Its great to be Happy 

SNOWING!!!

snow This is a picture i took 5 minutes ago of the outside of our apartment, ours is the bottom one, but thats not important, the important thing is ITS SNOWING!!! we were over at someones house who lives over by 90th south and it snowed like 2-3 inches in 1-2 hours!! were we live its about 1/2 inch and still coming down and its supose to snow more all this week! im so excited! i love snow!!

HAPPY TURKEY DAY 

Passion

When i looked up passion in the dictionary this morning it said: A powerful emotion, such as love, joy, hatred, or anger. For me is love, joy, and everything positive when it comes to my passion about photography. Im not quite sure what it is about taking pictures, but its releases my stress. It allows me to express myself in different ways then words could. It allows me to be me and nothing more and nothing less. Im sure you all have a passion out there for something, more things then one for some. Me i have tons of passions, Logan, My family, my religion, Snowboarding, Photography just to name a few random ones. So go out there take hold tight of your passion and run with it!

::Sanity::

Taking a simple 30 min. to myself, away from dirty dishes, piles of laundry, an apartment to clean, or a dinner to cook or to think about cleaning up, is sanity! This quirky green bathtub is my place in our apartment that i am able to go, light a billion candles and just sit and relax and think about nothing but how wrinkled my little toes are getting. I recently found out that the current bubble bath soap i have makes my entire body ich, head to toe! so right now its hot water and me, no bubbles to play in or anything, but its okay, its still some sort of sanity in my daily off schedule routine. I love my life though, i love the busyness, the clutter (to a point :) ) and the every day surprises. But if i didnt have a tub, id be in the looney bin right about... now :) anywho hope you all have a wonderful day!

HAPPY BRITHDAY ADAM!!

This is last year at Mt. Baker, but This last Saturday Logan, Brad and I went up to Alta (skiiers only :( ) and When Snowboarding... we hiked up. The lifts are not open yet so it didnt matter... but it was so much fun! tough work but so worth it to get a few small runs in for free! anywho cant wait until more of the resorts open so we can go hit the slopes via chairlift, but until then, LETS CLIMB!

HAPPY BRITHDAY TO YOU HAPPY BRITHDAY TO YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ADAM HAPPY BRITHDAY TO YOU!

COOKIES

I made cookies!! mmmm so good and guess what THEY DIDNT TURN OUT LIKE PANCAKES!!!

just a picture i took when rae was here, love how some are in focus and others are not :) hee hee have a great day 

Logan

I love this picture of Logan and meself lastweek up at Alta, when we all went to play in the snow. I just wanted to express how much i adore this man. How much he means to me. I love the feeling i have everytime i look at him, even if its a silly face im looking at, or him sleeping. He's a great guy and everyday i feel more and more luckier to be with him. Out of all the girls in the world he had picked me and out of all the guys in the world i picked him. He's my one and only true love. Babe i love you so much, thank you for being there for me through thick and thin, happy and unhappy moments. I love it when we laugh together, dance in the streets at night together, or just sit down and cuddle to a movie. The little things count so much and i thank you for all the hardwork you put into this relationship each and everyday.

Life...

Isnt it funny how life has its ups and downs, and maybe sometimes you enjoy the downs just as much as the ups? This could only be in my case, but its how i feel. Since moving here i dont have my mom or dad to rely on.. and as much as i miss them.. its nice to be out and living on my own allowing Logan and I to have our own life. I miss my family so much that alot of the times ill start to cry about it, but i cant let keep me down. Im in a wonderful city and im so excited to explore, walk the streets, enjoy life. ABout the downs things... back home i felt alot of the time when i would trip in life id be caught by my dad, and in all honestly it was nice knowing i had that saftey net, but when i got older it became a bit fusterating. If i were to argue with my brother or something my dad would back me up and stop the bickering. (just an example) I wanted to experience falling on my face. Now out here i can do that, and im excited in a way. I know my family loves me and only wants to see the best for me happen, but some times in life you gotta just take it and go with it. I love this.. i love burning dinners, constantly checking my checkbook, going shopping, and just being in an apartment where i dont have the nicest things, or the best technology. I have to figure things out on my own... and as hard as it is I'm loving Life.

