Look who was on TV today!

It's ME stuffing me face with dessert!
Watch for Tom too!

I love that I'm getting credit for discovering a store that's been open for 10 months already. LOL!
In reality, I feel like I was the last person to find out about it.
I was taking pictures so I could blog about The Chocolate, but ended up giving them to Studio 5.
But this makes a much cooler blog post, don't you think?

And if you think this is cool, stay tuned!
I'm going to be on Studio 5 FOR REAL this Monday, October 18th.
I'm going to be a model!
Well, a witch model...
Modeling witch hair...
Whatever! Make all the jokes you want. I'm excited!

I'm Banning Tom From the Kitchen...

...Because of this:

Wondering what on earth happened?
Let me tell you.

I wanted to cook a batch of frozen rolls.
I let them thaw and rise all day, and then forgot about them.
My first mistake.
Tom saw the rolls and offered to put them in the oven. I said "Sure!".
My second mistake.

When the buzzer went off, I went to take them out of the oven.
But something was wrong. They weren't brown like they were supposed to be.
They were SHINY!
That's when it hit me.
Me: "Tom, did you take the plastic wrap OFF before you put these in the oven?"
Tom: "Ummmm... Nope!"

That's why my rolls looked like this.

And Tom looked like this.
GUILTY!!

There was plastic everywhere! You could even pull it off the rolls!
And the pan!

As you can also tell from the picture above, Tom still ate some.
He said they were delicious.

Our New Car!

We finally gave up on our Honda Civic.
I don't care how great people say Civics are.
Ours was a lemon!
We had to fix anything and everything on it.

This is our new car!

It's a 2009 Pontiac G6.
During the financial crisis, GM discontinued the brand, but will still service them.
But their loss is our gain because the cars are CHEAP now!

The car is great, but my fav accessories? The remote car starter and the FREE satellite radio!
(We're not sure who's paying for it.)

This is Tom enjoying his rare opportunity to be in the driver's seat.
Because this is MY RIDE!
Wicka Wicka Wicka WHAT!

A Not-So-Sleepy Shoot

This is Hattie!
She's the first girl I've had the pleasure of photographing!

So cute right?
I managed to get a few shots in the 10 minutes she stayed asleep.
(Okay, it was longer than that, but it seemed like no time at all.)

We had a few guests at the shoot too.
Remember McKay? He was the first baby I photographed a few months ago.
Mckay and Hattie are cousins.
You can tell they're going to be close. McKay is already working on protecting his little cousin.
I just about died when they snuggled up like this.

Hattie's big sister was also there for the shoot.
I know this picture doesn't actually have Hattie in it, but it's one of my fav pics from the shoot!
The pics WITH Hattie in them are pretty great too.
Hattie's dad also showed up for a few minutes during the shoot.
They requested a few pictures like this.

That's the end of that shoot.
More to come.
Have I mentioned I'm now in ADVANCED photography?
Wish me luck!

Ukraine Temple Promo

It wouldn't be General Conference in Utah without a documentary from Carole Mikita.
Here's the promo I produced for her documentary on the Kiev, Ukraine Temple running this Sunday at noon on KSL 5 TV.

Fun with Child Models

This is Ashlee and Briana. They are some of the cutest kids I know!
Turns out they also make beautiful models!
They were nice enough to help me out with a photography assignment I had a while back.
The assignment was to use an off-camera flash to mimic the effect of the sun (to create a halo-like effect).
Some of these pictures have the effect, some don't. We just had lots of fun taking pictures.
Here are my fav shots.
(There are no actions and no editing on these shots other than the watermark)

I brought leis and butterfly sunglasses to make the pictures interesting.
The girls LOVED them!

I LOVE Ashlee's smile in this picture.

I'm pretty sure Briana was born to model. She came up with the best poses!

Around the corner from where we did our photo shoot. there was this open garage with a broken down truck. So we took some pictures here too.

These girls were seriously in sync with everything they did.
This pose took no prompting. They just did the exact same thing!

Thanks for the fun photo shoot girls!

The Balloon Guy

Meet the Balloon Guy, AKA Jeremy Telford!
He's one of the best balloon artists in the whole world!
And he was on Studio 5 today.
The creation in the picture above is a DJ spinning some turntables.

This is Snow White!
She even has a apple in her hand!

I LOVE her!

For Studio 5, the Balloon Guy spent NINE HOURS creating a "balloonscape" for the Studio 5 set.
Check it out!

The best part of my day? I got to snag the bunny and the bouquet of flowers!

The Balloon Guy makes a living off making people smile. I absolutely love that. It's so inspiring!
I always thought my job was pretty cool, but I have to admit, working in a T.V. newsroom can also be depressing. There are so many sad stories.
But no worries about that now, because I have these colorful creations sitting on my desk at work. They make EVERYONE smile!
Check out the Balloon Guy's other creations HERE.