i love takeing pictures

i took photography for 2 years in high school & i loved it it was so much fun i havent taken any collage classes yet i would love to tho the only camera i have is a point & shoot which works but i want what i call is a fancy camera one of those nice big slr ones that you can change the lenses. i have to save for one of those & everything that you can get with it

so here are some of the pictures i took in mesa when i was there earlier this week. i do love taking all sorts of pictures.

oh my

the trip to salt lake a couple of weeks ago has made me lose my mind i took the glass castle (the book i was reading for the month) im not sure why i took it i new i wasnt going to read it well when we got to my aunt & uncles i took it in & forgot about it i didnt remember it was there in the house till we were home in vegas DUH!!!! tiffany so now i have started another book called shiver by maggie something? and of course i havent read from it in a couple days like i say i have lost my mind

arizona

after getting to my house at about midnight i showered did a breathing treatment went to bed got up at 5 am (couldnt sleep anyway) i drove to mesa hung out with kent till he had to go to work when he left i went to the temple & did a session it was very nice

the next day i was going to drive every where till i noticed i didnt have my keys in my pocket or my purse guess where they were?

yep on the passenger seat in my locked car i must have been more tired then i had thought kent drove to the first appointment the we called aaa to get my keys out and i drove everywhere else
i interviewed the next day and unfortantlly i got a letter yesterday saying they could not hire me

memorial day

on memorial day we had a family reunion for my moms side of the family i remember going once as a kid but that is the only one i have memory of till now
this is my uncle dave & aunt paulette

tracy & angie my sis & husband

this is what you get when you are so tired dont want to move & give your camrea to a 14 year old boy to take pictures

this year the family high lighted my grandpa bird here are his brothers & sisters eric maryann doug brenda & barbra his 2 kids my mom cindy & uncle dave

my grandma birds headstone

my great grandma erma

on the way home we went to cove fort this is the actual house brother hinkley lived in when he got the call to biuld the fort. the fort was used to house the pioneers overnight on their way to cali & to change out horses the horses could only go 35 miles at a time




here is the fort

the telgraph thing where the communicated with people in other areas

a little hole they could shot guns at if they were being attacked they never were attacked


the pink & white blanket on the bed was made in 1885

when the babies would groe out of this crib they would turn it over & use it as a bench

this picture is made out of human hair

these are the buliders & original owners he was over 6 feet tall & she was 4'11"

this is what her dresses looked like

this rocking chair is the original rocking chair used at the fort

these trees were planted when the built the fort they are about 150 years old my friend janet took this picture of the trees

great trip all away around

day #3 of salt lake city

*edit side note* when i posted yesterday i was still half asleep & forgot to add this picture this is my fabulous sister angie this was taken saturday morning now on with what we did sunday
*
on sunday morning we got up and went to temple square again we started with the music & spoken word we got to see the mormon tabernacle choir live it was my first time to see them live it was AMAZING since it was memorial day weekend they sang patriotic songs then after the broadcast there was an 86 year old man who was on the beaches of normandy for d-day (i think) he took his trumpet with him to the war he played danny boy for us with his trumpet that was amazing as well

then we went to sacerment meeting in the joseph smith memorial building it was great


we then past the this is the place statue when the pioneers got to salt lake city brigham young was prophet then he went up to the top of the mountain looked over the land and said this is the place and they built the salt lake city temple it took 40 years to build

the friday of memorial day the opened a new display in the visitor center it is a 1/32 scale model of the salt lake temple they have a cut away part of it so everyone cane see the rooms in the temple here are some of the pics sorry the first one is blurry

here are the rooms in the temple

so i do know the rooms of the above picture but im not to sure what the below rooms are i have never been in the salt lake temple im assuming that its just halls and stairs to get from one place to the next

the other side of the model

i LOVE this picture because i took it of the model & there is the reflection of the real temple in it

we then went back to the other visitor center to the christes we took pictures of the room with the universes it is awesome




me with the christes

temple square was worth being smashed in the back of a mustang for hours on end i absolutely love this place cant wait to go back if anyone of you have the chance to go take that chance well worth the trip & its free

day # 2

friday after we got done in st george we drove up to elkridge to my other sisters house angie we got there about 1 am slept got up ready and had fun with the gang here is a pic of me & angie


we then drove to salt lake city (at this point the back seat of the mustang is getting on my nerves & i havent complained about it yet) these are the original doors from the slc temple

some little cove thingy off to the side of the door brides & grooms get their pictures taken in here

me mom & janet at the reflection pool with the temple

close up

just the temple

me

at some point during the day mom & janet went & moved the mustang my asthma was acting up & i didnt want to hike to the car just to move it so i stayed on temple square & started taking pictures trying to be creative how ever the one with the flags & the temple in background i took that idea from my sister lindsay




we then went to the joseph smith memorial building it used to be hotel utah this is the lobby

the chandelier

we then went to the top to eat lunch this was the view


we then went across the street to the family history library & then to the museum this is a window seal from the kirkland temple when the pioneers were building it in ohio the temple burned down i believe please correct me if im wrong this is an original window

i guess in the 1800 the thing to do was get death masks im not sure why but here are joseph smith on left & his brother hyrum smith on right death masks yes they are the original death masks

this is the actual pocket watch that saved john taylors life at one point in time josphe hyrum smith john taylor and some other men were put in jail for their beliefs on the day josphe & hyrum died well they were murderd men had started shooting into the room they were in when they went to shoot john taylor they bullet hit his pocket watch & saved his life

this is an actual handcart that came across the plains
the temple & tabernacal

this was a very long day but well worth it after we were done i went into the worse asthma atack i have evere had it was so so scary being in the back of the mustang and my mom complainig at me didnt help i got over it and am doing fine we drove to my aunt & uncles house to stay with them we went out to dinner it was great great company great food great time = great day