Cool Picture

I was just messing around in adobe with this picture rae took on saturday while we were eating lunch at snowbird. I like how it turned out with the harsh color, and the pinks and reds... i know it might look funky to you all but i love it! :)

SNOW 

2 more days

only two more days til rae comes, im excited!

Who's a cool Fairy....

that would be me:) for Halloween i dressed up as a pink Fairy, it was so much fun! wore it all day at work, and now while trick or treatin, well im passing out candy, not going out this year lol... we got two bags of candy thinking that no one would come to our house, but just in case, and guess what! lol so far i only got one ring at my door! lol... there were only four kids in that group! lol but at least someone showed up right! anywho well happy halloween everyone! miss you all!

hey ya'll

Howdy!! yesterday was one heck of a busy day... as soon as i got home from work i quickly jumped onto the computer and started proofing jamie's pictures (sundays session) then in the middle of that i started chicken and rice casserole while i was proofing, then once it was done i stirred everything together and then ran to costco at 8:00pm got there at 8:10pm and found out they close at 8:30, but the photo lady was super awesome! she got 214 pictures printed by 8:27pm!! then i ran to wal*mart handed them to Jamie and Amy who were shopping, then i went home were logan had put the casserole into the oven. It finally cooks and then i realize I FORGOT THE CHICKEN! lol so it was a cheese and rice casserole lol! so anywho woke up this morning and got ready really really quick, then did the dishes. well anywho at work and im super tired.. going to go have a great day!

A Quick Hello

Hey, at work so not much time to say hello, but i saw that i last posted on Saturday so here is a quicky... went to church on Sunday and we really enjoyed our new ward, so thats good... after church we ate lunch and took a nap... then i was off to take pictures for Jamie again, the lighting was bad on Saturday... they turned out cute. Tonight we're making her accouncments i believe and also doing the pictures so i can get them printed out before she leaves to go to Washington with Cameron for a visit.. wish that was Logan and I going, but oh well...my mom says shes coming out in March and i can hardly wait!! Also Rae is coming out in early Novemeber and im so excited!! gotta finish up the apartment so she doesnt think its a dump! lol hee hee anywho well im going to go talk to you later!!

We love to Shoot!

This morning Logan, Brad, and Cameron all went shooting up in Bountiful at a shooting range. Logan had a really good time, and i was able to clean up the kitchen, and scrapbook a little. I even made Banana Bread, gotta send some pictures of it its funny! lol... dont ask ill just show you. Anywho... Logan did his shooting already so it was my turn. I took Jamie's and Cameron's Engagment photos today. Session one, im taking more tomorrow with better light. I was thinking today that i would really like to start my own business of photography, and designing annoucments, greeting cars, etc. Im thinking of a name now... im not sure what to use as my name... i dont know if i just want to use "Laura McGee Photography" or something way different that someone will always remember? i have no clue! lol a little help here! anywho.. here is one picture of the happy couple.

Our Dinner the other night! YUM 

So Tired!

Lastnight i woke up at least 10-15 times! im so tired this morning that when Logans Alarm went off i thought it was mine and i started to cry. I have no engery to walk to work, let alone take care of a bunch of kids! Yesterday was so hard! I get to work and my co-worker wasnt coming in because she had to study. So they were going to have other people come in and help me because the ratio of children to adults is 4 to 1. Well some other co-workers are sick so they had to call mine in and she wasnt happy about that, let alone we got a new child in our class with no notice and she never has been away from her mom before so that wasnt any fun what so ever! So we had 7 kids, then one went back to the infants (she is just turning one) and then during naptime two paretns came and picked up their kids so my co-worker went home and i had four to myself. Eventually and quickly it dwendled down to only one kid by 4:30! i was shocked and amazed and then the next thing i knew, the last kid was picked up by 5pm! seriously this hardly ever happens!! So i went and helped out in the infant room until all of the babies were gone and i went home at 5:45pm and chilled on the couch waiting out my migrain which is still here this morning, alone with a HUGE stomach ache!! arg! oh well its life right? hee hee anywho well i have to go and get ready for work today! have a wonderful day everybody!

