Mason + Miralva

Finally after many hours of attempting to load the pictures it worked!! Yay! :) These are the pictures from Mason and Miralva's wedding which took place June 20, 2009. They didn't have a professional photographer so I did the best I could to get them some pictures of their wedding day to put up at their reception and to keep. I was having some troubles working with the lighting and the shadows, and I don't have all the settings figured out yet on my camera, but this is what I came up with and I think some of them turned out alright. Aubree and Casey also helped out.
It was a beautiful day and I'm so happy for Mason and Miralva. She is a sweetheart and I'm excited to have her as a sister-in-law. They were sealed for eternity in the St. George temple. Isn't it cool that that's possible?! They will be a family forever now. I love happily ever afters. :) It's been so fun to see my best friend, my cousins, and now my brother find theirs. Mace and Miralva were so happy!!

The picture below is with Miralva's sister Laura and her husband Adam. I tried to get some pictures with Miralva's parents but they didn't turn out unfortunately.

After the temple we drove back to our church in Cedar City for the luncheon and ring exchange. The ceremony was in Spanish for Miralva's family but I picked up some of it and Casey told me that the branch president mainly talked about how important the sealing ceremony is. It was kind of cool to watch!

The lighting in the church was kind of dark so I had a hard time getting clear shots, but here's a picture of Miralva's mom, dad, and little sister (the flower girl on the right).

These are the table decorations we came up with for the luncheon. We have awesome family members who are always willing to share and pitch in to help! Thank you for the candles, vases, lacy tablecloth things, salads, desserts, etc.!

The reception was that evening at our stake center. There was a line from 6 to 7, dinner from 7 to 8, and dancing until 9. Even though we were kind of tired from the rest of the day it was a fun time!

My favorite part of the reception would have to be the garter and bouquet dances. I guess this is a traditional thing they do at Mexican weddings and I thought it was quite entertaining. I uploaded a video of the single men doing to the garter dance and the bouquet dance was similar only with the single girls doing the dancing of course. My favorite part of the video is the enthusiasm you can see in Cameron's step. :) hee hee

I didn't catch the bouquet. In the end I was kind of glad because Casey didn't catch the garter. The "catchees" danced together and I would rather not dance with a strange single man.

Nothing beats a slip n' slide on a hot summer day.

Head 'em up Move 'em out

It's that time of year again! Monday was the cattle drive and a fun time was had by all. It felt good to be back in the saddle again. Casey will be a cowboy in no time at all. :) Everything went quite smoothly and we had a yummy picnic afterwords. I love being there and just enjoying the company of our family. We did miss those who weren't able to make it though.

Oh and sorry I forgot to change my camera settings for outdoor lighting, hence the blueish tint in all the pictures.

I haven't posted much for quite some time which means I now have quite a few things to post about. And I've got lots of pictures because (da da da da!) I got a new camera!!! Yay!! I'm excited. :) The occasion upon which I got my new camera: my 21st birthday!!!!

I got lots of really cool presents. I am so spoiled!!! Most of them are pictured below. The picture of the camera on the box is silver but it is actually pink! :)

My birthday was on a Sunday so we played a nice reverent game of croquet after eating a delicious chicken cordon bleu dinner made by my mom.

Take a moment to notice the color in this picture of Casey playing croquet. I didn't even edit it! I am quite pleased with the quality of pictures captured with my little pink camera.

The monday after my birthday we made a trip to Hatch for some calf branding. It's always fun to gather with the family and work with the cows. Kinda smelly but still very enjoyable.

Casey joined in the project and got a taste of Heap family ranching. He did good for his first time branding! Better than me probably. I never seem to get it straight without a little help holding the iron on.

It's been quite a challenge finding a job in Cedar but Casey has been nice enough to let me wash windows with him. It's been fun working with him and we've had all sorts of adventures repelling out of windows, climbing tall ladders, and battling the creepy crawly window well dwellers. I snapped this picture of him washing the Graf cabin. It's been a good job to help me work on overcoming my fear of heights and spiders!