House

The most beautiful house in all of Utah

At least in my opinion. Drew and I have been stalking the progress if this house. As we drove home from our vet appointment, they had taken down the giant fence that had surrounded the construction! I am so impressed with the attention to detail that this house has. Individually stained grey shingles, beautiful corbels and beautiful windows. This style wouldn't be my first pick for a house, but now that I see in person just how well it can be done, I may need to be re-dreaming my dream home.

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I had fun with my new portrait lens, taking some quick shots of my sweet nephew Johnny, before he demanded to be fed.

I had to brush up on my high school photoshop classes.

It was mostly trial and error, but a lot of fun to figure them out. I'm hoping to just get better with the settings, so that I won't often need photoshop.

Isn't he such a cute, chunky/naughty baby?...... He's actually an angel!

MudRoom

Here is a mudroom Drew did.

As always before pictures were an after thought. Basically this was just a long room with no storage.

Drew built two tall cupboards for vacuum, brooms and mops. A bunch of smaller cubbies with individual slats, to hold stuff in, but be able to peek through and see what's in there.

The other side has different size shoe cubbies to store big boots, to little shoes. Above are more cubbies. And the middle is a bench seat and beadboard with individual hooks for coats.

All built in our garage.

Trim

A little while ago, we went down to St. George, and Drew did some work on my brothers house.

Here is the trim around the windows.

Drew also did beautiful wainscoting down their hallway, but I need Michael to send me finished pictures of that.... K Mike?

Doesn't your heart just melt seeing that picture with Caesar in it!? Darling!

Camera

We invested in a camera, in hopes of being able to further promote our work.

We purchased a Nikon D90. Wow, there are a lot of buttons. Figuring out the manual mode has been challenging and fun.

These are some pictures I took at work the other day, when we were able to go out and enjoy the awesome weather.

If anyone has any advice on camera settings, functions and lenses, I would love to hear some advice. I'm not going to be a photographer, but nice pictures of our lives and work will be needed.

Can't get enough of this dog!

So, here's to clearer, brighter, sharper blog posts!

***Spring***

I don't know that I ever remember a longer winter! Oh My Word!

We decided to go for a little walk around the block, to wear the pooches out, and I could practice the settings on my camera! Finally starting to get a hold of the manual setting. There are a lot of settings!

Can you guess which direction we were headed?

I'm sure you can tell, but we are completely taken by this little girl... Who in this picture looks like a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog.

She has been a total dream puppy, sleeping through the night, not skittish, but don't aggressive. She has been man handled and loved to death!

But look how sweet she is!!!!! Get real! Beautiful!

She is a bird dog at heart! This duck knows who's boss!

Happenings!

The newest member of the Redd Family is little Johnny! Isn't he a doll?

Little Johnny is a little bit naughty, he decided to get an infection... Then pneumonia.... Then Jaundice... Little stinker. He'll be in the NICU for seven days while he gets his rounds of antibiotics.

But he sure is cute! With his dad's nose and mom's chin! Love him already!

After a visit with my tiny nephew, it was off to introduce Polly to her cousins! To say the loved her is an UNDERSTATEMENT! I don't think her feet touch the floor!

Seriously, even when they put her down to sleep, she was placed on the coffee table, but kindly given a blanket!

Cleo got her fair share of loving!

Cleo got her own, hex nut collar, and she looks smashing! I'm gathering my ideas for an etsy shop and these collars may make the list!

Cleo snuggled with her dad, so the puppy wouldn't out do her for affection.

And Polly sends you off with a wink and a smile!