Hollywood Trip

So for our 5 year anniversary Don and I went to Hollywood for 3 days. We went to Universal Studios for two days and toured Hollywood the rest of the time. It was so much fun. Here is a slide show of a few pictures from our trip. You will have to press play to view it.

Craig Hildebrand's Birthday

So this year was Craig's 12th birthday This was a special one for him since he received the Aaronic Priesthood in our church. The picture above is the whole family who to took part in this special ordinance. I think the bishop was overwhelmed with the amount of people...

Anyways after we left church we went to my sister's house and celebrated my nephew's birthday. Here are a few pictures from that:









Kaylie was doing her Popular song from Wicked. I love that song... Kaylie memorized all the words and put a dance to it. I have to say I memorized the words too. I know we are obsessed with that play.




Everyone playing in the pool.



Esther and I were messing around with the glow sticks in the pool. We sure know how to entertain ourselves!



And the last picture is everyone again. We are all just a bunch of goons...

The Daw Family

This past weekend was absolutely wonderful. I got to see lots of friends and family as well as shoot my first paid wedding in Orange County. That drive seemed like forever on the way back home. Needless to say I am exhausted after everyone left. I am still trying to recover! I am not as young as I used to be...

I will post some pictures from the weekend later this week, but for now here are a few pictures of my friends Esther, Jonathan and their baby Thorin. Their little son was born a few months ago and this is the first opportunity I had to take pictures of him. So here are a few favorites:

The Hardy Family - Ensign Article

So my Dad came across something interesting a couple weeks ago. There is an Ensign article about the Hardy family which is my Dad's side of the family. I remember as a child my Mom & Dad took my brother Dave and I to Louisiana to visit our "roots." That was one of the worse/best trips ever.

I think I was about 8 or 9 and my brother was about 12 or 13. We fought the whole way there. Which was the distance from Arizona to Louisiana. It was a VERY long car trip. I am still in shock that my parents didn't kill us. I vividly remember visiting Hardy Town which is literally a "blink and you will miss it" kind of town. We visited the house where the story in this article talks about Jane Holt Clark (who is my Great, Great, Great Aunt,) standing up to the mob and saying “I brought a good many of you into the world and I can take you out again just as easily if you dare to cross my doorstep.” She rocks! I can only imagine how scary it must have been to stand up to an angry mob like that. I also remember meeting my dear Great Grandfather for the very first time during that trip. He was such a wonderful man. He died last year and he was definitely one of the last of his kind. A true gentleman. I also remember meeting his wife who had to show Dave and I her toenail in a jar. We have that memory scarred into our minds... But she was a good woman too. I am glad to have had the opportunity to see where my Dad's side of the family came from and who they were. I think it is important to know your history. It makes you who you are and grateful for the things they sacrificed, which eventually blesses their future generations lives. A link to the article can be found below.

From Red Rock to Denham Springs
Carol Ann Wagley Burnham, “From Red Rock to Denham Springs,” Ensign, Apr 1983, 70

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