Cooper Family

If you're a frequent reader of my blog, you'll recognize this cute family. Janae, Travis and I met in real life a couple of years ago after meeting virtually on a photography message board. We've had lots of photography fun together in that time. What fun it's been to get to know them, as well as my other photography friends. We've become such good friends that sometimes we even get together just for fun....and don't even bring our cameras. Amazing, I know!

We met Saturday morning at the Salt Lake Public Library for the latest Cooper family photo shoot. Alex came along as my assistant. He's a great help and works cheap -- I pay him in Pokemon cards.

Here are a few of my favorites!

Houghton Family

This photo session was so much fun for me because it was with my cousin Wendy and her cute little family. Some of my favorite childhood memories include spending time with Wendy and her brothers when they came to visit us from California each summer. We had tons of fun together playing Barbies, going on treasure hunts, eating TV dinners in Grandma and Grandpa's living room and skipping rocks at the reservoir with Grandpa.

Hard to believe so many years have flown by and we both have families of our own.

Here are a few of my favorites from our session.

Messer Family -- More Fall Colors!

I'm so glad I was able to capture some other people's families in the fall leaves. I never did find time to do some of my own family in the beautiful colors this year.....but oh well! We can't do an official family shoot until next year when Nate is home from his mission anyway.

Love this family I'm displaying today. They live just two houses away from us and are great friends of ours.

The Stanley Family

The fall colors were absolutely beautiful on the day I did portraits for the Stanleys. We got a variety of fun shots at different locations around town, too.

I took so many shots. Here are a few I liked best.

Frischnecht Family Photos

A few months ago, I did newborn shots for this family when they welcomed their sweet little guy Bodie to the world. Fast forward five months, and it's time for a family session. I brought along my trusty assistant Alex, who went above and beyond coaxing smiles and eye contact out of Bodie.

Here's a sneak peak of some of my favorites.

I Hear the Train A- Comin'

We had a couple of days off from school recently, so we decided to ride the Frontrunner train to Salt Lake....yes, all the way to Salt Lake... We talked some friends into coming along with us. Parker, however, was not interested in accompanying us on our excursion. (I guess he had enough of riding trains with us when we were in New York over the summer.) That's okay. We managed to have fun without him. When you arrive at the Frontrunner station in Salt Lake, you can transfer free onto Trax (SLC's light rail for you out-of-towners). We hopped on Trax and rode it to the Salt Lake Public Library, where we explored and browsed. After that, we headed across the street to the City/County Building, where we happened to catch a local TV reporter filming a segment for the news. Alex even asked him for his autograph, which he graciously gave him.

Next, we headed over to the Gateway for lunch, along with some window shopping and sampling all the wondrous scents in Hollister. (The jacket I wore that day still smells like Hollister.)

It was a fun-filled day enjoying some of the sights, sounds and interesting people of Salt Lake City.

Region Cross Country Champs!

So proud of the boys from B-Town who took first in the Region 6 Cross Country Championships yesterday! This was truly a thrilling win for BHS. They haven't been the region champs for 16 years -- in all of Parker's lifetime! Parker's buddy and co-runner Cubby took first place overall. Parker took 5th -- not quite where he had hoped to place, but a respectable finish nonetheless.... just seconds after the first four finishers. He ran the course in 16:06. He was 2nd place on his team. All the participants ran their hearts out... and one of Parker's teammates even took a diving leap over the finish line -- helping the team clinch the title with that heroic effort.

The state meet is in two weeks, and BHS will be well represented. This is an amazing group of boys, who are so supportive and encouraging to one another. It's always so wonderful to see how they cheer each other on. The girls' team made it to state, as well. Can't wait to watch that exciting race.

Way to go Braves!!!

Bountiful Temple

I took these shots a few weeks ago, but am just getting around to posting them today. I always tell myself I'm going to take more pictures of the Bountiful Temple. After all, it is so beautiful and it's only about a 5-minute drive from my house. It's especially beautiful at night...Enjoy!

Let's Go GNO!

Okay, my ears have finally stopped ringing so I can sit here and post some pictures from our fun adventure to the Miley Cyrus concert last week. (And I also had to wait for Morgan to post her pictures on Facebook so I could put them on here. I didn't bring my camera that night).

Anyway, we've been waiting for this occasion for months. We bought our tickets in June. As I'm sure you can all imagine, it was pure torture counting down the days to September 29. Whew!

Our fun group was made up of me, Mallory, Jan, Morgan, Corinne, Katelyn, Faith and Janee.

After the first song, I commented to Janee, "She (Miley) looks like she's going to throw up." Right after that she ran off stage and one of her people informed us that Miley was a little under the weather with a touch of the flu, but she would be back in a few minutes. Incidentally, Corinne was not feeling too well that night, either.

Well, when Miley came back on stage she put on an energetic, fun-filled, scream-filled show. I've got to hand it to her. There's no way I would have felt up to all that dancing and singing if I had the flu.

We came home hoarse, exhausted and worn out...but in a good way of course.

Definitely a fabulous GNO!!!

Penny From Heaven

Meet sweet little Penny Jan. She is Jonathan and Rachel's third daughter. I was able to meet and photograph Penny just a few days after she was born. What a cutie. Rachel wanted a few pictures of the three girls together....quite a feat since Maddy is 3 and Libby is 2! I managed to get a couple of shots. In the last ones, you can definitely see that Rachel has her hands full -- literally. But she is the cutest little mom -- so patient and loving to her adorable girls.

Anderson Family -- Never a Dull Moment

Here's one of the cutest little families ever. I absolutely loved their wardrobe choices. Nice job, Kate. And best of all, they treated me to frozen yogurt after the session. What could be better?

Brandon + Rachael

Congrats to Brandon and Rachael who were married last week in the Mt. Timpanogos Temple. It was a beautiful, sunny day. They looked so happy. Here are few shots of their big day.

Goodrich Family

The Goodrich family and I have been trying to get together for quite some time to do a photo session. Friday night, we finally did it! We had a lot of fun and even managed to get their dog Shuksan into some of the shots.

Here are some of my favorites.

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!

I took a group of girls my from my church for a photo shoot the other night. Mallory was supposed to be part of this group, but unfortunately was sick and couldn't make it. I can take Mallory for a photo shoot anytime, but felt bad she missed out on the group shots.
These girls were definitely not camera shy and had a lot of fun posing for the camera!