Love+Hate

Dear Wisk,

I have loved you for 6 long months now, I've used you to clean my laundry over and over again. I absolutely love your fresh sent and the way you make my clothes wonderfully clean. I have even proven my dillegence to you by turning down other detergent brands when you were not available, and yet you continue to mock me with your flimsy lids and seemingly magnetic powers that drive you to the ground. I don't consider my self to be a very clumsy person. I don't ususally trip when walking, and I dont drop important things, but you seem to wish to prove me otherwise. Twice now, I have purchased a brand new bottle of you and each time I do somehow I drop you, spilling your wonderfully scented contents all over whatever is underneath leaving a very slimy blue mess for me to clean up, and your now completely useless bottle...so, my beloved wisk, this is why I love and hate you. It has come to this...if this happens again I will be forced to terminate our relationship and start buying another brand.

-Kalli

Guess What?

I started up a photography blog! I'll be posting some client shoots, family stuff, my wedding portfolio etc...my portfolio isn't organized, but it will do for now. I'll be using this until my sweetie can make me a website :o)
check it out! it's www.kallinasmithphotography.blogspot.com

coveted skills

wow this kid is amazing! this clip is long but welllll worth it.

Help! I've been Tagged!

A-ATTACHED OR SINGLE? Attached!
B-BEST FRIEND? Joel
C-CAKE OR PIE? mmm I'm craving a rainbow chip cake with rainbow chip frosting.....
D-DAY OF CHOICE? Saturday and Sunday
E-ESSENTIAL ITEMS? food and sleep, Joel.
F-FAVORITE COLOR? depends on the day. Today it's dark pink cause thats what color my nails are.
G-GUMMY BEARS OR WORMS? definitely worms
H-HOMETOWN? Draper
I-INDULGENCE? Hagendaaz ice cream......oooohhhh boy 23 g of fat per 1/2 cup....just like I like it!!
J-JANUARY OR JULY? July
K-KIDS? Not yet, but hopefully some day.
L-LIFE ISN'T COMPLETE WITHOUT....Joel, our family members, and the gospel.
M-MARRIAGE DATE? October 11th 2007
N-NUMBER OF SIBLINGS? 3 sisters, 7 bro in laws, 4 sister in laws.
O-ORANGES OR APPLES? mmmm I love a good fugi apple
P-PHOBIAS OR FEARS? spiders, earthquakes, being in a natural disaster and being away from Joel or away from home.
Q-QUOTE? ummm......let me think about that one.....
R-REASON TO SMILE? living rent free
S-SUPERMAN OR WONDER WOMAN? Neither, I pick She-Ra!!!
T-TAG 5 PEOPLE? How about just who ever wants to be tagged?
U-UNKNOWN FACT ABOUT ME? I'm going to cheat on this one and do an unknown fact about Joel. I havent timed it yet, but I'm pretty sure he can fall asleep in under a minute flat.
V-VEGETABLES? cucumbers, carrots, corn, french cut green beans, green peppers.
W-WORST HABIT? ....oohhh so many, but today i'll say procrastination since I havent really started writing my talk for Sunday....
(X-X-RAY OR ULTRASOUND? I think i've only had one X-ray. It was at the Chiropractor's office. He said from the looks of it I almost had spine abifida....dont know if thats completely true, but i'm thankful that I dont have it!
Y-YOUR FAVORITE FOOD? it probably changes weekly, but right now it's a toss up between Hagendaaz creme brule ice cream or nachos with refried beans....delicious!!!!
Z-ZODIAC SIGN? Cancer

Massive Kite

We decided a kite would be a must have for this spring and we were lucky to find this beauty.
What a wonderful investment. We were pretty sure it wouldn't get off the ground, but because of it's massive size it managed to make the most out of the little bit of wind there was.


Joel has fantastic kite wielding skills.





As you can see it was taller than both of us! how awesome is that?! We bought the kite around Easter, but since then we got some more string and a little dragon fly kite so we'll post some pics when we take them both out.

My new lens! ohhhh yeahhh!!!

Yay!!!! My 50mm lens finally arrived last week after MUCH anticipation, but I haven't really had a chance to use it until today! This type of lens gives a sharp focus to whatever you focus on and then more blur to things that are closer and further away. It was so fun experimenting with it! Here are some of the first pics.


one of the last apricot blossoms

Tree branch and lens flare. I love lens flares! and I didn't even photoshop it in!
I couldn't decide which picture I liked the best so I had to put them all in Hayden is just so darn cute! He was trying to push all the dishwasher buttons when I was trying to take these pictures haha it was a good distraction.

just having fun with a marble


I really liked this picture of you Jess!


kisses! Dad and Hayden

Baby Brayden! He was totally smiling for us


Playing with that marble again. kind of a boring pic but I liked it!