My baby puppy

Karl got me the best Christmas present ever - a baby black lab puppy. She was only 5 weeks old when we got her and still bottle feeding. And yes - only slept for about an hour or two at a time. Luckily, she is the most precious dog I have ever seen and I love her to death! She is growing like a weed and her little personality is so funny. She gets annoyed with me and will sigh these funny doggie sighs. She is very afraid of the vacuum and will run to me if she sees it. She loves a good belly rub and frequently falls asleep on her back. Also she is too scared to go down the stairs. Not up them, just down them. Karl and I love our good little girl! Her name is Catalina, but we call her Lina. Here are some pictures:

This is me when I first got her. I was so happy and excited and I was just hugging her. She loves to be held.


Here's her stubby little baby legs (I hate the flash):


Cute girl:


So yesterday, Lina and I decided to have a photoshoot. This was difficult because Lina did not want to sit still for any photos. I had to get her favorite treats and hold them with one hand and the camera with the other.

Feed me!!!!!


Sitting patiently looking at the bag of treats. By the way, she is a very picky eater. She doesn't love milkbones! She will push them around with her nose and look at me like, "That's the best you can do?" - she definetly has an attitude.


My friend Lina:

Cake Boss(es)

My very good friend Megan Rogers is into decorating cakes. She is going to start a cake decorating business and make tons of money! One day Megan and I were both bored on the same day, so she came over to my house and taught me some tips and tricks for cake decorating! I had a blast. Check out our beautiful cake!

Christmas Eve Senior Pictures

I went home to California for Christmas and it was sure nice to be able to wear short sleeved shirts. I miss it already! Now I'm at home with my Christmas present - my new baby puppy Catalina! She is a 7 week old black lab with a fiesty personality. She has separation anxiety and always wants to be right at your feet. She loves to chomp her little teeth on everything. I have a little santa hat I am going to put on her and do a little photoshoot, so pictures next time.

My mom had my brother go into a studio to get senior pictures taken and they all turned out really corny and not real-looking at all! While I was down for Christmas I took my brother out to see if I could capture his real self on camera - ie, not the fakesy smile, the real smile. We went to the beach first but it was so sunny that portraits would have been terrible. As we were driving around, I found this awesome red dumpster that we took the majority of the shots in front of. Here are my favorites:

Our one shot on the beach:

Hilary and Eric's Wedding

Hilary and Eric asked me to take some pre-wedding pictures for them at the temple. I was so honored that they asked me to take more photos of them! They are such great models- they are so in love and it is easy to capture on camera. We arrived at the Oquirrh Mountain Temple and it was well below freezing...in fact, it started snowing soon after we got there. I was freezing, and I was totally bundled up! I felt so bad for Hilary. However, with these great shots, you would have never known that she was a living popsicle. I have many favorites from this shoot; here are a few.

Our REAL Christmas Tree

Karl and I decided instead of doing a fakesy tree this year we would do a real tree to celebrate our real house that we now live in. So in now-annual Webb family tradition, we loaded ourselves up in the car on December 1 and went to the Christmas tree lot. It was fun to pick out a baby tree. We wanted something under $20 so here it is! I thought it would be a lot smaller, but 5 feet is pretty good for $20.

A few nights ago I decided to play around with the shutter speed on my camera and I got this result. By the way, Karl agreed to let me start saving up for the Canon 5D camera if he could get some sort of expensive weapon. So now I am saving up for both. Hooray!

Halloween Costume Shoot

Andrea and Jon requested that I take a few pictures of them in their halloween costumes. Boy was I surprised! I don't know what I was expecting but I don't think I was expecting both of them in spandex. Oh well - they looked great! I took a bunch of fun pictures. Here are a few of my favorites. They are both NATURALS in front of the camera. Maybe it's because of my expert training??

My favorite of the shoot:








Godzilla!!



...Scandalous...

Carrie's Senior Pictures

I got the chance last weekend to take some spectacular pictures of my cousin Carrie. She's a senior this year and wanted to get some nice senior pictures. Let me just tell you - I love taking senior pictures! It's fun, it's way easier than taking pictures of little kids, and for me it is not like work at all. Plus, Carrie has watched a little Top Model so she has the "smiling with her eyes" down pat. Love it! Here's a few of my favorite shots from the shoot. By the way - the location? Carrie's idea. I'm going back there every time from now on!