ALMOST WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - Grant Herron Photography

Thought I'd share some of my favorite pictures that my son, Grant, has taken...

Grant is on a team in a pool league, and snapped this shot at their last game...



This is his first photo shoot for senior photos. I love the composition of this picture...



He went to a yard sale and found this cool old Schwinn bike...



Senior pictures for our friends' foreign exchange student - Anna Marit...



The college life...



Our newest family picture - LOVE it...



Another senior pictures photo shoot - it was a rainy day, and Grant made the most of it...



This last picture is from Grant's latest family photo shoot. Is that not the most adorable little boy you've EVER seen?!



If you'd like to see more, just visit Grant's photography blog: grantherronphotography.blogspot.com

He also does photo restoration. Here is a sample...

From this...



To this...



Amazing, right?

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - 24th of July Pioneer Parage Memories

Just found these cute pictures of my kids with the Spear kids at the 24th of July parade in Salt Lake City many years ago. As far as I can tell, it's probably about 14 years ago!

Almost Wordless Wednesday - Unusual Sign

Imagine our surprise when we saw this sign! Those are two names that you don't see often, and we saw them together! Funny!

ALMOST WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

These are my twins nephews, Jordan and Taylor Glad. In this picture, they are opening their LDS mission calls. They just arrived in their missions a week ago - one is in Paraguay, and the other is in Argentina. I'm so proud of them! Good luck, Elders Glad!

ALMOST WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - Japan

My oldest son, Grant, has been home for a year from his LDS mission to Fukuoka Japan. And we went to a Japanese restaurant for lunch today. He finally got me to try Sushi - with eel, no less! Here are a few of the pictures he took in Japan... ENJOY!

NOT EVEN WORDLESS WEDNESDAY... New Pictures

I've been waiting for my husband to help me hang some pictures up for quite awhile now. Believe it or not, I've never hung pictures (formal) of my kids up before. I know... BAD MOM. So... (1) I scheduled a photo shoot with this amazing photographer (Matt Clayton), (2) I had prints made of 5 of the photos, (3) I picked two walls that were glaringly blank, (4) I bought the cool iron decoration, and (5) I laid them all out, and told my husband exactly what I wanted.

Just so you know - I'm not stupid... I know how to hang a picture... but my husband is an engineer - one who likes to read ALL the instructions, take AGES to shop for something, and is CRAZY stressed about getting pictures hung the correct way. After going to the store to buy a whole NEW kit of hanging nails and other paraphernalia, and leaving it sitting on the table for awhile - with no luck - I decided today that I would venture into the world of hanging straight pictures. (I figured, since I was able to create and hang this...

...how hard could it be? I know, you're astonished by my amazing skills - picture finding and printing skills, frame buying skills, hanging skills... you know... skills!)

So, here's my journey... in pictures:

Here's all the "stuff"

Just look at all those nails - I could hang things ALL OVER!!!!

First you hang the two bottom pictures and DON'T FORGET the most important tool in picture hanging - the level.

Then you center the iron thing.

Then you hang the left upper picture where you want it

After CAREFUL measuring and leveling, you hang the final picture up. (They are really very straight - just my camera is crooked.)

The end result! SWEET!

Then, after screwing in the hanging things, and wrapping the wire around, and around, and around some more, I hang the last picture up.


I'm feeling pretty darn proud of myself right now. I mean, it's been almost 10 years with blank walls. Now those disgustingly handsome boys are all hanging around. And talk about stinkin' cute... here are some close-ups of that first picture project...




Talk about skills!... cute-baby-making skills, perfect-handsome-boy-raising skills... skills, I tell ya... SKILLS!

ALMOST WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - Two of my all-time favorite pictures

My Grandpa Anderson took a dip with me, my sister, and my cousin, Amy - his wallet got soaked!

With cousins. I'm the second from the right - check out my sister, Kris. She was throwing a tantrum. Guess which one she is?!

ALMOST WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - COCOA'S NEW BED

Zonked out!

Waking up - yawning...

Life is good for the Herron dog...

Show me those killer teeth!

Ssttrreeetttcchhhhh...

Itchy nose!

Obviously, she loves it!

Almost Wordless Wednesday

A bunch of my favorite guys - several years ago at the Prom!

My son, Grant, is the one in the middle with the white bow tie. Senior Year - 2006.

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - GREAT GRANDSONS

My grandmother's funeral... her casket was carried by all of my sons, and all of my sister's sons. Mine are the 3 in front on the right side, and the youngest one in the middle on the left. It was a touching sight - I was very proud of them. They were helped by my Uncle Chuck.



Here, the boys take off their flowers and put them on the casket to honor Grandma Evans.