Time for something new, something old, something borrowed, and something blue!

Or to put it a little more plainly.... I'm engaged! Andrew is such an amazing and wonderful guy and I'm excited to spend the rest of my life and eternity with him. Last saturday, he invited me to go to Logan with him under the impression that we should go job hunting. School is starting soon and I'm going to need a job so I was totally fine with the idea, not to mention that I LOVE Logan and wouldn't mind spending a day there. So Andrew and I headed up to Logan and once we got there ran a few errands and then we wanted to go for a quick hike up Logan Canyon. The Wind Caves hike is where we went on our second date so Andrew thought it would be fun to go back and do it again. We got there and saw quite a few cars. It was after noon by this point and getting hot so Andrew decided that it would be better to go on a shorter hike since it was getting so hot. So we went to a different trail head, one that walks along the Logan river and talked and had a good time. We saw a bench that was shaded by trees and overlooked the river and the surrounding mountains. Andrew had packed some water, Nutty Bars and fruit snacks, which happen to be two of my favorite snacks, we sat on the bench for a while and talked and had a good time. Then Andrew asked if I wanted some fruit snacks (we had already eaten our nutty bars by this point) I said yes to the fruit snacks and so he reached in his bag and pulled out a pack of fruit snacks and handed them to me. Then he reached back in the backpack for what i assumed to be more fruit snacks and instead pulled out a ring box... I started to have a minor freak out and asked "Andrew, what are you doing!? What is in your hand!? He just laughed at me and looked me in the eyes and told me how much he loved me and that he wanted to spend eternity with me, then he got down on one knee opened the box and asked if I would marry him. I started crying and said yes, he sat there with the ring box open for a few seconds before I said "are you going to put it on or what?" So he put it on and I calmed my self down and we took a few pictures then we headed back down the trail to the car to go share the good news with everyone. The proposal came as a surprise because I did not know that he had talked to my mom, or that he had picked up the ring. My ring is gorgeous and I absolutely love it! I'm nervously excited to start the next phase of my life. But at least I wont be doing it alone!


The happy couple


My beautiful ring!

Sunset...

Last night I was out at gardner village taking pictures of my adorable nephew Seth. (pics coming soon!) and on the way home the clouds looked amazing! I was happy because for once i had my camera with me so I pulled over and took a few pics of the amazing clouds. I love Utah sunsets when the clouds rest right over the mountains...such a pretty sight. Anyways, thats all for now!

Baby Hayden

One of my best friends sisters had a cute little baby boy a few weeks ago and asked me to take pictures of him. He is the cutest thing ever, and was so good during the shoot. We made a make shift studio in the house and just kind of made up ideas as we went along. This shoot was my first ever newborn shoot, I was kind of nervous but got the hang of things as time went on. I have now decided that natural window light is the best light ever. But that wont stop me from owning a sweet set of strobe lights one day. Enjoy the pics!

Bridals and Groomals!

Just a few of my favorite photos of Mike and Brenda... I'm looking forward to the wedding day... what a great couple!

Living Planet Aquarium

At the beginning of this month I started an internship at The Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy. So far it has been pretty slow in regards to getting everything we need ordered in and set up so we can start the green screen photo booth, but in the mean time I have been in charge of taking pictures of all the Animals at the Aquarium which has been pretty fun. So far my favorite animals to take pics of are the Jelly fish and the Blue Poison dart frogs. I've also been behind the scenes watching them feed the Octopus,standing over the shark tank, and playing with the Sting Rays. Hopefully by the end of the month I will be able to go into the penguin tank! Its been fun so far and I'm learning a lot. The cockroaches, spiders, and snakes still creep me out a little bit but that didn't stop me from holding the Green Anaconda, Peaches, she is 10' 7" long and weighs over 57 pound of pure muscle. It was pretty gross I'm not going to lie but it was a neat experience. Honestly, who can say that they have held an Anaconda!


Me holding the anaconda! she is so long at least three people have to hold her at once.



One of the Gentoo Penguins, They are the fastest species of penguins, the third largest species, can hold their breath for 7 minutes, and dive up to 700 hundred feet!

The Jelly Fish! They are so Awesome! I could take pictures of them all day!

Mike and Brenda's Engagements!

Mike and Brenda are are two of the greatest people I know! I am so lucky to have them as friends. They are the cutest couple in the world and in my opinion quite perfect for each other. I'm going to go a head and say "way to go Taisa and Deborah for setting these two amazing people up!" Enjoy the pics!

I love to see the Temple!!

So this past month i've been super busy taking Bridals, wedding, and family photos for some friends (images to come) But this post is mainly about a great idea that Andrew and I had. We decided to go "Temple Hopping" if you will, and walk around the grounds and take pictures of the Temples. We have only hit three of the Utah Temples so far, but one day I would like to have a collection of as many Temples as possible. Below are some of my favorite images that I have taken. I think they turned out awesome!


This is obviously the Salt Lake Temple. I wanted to try antiquing it a bit so I messed around in photoshop and I think the end result turned out really cool!


This is the Draper Temple and I actually LOVE how this picture turned out. This is a straight photograph, and for those of you who may not know what that means, it means that this image came directly from my camera to my computer, no post-production or alterations were made. It turned out awesome! It was actually a funny sight to see me taking this picture because I neglected to take my tripod so I was balancing my camera on a light with Andrew's ipod, phone, a piece of paper, my point and shoot camera and my lens cap under the lens to stabilize it and to get it to the right height. But who needs a tripod when you can mcgyver something like that!


This is the Jordan River Temple. Again, another straight photograph, only this time I was smart enough to bring my tripod. I also loved how this one turned out! Not to shabby in my opinion. I would love to be able to just travel the world taking photographs of all the Temples! Maybe one day when I become a rich and famous photographer I will be able to, but for now the Utah temples will have to suffice.