Camping

We went camping near West Yellowstone, MT with Valerie's family last Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We also went into Yellowstone one of those days so there are a few pictures from that excursion.

Our tent

Gathered around the fire pit.

Riley's chipmunk trap - she caught a few!

It seems like every meal had some type of sausage in it...

It was pretty chilly Saturday morning.

Riley braving the lake.

Charlotte was drawn to the sand.

A rainbow at the Lower Falls in Yellowstone.

Valerie at the falls.

Riley and Charlotte were thrilled to take this picture.

More waterfalls.

The girls loved seeing this Bison up close!

Pix, pix, pix

The moment you've all forgotten about by now, but have waited for.  Pix from the reunion.

Both enjoy the pix and cuss me simultaneously.  Bubba did.

KJ

p.s.  For anyone, including myself, who says, "I look fat, my hair is jacked, what's that growing out of my mole?"  I'm a photographer, not a magician or plastic surgeon.  Cope.

The Amy/Jamie show...

When I went to Utah for the BYU children's literature symposium, I had no idea that I would be coming back to Las Vegas with such a CUTE, FUN souvenier! :) Jamie came back to Vegas with me, and stayed for almost 2 whole weeks! She spent a lot of time with me at the library, and we took a quick, weekend trip to California for some beach time and relaxation. Here are some pictures from her visit:

On our way back to Vegas, putting the girl to work!

On our way to the library...my cute little assistant!

Girls Night Out with Alyssa...the daughter of my ex co-worker, Patrick

Librarian in training

She even looks the part with her sweater and bun, right?!

Multi-tasking at In-N-Out

At the harbor in Long Beach, after visiting the Aquarium

Long Beach

Dropping off "the goods" at the airport

My sweets, about to leave me! :(

It was great to have Jamie here...now that she's gone, I don't have anyone to talk to on the way to work, no one to come sit on my lap while I'm working, and no one to watch Disney shows with! Love that girl...she's welcome ANY time she wants to visit us!

yah, yah, yah.....i know

I'm dragging my feet on the JFR pix.  Duh, I know.  I'm working on them.  I've just been working on other projects that hopefully will generate actual dinero.

KJ

p.s.  I have another show up.  The reception was a bust.  You can all sell my art when I'm dead and go to Sizzler.

Chocolate-Loving Vegas Visitor

We've loved having Jamie visit "The Entertainment Capital of the World!" She's been assisting Amy at the CML on most days, but Wed. we took a field trip to the Bellagio Conservatory and to Jean Philippe's bakery/chocolate fountain. Check out her chocolate-covered strawberry! She loves sweets and IS sweet. We'll miss her!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Janet, considering how late we usually are with birthdays, I think you can go ahead and figure this is right on time :) We love you and hope you had/have a wonderful birthday!

Reunion memories...*sigh*

I think that we just need to buy the Johnson Family Compound now, and get that thing up and running so we can have JFRs every day! Who's with me?! :) I sure had a good time at the reunion...so fun to spend time together. We are so lucky to have such a wonderful, fun, cool, cute family! I'm just posting a few pictures here. I will burn all of the pictures/videos I took onto a CD for each household...then you can do with them as you please! Love you all SOOOO much!!

C.T. Starfish and Champion of the world

I love the pictures everyone's been posting. I am working on the ones I shot at a feverish pace...sort of. I'm frantically working on my new website, so everything else has sort of taken a backseat for a few days. Check it out; 28images.com.

I will edit the photos I shot and get those online. Hopefully everyone has recovered from the great reunion. I had a ball. I loved seeing everyone and forget how much I miss spending time with you guys. I'm hoping Todd/Val and Scott/Margie are slowly helping their kids sleep through the night without having nightmares of C.T. I saw that picture and wet myself. Not a pretty sight. Also, I appreciate whoever took the picture of Todd, me, his giant starfish nipples and my lifeboat strapped to my belly. I have new resolve to get my butt--and everything else--back into shape. Look out 2011, C.T. will be putting on some "fireworks," BAM, BAM! in his SPEEDO!

KJ