july has arrived.

i hate to bag on july, but i think june is my favorite month of the year.

it was a good month for us and the weather is always lovely...

until next year, june.

july is fun too with all the celebrating we do, but it's already like insanely hot.

i believe i sweated more than normal this weekend.

first, i photographed this lovely couple's wedding:

and in between the temple and reception i finally caved and we made a trip to the apple store.

i guess you could say my trustworthy first generation iPhone was pretty close to kicking the bucket...

it lasted a good 3 years and 3 months though!

but i got sick of it dying 3 times a day and not being able to update the software and the pixels were slowly disappearing.

and since lincoln's iPhone has looked like this since february:

we figured it was time.

and we are happy with our purchases.

so beautiful:

while we were at the apple store we ran into kera!

blog world meets real world!

and yes, she is really that beautiful.

another blog meeting this week...

i photographed this awesome couple and it was so fun.

more on that soon.

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we also celebrated chase's birthday!

happy birthday, chase!

and we pre-celebrated independence day north salt lake style:

and today we celebrate quinn's birthday!

our red head in the family.

happy birthday, quinn!

lots more celebrating to do today!  

happy independence day!

we love our country.

eternal families.

hello, all.

i hope your mother's day weekend was wonderful, mom's and future mom's alike.

lincoln got in trouble by me and his family for not doing anything for me.

*cough* don't forget next year *cough*

:)

but i guess he slightly made up for it by letting me order a vintage pearl necklace last night.

he also gave me a nice elbow in the face in the middle of the night in his sleep.

thanks, husband.  haha

we spent this mother's day motherless.

my mom is currently visiting south africa with my dad.

and lincoln's mom is in oklahoma serving as a mission president.

we missed both of our mom's, but we got to skype and email with them.

yesterday was also my dad's birthday.

happy birthday, dad!

and wednesday is lincoln's dad's birthday.

it's a week of celebrating our parents!

we also got to talk to lincoln's beautiful little sister, abby, on saturday.

she is serving a mission in santiago, chile.

it was SO wonderful to hear from her.

she is so happy and can speak spanish beautifully (from the little i know).

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this weekend we actually spent a great deal mourning with some of our closest friends.

this sweet dear couple gave birth to a still-born at just under 20 weeks.

ever since we heard the news friday evening, my heart has felt broken.

since both of their parents live far far away (and we were parent-less as well), we took them dinner yesterday evening and cried with them.

i can't believe the things they had to experience this week, and how strong they are now.

it made us think a lot about the miracle that is child birth and how we would handle the same situation.

we love this couple dearly, and hate to see them go through such pain.

but we both know they will see their little girl again someday.

and they will be able to hold her and love her and raise her.

we are so grateful to be an eternally family.

if you would be so kind... pray for our friends.

love you all.

a preview.

 our favorite little nephew is turning one this week.

we had a little party to celebrate yesterday and it was SO FUN!

if only i could be as creative as my beautiful sister-in-law, Leah, and come up with fun ideas for parties!

for now i'll show you the balloons.

beck LOVED them.

and so did uncle Lincoln.

happy 23 to me!

today i turn-ed

happy happy birthday to me!

i'm off to dinner with that dear husband of mine.

he made me breakfast this morning before he went to school.

what a champ.

and this me as a 23 year old.

for some reason the sun was really hurting my eyes outside and most of the pictures turned out like this....

me with my eyes closed.

happy happy birthday husband dear!

today is linky's birthday!

happy 24!

will you all write him a birthday wish?

he'd love that.

we are going birthday shopping this morning and then up to sundance

for his mission reunion.

i'm so grateful i married this wonderful man.

i love him dearly.

grandma's 93rd birthday party

sunday night we celebrated my grandma's 93rd birthday party!

we got married on her wedding anniversary, remember?

i had to sneak a photo of her because i don't think she would let me take one of her.

isn't she pretty?

and the rest of this post is a documentation of the giant grass fight that lincoln got into with my nephew and niece.

it was quite entertaining.

 can you see the grass flying?

isn't he going to be a cute dad?

i think so.

remember this guy from last year's birthday party?

he's getting so big!

and here's a photo of me since i haven't posted one in a while that's not from photobooth.

yes, it was windy.  and my hair is grossly stringy.

and here is my very handsome husband.

he definitely got the looks in our relationship.

i can feel summer slipping away and i'm so sad!

i just don't want it to end.

how was your weekend??

march brings happy things.

the first day of March brought some very exciting things:

1.  Lincoln's older brother, Chase, and sister-in-law, Leah, had their baby at 10:00 a.m.

• his name is Beck.
• he's super cute.
• Lincoln is a first time uncle.

• doesn't he have the most beautifully colored new-born skin ever? 
• and I wish I was there to take pictures. :(

I had a quick maternity mini-session with Leah a couple weeks ago.  she's pretty much the cutest pregnant girl ever. 

2. today was glorious warm.

• i don't know if this is entirely accurate but ksl.com just said the high today was 38 degrees.
• weird.
• i'm pretty sure it was warmer than that.
• but if it really was 38 degrees, it was glorious.
• people were breaking out the shorts and flip flops.
• we are seriously itchin' for spring around these parts, if you can't tell.
• i feel like march 1 brought hope that spring is actually coming.

happy march!

babies and spring.

love.

Happy Birthday, Madre!

today is my mom's birfhday!

she's so great.


if you're ever hungry {or not hungry}
she'll cook you up something.

or she could sew something for you.

or scrape the snow off your car.

or do your laundry.

or clean your bathroom.

this is me and my mom a few years ago on a gondola ride in venice.

and this is a picture of my mom when she was about my age.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!

I LOVE YOU!

birthday celebrations

I like birthdays.

Yes, I do.

The day started out with some delish lettuce wraps

from Pei Wei.

And look what number they gave us??!

And this guy...

bought me these.

Beautiful? I think, yes.

And my madre bought me this dress from Shabby Apple.

I wore it on Sunday to the Conference session.



I like being 22.

Woot!

Thanks for the birthday wishes! :)

Today is your last day to vote over at Little Sussy.

You have until midnight.

Thanks all.

I love you bunches.

happy day of birth to me.

that's right.

the big 22!


what a year.

for real.

fastest year of my life.
i. tell. you. what.

so happy with where i am.
21 was awesome.


totally excited for 22.
i can tell lots of great things are going to happen.


huzzah!



now, if you'll excuse me.
i'm off to celebrate.




do you know what would make my day?
get on over and vote for me.

fanks.

lincoln's day of birth

it's this guy's birthday today.



23 years old, he is.

i'm going to celebrate it with him

p.f. chang style



it's going to be fun.


i guess i think he's pretty cool.

:)