This is Me...

I had Amy send me a picture of me when i was a toddler. At the daycare i work at there is a little girl in the two's class that looks exactly like me, so i showed everyone the picture to prove it and it may not be exactly but its pretty dang close. like this kid could pass off as mine any day! lol.. anywho well i have to go get dressed for work, but i felt like i was lacking in the picture department... oh tonight im going to make banana bread! im way excited! i want my apartment to smell super yummy!! anywho talk to you later! :)
me

Tuesday Date Night

How cool is it to have dinner, a movie and dessert for only 10bucks? i was pretty dang excited! lol.. there is a local pizza resteruant here that holds a deal called "Beat the clock" which means from 6pm until 8pm the time you call in and order is the price you paid. Lastnight i called in at 6:05pm and got a 14inch large 3topping pizza for only 7 dollars after tax and a charge to use my card. We ate at home, then thought we had time, lets go to the dollar theater. Which is usually 1.50$ which is only 3bucks for logan and I to see a movie. well on Tuesday its only a dollar, and we were just in time to see dukes of Hazard, which is a awesome movie! LOVE IT!!! After the movie we hit up McDonalds and i got an icecream cone, which we shared. so after everything it was 10 bucks for a wonderful evening. We have a dirty house, somewhat unpacked, and garbage to be taken out, but there is only so much you can take of it until you need a break. Lastnight was really what we needed. This morning i woke up on time, put a load of laundry in the wash, did all the dishes, cleaned up the kitchen table, and gather trash to be taken out when i get home. It was nice to get things done so early in the morning, but now im tired! lol chasing after 5-6 toddlers isnt as easy as we all think! lol anywho not much else to talk about though... just sitting on my lunch break eating salad and left over french bread... oh yeah guess who is cool? yeah me!! on monday i made my own homemade fetechine noodles, and logan made alfredo sauce... oh made so good! i got pictures ill post when i get time! well i better be on my way! love and miss you all!!!

Weekend updates!

a funny story! So Logan and i got tickets to the BYU game like you all already know. On saturday we got up, got our internet and cable hooked up and ate breakfast. I checked online to see what time the game really was at about 1:30pm and it said 5pm est. so we were like 3 our time lets go! so we ate the rest of our breakfast and ran out the door, we got there late at 3:15pm and there are no cars! we saw a parkinglot attendant and i rolled down my window and asked what time the game started, she said 8pm. we were 4 1/2 hours early! lol. we went to the mall there and i finally found my fall/winter candles! since i have moved here i wanted to get candles to fill the entire house with warm comforting yummy smells, and i couldnt find the right one, until we went to this store called FOR EVERY BODY and they have SO many candles!! and they are highscented!! i got GingerBread! and then i also got a 26oz candle for 3 bucks! originally 18 Dollars! its called Birthday Cake and it smells just like a cake, not like a crappy smell, but it smells exactly like it!!! im so happy i got it on sale!! anywho.. then we went to ross and i got a new pair of chuck taylor shoes! lol... more yes i know but they were only 10 bucks and they are all leather! ill take a picture!! anywho... then we went to AppleBees to get an appetizer for dinner. Here in Utah you can sit at the bar, doesnt matter your age! Its because they only serve beer. So we sat there and avoided the 20 min. wait. We Went to the game and we were in great seats! Logan patiently explained to me the rules when i questioned a few or alot of times what was going on lol! but i got it and they won!! go BYU Cougars! lol... anywho well i have to go to work! eek! i better really go! talk to you later!!!!

{Missing Washington, But Enjoying SLC}

Hey everyone, guess what! Oh yea i got internet and cable for our TV! yay! im so excited, it was nice to not have this stuff for a few days, so i didnt have too much to take me away from unpacking, but im so happy we have it now though. Pay bills, write to friends/family, see pictures and send them.. communicate with family!!! Salt Lake is nice, but i have my moments when im missing home, but its nice though to be away and experience the hard part of being on my own. I apperciate all my parents have done for me! thanks! Im so happy, the other day i found out that Rae is comming on the 4th of nov.! she cant keep secrets! lol but its nice to know whats ahead!! anywho this is short though so sorry but i have to eat lunch/breakfast and then head off to the BYU game! im so excited!! love and miss you all!!

