Provo Top Models.

My sister Andrea got a photo shoot done and the photographer wanted the shoot to look high style and kinda edgy. Andrea brought a duffle bag full of different options for the photographer to tell her what to wear and there was also a makeup artist present to make Andi look super fierce (using Tyra words, here.) And I was asked by Andrea to stick around for moral support. Andrea was looking all sorts of hot and the photographer was snapping picture after picture when she turned to me and told me to jump in! Miss Makeup Artiste dabbed a little lip gloss on me and evened out my skin tone (she made my skin look like porcelain!) and I got in some of the pictures. 

I have to work on not making my straight face. Mostly because my straight/relaxed face looks like I'm angry. But I think these ones turned out wonderful! Doesn't Andrea look awesome? I come from a good looking family. 

↑ I love a daring print! ↑ 

↑ Aw! She caught us in a laugh! ↑ 

Birthday Boy!

Okay, so this happened like a month ago...

July 13th, 2011.
HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY CALVIN!

We invited all of our family over for a day at the pool.
These pictures were all taken by David, by the way.
He's pretty good with a camera..

Cousin Noah

My sister, Ali. Nice half moon eyes, Al. :)

One EXTREMELY swollen diaper...

The Cake, made by David.

The cake, take two... being eaten by Calvin. 

Opening his gifts with his Abuelo

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KIDDO.

♥♥♥

The Chase

After a week of nothing but gloomy rainy weather,  the sun finally decided to make an appearance. Sunday started off a little gray, but as the day went on, I just couldn't stay inside anymore! People were barbecuing outside, kids playing. So Calvin ran outside for a while. 

David was determined to get a good shot of Calvin and Cal just did everything he could to make ruin every shot. He would run away or turn his face right as David pushed the button. 

As you can see, yesterday afternoon, the camera was pretty much just an extension of David's face.

Just a little glimpse of our growing garden! 

My New Baby

This is my brand new. Barely arrived new play thing.
Isn't it BEAUTIFUL? 

It's the Olympus Pen camera. A little point and shoot with detachable lenses and stuff. So it's like a big ol' SLR but without all the bulk! So I get the benefits of learning manual focus, aperture priority or shutter priority.. I even get to choose my ISO.  And it's digital! I really look forward to learning more about the technical side of photography. I hear David talking about it constantly! For my first lens, I chose a wide angle more for my blogging purposes since my last little digital camera fell to its death.
So I will be doing a lot of catch up with my little beauty.

I told you it's neat.

A World Away

Found these pictures on my computer.
I cannot believe how long ago this feels.
It all makes me want to try on my wedding dress again..
Oh, but I know better than to do that!

See The Resemblance?

It happens on a regular basis now that I'll trip onto one of Calvin's pictures from when he was only a few months old and say something like "HE WAS SO LITTLE!" to David in my squeaky sad mom voice.

I was looking through some of the pictures and I zoomed in on my Calvin's face. I finally see the resemblance between Calvin and someone from my side of the family (Everyone always tells me how much he looks just like his dad)! 

He looks like my sister, Andrea (find her blog, here)!! 

And don't even TRY to tell me that he doesn't. 

Just look at these pictures of Andrea and I when we were little girlies. 

Click to enlarge the pictures.

Memorial Day

My weekend was wonderful. I am glad to be feeling better. On Friday I felt SO sick. I had no idea what was wrong with me! Tunnel vision, dizziness, the shakes, I felt like I was going to freeze even though it was 80 something degrees outside! After trying to deal with it for a while by myself, David came to my rescue and took care of Calvin and I. I am so grateful for David having come home. I had to go to my Instructor Certification all the way in Clearfield the next day so I don't know what I would have done if I wouldn't have had that time to get better. Ah. I have the best husband ever.

That was the other part of my weekend! I will have you know that I am now an OFFICIAL Zumba Instructor. That whole day was such a blast. I tried so hard to keep my energy up all day and hit every move as enthusiastically as Lindsey (the Zumba Education Specialist certifying us that day) was. There was so much to learn and I tried my best to absorb all that Lindsey was teaching. And at the end of the day, I felt like my limbs were going to fall off. I will be doing small substitution jobs for a studio in Springville called Sweaty Chix until their new studio opens in Lindon where I'll be on as a full time Instructor. It's super cheesy to say it this way, but since losing all of my pregnancy weight and becoming so addicted to Zumba, I thought I would love to be an instructor to pass on everything I love about it! I'll keep you all posted on further Zumba details. :)

And finally- Memorial Day was so awesome. I felt like it was the Saturday I kind of missed out on since I was in Clearfield the whole day for Zumba. I read, I cleaned, I even sat out and got a little tan. And later in the afternoon, David, Calvin and I went over to my parent's house for dinner. It was an all out Argentinean Asado. My sister's boyfriend, Scott, who went on a mission to Argentina assisted in the cooking of the meat outside over hot coals! It tasted amazing!! And the weather was so perfect we all ate outside and got to sit on the soft grass. :) And after coming home at about 9:30, Calvin was SO tired after a long day of playing that he fell right to sleep and gave David and I an opportunity to sit out at the hot tub and go for a swim out at the pool. The water was JUST cold enough to cool us off after sitting in the hot tub for a while. I would have to say a PERFECT holiday. I'm just bummed that it's all over! :(

(Click on the pictures to enlarge!!)

