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Thursday, October 25, 2007

A day at work!

I started working for my wedding photographer a couple weeks ago as a retoucher. It is such a fun job and I love it!!! I could mess around with pictures all the time (and I pretty much get to). Anyway, last week we did a photo shoot for the Barratt Jackson auto show. We had a few classic cars and we did the shoot in an airplane hanger. Pretty cool!


We were sitting in the office by the computers when we were asked if we wanted to take a break and go for a ride in a helicopter!!! Never been in one before... and it was SO COOL!



First we went over to the temple. Beautiful of course! It was so neat to see everything from above.


Then he asked where I live, so I told him where my parents live and he flew right to it. That was neat! My parent's house is in the bottom left corner, 2nd from the left. Then we turned towards the side, and you can see my sister washing her car. It was so fun. Pretty cool day at work!


Monday, October 15, 2007

CONGRATULATIONS BRIAN AND BECKIE!!!!

Coby's brother Brian proposed to Beckie this weekend and she said YES!!! He proposed at the Hoover Dam on the way to Las Vegas to visit friends. We are so excited they are engaged and it will be fun to have Beckie in the family. The date is December 20th so we will have a busy Christmas season this year! It took a few tries to get a good serious picture from the two of them, but we got it!!! Congratulations you guys, we are so excited for you!







Lake Trip!

We went to the lake this weekend and had lots of fun. Coby's dad, Jaron, Joscelyn, and Tangi came with us! It was pretty chilly, but still fun. Fall is finally starting to get here!

This is Coby's back flip series.









Coby's dad


Jaron

Jaron is always the entertainment. He pulled his shorts up as high as he could. He also posed for the camera. Thanks for the laughs Jaron!










Joscelyn


Tangi kneeboarding


I wakeboarded too, but no pictures! It was still fun.

Friday, October 5, 2007

Halloween

Here is just a couple of our fun Halloween decorations! The spider web my mom got me is huge and lots of fun. I'm so excited that fall is coming!!!


PICTURES FROM PARIS

Last week I went to Paris with my sister Tiffany and my parents. We had a blast. It was really neat to see so many neat sites and hear the stories of the history. The first few days were beautiful then we had rain and pretty chilly weather the rest of the trip; but that didn't stop us from seeing everything.



Our hotel was so cute. It looked like a little town. It was more of a condo and I would love to have it as a small home. Ours was the little brick one in the picture above. Below is to see how all the hotel condos were all different. It was a street of little houses.

This is me and my parents in the gardens. They were so beautiful.

Mom and me at a bakery.


The BEAUTIFUL Eiffel Tower!!! It is SO HUGE!!! It was gorgeous.

Tiffany with Mom and Dad at the Arc de Triomphe. We climbed to the top of this (284 steps) to look over the city. It was beautiful. This is the finish line for the Tour de France too.

In front of Notre Dame. This building was so neat, one of my favorites. Inside was beautiful. We climbed to the top of the bell tower (another 400 steps) to see the city. It was so neat to see all the gargoyles at the top too. We were at the top when the bells started ringing. They were so loud.

This is a gold star in front of Notre Dame that marks the center of Paris AND the center of France!!


Every night at 9:00 the Eiffel Tower sparkles for 10 minutes. It is so pretty. It does it on the hour til midnight but only for 10 minutes each hour. The bottom is green because those are the French Rugby teams colors and they are playing the championship games right now.
This is the Chateau de Versailles. Gorgeous and HUGE. The gardens of the Chateau were amazing and just went on and on. Then we went to Marie Antoinette's house at Versailles. There was also the cutest farm houses and gardens too.

Dad eating grapes from the farm.

This is at the Chateau de Vaux le Vicomte. So pretty. This was where Tony Parker and Eva Longoria had their wedding party.
I had to put this one up just cause it was the perfect timing of why the picture is so funny. She was jumping out of the bushes.