Girls camp here I come!!!

‎"You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."~ Christopher Robin to Pooh~

This is our theme this year and I couldn't love it anymore!
It is just want I need to hear and I hope the girls feel that too.
I can't wait to get up there and have the best time.
I also hope to fit in some good time with my camera.
Wish me luck!

Splash Park

I had heard from some people in our ward about a splash park in Riverton and knowing how much my boy loves water we just had to check it out! Can we say awesome? This was perfect for Wilson. Water and fun! We will be back for sure!

Warning: photos are not my best work. My top priority was keeping track of Wilson. Second keeping my camera dry from all the water. And third was just trying to get a picture of him because he was running so fast!

Building a portfolio

So pretty much as far back as I can remember I have been interested in photography. I can remember when I was about 8 and I got a camera and film for my birthday I think I took a whole role of film on my cat. I have always loved creating images (especially of people). Well for a little while in school I majored in photography, but about a year and a half in a decided it wasn't where I could make money and changed. Well to make a long story short I have decided to get back into. It really is a passion of mine. So here I go. Here are some of the shots I have been working on lately.


This is my way cute nephew Alex. His sweet parents let me come take pictures of him. I wont lie it was hard shooting an infant, but I got some good ones.


This is McKenzie. Her sweet mother asked me to take some photos of her and her family. This is by far one of my favorites. I am slowly learning photoshop and it is paying off!


This is our best friends baby Connor. He is so cute. His parents asked me to take photos of him. Way fun!


This is my niece Jessica. Her mom asked me to take pictures of her for her baptism announcements.


This is the picture she chose to use. My favorite!


This is my sweet sister in law Sarah. She was a sport and let me take pictures of her. This is my favorite I think she looks angelic!


This is another sister in law Jen. She was also willing to let me take photos. Love love this one!


And another sister in law Bayley. She was so fun to shoot. She brought props and everything!



Well I will keep working on it. I find that it is hard to learn new things these days, but slowly my brain is picking things up. I am working on using my camera better and learning how to edit the photos. One day I hope to post a picture that is so amazing no one believes I did it. But until then I will keep plugging away.

Exiled!

Recently Wilson has found a love of stuffed animals! One day he started to carry around a little bear which slowly increased to every stuffed animal he owns now has to be in his crib with him. Well....almost all. There are two in particular that for some reason he doesn't like and after every nap and every morning we find these two on the floor. We have no idea why he doesn't like them, but apparently they don't belong in his crib.



Here are a few pictures of him asleep with "acceptable" animals in his bed!

4th of July weekend

Our weekend began with Ryan taking Friday off! He also had Monday off so we had a long and fun weekend ahead of us! Ryan's dad also had Friday off and asked if he could watch Wilson for couple of hours so of course we said "YES" so Ryan and I got to spend the afternoon alone! We got some lunch and come home and worked on a puzzle and took a nice nap together! Then we picked up Wilson and headed to the fireworks at Granite High School.


Wilson enjoyed sitting on Papa's lap during the fireworks!


Wilson thought they were really cool, however not cool enough to stay awake the whole time. He crashed and crashed good!



Saturday we had a nice relaxing morning and then headed to the swimming pool with Ryan's family. It was a bit cold, but Wilson had lots of fun!


After swimming we headed to their house for lots of games and then we picked up some dinner. Ryan and I headed to In n Out. Here are few pictures of us waiting patiently for our food.



Sunday we had a birthday party and more games. Monday morning 3 of Ryan's sisters were nice enough to let me take some pictures of them up at the U. Here are a few. These first ones are of Sarah.



These are Jen!



Bayley!



And all of them. I had so much fun and got some really great practice and pictures. Thanks girls for letting me take your pictures. You were all great models!

