New Family Pictures!!

Last summer I attended a photography workshop and met a wonderful lady and fantastic photographer, Tara Winsor.  Tara is so sweet, and her photographic work is stunning.  A couple of months ago she posted a contest on her blog for a free family session or mentoring session.  I made a comment to wish her luck and a tweet to spread the word.  As much as I love her work and would have loved to have had a couple of hours to learn from her I really had no notion of winning, I truly just wanted to help her spread the word so she could find new clients in her area.  I never win anything, so I wasn't too concerned.  I mean really who wins those blog contests anyways?  Then I won an e-book from the MCP blog on SEO for Photographers(exciting for me, probably a snore for anybody else).  I figured I had now won my lifetime share of blog contests.  Shock of my life when Tara messaged me and said I had won one of her slots!! Which one did I want?, my choice.    UHHHHHH.......?!?!?!?   I really wanted a chance to mentor with her, but Kevin has been after me to set up some family pictures for us.  Well I shouldn't say set up, because that is what we have, me setting up the tripod and either setting the timmer of having someone click the shutter for us.  He had been after me to hire a photographer to take our pictures, just like I do for others.  So, I told Tara we would love to have a family session with her.  We of course would meet her somewhere in the SL area. 

When we headed to Amanda's graduation in April I knew it would be a perfect opportunity to try to meet up with Tara as well.

Tara sent me a link to our pictures this morning.

They are AMAZING.   Lots of pictures. 

Thank you Tara. I cannot say enough how wonderful you are. 

How handsome is this guy?!






It cracks me up that you can see a bride and groom on the temple steps behind us.  :)  

Tara is based in Layton(I'm pretty sure) but travels all over, I would highly recomend her for your own family portrats, kid portraits, newborns, seniors, weddings etc.

She is also traveling to Oregon this summer and will be offering mini sessions while there. 

Also, check her out on Facebook,  http://www.facebook.com/WinsorPhotography

Nevada Day

We had a 3 day weekend this week in celebration of Nevada Day.

Nevada entered the union on October 31st, 1864 via the longest telegraph ever sent.
And in Elko you know what that means...
Parade!!
We have a parade for everything.

The girls weere so excited this year to be in the parade. Courtney rode with her dance class.

Mallory walked with Girl Scouts.

Kevin picked up some easy overtime.

Lily was introduced to running into the street for candy and loved it.
George was so busy I didn't even get a picture of him!

Last year when I packed up things to move to Elko we had no idea that we would still be living with my parents a year later. All of the coats of varying sizes that we did not need ended up deep in storage, including the two coats that would have fit Lily this year. Grrrr. Thankfully Jana still had this one from George that I had passed along to her two boys and she passed back to me. Problem solved. Technically it is a boys coat, but I think it is super cute!

Sad thing? Yea, George wore this at 6 months old. Boy was a monster.

Nat-Soo-Pah/Twin Falls

With Kevin off work due to his surgury we decided to hit the road and do something fun as a family. Of course Kevin had just had surgery so low impact activities were the name of the game. We headed up the road to Nat-Soo-Pah. We had so much fun camping and swimming in the hot springs.





The kids really loved the diving boards. they jumped off over and over and OVER again. I had to be there though to help George swim to the side and by the end of the evening courtney was getting pretty tired and needed and guiding had as well. Kevin's knee couldn't take treading water so it was my job 100% of the time. I was as tired as the kids by the end!

Mallory got brave and did some back flips.

Me going to George to help him to the side.

The next morning.

Yup... still tired. :)

for what ever reason the lighting inside the car that morning was perfect Of course George still had breakfast all over his face but I had to snap a few pictures anyways.

After packing up we headed into Twin Falls. Twin is the home of the Perine Bridge. The bridge was the highest in the nation at the time it was built and spans a masive canyon. there are 2 or 3 glof courses at the bottom. It is popular with BASE jumpers. We were ucky enough that while were were there there were several people getting ready to go.

READY, SET

GO!

We also drove over to Shoshone Falls

This is going to become a yearly tradition for us, especially Nat-Soo-Pah

Weekend Visitors

Last weekend we had a housefull of visitors that were in town for Will's blessing. Mom dad and Amanda came, and brought along with them,Grandma Thomas, Uncle Jim, Aunt Lori and Aunt Sue. We had a blast hanging out and even made a trip to the pool. Before they took off we were able to snap a few group shots.Grandma, the kids and Jim&Lori

Mom, Grandma, and Sue

The kids and Great Grandma