Swimming Girl

New Book!

A couple of days ago I received the following email: 

Hi Kristin,

 

I love the quote from The Noticer in your blog bio! (http://todayiamthankfulfor.blogspot.com/) Thank you for mentioning The Noticer on your blog! I work with Thomas Nelson, and we would love to follow your blog and hear what your readers think of this book. I also want to let you know that Andy Andrews’s latest release The Heart Mender is now available (*revised and updated version of Island of Saints).

 

Please contact me with your mailing address if you are interested in receiving a complimentary copy of The Heart Mender for review on your site at your convenience.

 

Thanks!

 

Jodi Hughes
Marketing Coordinator
Non-Fiction Trade Marketing

Of course I responded that I would like a copy of the book - who wouldn't want a free book to read? And by an author whom you have already read something?  So awesome.

Today it arrived at the front porch - via UPS no less - and I am excited to read and review it.

Drop me a comment if you would like to borrow the book when I'm finished.

Grandparents

Took the xTi to Utah to get some pictures.

I love this one with Rachael and her grandpa. Fantastic.

Best one with Grandma & Grandpa.

(Kicking myself that we didn't get a good one with just Grandma.  It's on the list for the next time we see them!)

Another favorite with the other Grandpa. This is easily one of the best pictures I have ever taken. Look how happy they are!

Always cute pictures with Nana!

Great grandparents are awesome!

(Now we need one with Great Gram Wells).

On our recent trip to Utah, we got to drive by the Idaho Falls Temple, the Logan Temple, and the Salt Lake City Temple.  (No pictures of SLC.  I was driving at the time.)

Nightime Visitor

Ryan was sitting at the kitchen table before he went to bed and noticed what he thought was a hummingbird outside.  Turns out it was a butterfly (or very large moth) - beautiful!  It's about five inches across and six inches long.

Strawberries

Fresh from the garden!

Rainbows

I have been trying to use my Canon xTi for pictures for this blog this year, but when we saw this double rainbow all I had was my phone.  By the time we got home, the rainbow was gone.  Thank goodness for the camera on the phone.

Anticipation

Derby Cookies

I completely forgot I had pictures of these tasty sugar cookies we made for the Derby two weeks ago.  (I really should pull the pictures off my DSLR more often).

They were fun to make!  The ones where we frosted the entire top look a lot more like a hat, but it was so much easier to frost each piece separately and then combine them that a lot of the cookies got finished that way.  (Had I been having a party, I might have made more effort.)

Still want to find a way to make ribbons... maybe next year.

Corvette Museum

I'm not much of an architectural photographer, but the Corvette Museum has this neat red steeple that can be seen from outside the museum for miles. This was a chance to show the inside and outside.

Outside, from the parking lot

Inside (this is a merge of two pictures)

Through the celing