The New Studio

So this is what I have been up to lately... I have been so busy with the studio that I have had no time to update the blog. Well thought it was time to update it. You know for the past couple of months I have felt more like a General Contractor than I do a photographer. Well Its finally done and I have been shooting like crazy in the new abode. Here are a couple of flyers I have accomplished. There will be more Specials on my website soon. The studio is available to other photographers to rent by the hour or day as well. Soon I post post pics fo the grand opening and of the recent shoots we have done. Also please let everyone know about my photography studio so that it will be a great success. Thanks so much.

Announcing Xquizit PiX Photography Studio

Grand Opening Event will be held this Saturday the 12th of September, 2009

There will be lots of fun, pics, and food

Address is 141 Industrial Park suite #305

Henderson, NV 89015

702-558-0843

Time is between 8-5pm

We would love to see you there.

Little Miss Santaquin Girls

Shawn and I went to my Sister's Nina's house a couple of weekends ago. While we were there my nieces had a Little Miss Santaquin Pageant. I was able to take there Little Miss Santaquin Pictures. Below are the photos we submited for Miss Photogenic and Emily won Miss Photogenic, I am a pround Auntie and photographer.......

Emily

Bethany

Amber

Here are actual Photos of the Pageant and what the girls were wearing. This is Amber she got 1st Attendant in her age group. I did her hair that day, she looked so pretty.

This is Emily, I did her hair and makeup that day too she got 2nd attendant and Miss photogenic.

Amber and Emily blowing kisses.....

Bethany got 1st attendant in her age group as well, she did her own hair with nina's help.

The three girls..... they look so grown up and beautiful.

The Silly Family......

Uncle Shawn and Emily.... what a proud Uncle....

Our Little Desert Garden

Ok so this is the 1st year we actually have a real garden, we have been married for almost 9 years and we finally got a garden started. We had to build a fence so our fur babies would not get in the garden. We first put up a plastic fence. But carlie just went right under the fence and got in and started eating our plants. So we inturn had to put up a metal more sturdier fence that we barried 6 inches under ground so carlie (the little dog) would not go under it.
Ha Ha the force stikes back....


Im inside the garden neener neener they can't come in...

She is such a cutie, we love her....

Ok so we got some corn growing.

This is a corn plant, basil, stevia (carlie really likes this one becuase it is a natural sugar plant), and thyme.

We got these from the neighbor, which are hot pepper plants (shawn is happy).

These are artichokes... They are growing good.....

Lemon Basil...

My most favorite part of the garden is my tomato plants, yes mine because shawn doesn't like tomatoes. They are so yummy and are doing wonderful. There are 3 plants in there.

And this is what is growin right now on one of the tomato plants... The tomato is so sweet and juicy... Yummmm

We have alot of herbs, we like herbs... good stuff this is spicy globe basil.

We got 7 cucumber plants from Uncle Dale.... Yeah more to our garden... : ) They are doing wonderful as well.

Ok so we have so much aloe vera, if anyone wants any let me know... Its growing everywhere preety much in our backyard.

This is more Basil, Sage and another corn plant.

More corn and more herbs.....

Chives anyone?

Banana Pepper plant... It has a huge one growing already see pic below.....


This just sprung up over night practically.... hmm I wonder when I should pick it? I will have to invesitgate that.

More babies to put in the garden in the future. For now they are in our sun room..... Thats all for now folks.....

My 1st attempts with Sourdough Starter

Ok so I guess i am on a food kick..... 1st food storage, then sourdough, then next will be my desert garden. It all comes down to food.....


Ok about 2 weeks ago I tried to start a starter for sourdough bread making.... For those of you who don't know what starter is, its basically the natural yeast sour part of making the bread dough. Shawn and I love sourdough bread so I wanted to see if I could possibly try to make the starter.... I looked it up on you tube and it seemed quite simple. For those of you who would like to try it here is a link to where I got my information from. http://www.io.com/~sjohn/sour.htm

This picture was taken today of my 1st attempt at the sourdough starter... This starter didn't work..... Yes Im sad... I didn't quite follow the instructions the first time, misread it..... Ok so 1st attempt was a bust.

This is how we know the 1st attempt was a bust... This is a loaf of bread that didn't rise. Ha ha yes we still tried it and it like a sourdough cookie bread, but not sweet. Shawn likes to toast it and put butter on and he says its quite good.
Ok so here is my 2nd attempt which looks much better. I started this one yesterday and this is what it looked like 24 hrs later... Yeah I got some growth in there. I fed it today and we will see if I do it correctly this time around. Heres hoping.....

Our Food Storage Journey

So Shawn and I have always discussed having food storage. But have never got around to doing it. I wanted to make a closet that I have in my hallway my foodstorage so slowly I am converting it over... The other stuff that fills this closet is my craft closet (crap closet - As shawn would say... lol). I am slowly moving my craft stuff to another room in the house. So, so far we have 30 lbs of Rice, 25 lbs of unbleached flour, 10 lbs beans, 20 cans or so of wheat (thanks Judee), 4 bottles of ketchup, 3 bottles of hot sauce (for those of you who know shawn, yes it is a must to have hot sauce at practically every meal), a flat of corn and a flat of green beans, a gallon of apple Juice, (2) 72 hour kits, and some misc stuff. Not bad that would last us a bit of time. But I am still adding to it each time we go to the store. Hooray..... Now I have to fill up our water bottles and get them in the food storage too..... But we always have 50 gallons in the hot water heater, if the water ever gets shut off, didn't realize that did ya?

Our Temple Date Night

Shawn and I are having our date night on Fridays.... well once again, its pretty much everynight because we have no kids.... Neener Neener.... LOL Hopefully time will change that.... : )

We went to dinner at Tofu Hut and took a couple snapshots..... I was holding my big camera with one hand while shawn pushed the button with the other..... What team effort huh.......

Thats squid... Yes you actually cook that on the grills and eat it.... Its actually a pretty fun place to eat at... You cook your own meat on the bbq grill in front of you.

Fancy that, a noodle hanging out of his mouth?

We then went to the temple and I got a close up of Angel Moroni.

A pretty flower on temple grounds.... didn't notice the bug on the upper part of the flower unitl I put it through photoshop.... How unique....

While we were there we read the scriptures and shawn brought along his work headlight.. We call it his Jock Strap.....

Here he is reading away with the jock strap.....

The Las Vegas Temple

Picture taken at night.... Love the street light burst on Angel Moroni.......

I want to take a pic each time we go there... just to see how differently I can take a pic of the temple... So this is pic one of many.....