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40% off your senior photos!|Utah senior pictures

ARE YOU READY TO GET 40% OFF YOUR SENIOR PICTURE PACKAGE? I NEED 6 MOTIVATED, OUTGOING, ENTHUSIASTIC HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS OR SENIORS TO MODEL FOR SOME NEW PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS THAT I WILL BE PUTTING OUT.  THE SESSIONS WILL TAKE PLACE ON SATURDAY FEB. 4TH AND SATURDAY FEB. 11TH!  IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW MIGHT BE INTERESTED PLEASE DON’T HESITATE TO CALL!  SPOTS WILL FILL UP FAST! 801-889-851

 

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Yummmy!|Utah/Nashville photographer

This adorable Sweetheart Cupcake recipe can be found on allrecipes.com So cute just had to share the recipe!  It’s so simple and fun! I’m not a big sweets fan but Saydie has gotten into making cupcakes and I thought she’d especially like these!

Sweetheart Cupcakes

Ingredients

  • 1 (18.25 ounce) package white cake mix
  • 1 1/4 cups water
  • 1/3 cup vegetable oil
  • 3 egg whites
  • 8 drops red food coloring

Directions

  1. Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a standard muffin tin with paper cupcake liners.
  2. Beat the cake mix, water, vegetable oil, and egg whites together until smooth. Fill cupcake liners 1/3 full with white batter; set aside.
  3. Stir 4 drops of red food coloring into the remaining bowl of batter to make the batter pink. Pour 1/3 of pink batter into a resealable plastic bag and set aside.
  4. Mix more food coloring into the remaining bowl of pink batter until it is an orange/red color and pour the batter into a resealable plastic bag. Cut a corner off the bag, stick the open tip into the center of each cup of white batter and squeeze in about two tablespoons of red batter.
  5. Cut the corner off the bag with the pink batter, stick the open tip into the center of the red batter and squeeze about 1 tablespoon pink batter into each cup.
  6. Bake the layered cupcakes in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 15 to 20 minutes. Cool completely before frosting.]
Ok, now you have no excuses!  Ditch the red roses and  box of chocolates and go for something a little more creative this Valentines!
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Pleasing to the eye |Utah/Nashville photographer

As I have continued to try and change habits this year, I came across one that I really want to adapt this year.  In the book that I am still reading (PUSH), Chalene Johnson talks about how important it is to not eat things out of the bag.  Eating out of the bag turns into saddlebags, she says!  In one part she shows a picture of her fridge and pantry and how she makes it easy for herself and her family to make good food choices.  Not only that, it looks clean simple and very organized.  I LOVE it!  I am definitely doing this to my cupboards and fridge when I move in a few weeks.  It’s nice to be able to start out fresh!  Anyway, her tip is to divide all of your bagged items, into single serving baggies, or see through dishes (for the fruit and vegetables). And place them at eye level, so when you open your fridge or pantry the good choices are staring you right in the face.  She places her snack foods (single servings)  in little wicker baskets, and that way in her pantry it looks very clean and organized! Then put all your foods that are not the best choices, (cereals, high calorie items) on the highest shelves so that you would have to get a step ladder to get to them.  Genius!  I have heard of dividing things before, but I think the key is to make it all look very pleasing and appealing to the eye!  When you open your fridge and see all the colors of your fruits and vegetables and it’s all clean and ready to eat, it makes for very easy meal choices! I wish I had a picture to show you, but I promise when I get my cupboards stocked in my new place, I will take a picture and show you! In the meantime, here is one I found on pinterest that looks pretty good!

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What to give?|Utah/Nahville photographer

ALL BOUDOIR SESSIONS ON SALE NOW FOR HALF OFF REGULAR PRICE!!

It’s that time of year again! Valentines is just around the corner and I know you are all wondering what to get your special someone for Heart day!  Well, I have one idea that I know he’d love!  For the next few weeks, I will be offering Boudoir sessions for half off regular price!  This is the only time of year that this session goes on sell.  You must book quickly, especially since I will only be here a few more weeks, and have limited space available.  Sessions take place in my “in-home” studio and you can have 2-3 outfit changes!  Don’t wait call now 801-889-8519.  And if you’re not quite up for that, head on over to the Dating Divas blog… they have some really fun, easy and affordable ideas!

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The Littlest heros in our world!|Utah/ Nashville photograper

I had the awesome opportunity to take pictures of this little hero!  She was born premature and has been diagnosed with periventricular leukomalasia, a brain injury that can cause cerebral palsy .  You can learn more about her here. I am lucky enough to be part of an organization that offers photos to these families who go through so many trials with a child who has an illness such as this.  This is the third time that I have been able to participate in this program.  And I have to say that they hold some of my fondest memories as a photographer.  There is just something different about these families.  They truly appreciate that they have to live every moment to the fullest.  Maybe it touches me because I have a sister who has a son with pulmonary hypertension, and I have had to see her family go through so much with him.  Every day with him is such a gift and they don’t forget that for one minute.  I have so much respect for families who experience these kinds of hardships, and my heart goes out to them.  Giving them photos of moments that they will never be able to replace is the least I can do!

 

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Emily - January 20, 2012 - 8:21 am

What a cutie!

Jen - January 20, 2012 - 8:55 am

I didn’t know you were involved in a program like that! That is absolutely wonderful. The time and effort you put into taking photographs of those sweet children is truly a blessing to their families. I know they appreciate it more than you know. You are giving them a priceless gift.

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