Natalie & Co.

Brooke's beautiful bridal pics.

Thanks for letting me shoot then for ya!!



Some of Brooke's Bridal shot. She is so beautiful. Makes me look like a real pro!! :)

Made this all by myself! Is it cute? Any other idea's on a name I can refer to myself as when I do photos?

So, I got the 'OPPORTUNITY' to PRACTICE my photography skills, yet again. Love it, but also DREAD it! Because I just don't feel that COMPETENT YET! *sigh* Anyway, these are the ones that made the cut. I like them, but then I go to a "REAL" photographer's website or blog, and I see that they (my photo's) leave MUCH to be desired! Oh well... u live and learn, right? I just gotta keep practicing and learning (and spending money on new equipment!!) and hopefully I'll get better. :) Thanks Bonnie and Kristen for letting me capture these!!

So, I somehow got talked into trying to do photo's for Kye's sister Brooke and her fiance Brandon for their wedding announcements! I was REALLY reluctant.... but did it anyway! Practice makes perfect, RIGHT? (SORRY YOU TWO were the ones I had to practice on! I WARNED YOU THO!) These are all edited differently, because I wasn't sure HOW they wanted them, or what feel they were going for... so, I kinda did a little bit of everything. My fav's are the b&w's, mostly. Brooke, you're SUCH a BABE!! (You're not bad either, Brandon... ;) Thanks for having FAITH that I could pull this off! Hope it worked! (And THANKS JANESSA, http://www.mekeleimages.blogspot.com/ for helping me out with it... couldn't've done it without you!)

So, I FINALLY got to go to my long-awaited photography workshop last Saturday. I loved loved loved it. I learned SO much. I only wish I could've taken it, like, 3 YEARS AGO!! But still...
Carin Davis taught it. (http://carindavis.squarespace.com/) She is AMAZING. My only complaint is that there isn't a Level II, or something?! Anyway, on Sunday, I whipped out the ol' camera and tried to apply a few things I learned on taking these shots of Haven and Landon at an old barn by our house. Haven was cranky and not cooperating, and Landon was hungry and tired. But I managed to get a few cute ones! Luckily I had Kye's cousin Tiffany with me to help me on that crazy little excursion. After seeing the pics, I came straight home and buzzed Landon's hair off, because I realized it was so whispy and long and stringy in the front! He looks so cute with it buzzed!! I will take a pic tomorrow and post it, but here are the few I got on Sunday.

I was looking through some old stuff on my computer and found all these! I haven't scrapbooked in SO long! I used to LOVE it! I was never any good at it, but it was still fun. I thought I'd throw these up for ya'll to see!

Ok. Since winter is upon me now, and since I have nothing better to post about, I wanted to put up these pics of summer, just to give me the warm fuzzies. Haven and I planted tomato's in the Spring. There's NOTHING better than garden fresh tomatoes. Once you have them, it's dang near impossible to choke down a store-bought tomato. Anyway, they remind me of summer and long days and warm nights. I miss them (the long days and warm nights) already, (and I guess the tomato's too!) and it's only the beginning of December. My nightly runs with Bodey have gone from a joy to a job to a dread. I HATE the cold. So, sadly, instead of every night.... it's more like every OTHER night. Sometimes, every THIRD night. Poor dog. :( What a lousy owner I am.

LOOK AT THIS BEAUTY!! ;-)

I know... perfection.

Yummy tuna sandwich with tomato and cheese!! MMMMM

So, my point in this:HURRY BACK SUMMER! I MISS YOU ALREADY!

This last weekend, we went to the cabin with the mission of getting TONS of firewood stocked up for this winter. We took Morfar's trusty old wood splitter, and let me tell ya... I LOVE that old thing! There is just no stinkin' WAY we would've chopped even CLOSE to that much wood with out that thing. It's awesome. Mom and Dad came up as well as Nate and his funny side-kick friend, Mark. We had brought up the ranger so we could fell some trees, then drag them up the steep hill to the cabin, saw it up, and split it. It was a good day. Of course, Dad brought his prized potato launcher. That always makes for a good laugh. Dennis, Nate, Mark and Kye are like a constant gong show!

We also sent home a load of wood to Mormor and Morfar for letting us use the splitter. We went to their house for family night and split it all up for them. Something about that old wood splitter makes me feel so nostalgic. Grandpa's had it since I can remember. I can remember my sister's and mom and dad getting wood and spending hours and hours splitting it up to sell it. (I think they made a killing too!) It was a fun time. Enjoy the pics!

Ok, so I just HAD to post that I took 1st place at BMX the other night. (And NO, I wasn't the only racer!) ha ha.

I usually say, "Well, I took 3rd! Pretty good, eh?" And then the question: "How many people were there?" And I have to answer... "ummm.... three?" LOL! Then the race last week, I WAS the only one in my class to race, so they put me with these 12 year old Intermediates. They KILLED me! (of course) But... still took 3rd haha. Last night there were 3 ladies in my class, so we all had to race the 2 moto's, and the main. I dominated all 3. :) yay. Finally... a first place trophy!

This is amazing to me. You'll love it. (but remember to pause my playlist so you can get the full effect from the Whitney song! :)

One of Haven's (and Kalob's) favorite things, is to go to Grandpa's garden and see what treats they can find! On this day, Haven was looking for tomatoes, cucumbers, and strawberrys. She happened to find some grapes from the neighbors vine too. Anyway, the pics were kinda cute, so I thought I'd share.