Calvin LOVES Dozer (the dog) and tries to call him. Although it comes out sounding more like "Doo!" More than Dozer. We're lucky to have such a patient puppy.

 R2 (Arthur Saraiva), a good family friend entertaining Calvin.

My dad telling a really cool story! (He gets really animated)

R2 managed to make it over to the trees.

Scott's yummy Strawberry Cake thing and my mom's BIG Cookie Cake! YUM! :D 

It's a miracle! Calvin will actually sit and play on the grass now!!!

Isn't he the cutest?? 

I hope everyone's holiday was as wonderful as mine was! :) 

I'm Just A Sucker For...

Those EYES!

I can't say it enough. I just love that little guy.

General Conference Saturday:

Had fun yesterday listening to General Conference. I never can say enough about how much I love Conference. Even when working during the Conference weekend, it was so slow and we'd have time to listen to the inspired words. We are currently in the process of redecorating our apartment right now. It's going to look like a jumbled up mess until I get things painted and polished. I can't wait to see the finished result. I finally have another bookshelf to put up above the TV (usually David likes a painting I did to hang there and I LOATHE it). Among other things.

David also shot another wedding last night at the Highland Gardens for Amy Watts and Raymond Hawke (uh, I guess they're both Hawkes now). My family's known Amy for a really long time and she is without a doubt a woman of many talents. Truly a gem. Anyway, she and Ray have been dating and engaged for a while and had the cutest, springiest reception ever! The colors were lime (like, TRUE lime.. not obnoxious-lunch-lady-shirt lime) and bright pink and purple. David got some really great pictures. It was held in a greenhouse in Alpine so everything was flooded with natural light and made for great pictures! I can't wait to post some.

OH and in other news, as Amy and Ray were leaving their reception- David hurried inside to get a sleeping Calvin and any camera equipment he still had inside.. I decided to follow him, probably a little faster than I should have. I started in a fast walk and almost running before my shoe (which has NO traction on it) slipped on the pavement and CRAAAASH! All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Angie together again.

I ended up scraping both my knees, my feet, bruising my hip, my elbow and my right palm... Nice going.

At least I can say that maybe only 3 people got a look at my tremendous fall other than David.. Of course, they got a good look at my underwear too as my skirt flew in all directions! Thankfully, David helped me back to the car and went and got Cal himself. *Sigh* I married a really good guy. He's pretty cute too.



Well, Conference again today! And I hope to have a much less painful day full of inspired words and the Holy Ghost!

Week with Grandma & Grandpa!

It seems to me that last week went by SO quickly. I could have sworn that it was Monday and the next thing I know, it's Saturday night and my body is aching from being out and about. We did get to spend a little time with Jim and Jo, which was so great because we originally thought we wouldn't see them nearly at all! David got to do his first bridal shoot on Friday night and were there until nearly 11 o'clock! It was exhausting, but very rewarding (mostly, thanks to Nate and Kate who were so willing and so patient, and so in love.) The lucky couple is getting married this Saturday so we'll be up and down getting pictures of their big day. Wish us luck! Anyway, I also managed to get some pictures of our time with Grandma and Grandpa. Calvin felt right at home with his grandparents, I would say especially his Grandpa Jim, who he spent a lot of time with sitting on his knee. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but Cal never is very cuddly. But sitting on Grandpa's knee seemed to work just right, because there he was, sitting so contently sucking on his little thumb and cuddling up. It's just not fair, I tell you.

Here are pictures from last week, Enjoy!

↑ Hang Out Dude Time in the morning with a very sleepy dad ↑

↑ He climbs EVERYTHING now. He'll be the next Bear Gryllis, I swear. ↑

↑ Playing with his Grandma and Grandpa! ↑

↑ Grandma Jo bought Cal a John Deere sweatshirt, I wish you could see it except David's hand is covering it.. Ugh. ↑

↑ Just a quiet moment. ↑

*****

Here a picture taken by accident by Nate who was using the camera on the computer as a mirror for the Bridal/Groomal shoot. You can see everyone in the background preparing for the shoot. Doesn't Kaitlin  just look gorgeous??? I'll also post a finished picture from the shoot. David is so talented at photography. I can hardly stand it. 

The Finished Product: