tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645804562388618312012-01-09T18:06:16.589-08:00There's no place like home...lizardofozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17427654991588856163noreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864580456238861831.post-41869794950866197452011-08-02T16:30:00.000-07:002011-08-02T16:36:33.311-07:00

I just read my last post...yes, I am a slacker. Here's the thing: the stuff i think is important enough for other people to know, I post on facebook. There is stuff I don't want to put on facebook, but want to document here, but the problem is that I feel like it has to be all witty or profound or well-written With Caps in the Appropriate Places...and that's just not who I am right now. Right now

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              Today is Brandon and my 11-year anniversary. I feel tremendously blessed to have married him. We were talking the other day about how amazing it is that we dated for 3 weeks before becoming engaged, then were engaged for 3 months before being married...and we are perfect for each other. I feel blessed that we have one of those relationships where we sacrifice for each other, have

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       Brandon and I rented for 7 or so years before we finally bought our first house. During these years, I fantasized about having my own space, my own yard, so I could grow things. I wanted to be surrounded with beautiful, green and colorful things. I wanted to be able to go out to my very own garden and pick tomatoes, peppers, and zucchini that I had grown with my own two hands.       When

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So, the decision has been made... When Brandon and I decided we should have another child, I knew I would have to stop working during the latter part of pregnancy. I enjoyed not working much more than I thought I would. Up until one year ago, I considered myself a stay-at-home mom. I figured I was just one who was lucky enough to have a skill that allowed me to work part-time out of my home.

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A new baby is always a miracle. This one was especially so.For those of you who do not know, not only do we have 3 sons (who we love, i love boys!), but Brandon's parents have 11 grandsons.. and now..finally..1 granddaughter. We didn't think it was possible for a Dorathy boy to make girls, but, miracles do happen. Around midnight on Sept 10, 2009, I started dreaming I was having contractions. I

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So, I have GREAT intentions, the majority of the time. It's the action part I still need work on. This last spring we ventured on a wonderful family vacation. We drove to Tennessee via Dallas, TX so that Brandon could go on the bi-yearly brother-in-law trek. This year it was in the smoky nountains. My sister, Sara, and her family live in Clarksville, TN. My sister, Becky, and her family live in

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so, I'm a horrible blogger. kinda weird, cuz i thought i'd be into it. i love to write (although, you'll notice i hate using the caps key) and we have plenty of funny stuff occuring in our house on a daily, if not minute-ly basis. if i could just get my facebook status to post on my blog, we'd be in business. it's not that i don't care, or don't want to let everyone know all the fun stuff going

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okay, can you tell i'm busy? i can't believed i haven't blogged since september. I guess if you read my last post, you'll know why. Plus, facebook has taken over my life. So, between my facebook addiction, being a mom, wife and homemaker, plus wedding season, venturing out into baby and play-session family photography (check out my photography blog), plus marketing and promoting and keeping up

lizardofozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17427654991588856163noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864580456238861831.post-62467447999643722042008-09-23T16:13:00.000-07:002008-09-23T16:17:20.364-07:00

FINALLY! it finally launched Sept. 19th in the afternoon. We've been lucky to not have too many bugs since it launched, and we're getting vendors on there slowly but surely! I'm just happy to have it up, and am obsessively checking it for new vendors. Once we get enough vendors, I'll be starting marketing the site to brides and grooms. It's exciting to have an idea, work hard for it, then see it

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So, some of you know that I've been working on a new business. My designer swore me to secrecy (i guess people steal good ideas all the time in this business), but since the site should be going up by Friday (cross your fingers), I think it's safe. Since June, I've been working, along with my awesome designer, on a new wedding planning website for LDS couples called "Anxiously Engaged":

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So, people keep asking me when i'm going to start potty training my 2 year-old. yeah, i pretty much stopped with the whole pro-active parenting thing with my third, it's kinda like, "oh, he's supposed to be doing what at this age? hmm, i guess he'll eventually learn". it's not laziness or indifference, it's just the whole learning-to-not-micro-manage-everything-in-life-especially-my-kids thing.

