You can support the church no matter where you live. I'm sorry you like to keep state's separate, especially since Utah is soooo terrible. But I still stand the same. I hope everyone, everywhere in the United States takes a stand on it, one way or the other.

Kiddie Kandids...

Here I come! I got the job. I go and fill out some paper work on Friday and then I start training next week Tuesday through Thursday. I just forgot to ask how much I get paid. (At least it's something I LOVE doing, so pay doesn't matter right? haha)

I also need to find a babysitter, any takers? We will pay...

Interview..

So I have an interview tomorrow...at Kiddie Kandids! I'm so excited. I would love to work for a photography studio and do my photography on the side. It would be awesome...wish me luck!

The biggest looser

So I'm joining a competition. go here http://healthy--girls.blogspot.com/

if you are wanting to loose weight and are competitive in the least you should do it also. There is a cash prize!

Jao Photography Giveaway!

I found an awesome blog I have been following, tipjunkie, she has decided to help me out with my business. I'm going to be doing a giveaway and I'm featured on her website.

This giveaway is for Utah and Salt Lake County Residents only. If you would like to travel to one of those counties to have your pictures done, I'm more than willing to let you qualify! :)

This is the info:
TipJunkie is helping me with this giveaway. I'm so excited to be able to share my work with others. You can enter to win on her website, all you have to do is leave a comment on her blog saying which of my layouts is your favorite.

This is the giveaway:
The winner will receive: 1 free family ($55+ value), baby ($30 value), children ($45 Value) or couple ($45 Value) photo shoot.Plus 3 free Christmas Card Layouts or if you would prefer baby announcements instead you can have 3 free Baby Announcements of your choice. You could also mix and match Christmas Cards and Baby Announcements.

How to enter to win:
pick out your favorite Christmas card layout and leave a comment on TipJunkie with your favorite layout. Contest winners will be drawn October 16th by a random number generator!Please only enter once and you must have a blog to enter. (If your blog is private, please include your e-mail address with your comment.) Tip Junkie is for female bloggers, sorry men.



The original announcement of the giveaway is on my photography blog. You can find the first three announcements here and the rest of them here.

Leg warmers!