LOVE HIM!

ahoy hoy

I am sure my son isn't unique is his love for electronics, especially cell phones. From a very early age he has loved to play with them, hold them, push their buttons. But lately it has been taken to a whole new level. First it was that he would pick up a phone hold it to his ear and say "hello". So cute, I can't even tell you! Now even more advanced is that it doesn't have to be a phone. At first he used things that were well not phones but made a little sense like remotes and i pods. But it gets even better here are a list of the things he has used as a phone:

banana
hot wheels cars (a favorite of his)
hand held games (solitaire and free cell)
shoes
camera
cookie
pedometer
macaroni noodle

Once in a while I catch him with something to his ear and he is having a conversation. Usually walking around not looking at anything (picture someone talking on the phone and you get the picture). The first time it happened I was in the bathroom doing my hair and he started talking so I turned around to talk to him and he was "on the phone" talking to someone else!

I love my creative little man!

Wilson

My dad just sent me this collage he made of Wilson. Isn't he so cute!?! Thanks Dad!!!

Swimming Pool!

I have recently learned the art and passion of yard selling. My good friend goes almost every week in the summer and I tagged along with her last week. SO much fun. You can find stuff for so cheap! And it is so fun to see what you can find. This week I went by myself and I found this swimming pool for Wilson for $2! I think they are like $10 in the store. So today we tried it out. Wilson LOVED it! Here's to finding new and cool stuff next time!

No Pictures

Yesterday was quite an eventful day at our house. As I was in the bathroom doing my hair and Ryan was downstairs in the shower I noticed that Wilson was being really quite. I went out in the living room to find him drawing with a pen on my couch and on his shirt. So frantically I tried to get the ink out and was excited when it came out immediately with hair spray! I feel like I have been lucky so far that there have been no big accidents as far as Wilson's curiosity is concerned and when the ink came out right away I feel extremely lucky.

Well my luck wouldn't last long. About a half an hour later I was back the bathroom this time I decided I wanted to change my toenail polish. I had my color picked out and was taking off the old stuff when Wilson found the new one and took it to the other room. Ryan attempted to take it away by me (being so naive) said that he couldn't get it open and could play with it until I needed it. Well about 2 seconds later I hear a loud "NO" come from the other room. Turns out Wilson is stronger than I thought and had opened it and poured it out on the carpet! Well after working on it for a while I still have a pink stain on my carpet... here is to hoping a little more work will get it out.

Terrible twos here we come!!!

Another installment of...Thursdays with the Hettingers

Knowing that today would be hot and in the 90's I decided that Wilson (knowing how much he loves water) would enjoy running through the sprinkler out front. And boy was I right. Right from the moment he got wet it was loads of fun. He would run in and get wet and cold and then run back out! Only to then run back in. This fun only lasted about 30 minutes but it cooled him down and I got some picture fun in for myself!

Once in a lifetime?

Today I was at my aunts house outside when a bird flew over my head and yes you guess it pooped on my head. So gross! It got me thinking how many people can really say that has happened to them? Which lead to me to think about the other things that have happened in my life that are once in a lifetime things.

So here is my list (in no particular order):

1. Had bird poop land on my head
2. Been robbed twice at work (both financial institutes)
3. Fell and knocked out most of my top teeth and had to wear dentures for a few years
4. Had my ear drums burst 3 times
5. Was baptized in the tabernacle on temple square
6. I shook President Monson's hand


Okay so my list isn't very long. I am going to keep working on it. If any of you have experienced the same things leave me a comment and tell me about it!

Thursdays with the Hettingers

Bet you wish you were part of our family! Tonight we decided after dinner to go out front and give Wilson a Popsicle and see what happened! My boy loves his sugar and sugar on a stick was right up his alley!

Yummy from the very first lick!

This is Wilson's famous super excited face. I need to try to get it on camera one day because he shakes when he gets this excited.

The following are a series of pictures in which Ryan dropped Wilson Popsicle in the dirt and then stood there while he ate it. A little dirt never hurt anyone...right?

Jeeves was there to supervise the whole thing.

After Popsicle time we went for a walk in Wilson's new wagon (my wonderful sister gave him)

I wonder what exciting thing we will think of next Thursday!