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Last tuesday, my three little monkeys were jumping on the bed, one fell off and broke his...arm. Yup, little jon-jon is the first to have broken a bone. it truly is amazing with three boys that it has taken this long! So, daddy took him to urgent care (best kept secret in tucson- el dorado urgent care, what used to be the hospital- no wait, and super good care!). He got a cast a few days later.

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I just heard from Tucson Lifestyle Magazine. They will be publishing three of my pictures in their upcoming wedding issue. I just updated my edp blog with my latest wedding. I start tomorrow with my busiest month so far this year. I have back-to-back weddings tomorrow & saturday, then I have next weekend off (if you count hours on the computer editing them, off). Then I have a 2-day LDS wedding

lizardofozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17427654991588856163noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864580456238861831.post-80184719094603177522008-03-24T12:55:00.000-07:002008-03-24T12:59:21.751-07:00

http://www.byub.org/edweek/archive.asp?selectedYear=2005click on the first talk: : "Christ-centered healing from depression and low-self worth"This is an excellent talk given at BYU education week in 2005. I happened upon it and urge anyone who knows anyone with depression will watch it.

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I just finished my new brochure on mytucsonwedding.com. Take a look! http://www.mytucsonwedding.com/categories/photographers/brochures/photographers_4637.html

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YEA!!!! I finally finished my new website. I'm excited because it has a completely new set-up. It has an intro page that navigates to 3 different sites: weddings, portraits or my art gallery. My art gallery has a ton of shots of nature, landscapes, my study of clouds (thinking of doing a book someday...), temples, my trip to new york, etc.I think it will really help to have my wedding site & my

lizardofozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17427654991588856163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864580456238861831.post-28760977960180901582007-12-19T09:52:00.000-08:002007-12-19T09:57:07.157-08:00

It seems to have been proven that Dorathys cannot create girls- there are 10 grandsons on Brandon's side of the family. So, we had to borrow a daughter. Aimee is a friend who is staying with us for a while. She's 15 and a great kid. It's been fun having her around. Ben has been telling everyone about his "new sister". We don't know how long she'll be here, but we are enjoying it while she's here.

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I've been spending most of my time catching up on work. I had 3 weddings in October, 1 in November and did a bunch of family portraits in November. I have 3 weddings in December, so I'm trying get everything done before those hit me. But I'm feeling pretty slackerish....Here's a cool shot I got in October with a full-moon. The bride and groom were already married, so this was more of a

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Brandon recently hiked the grand canyon. (see that awesome picture Brandon snapped!) He took a week off of work, ditched me and the boys and hiked off into the sunset with a bunch of brother-in-laws & a 13 year-old girl. (someone's gotta cook and do dishes, right!) Actually, niece Emily (Sara & Heath's oldest) kicked some butt & kept toward the front the whole time. (That's her sitting up on a

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Jon-Jon is a crazy little kiddo. His favorite past-time is picking up whatever is lying around, preferably something hard, and chucking it full-force at the head of the closest person to him. He enjoys balls, trucks, music & streaking. This picture is pre-haircut, he looks much more manly now. His older brothers adore him, as does anyone within a small radius of him. He's quite the charmer.

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Ben just turned 7. He's been spending his time lately scouring the christmas ads for Mario games, so he can cut them out and add them to his Mario world he has created in an empty bucket. What to say about Ben? Just a hilarious, wacky kid who walks to the beat of his own drummer. He recently finished his musical theatre class. If I can figure out how to upload the video to my computer, I'll post

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11/30- Isaac started reading yesterday! he's sounding out words and doing a great job.11/28- Yesterday, Isaac found a centipede, a horned beetle, and decided to feed the ants some pretzels in case they were hungry. That about sums up Isaac, friend to all living creatures. A few weeks ago, Ben came running into the house yelling that Isaac had a black widow on his arm. Well, I calmly walked out to

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