I had a shoot this weekend in Salt Lake City and I had some time before family & friends were meeting up with me, so I decided to walk around the LDS Salt Lake Temple. The only times I have been to that specific temple were for my client’s weddings, so I never have really taken the time to wonder around and take some pictures for myself. It was SUCH an amazing experience…all by myself….no rushing around. It was pretty cold so as soon as I couldn’t take it anymore I went into the building with the Cristis where I got malled by the cutest sister missionaries ever. I used to be a sister missionary over in Portugal so when I see them, my heart melts and I cant help but remember back to that time in my life. Their words completely touched my heart….and TOTALLY consumed me to the point where it was hard to hold back tears. I know alot of people out there do not believe in Jesus Christ, but I can honestly say that I know HE is real. That being said…I feel like I can share the pictures I took that will definitely forever remind me of that experience.

then we all went to the motorcross show…(which was so dang fun)

I have recently spent over $700 on new flash gear this past week. KILL ME NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, just put me out of my misery. Well my husband is SUPER smart with technical stuff, and I am the dumbest person alive with those things…so he has it all figured out now. I had such a lovely blog post to share tonight but he LITERALLY forced me to go and learn to use 3 off camera flashes at one time down in our living room. I bet if someone saw our windows they would think we were having a disco party or something with all the crazy lights everywhere. Soooo did I learn anything? I did. Not very much, but a little. I have a feeling it might take a little while to multitask so many lights at once. So his punishment for loving me so much and forcing me to learn things I was too lazy to do myself is a picture ON THE BLOG of the man himself…..who is now all curled up in bed while I am sitting here blogging. I am so lucky to have him…….(sigh)

and JUST for the record….Hailey pooped in her princess box today and Samantha repeated the crib/crap event. (no I am NOT kidding or lying….or laughing….ok maybe its a little funny now that the day is over)

In the last 4 days, lots of interesting things have been happening around the clark house. My husband is in between jobs right now so THANK the heavens he was here during that time to keep me from selling my children on EBAY. My 2 year old, has a problem actually pooping IN the toliet. (yes i said pooping on my photo blog) She has pooped in her pants a number of times while potty training…..BUT…she has now taken it to a whole new level. During Christmas break, I walked upstairs to check on Hailey, and I could NOT find her. Well, of course she snuck in our bedroom, locked the door, and I knew they second I saw her guilty face it was bad news. POOP, everywhere. She knew she was in trouble so she had tried to hide it in our closet with our dirty clothes, THEN tried again with the clean ones in the basket. This doesn’t even count for the time she pooped in her halloween basket, or in the Bumbo chair, or at Olive Garden during dinner. Today, I walked into Samantha’s room, (my 10 month old) and Hailey had pooped all over (once again) and somehow found a screw driver in the storage closet and was stabbing “it” with the screwdriver.

Well….the unspeakable happened just yesterday. Samantha woke up from her nap….and she was just happy as can be in her crib so I let her hang out for a while so I could get a longer mommy break. When Ted came home about 20 minutes later he walked into her room and all I heard was “oooohhhhh nooooo!!!”. I ran in there and she was completely covered in her own poop. The diaper had come off, and it was all over her crib, sheets, walls, face, and even in her MOUTH. Yes, she was eating it. She was also smiling with poo all over her cute nasty face. Usually I am the one freaking out and screaming, but something magical happens that when you are married….one of you HAS to remain calm in situations like that or all h#$# breaks loose. Well, I think I was past the point. I had to laugh….I give up. Lets face it Emily…your house is a center for people who crap their pants. But this seems to happen quite often amongst  moms and babysitters. It just finally hit me that….my most important calling in life that I will ever have… consists of cleaning up smooshed poo off the carpet and walls. If anyone thinks being a mom is easy, they are crazy.  Good thing they are worth all the grey hairs. I was going to post a pic of the Samantha/poo-in-the-mouth thing, but I think I will save it for facebook so my future wedding clients dont think I am crazy.

I wrote this post out of frustration and humor….I am feeling so much of both I cant stand it.

I have a nice big IKEA frame and matt that fits a 20×30 picture…and this is what is going to be filling it. This shoot lasted LITERALLY 5 minutes total. I am SO dang excited.