san fran.

On November 10th, 5 of us girls from Weber State left on a road trip to San Francisco. We went to an NCFR conference. NCFR stands for National Council on Family Relations. We had so much fun during this drive...all 12 hours of it! Here are just a few of the things that we did:

We stopped at the giant cement tree and took pictures. We even pretended that we were in a boat out in the desert.

This is the whole group of us from Weber State. We went into downtown San Fran one night while we were there.

Amy, me, Tiffany and Heidi

Joyce was so excited to go to China Town!

Amy riding on the trolley car.

Heidi and Kate.

Fishermans wharf....(sorry that their faces are blurry...the sign is coming in clear though)

me and Heidi.

This is were we ate down at the wharf. It was really good!

They even make their delicous bread into fun animals!

Ghirardelli Square.

Amy and Heidi...it took three pictures for Amy to make a normal face!

Joyce and Tiffany.

Dr. Merrill, Scott, Joyce, and Rick. (Scott and his harem of sugar mommas! Rick was jealous)

Heidi and Amy at Natural Bridges in Santa Cruz! We went there on our last day to visit my sister Brook. I took them to see the wonderful and amazing tide pools!

While we were walking on the beach in 60 degree weather watching the sunset, everyone in N. Utah was enjoying a snowstorm. We really didn't want to come home.

These little birds were so cute. Every time the water would come in they would scurry their little legs so they didn't get wet. Fast little suckers.

Overall, this was such a good break from school and homework! I really enjoyed learning at this conference too! We learned a lot of really good research that is going on with families and other good information too! This conference made me really excited for grad school. I am definitely looking for a good school to go to and have not yet decided. I do want to do something with counseling youth, but as to what type of graduate program I want to pursue is still a mystery to me. Lots of decision making in my near future....oh boy!

Update. Apology. Whatever.

So a quick update....
I am currently at work doing this, because
A. My computer is dead. DEAD!
B. I have no internet at home...currently. Hopefully that will be fixed today.

It is a rare occasion to be online, except to check my work e-mail and clock-in/clock-out. I apologize for not being able to update on all of the fun and exciting adventures that I am having...really I am. One day I hope to be able to catch up. For now I am going to have to say I am taking a leave of absence from blogging until I either get more time or a new computer. Life is rather busy right now with school winding down and figuring out what I am going to do with life. I love what I am doing right now and the decisions that are being made. Life is great! I'll be back soon!

Such a slacker!

I am so behind in my blogging. This is due to my busy life and lack of having an internet connection at home. Life has gotten a little less busy and I have internet now, so I will try and be better at blogging. Since all I am doing now is working and school...there is not much of interest to blog about, but I can catch up on all the things I haven't blogged about yet.

I have been busy because I am working two part time jobs - YMCA Afterschool program leader and teaching assistant for the department of child and family studies. And I am still doing photography on the side, about 2-3 sessions a month. I am also still taking classes at Weber. I am hoping to finish up this Spring and am planning on going to grad school for school counseling. I will be taking the GRE at the end of this month.

I am also part of the CFSSA...child and family studies student association...which doesn't take up much time, but I do have early morning meetings a couple times a month.

My nephew is now 6 months old (as of yesterday) and he cut his first tooth yesterday too! He is getting so big and so darn cute. This is a pic from his 6 month photo shoot:

to see more click here.

My nephew is 5 months today!

Hike 2: Skull Crack Trail

sorry it's taken forever to continue with the hike posts...

My sister and I did this hike over a month ago. When we got to the trail head and I pulled my camera out I realized I had forgotten my memory card. My camera doesn't take pictures unless you have a memory card. sad. i cried. not really...we hiked anyway. So this trail is very deceiving...online it says that from beginning to end there is only a 100 foot difference...they forgot the mention of the 700 foot climb and descension inbetween.

The story has it that James Slater and Marinus Johansen were up the Canyon hunting many years ago. One of the mules became unruly so Johansen hit the mule over the head with his gun barrel. He cracked the mule's skull, thus, we have Skull Crack Canyon.

I finally had a chance to go back up to Causey Reservoir and I decided to take some pictures of the area.

Check it out.

I have been super busy lately...
between helping my family clean out our basement, playing with my nephew, and taking pictures for these cute families.

I have sneak peeks of their family photo sessions on my photography blog if you want to check it out.

Oh and I finally finished editing the pictures from a wedding that i shot over a month ago...

Schuyler Fisk finally has a CD!!

Schuyler Fisk

(pronounced Skyler)

So most of you have probably heard her music around, but not really known who she was. She is also an actress and daughter of Sissy Spacek. I have loved her voice since I first heard it on a movie she starred in called "I'm Reed Fish" and wanted to purchase a CD then, but one didn't exist. I heard her again on a couple of songs from "Penelope" so I bought the soundtrack so I could have some of her music. Last night I found that she now has a CD so I downloaded the album and I am loving it.