October Phone Photos

I've got LOADS of pictures to post from our trip to Mesa Verde, Colorado last week but before I do that, I'd like to post my recent pictures from my phone. There is a bunch of random stuff in here!

It was Boss' Day the other week. Our small team decided to make our boss Misty a little gift basket with random stuff. We got her Diet Dr. Pepper (her favorite soda), a Fabreeze air freshener to freshen her desk, a "stressless" candle for home, the book "What Color is Your Parachute?" (she likes work psychology books like this), some strawberry shortcake and a Wonder Woman cup because she is Wonder Woman to us! I actually picked out all of these things but my team thought it was good. I also got her a cute balloon bundle to go along with it :) It was fun!

I'm so glad I took some final pictures of the fall colors at our house because we had our first snow of the year this year and now everything is really starting to die and fall off...winter is here!

I cleaned up the back porch and moved all of the tomatoes to the back fence so they'd get more sun. That left additional room on the actual porch for my other plants.

Here are the tomatoes in the sun glory! I tried to get more of them to turn red before the first freeze, but it didn't really happen. You don't even want to see what this bundle looks like now...it's sad :(

This tree started out as a small "weed" according to my Dad almost 5 years ago when we first moved in. Now it's taller than our house! It's amazing and I love it. In the picture you can just start to see the leaves turning yellow - now most of the leaves are on the ground.

This was on our way to Mesa Verde last weekend. The entrance to the canyon near Spanish fork has 8 wind turbines...these things are HUGE and so awesome to look at from the car!

Ramin drove the whole way of course. Here's a shot of him contemplating when to pass the vehicle ahead of us hahahaha....we passed LOTS of cars.

Cool shot of the sunset during our drive in Canyonlands National Park.

This monolith was on the drive between Mesa Verde and Moab....it reminded me of the Sphinx for some reason.

Yesterday (October 26) was eBay Halloween....the day when everyone could dress up and you could bring your kids to work to Trick or Treat - here I am with my teammates (the boys failed to dress up of course!)  Jenn Fairbanks is the creepy Willy Wonka - she even made REAL Wonka Bars with Golden Tickets in them! I was Malice in Wonderland (evil Alice) and Misty was Roz from Monsters Inc. - she did a great job! It was super fun!

Finally....the weather finally cleared up from the snow and most of the snow on the ground in the valley melted away so I took Dingo for a cold weather walk. You can see our Wasatch Mountains in the back capped in snow :)

Taking a break from the Facebook madness

Thrifty Decor Chick

I came across the link above today as I was reading my blogroll of subscribed blogs. I still read blogs because unlike Facebook, they actually contain helpful/useful/informative/true information most of the time...

Everything about her blog post reiterates my decision to give Facebook a break!

Fall 2012

Last weekend I had the opportunity to take some photos in Butterfield Canyon for lots of my friends. I had one friend ask me to take hers and then I had some others ask me and I decided to just do everyone on the same day to make it easy on myself!! I also took the opportunity to get some taken of me and Ramin as well as Chris and Tara. Here are the results from that day - I've included my favorite picture from each of my sessions as well as the pictures of us :)

This is my friend Angie. I just LOVE the way this picture turned out!

Here is my co-worker/friend Charlie and his wife Gayle along with their dog Miley - super cute!

This is my friend Christene and her cute family - 3 little boys!!

Brian and Jillene I know from eBay. Jillene always comes to my wreath classes!

And here are Chris & Tara's cute pictures!

Here are some of all of us - taken by Jill of course.

This is one of the funnest photos we've done!

Chris and me.

 

Had to get one of me and Jill together.

And finally, here are my favorites from my photos with Ramin.

 

My absolute favorite one!

September & October Phone Pictures

Here's the monthly dump of photos from my phone :)  Taking photos on my phone is basically the easiest way to document the happenings in my life. It's the lazy person's way of remembering life :)

Let's begin:

Very random picture of my desk at work. I have no clue why I wanted to take this picture...but now you know what my desk looks like at work. I'm tucked away nicely into my own little corner and I LOVE IT! 

 My FIRST red tomato from my tomato garden!! Too bad the weather is getting cold and I still have tons of little green tomatoes on the plants.

I was just watching TV and Dingo was being cute hiding behind Ramin's shoes for some reason.

One weekend Chris and I spent the entire DAY over at my mom's house cleaning up her yard. We pulled out tons of weeds in that little circle and near the large tall trees by the fence. Then we laid down weed fabric and covered it all with new mulch and I even planted some Fall mums. I also mowed the grass. The neighbors were even appreciative of our hard work to make the yard nice again.

Picture of my house with my Halloween deco.

Update pictures of my flowers. I CANNOT get enough of my petunias. I'm going to be so sad when they die!!

A project for work. Shaun (my co-worker in this pic) and I are creating a training video and we needed someone to narrate the content. So we created a makeshift sound booth using a cardboard box and my blankets :)

And here's my friend Genevieve talking in the sound booth as she records the narration!

I had an AWESOME walk with Dingo last weekend. On our trail we have some amazing wild flowers and I just had to get a picture of them because they were so beautiful!

Another picture from the same walk. Whenever I walk past this bush I think to myself "Wow, this thing is really yellow!!" And it really is compared to all of the other weed bushes in the canyon - so I took a picture of it :)

And this is just a view from the canyon trail in our neighborhood.  Pretty cool shot with the sun and Dingo.

We had a work meeting this week - we have so many people that we have to go to a theater to have the meeting. Here's my team - left to right is Shaun, Charlie, Misty (boss) and Jenn

Last night while Ramin and I were watching the Nascar race, Belle came and sat on his lap. Of course, that means picture time!

Then end....so far ;)