Wedding

Happy Memorial Day to everyone celebrating here in the United States. I hope we can all take some quiet moments to remind ourselves how indebted we are to those who have given their lives so that we might have the life we are living. Freedom comes at a cost and…

All our original plans to celebrate Elle and Carson’s wedding were foiled due to covid. Over and over again. So the sealing provided a perfect opportunity to truly celebrate. Because we were celebrating a sealing, (and also a wedding, but a year late for that), Elle wanted to do something…

Holy cow, I am trying to wrap my head around all that happened last week. I was going to jump right in with the Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning (our first big event), but for reference, we need to back up to all the prep first. Because there was a…

We didn’t fly back to the desert after we left Switzerland. We flew directly to Utah because there was something special happening there: Yep, another nephew was getting married. When you and your husband are both from families with nine kids each, there are a LOT of nieces and nephews,…

A few years ago my nephew (my older sister Saren’s son) brought his new girlfriend up to meet us all at Bear Lake. We all fell in love with her and this summer, to kick off our family reunion, (and kind of for us to come full circle since this…

Meanwhile, as Claire was en route to be walking through all those cobblestone streets in Europe, Lucy and I were walking this well-worn road surrounding Bear Lake so happy to be reunited with sisters and cousins… (And sure thinking of Claire a LOT!) Taking in the sunsets and meeting my…

How is it possible that it’s been TWENTY-SIX years since I put on this white dress (and my funny white ballet slippers:), plopped a veil on my head and headed off into the world of marriage? How could I have ever known at that baby age that this man would…

I cannot believe that it’s been one year since we were climbing over these red rocks to witness the marriage of these two. (SO many pictures and words about that day back HERE, and film pictures HERE.) What an incredible time to get married, and what a year it has…

As long as we’re on the topic of the wedding, I am going to slip in some of the out-take pictures that I want to remember…things that happened before and after the big day. (The main wedding post is back HERE.) And some extra pictures from Abby too…that girl is…

My girls have fallen head-over-heels in love with film photography. They all took film classes in high school, learned the darkroom, learned the ins and outs of how it all works, the depth of the beauty it can create, and they LOVE it. This should be gratifying to me because…