Random photo shoot

There was an ad in KSL for a free photo shoot... basically this person just wanted to practice photography. So anyway, I agreed to model. I got some fun shots out of it :) Here they are.

Another Williams Wedding (Bryan and Emily)

So not long after Chris and I got married, Bryan announced his engagement. We were all surprised, especially his parents because they had not budgeted for two weddings in one year! Somehow it worked out though and we all went to Idaho for the wedding. Here's the wedding party (minus parents).

L to R: Lindsey (Chris' sister), 2 of Emily's people (sister and sister in law or something like that), Emily, Bryan (Chris' brother), Adam (Bryan's best friend), and Chris.

Just a pic of E&B
And here's me and Chris.

Birthday cake

A few years ago my friend Mary Beth made this divine cake. It has lemon curd in between each layer, cream of coconut in the actual cake, and boiled frosting (which is really interesting and yummy!)

I decided I wanted this cake for my birthday this year. The only problem is that it takes so long to make that I didn't want anyone to have to make it for me. So I asked my friend Jenny to help me. I made the lemon curd, she made the cake, I made the frosting, and she frosted and decorated it. It was so delicious! It's so rich and dense though, not like cake mixes. A little sliver of it goes a long way. We didn't finish the cake off for at least a week - and I even fed it to people at my miniature party! We also had cheesecake at the party though, or people might have eaten a bit more of it.

Here's Jenny decorating the cake and also talking on the phone, hah! By the way, the cake was 4 layers.

And here's what it looked like in the end!

Ambler Family Campout

This August we had a little family campout for a "reunion" even though we all live close. It was really fun. I got plenty of pictures of the kids, especially Jonah who was being super silly, but none of the adults except one of Chris. Hahaha.

Elly and Jonah being silly in their tent

Jonah is obsessed with shoes and found one of Elly's

Jake was cool and trying to lasso

This next series of pictures is really funny.... Peter was really liking the cobbler Amy made... didn't like it so much when you stopped feeding it to him!

Jonah got really into the dog cages.

Cute pic of Erica with Peter asleep

Jonah... got tired.

Justin didn't.

Chris came after work so he got there really late and mostly hung out with us in the morning until we left.

Anyway it was super fun! Hope we can do it again next year!

Harry Potter...the last movie

Being a fanatical Harry Potter fan, of course I went to the midnight showing of Harry Potter. Chris and I went to the Scera to see it. I like midnight showings there because everybody's so crazy and excited. Chris didn't get there till almost 11pm because of work but I was there at 9 or so. I made butterbeer for us and we snuck it into the theater. We drank it in our butterbeer mugs from Harry Potter World (in Florida) with dry ice so it was "smoking." Some random girl across the aisle pointed at Chris (who was on the end of our row and highly visible) and said "Look! He's drinking something glorious!" which made me happy inside. The theater workers definitely saw us drinking it and didn't stop us. I think they're a bit lax on Harry Potter midnight showing nights. They probably don't usually let people run around casting spells at each other prior to the movie either. Or have costume contests. Or a countdown. Man, I love Harry Potter and I love Harry Potter fans.

This is the only picture we got that night, and unfortunately it's blurry and you can't even see my Hufflepuff badge. Oh well, I'm sure I'll dress up like this again in my life.

Erica's Endowment

Well, this is from way back in June, but I had the awesome opportunity to escort my sister Erica (my mom also escorted... you can have two!) through the temple for her to receive her endowment. It was a really, really happy day!