About Time!

I am Alive! Long time i know, but things have been a little crazy here. Its offical! i have been out of my parents house for over a week, and its crazy! i miss my parents like id never imagined, i miss my family so much. Its nice to get calls, i know i dont call enough, but between work, getting sick, unpacking, and trying to catch my breath and relax so i dont get sicker, its been a little crazy! So far, my apartment is probably 1/2 way unpacked. the living room is offically unpacked, only got to put together the entertainment center (but thats going to be in a few weeks) the kitchen is pretty much there, just a little here and there to do but for the most part its done. The Spare/computer room ha! thats another story! we have a path to the laundry room, but hey thats a start! Our bedroom is okay, some boxes, but those are clothes we only wear once in a while like church etc. and those are in boxes and just need to be put into closets. Bathroom is done, and set up and lookin good... the green tub is growing on me. I like it! its unique, funky, and fun! i like it. Our Animals are doing great! Flipper is doing wonderful! enjoying the banana's. Misplaced his catfood, so he gets his favorite besides kiwi's.... Logan loves his job! his boss loves him, and his supivisor is transfering into the office, and they are preparing to put Logan as the new Supivisor! how neat? He works alot though, kinda sucks but he gets overtime money and thats nice. He goes to work an hour early and stays a few hours late, but since he worked so late one night his boss is taking us to a BYU game! how awesome! im going to a college game im so excited! As for me, i love my Job! I'm the assistant teacher for the toddlers (1yrs) at C st Child Care. I lOVE IT! I walk to work, usually walk home for lunch, and then walk back to home after work. i get of at 6 and its nice. I already got sick on the 3rd day here. A bad cold virus thing was going around, and of course i got it. But its cool. The weather is changing quickly! Its blue skys and sunny, but freezing cold though, but its nice. Over the week we have been here it has been rainy about 3 days of it. Reminds me of home. I miss washington alot, all the green trees, the water everywhere, the humidy! But Utah is good. I love living out on my own, but i often find my self wanting my mom! I cant wait until her and even maybe my dad can come visit! Show them around SLC, cook them dinner in my own apartment!! I miss my sister alot too. I use to be able to just drive 45min and see her, scrap with her, and hang out with the kids, but i dont have that anymore. i dont have many friends here either. I have some that moved here awhile ago, but i dont see them much, and its kinda sad. But its bringing Logan and i so much closer and its nice. Its helping us so much!! i love it. Im doing good though, i mean its hard, but i know i can do it! oh anyone ever had a TB test? A Tuberculosis test? yeah those are sucky! lol i had to get one for work today, its just a pinch, then your skin has a little bump under it, and then it goes away and it sucks! I dont really like needles alot though either, but it was okay. Anywho.. well its lunch time im going to go! miss you all so much! i will have internet saturday! Im usuing works right now! talk to you later gators!! I MISS YOU ALL

Moving Stinks! 

Apartment Pictures!

Here they are everyone!! Apartment pictures!! its about time i know! i cant wait to get everything into our apartment and make it our own! its scarey at the same time too... but its life! This is our Kitchen... not my favorite and a little outdated, but its ours! and we can make it work, and with all the things i got to make it look awesome, its going to rock i know!! The colors for our kitchen are black, white, and red... and im super excited to put everything into it. We also have a dishwasher, but its one you hook up to the sink, but im not going to use it at all though.... it leaks we think, and its just easier to do them by hand instead of hooking it up and everything. This is our main room, That door is our front door.. and the best part about the entire apartment are these beautiful floors! LOVE THEM! i cant wait to get our couches and chairs into here, our entertainment center and put our lizzards and turtle somwhere in the apartment! put pictures up everywhere, flowers, and just make it loving!! this is so exciting!!!

This is our master bedroom, not big at all but its good for us! acutally its a two bedroom apartment and they are the same size :)... sorry the coloring is off in this picture.. kinda sucky i know oh well! but this room is black red and white as well and got all of the things to go into it, since its going to be like my room im in now anyways! lol... anywho its going to be perfect i cant wait!!!

