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!

Halloween Craft Day

I know this post is late but I couldn't resist posting the pictures that Teri, Andrea, Megan, Hilary, and I did this year. We got together on a Saturday to take a break from our routines and do some crafting. Thanks mom for the cute craft package!


These are IKEA frames with halloween tissue paper decoupaged over the frame.


We painted a wooden plaque black, then decopauged scrapbook paper and a vintage card over the plaque to make a cute holiday decoration. Some of us then sanded the sides for an actual vintage look.


Here we are holding our new crafts!

Hilary and Eric

I had the pleasure of taking Hilary and Eric's engagement pictures last weekend. The shoot went fabulous! They were both so fun and cooperative. I had such a great time shooting their engagement pictures. By the way, I got both of the ideas for the locations of the shoot from another fabulous photographer, Emily Hartvigsen (her blog here). Here are some of my favorites from the shoot - although there were lots of good ones and I had a hard time choosing!

My Pumpkin Jolly

Teri and Draper invited Karl and I over to carve pumpkins with them. I wanted to use a pattern so I made one in photoshop and brought it over. The result is our little pumpkin who's name is Jolly. Have a look!

Haunted Sugar Beet Factory

So, as most of you know, 1) I am currently student teaching at Provo High School (tomorrow is my last day, I start at Oak Canyon Jr. High on Monday) and 2) I just moved to Spanish Fork.

In my photography class this past week, I assigned a project that was basically a photo collage. We studied the artist David Hockney and then went out and tried to copy his style of work. One student raised their hand and said, "Well are you doing the assignment too?" and I accidentally said, "Of COURSE I am!!" Oops. So last weekend I set out to do my assignment.

The view from our second bedroom window looks out across an old abandoned sugar beet factory. I have been longing to photograph it, but with student teaching taking up all of my time, hobbies have been on the back burner. I was able to kill two birds with one stone and photograph my beloved sugar beet factory for the assignment that I accidentally said I would do. The collage turned out better than I expected!

Also, I am doing some great engagement photos this weekend so stay tuned for some awesome pictures!

Closing Week

Karl and I have our final walkthrough of the house tomorrow and we couldn't be more excited. We drove down to see the house today and we had to tear ourselves out of it after staying for over an hour. (This is an empty house I might add.) I know I haven't been blogging about much else lately, but this is just what is going on with us.

I am student teaching at Provo High and it is a constant stress. This week is going to be crazy! We have the final 2-3 hour walkthrough tomorrow, close on the house on Wednesday, I am in charge of the YM/YW mutual on Wednesday (teaching photography), we get the keys Thursday, we move Thursday/Friday/Saturday, I teach YW for our final sunday in our ward on Sunday. Not to mention every day I have to plan lessons for the kids at Provo High. And I guess I just found out today that Karl told our landlord we would find the next renters for him. Oh well! Life is great and busy. Here are some pictures for the people that like the pictures.

I didn't take a "front of the house" picture because nothing has changed really, except rain gutters and screens. Boring.

Here is a picture of the great kitchen with the stove, dishwasher, and sink added. YIPPEE!!


Close up on the sink for those who are detail-oriented (and yes, those are the deep sinks that we paid $70 extra for):


By the way, don't forget to notice the great carpet!


Now, let's head up the stairs and check out the fabitty fab upstairs.


In this picture, the top of the stairs is on the left. The master bedroom is behind the stairs. Bedroom #1 is the open door at the end of the hall. The baby door that is open is the linen closet. I am standing in Bedroom #2 taking the picture.


Linen closet. I'm on the stairs taking the pic.


Here's me at the opposite end of the hall. Bedroom #2 is visible directly in front of me. The door on the left closest to the Bedroom #2 is the second bathroom. The door closer to me (that's not the linen closet) is the laundry room.


Beautiful Bathroom 2.


Here's Karl on the floor of the master bedroom.


Another master bedroom shot.


Master bath view:


My favorite closet.


I can't wait!