an odd autumn.

a few facts:

-landon, olive and i are moving to idaho right after Christmas (go byui!)
-this baby^ is perfect
-my last photo spots open before we move are here
-A Christmas Carol (my play) plays december 3-5, get tickets here
-my life is crazy and blogging is going on the back burner. break time
-so is facebook. "deactivate account" button will be pressed shortly

boys becoming men, men becoming wooooooolves!

^pleeeeease tell me you know what i'm talking about. if you don't pleeeeease promptly look up tracy morgan and the werewolf bar mitzvah.


we had a good halloween. when landon strolled out with a stache i laughed for about ten minutes straight. i worked on my hair for 20 minutes (as opposed to 5) i teased and sprayed, seriously, how do girls get their hair so big? i think that was the only part of my costume that wasn't legit. thanks mike and mindy for the par-tay.

can you guess what we are?

standing up in a nook.

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did we self-time a family portrait after church yesterday? why yes, we did. do we consider our dog part of the family? why yes, we do. we are totally "those people".

i feel it all.

some updates-

*both landon and i anticipated this to be an easy semester, and both landon and i found it wasn't.

*after three years of begging landon to go running with me (no really, begging) he finally broke down and bought some nikes.

*olive comes running as well. we love her.

*being in utah in the fall was perfect, being in my grandmothers house in utah was even more perfect.

*i got a part in the play. it's so dorky, and i've loved every minute of it.

*i think this family is my most favorite family to photograph. they are so real.

*remember this? well, i found both. banana republic's classic skinny and boots at nordstrom rack. (they had rows and rows of cute boots, i looked everywhere for what i wanted, and they were the first pair i picked up.)

*we're getting a new nephew halloween day! and bekah is moving home in less then three weeks!

*haaaaaaaaaaaapy friday.

birdie-birdie num-num.

this is my family, and i like them alot.


(please, let me just say once, i apologize for the extremely inconvenient lighting. okay i said it once.)

^all of us. minus bekah, adam, liz and lauren (we missed you!) seth and jaz were mia. left-right.

josh, britt, matt, jen den, nick, jess, thom, laura, jackie, litle joe, ryah, chelsea, james,

jen f , scott, zuri, rachel, tyler,

me, big joe, wanda, keziah jane, sarah, david, matt, meghann

benson, grandpa john, grandma karen, noah, zoe, zion.

(phew, i kind of just wanted to see if i could do it.)

denhalters- i plan on making a few more posts. so keep watching. could someone show this to g&g? correct me if i'm wrong, but i think learning how to check their voicemail, would come before learning how to check a blog.


denhalters- i love you all.

the bird on her head is astonishing.

^this is my little notebook that i always carry with me. i write thoughts, poems, lines of songs i like, funny things i hear strangers say. landon says it's my "crazy book" because someday when our kids read it they'll know i was crazy. good thing he is the only person i let read it. the dead grass in the picture makes me happy, october is here. we've had the windows open every night for a week. the hum of trains and landon's deep breathing pull me to sleep.


my sweet great-grandma passed away peacefully last night. she was 100 years old, born on christmas day, named christmas carol wright, married a movie star, mothered my grandma karen, grand-mothered my dad, let me play dress up with her clothes, was always good for 50 cents, a snow cone and a very funny face, made the best sourdough bread i've ever had, played frisbee and went fishing well into her 90's. last thursday she told my grandma, "i quit." i'll miss my gammy, but happiness prevails.

i look just like buddy holly.

an image from my shoot yesterday i just had to share.