This is our other bedroom, that door leads to like an area connected to our apartment, its private and it has storage and hook ups for our washer and dryer, thanks mom and dad for the W/D!!! its going to be a huge help for us!!!! our computer will go in here, along with misc. things.. its going to be great! this is out bathroom, well the tub... its green! awesome eh!! hee hee im excited to have a tub and take baths!! long soaking relaxing baths!! anywho i got a cute shower curtain on clearence at target. its two mermaids! lol its funny!! its like purple/blue perewinkle i guess you would say.. anywho adorable!! and funky fun! but these aer all the pictures! hope you enjoy! please dont be shy, call email and write us! ask for my address number or whatever! im going to miss everyone so much! its been hard saying goodbye to everyone.. just breaks my heart but i know its what is best! darn it lol.. anywho ill try to write more! we love you all!!

Help me pick!!

Hey everyone! okay so this week im packing up our room and logan and i are leaving saturday at 4am to go to Utah. wow everything is going so fast!! ill write more later, but for now i need your help!! here are the six baby annoucments i made for my new neice Gabby!! what a doll! she's such a cutie! but i want to know your opinion. which one is the best? which colors do you like, etc etc etc.. just drop me a comment and let me know! thanks everyone! Click on the image to get a larger look!! :)

{Just some Thinking}

On tuesday 9/13 amy came down for a photoshoot and she wanted to get some pictures done before i moved to Utah. This is my favorite. She sent a few while logan and I are in Utah finding an apartment. With moving and everything i am really lucky to have these pictures taken. Out of the 365 days of the year i have probably seen my mom at least 358 of those days each year since i was born. For me to be moving to Utah which is 881.12 miles away is HUGE! Im going to miss my family like there is no bussiness. I love them so much and i have seen them almost every week. I'll see them on vacation, and when they will be able to visit here as well, but still such a huge difference. I miss them already just being on vacation for a week! how lame?? well not lame though.. it means i love them dearly! Im really going to miss watching Tv with my mom, while one of us tricks the other into getting either an icecream bar or popcorn. Im going to miss seeing my neices and nephews all the time and getting millions of "I LOVE YOU"'s. I'm going to miss my siblings and playing games with them. I'm going to miss everyone so much! i have lived in Lacey since i was 4, and to move so far away hello way scarey! but im excited too. Logan and i talked with this lovely Lady in North Salt Lake... after a long talk i realized that its going to be good for Logan and i to be out on our own. Have our own couches, rooms, kitchen table, dinners, and just "us time"... i feel bad leaving everyone, but as i think of it.. we need this, we need to move into our own apartment... sometimes i feel that my family is upset with us that we are moving, i know that they arent, but i dont know.. it sucks but we both really need to be on our own though... we need to be in Utah to go to school... anywho on the upside.. we got an apartment. its a 2 bedroom 1 bath with WONDERFUL GORGEOUS hard wood floors that im so excited about hee hee... ill take pictures tonight since we have our own apartment KEY! yes thats is right i have my own key to my own apartment!! WOW im a dork but i love it! :)... i have a job interview at a few short minutes, well an hour, that i hopefully have cause im so excited about.. its a daycare about 4 blocks from my APARTMENT!! :)!!!! so i can walk there all the time and i can get in shape again! hee hee... well anywho... okay... i have to go.. im hogging the computer and its a shame, well not really :) anywho LOVE YOU ALL!! BE BACK SOON!!

this is the cover page to a scrapbook im doing for 9-11. I started one about 2 months ago,but havnt worked on it since, then lastnight i watched a documentry about flight 93, the flight that fought back. It really inspired me to get off my butt. so i started a whole new one, new look and i really like where its heading... thanks for looking :)!! 

Sock Exchange!!

