Congratulations Allie!!

Allie, I wanted you to know how proud I am of you! You have always been someone that knew what you wanted, and knew the steps that you had to take to make it happen. Congratulations on graduating from Medical School! You are now officially Dr. Hanna!


I am hoping to get copies of the pictures Dad took with his really nice camera. In the meantime, here are the ones that I took with my old camera. I couldn't use my nicer one because I needed the flash to take pictures inside. I think they still turned out pretty good though. Look how proud Steve is of Allie. :)


Steve was totally bawling through this entire thing. ;)


Allie with the proudest Little Momma in the world.


And the proudest Dad too.

Even though Patty totally walked into my picture, you get the general idea.


Even the In-laws were proud!


Thanks for being such an awesome sister! I think you totally rock! Love you!!

Kami's Birthday Party

Word Scavenger Hunt

My second to last assignment for my Photographic Vision this semester was to take a list of words and take pictures of them. You were supposed to go out and find something that represented the word for you, rather than set something up. The second part of the assignment was to photograph a landscape that has a humanistic element to it. He talked about how "landscapes" are usually seen as just trees, flowers, rivers, etc... but it is really hard now days to find somewhere like that. He wanted us to take landscape pictures, but not try and act like humans hadn't been there. Instead he wanted us to include it. The first picture is my landscape. Here are the pictures I took for the scavenger hunt:

STRESS: Okay, this one WAS a little set up, but it was something that had raelly happened recently and that is where I got the idea. I had Sarah's permission to take this one though.

SECURITY: There is actually a double meaning in this one. The first one is obviously the financial security, and the second one has to do with whose house this is. If you don't know, you can ask me later. I don't want to post it just in case I get in trouble.

POWER: I wanted to show the divided power between the Church and State in Utah.

PEACE: Okay, so the top one is the one that I ended up using for my class, but I had a really hard time choosing this one. So, here are a couple of my next choices too. (Short story... I was originally up at Sugarhouse Park to take pictures of the stream since when I think of peace, it usually involves some kind of water. However, after I got there and was taking pictures, I slipt and fell on the cement that leads up to the water. I didn't try to catch myself in case I dropped my camera into the water or broke it by catching my fall. I ended up about knee-deep in the water, laying on my back on the cement. I cut open my elbow and Allie later told me that I also gave myself whip-lash and put a rib out of place. So, most of my pictures of the stream looked more menacing rather than peaceful to me. Although, the last of my five pictures here is of the stream. Does it look like I am sitting in it? Well, that's because I AM! )

OBSESSION: I told my class that these were just the cards that Geoffrey wanted to get rid of and not his whole collection. My teacher said to me, "Hey, we've seen a picture like this before. If I changed these all to DVD's, wouldn't this be your collection?"

KNOWLEDGE: I was going for the vast amount of books that was also leading up to the light. However, it has been pointed out to me that one of the only books in focus is the Work and the Glory. Completely accidental.

GREED: Enough said. :)

CHAOS: So this was actually a debate in my class. A few people did this as chaos, but some other did it as freedom. So, I wanted to clarify that I don't think that ALL graffiti is chaotic, just the stuff that is where it shouldn't be. The buildings downtown that people are allowed to go and use are very artistic, if stuff like this ends up on the side of Baskin or my apartment, not so much.

So, there is my assignment for you. I am a little sad that I am working on my last one right now. Friday is my last day of school this semster. I have decided to take the summer off and then go back in the Fall.

Vegas Pictures

Here are some of the pictures that we took down in Vegas. I really did have a lot of fun on my trip down there. :)


Sarah and me singing in the car on the drive down to Vegas!


Me with the M&M outside of M&M World. I LOVE M&M's!



We spent a lot of time looking at all the toys in this store. We even played on the giant piano, even though neither one of us knew how to play chopsticks.


The best part of the Coke factory has to be the Coke Bear! :)


Sarah made friends with Moose. I think she took more pictures of Moose than any other thing in Vegas.

And then, of course, the pictures of Shavonne and Don that I went down there to take.