Zoey Astros

Zoey's first year playing baseball. She did really well and loved it. She was on a coed team with her friend Bethany Pyper with Jodie and Lance coaching. She picked up on it really quick. She said it gave her butterflies in her stomach she would get so excited. She started out having to have baseball pants, but towards the end she traded them in for her black mini skirt, Astros jersey, peace scarf, and black beanie. Ms. Fashion even on the field. Unfortunately I didnt have my camera handy and my dad took her the game. I would love to have seen the crowds face when they saw her get up.

Lake Powell

Cliff (more like rock) Jumping

Michaun & Sheldon
Perfect dive by Sheldon
The little ones take a jump
Looking at fish
Hot Babes Julia, Amy, Maggie, Addisyn, and Zoey

So we went down to Lake Powell this weekend. First time on my own without my dad as the navigator. We went down to St. George and then to Page AZ. We have never been that on the Wahweep side before. Day one weather was good and I got a good burn on the backside. I'm still paying for it right now as I sit. We really didn't make it too far. We kept getting lost and didn't venture too far out of the main marina. We did find one canyon that had a few rocks to jump off. That was fun. Back in the day I would have called them cliffs, but now find myself pretty wimpy and will stick to the rocks. Zoey even dared to jump off of the same rock I was scared of. The next day the weather was bad, so we packed up and drove home. It was a down pour all of the way home. So not quite the trip I was hoping for, but will try it again. I have too many good memories and I want to create more with my girls. Maybe my dad can take us down and show us the ropes so we can make it out of the marina.

MOAB

Wall Street
So amazing, I can't believe people can climb this
Delicate Arch

yeah I made it.
UTE writings on Wall Street

We have so much right out our back door here in Utah. I want to start taking advantage and visiting more of out parks like Zion, Bryce. I would like to hike the narrows, so if any of you have any experiences to share let me know. It makes me more excited to go to Lake Powell this week. The kids actually thought it was pretty fun swimming, seeing the indian petroglyphs, hiking to the Delicate Arch except for Addi, she thought we were truly torturing her. Avery was a little trooper hiking 3 miles without complaining. Her baby steps were just a little to slow so we had to carry her some. I can't wait to go back in a few months. This time I need my bike.

Fireman Breakfast with Grandpa Dan Memorial Day

I miss you little brother, can't believe it's been 20 years





This is probably our 6th year going to the Memorial Day Firemans Breakfast. It is becoming a tradition with my dad. We always see Uncle Guy, Jen & Matt, Megan and all their kids. I swear my dad knows the whole entire town folk in AF. This year my Grandpa Richards didn't make it for the first time in a long time. He's 90 so he can take it easy if he needs to. Maybe next year. I miss and love those close to me who we think of often, Gma & Gpa England, Gma Richards, my brother Wade, and cousin Greg. I love you.

UPS WTF!!!

How does the packaging foam self destruct and explode?
The other side was wide open taped.

This TV was sitting on our porch. What did it do to deserve this kind of treatment. You can plainly see it is a flat screen TV, use caution. It was never picked up with care, just kicked around, thrown out of train, and kicked out of a truck. I can't believe they had the guts to leave it at the door. The TV is busted.

Just Do IT!!!! Little Red Ride Logan

Done, I did it!
Finish Line

TGIF Thank Goddness I'm Finished!!!!!
Let's get it started
Well the big day came for my first real bike ride, 67 miles let's just say 70 to round it off. I didn't really plan on doing this since they cut off registration at the end of April 1 month early. I procrastinated and didn't get in. About 2 weeks ago I found a girl who had broke her arm so I was in. With only 5 rides under my butt and the longest one being 37 miles 3 weeks ago I was off. I am really not a person who likes to prove herself or over exert myself physically for any reason. I wanted to take it easy but wanted to ride with Amber. So instead of doing 50 I just went for it. Needless to say after a morning of rain, quit about 1 hour before the ride, some wind ( so I really rode prob 90 counting the wind) Ambers bike malfunctioning barely making it to the start line without a minute to spare, half a bagel in my mouth we were off. WE DID IT. I rode for 4:30 hours. If I train maybe will shoot for 80, we will see. I am paying for it today, my quads ache.

Your way to beautiful girl....

Crews Birthday

For Crew's 2nd birthday we went to Thanksgiving Point Farm, or other wise know to my girls as Day Care Farm. Avery has been there a few times and went right up to the animals to feed them. The baby cow licked her face she loved it. There were so many new baby goats. They are so dang cute. We were lucky enough to see the peacocks show there stuff at the same time. While Zoey was ready to get on the big hore he went nuts and got his neck stuck in the chain. He then got loose and was very mad. It was a bit scary and the assistant didn't know what to do. So a little excitment on th pony ride. Addi was freaked out and didn't enjoy her ride, she was scared that the horse would freak. Happy Birthday Crew!

double click pic for full view

Born to Bike or maybe just look at it

Amberly and I bought road bikes this year. The only prerequisite for our bikes were that they had to be cute. It is very hard to find a cute bike, or girlie bike. Most are very masculine red, black, white. After a ton of searching we found the perfect match. Love my bike, and Jodie said it passed the quality test. There is a lot of gear that goes into biking, clothes love the spandex with a diaper in the bottom, shirts, clocks, shoes, pedals, helmet, glasses. Finally ready to ride, Saturday we did a 37 mile ride from AF around the lake, to the mouth of provo canyon, back to the lake and home. We are going to ride the Logan Little Red Riding Hood Ride in a few weeks. I will do 40 Amber has aspirations to do more like 60 or more. Not me 40 sounds good. Here we are ready to ride. After all the money you spend to bike, you still cant help but looking like a dork.

Attitude

I found these pictures on my camera Zoey took of herself. She really loves to pose. She thinks she 's it.

No Doubt

Steph and I went to No Doubt and Paramore to get our groove on. We had a great time. No Doubt rocked, much better than my last concert MC Hammer.

Photo from week 2 assignment

I have always wondered how to take a picture of water and have it turn out like this. Well I finally found out and I was so excited how this turned out. I might just have to frame it. Years from now I might look back on this picture and be able to pick out the flaws, but for now Im happy with it. This photography stuff is more difficult than it looks. Once you put it on Manual mode too much to think about. You have to analyze what look your trying for. Blurring out the background, action, speeding up, slowing down. Then once I get this down if that is possible then there is editing. I don't have an artistic eye, but I do see so many cool looks you can get by editing. My hobbies are photography and scrapping pictures, that should be relaxing and enjoyable. Instead it gives me anxiety, to much to learn, not enough time, and I want to be good at it. Any great ideas let me know. I have to get busy for next weeks class, more of an artistic approach with lines, shapes, colors, textures. We will see what I find, my little models are growing impatient with me snapping shots all over the place. Maybe I can bribe them with snow cones from the snow shack.

Assignment for photo class Lesson 1

Blurring Background
Blurred Background with focal point
Linear Plane
Linear Plane

Photos for first photography class

Mothers Day

For Mothers Day I bought me a new Canon T1i Digital camera. It just came out so I am super excited. I started taking a photography class and got the bug to get a new one. I sold my 2003 Rebel in a few hours on KSL Classifieds so I felt a little better about spending money I don't have on a new one. After seeing how easy it was to sell my digital camera, I sold my old Nikon 55 film camera in 2 hours. I only was asking $50 but I will never use it and haven't for about 6 years. I am on the hunt to see what else I can sell. I took some pictures for my assignment and feel I still don't have a clue. It will be interesting to hear what she has to say. How bad can it be when your girls are this cute how can I go wrong. I just love these girls so much, they are to cute and so funny.