Hey okay.. this is what it is... A sock exchange is where you are sent a letter with two names on it... name number one... you go and buy one pair of socks:: funky, fun, solids:: WHATEVER!!!... then you send it to name number one. Then you Take name number two (the person who sent it to you) and you replace it into the space where name number one was, now it becomes name number one, and you replace the second slot with your name, your name is now the second name onthe paper.... now what you do is send that paper out to 6 friends.. they follow the directions and you will recieve 36 pairs of socks... would anyone like do this? my sister sent me the info and im sending a pair to one of her friends whos name was number one, and now i need to send out 6 letters wiht my sisters name as number one and mine as number two... if you would like to join please let me know via email, or in the comment section of this post, or call me... but i think it would be super fun! you get 36 pairs of socks that are fun and different for the price of one sock!! its fun, not chainmail or anything.. but just something fun to do with the friends.. if youd like to do this, just let me know! thank you!!!

Pretty much explains it self.. my thought on Huricane Katrina...  

here and there

this is a LO for the cirlce journal... thought id share part of that.. its one of my favorite pages i did... the theme for this one was YOUR STYLE... so i just did colors and papers i liked... anywho... well what have i been doing since i got back? Friday-Monday Logan and i went camping with my family to dosiwallups... something we have been doing since i was like what 5 or 6!!! Logand i will not be able to be there next year, so im glad we had this year to have funw ith everyone. weather was good for the most part.. a little rain here and there but nothing seriously nasty. Monday we packed up early and headed out to Logan's moms... there we helped can some food, played with the baby bunnies and my waonderful kitten kate. Saw our nephew Colby for a little bit, which was nice, its been a while since i have seen him... Then we went out to Lost Lake with Bre and Alec to their inlaws lake house... wow its nice there and the lake is nice as well... i really had a lot of fun swimming and going in their sauna!! Lastnight Logan and I went out to Olive Garden for our 4month anniversary which is today.. :)... we each got the never ending pasta bowl.. um!!! i tried their new creamy Garlic Cream sauce WOW I LOVE IT!!!! and their 4 cheese sauce! yummy yummmy yummy!!! we had a great time.. and this morning we boht got to sleep in! wow it was nice just relaxing with eachother.. i loved it! well anywho i have to go.. at work and i gotta get things done! ill write alot more soon! 

Im Back :)

Hey everyone! im back and that means an UPDATE!! Well while i was in utah i got my hair cut! i did it.. i actually went through it! and guess what! i LOVE IT!!! i have bangs! The last time i had those we when i was 7 i think! wow.. but i love them! they are longer bangs and do the swoop thing! lol i love it.. and its very layered shortest is about my chin and longest is about my shoulder! i didnt recolor is like i had hoped, but by being out in the sun the whole time, my hair is so much lighter anyways! its fun to have this kind of choppy layered hair again... alot better then before though too lol.. anywho... i love UTAH! i love it... i cant wait for logan and i to move there...its going to be alot of fun i know... if we have the way we want it, we will be by Brad, Jamie and Amy, and my new awesome friend Cameron, whom is a cool kid! lol... I did alot of while i was down there... Friday night Cameron, Jamie and i went to Ensign Peak.. and that over looks saltlake city! WOW BEAUTIFUL! ... it was so pretty to see all the lights, the temple, etc. we stayed there for a while, then headed back down to jamie's. Saturday Amy, Brad, Jamie, Heather, Cameron, and myself all went to 7 Peaks the water park there and we had a blast! it was alot of fun! and i thinka ll of came ou with the funniest lookin burns! lol we didnt burn even we burned in spots or lines etc. fun stuff. On the way home Amy's car broke down :( sadness... in her car was me her and Brad. In Cameron's car and him jamie and Heather. They dropped Heather off at her dorm, then we called them to come pick us up... eventually they found us, and after a beautiful thunder storm we were on our way to Amy's house in Lidon. ( i think i spelled that wrong) prolably like 50 ft. from the road we'd turn to go to Amy's Cameron got pulled over for going a little too fast in a little too slow of a road... but we made it through the police talkin and then hit up amy's for some yummy food.. once we got home we watched some movies and hit the hay. Tuesday night i went bowling with Cameron Jamie and Brad at FatCats.. this bowling place.. it was SO MUCH FUN!!i had a blast!! Over all my trip was awesome. I walked down to temple square a few times, and got some nice pictures... being down there was beautiful! it was peaceful and such an amazing feeling. I love just walking down a street and look over and bam there is the temple! how awesome is that! seriously! i cant wait to move there...