Jenn's Wedding

This is my gorgeous room mate, Jenn, on her wedding day in Mesa, Arizona.  It was hotter than heck, but it was all worth going to be there for Jenn.  I just love her so much and she has become such a good friend.  Thank goodness we still work together at Costa Vida.  She was such a pretty bride and was all smiles the whole day.  

Every one's face is priceless in this picture...

This is an attempt at taking senior pictures of Amy.  I got Amy all dressed up and she even let me curl her hair and put make up on her--that never happens!  She looked so beautiful and we were so pumped to go out and take some cool shots... until my battery in my camera died and shattered all hope of Amy letting me take her pics.  Anyway, there were pretty much none to work with so I decided to just play around on photoshop with one of them and I thought it turned out ok.  I mean, this won't be her senior pic or any thing but it was fun to get her all dolled up.  

Can you tell where we are at in New Orleans by looking at the background sistas?

Crawfish Berrrl

You know you want some of dat!  Oh my, was this stuff goood!  I hadn't had a crawfish boil in years and that is my all time favorite food.  My Uncle Donald boiled over 100 pounds of crawfish and it fed a good amount of people.  It was so much fun and I just love to be in the country-- you can just run buck wild, get as drunk as you want (just kidding), play as much kick the can and murder, and be as sweaty and barefoot as you want, and have dance offs,  and tell as many "yo mama" jokes as you want and don't forget nonstop good eatin'!  I guess you can say this was the best crawfish boil I had been to and every one was laughing so hard and it was just pee-in-yo pants kind of fun (there were at least three of us).  Gotta love my cajun family!

Oh and my favorite yo mama joke of the night was from my little cousin, Lexie:

"Yo mama so fat, it took her 2 hours to watch a 25 minute television program."

Happy yo Mama's Day y'all!

The following is a side by side picture of my cousin, Gregory, and Freddie.  Tell me if you think they look a like... Cajun Freddie vs. White Bean Freddie? HAHAHAHA

Baton Rouge Temple Trip

This was Jacob's first time going in the temple and it was such a sweet experience.  He was a little nervous but he said he loved it.  Freddie baptized all three of us and it was so great because my family means so much to me.  You couldn't help but to feel the spirit that was there.  This guy from Pontchatoula had over 200 names for us to baptize.  He also had a sweet cajun accent like the guy from Water Boy.  I would not have rathered to have been any where else on a friday night.  

Read closely...

Easter : )

First off, let me just say how good Easter was for me this year.  What a spiritual day. I feel like this year I have finally come to appreciate the Atonement more fully and what Christ has done for each one of us.  I am so grateful for His Resurrection and for the chance for all of us to be resurrected again some day.  

Secondly,  me and Freddie were invited to his roommate, Todd's, House in SLC.  His family was one of the nicest families I have ever met.  I'm serious.  Such nice peeps  (haha get it)

Luckily, I brought my really nice camera from School and was able to take their family pictures for all of the Wilde family and for each individual family as well.

I really liked this candid shot.  No one knew I was taking it.  These kids were so much fun to play with!

Here is our Provo Family Easter picture for our Mama.
All of the kids just loved Freddie, especially this little girl!

"Hey lil girl... bring me some of that cherry kool aid!"  (you know what I'm talking bout Freddie)

I had to throw in this pillow that Emily made for me for my birthday.  It is absolutely gorgeous and I wish I knew how to do this.  Emily gives the BEST presents!

Photoshop Kids

This past week and a half, I have been doing my practicum where we go into the schools and actually teach. I taught at Canyon View Junior High School and it was a communications class, which I was very excited to teach something that I am going to teach one day.  Other groups taught electronics classes.  Me and my group decided to do a unit on Photoshop and teach them the basics.  Little did we know, kids are a lot smarter than you think.  Most students caught on real quick and were really good.  I enjoyed every moment and the kids were awesome.  We became bffs by the last day haha

 

The first day we taught them the basics of photoshop and how to cut out pictures and use filters and layers and stuff like that.  The second day I taught some basic layout design principles and then we taught them how to morph two animals together.  That was so much fun.  The last day that we taught we had the students make a magazine cover and a school ad and then presented them at the end of class.  The kids were awesome.  Most stayed on task and caught on quickly.  I loved it when I saw students helping other students.  It was fantastic!

Here is the magazine cover that a student, Caleb, made.  We took pictures of each kid holding a white piece of foam core.  we taught them how to make a picture within a picture and then make a magazine cover out of it.  There were so many other good ones that I wish I would have taken back with me.

We also had the students make an advertisement poster about any issue they wanted.  This one was my favorite.  This kid had some legit skills.

This is Jessie's ad that he made for himself as if he were running for student council.  I thought this one was clever.

This is the vampire Hilary Duff.  Some one did this on the first day of class when we taught them some of the basic tools for retouching and cutting out photos.  Kinda creepy I know.