websters visit

Our friends Rick and Collette Webster came to visit a few weeks ago. Tyler tried to get Annie to ride off into the Arizona sunset with him, but she politely refused. We're still trying to get used to 80˚ weather. I think our little Idaho flower would wilt in Phoenix.

rainy memorial day

We went to visit the cemeteries where my grandparents are buried today. We got rained on, but it was nice to see how many people remembered and cared about my grandmas and grandpa.

Although Annie is standing by my Grandma Gunderson's headstone, this picture shows just how little Gunderson she's got in her. She's Thomas in a pink sweater.


Tia Lisa, Bradley, Zack, G & G Gunderson, and Great Grandpa Aden came with us.

girls trip

We (my mom, Amy, Lisa, Annie, and myself) went on a girls trip to Utah. Dallin got to come too because Bret doesn't nurse so well. He probably wished he hadn't though, when Annie tried to ride him like a horse.

Annie got her toes painted while I got a pedicure. She loves her pink toes and still gets excited over them. She was quite the little shopper, and it was nice to have lots of moms around to take good care of her. We packed every minute of every day, and came home on my b-day (#22)!




This is the car ride home, and sums up how we all felt.

Mild Addiction

Annie loves the movie Hairspray. She won't watch Baby Einstein, Sesame Street, or even SpongeBob, but she'll zone into Hairspray any time of the day. She starts dancing and even sings along (she has "GO-GO-GO!" down perfectly).
I think she's secretly hoping Zac Efron would go for her chubby cheeks.

pretty darn cool

So if you need some basic photo editing done, and don't want to use your hard earned stimulus money on photoshop, this is a great solution!

clipped from mail.google.com

Today, Adobe releases Photoshop Express for the web.

Now before you go berserk, let us exercise some journalistic caution — it’s not everything you can do in Photoshop fit into a web browser. Not nearly.

No layers here, no fancy pants masking. But for 95% of your photos, it offers pretty much all you need to fix ‘em up, and it does it with style.

Whether adjusting exposure, white balance, or hue, touching up blemishes, or distorting your image, Photoshop Express provides an easy slider and thumbnails to give you an instant preview of your image at various settings. Even undo is better than you’d expect.

No, it’s not a Photoshop replacement, but it is a remarkably slick and well-designed basic photo-editing and sharing application. Arguably the best so far.

So what does it cost? It’s free, amigo.

Adobe Photoshop Express for the Web

Annie's art

we call it "Spring Meadow."

Easter 2008

I'm currently the Primary secretary, and since Annie won't be old enough for nursery for another 87 days, she runs around during singing time, trying to get the CTR 5 class to do the wave.

Since it was Easter, we were watching a movie about the Resurrection in Primary, and after they'd laid the body in the tomb and pushed the rock over the door Annie started yelling, "Nigh-night! Nigh-night!" I took her out to try and salvage some reverence and to have a good laugh.

Here are some pics of our Easter jubilee. It's fun now that Annie's old enough to get what's going on. She actually had a blast looking around for Easter eggs, and gave an "Oh WOW!" every time we opened one up.