What a poser! =)

A few weekends ago my family and I went to Utah to see Heidi and her family. I needed to take some pictures for an ad I was making for class, so they gladly posed for me. Samantha is the perfect poser!

Man I love my life!!!!

It's amazing at how many talents a person can develop through the years. It's so much fun having many talents and I just continue to want to learn more. Lately I've been getting into photography. I have fallen in love!!! Pretty sure of it! Basically it is because of the Woodside Swing group. They are having a big event of swing with workshops all day and then a live band dance in October that they wanted me to create a poster for. Well I don't have a very good camera so I decided to get one from the library. Since I work in A/V Productions department in the Master Control section, I get to check out their camera's for as long as I need it! I don't have to have a teachers note or anything! WONDERFUL!
So I checked out their one of their nice sony cameras and found that I was pretty good! Here are a "few" shots I have taken since then:

MEET DENNIS!!! He was my lover over the 7 week break =)

As you can tell I've had a little bit of fun! :) I hope to keep it up. I don't think it will be to hard though.

Family Reunion, Colorado, and then Some.....

The past few weeks of my life have been absolute chaos! Here is what has happened. About a month ago, my family had a giant family reunion for anyone related to my great grandparents Will and Ethel Burt. We had an AMAZING turnout! If I remember right, we had about 97 people show up! It was a lot of fun! My brother's blue grass band came and performed at it and people were able to just congregate, talk, and catch up with each other. 

I got to spend most of the time walking Samantha around and keeping her happy. 

When she got sick of me, grandma got her.What a princess. 

The day after the reunion, my mom, dad, Eliza, and I were off to Colorado. We stopped in Little America Wyoming and stayed the night there. The next day we went to Colorado. We stayed in Colorado for 2 days and 3 nights which consisted of lots of shopping! Definitely my favorite part! After we were done in Colorado we headed to South Dakota so we could stop in Sturgis and see all the motorcyclists pull into town for the big biker rally thing. It's definitely a big deal for bikers. I've never seen so many bikes in my life! Definitely a one time experience for me. Now that I can say I've seen it, I am ok with never seeing it again lol. We didn't just see Sturgis though. We were able to go see the Crazy Horse monument and Mount Rushmore. They were both way cool! That area was beautiful! On our way home went to Little Bighorn where Custer's last stand was. It was quite the cool experience! I would recommend going if you ever get the chance.  

These were all the bikes parked in front of our hotel. This was just the hotel! You can imagine how many more bikes were at Sturgis! 

Welcome sign going into Sturgis

Some of the bikes parked in the street. 

Crazy Horse Monument

You guessed it! Mount Rushmore! 

Little Bighorn! 

It had just rained so there was a pretty rainbow over Little Bighorn. 

It was a long trip and I was glad to be home, but it was so worth it! 

I love being an aunt! When we got back from our trip, Heidi and Samantha came to spend the week with us! Samantha is so dang cute! She is getting the hang of animal noises. Here is a video of me asking her what certain animals say. 

She is also really good at talking on the phone, especially when it's her daddy. She was talking on the phone to her dad and she hardly let him get in a word. It was so dang cute!

Samantha loves her grandpa! Especially when he takes her to see the cows!