Reception

The Best Day of My Life

Greg kept trying to pinch my bum in these pictures. It was even all the photographers idea.  Our smiles must have started to look stiff, but can you blame us?  He told Greg to keep pinching and he would keep shooting.  All just to get us laughing.  I think it worked. 

 In this picture I used the clone tool to get rid of a hair that was going across my forehead.  I was most impressed with myself.

 Ok, so here are some of our wedding pics.  We have over 1,000 of them so we are slowly going through them.  Editing is a big job.  Greg usually does it.  He is an amazing photographer and works magic with the Photoshop program.  But I've been wanting to learn the program, so yesterday Greg taught me some basics. There's the healing brush, or bandaid, that gets rid of moles, blemishes, weird spots.  One click and they are gone, I wish we had that in real life.  Then there is the dodge tool that whitens your teeth and eyes.  There's the burn tool that I used to enhance my make up and touch up my roots in some photos, it darkens things.  Then there's the clone tool that you can click a certain spot, and then everywhere you brush after that turns the color that you first clicked.  Also when you do black and whites there is a graph that you can go to to make the whites brighter and the darks darker.  It's tricky, because you can't just point and click.  It's sort of all attatched.  Anyway, I'm not very good at the black and white thing yet.  And you'll see in my bridals the mastery Greg has.  It took me all afternoon and some of yesterday to do these 8 pictures, and I can't wait to make them look as good as Greg does.

Clearing the Lot

This is the after picture. It may not look great, but keep looking, you'll find, it really is great.
This is the before, note how tall those weeds are, there was a solid .22 acres of that.

Matthew, using the prehistoric tool that you will learn about further down.
Greg, looking high class. Hehe, this picture haunts him. Let's be honest, he probably doesn't use machines like this too often. The safety glasses really were necessary though, stuff flying like crazy.


Underneath this pile of wood is a literal trench. What's it doing on our lot, we have no clue. Our guess is one of the neighbors had really rotten kids.

Ok, on Saturday morning we rented a weed whacker and joined Greg's dad and little brother with the lawn mower and a prehistoric tool, a weed hacker. Different than a weed whacker. This tool is like ones you may have heard of in the Book of Mormon, or the Bible. To use this tool you swing with full force at a weed. It may cut the weed down if used correctly, but if used incorrectly it may just beat the weeds down, bending them so that when you are finished swinging the same weed is in the same condition as before the swing. This proves to be a very slow and frustrating process. Thank goodness for modern inventions like the gas weed whacker and lawn mower. Oh and the rake, which I mostly used, as well as the prehistoric tool, the weed hacker. Though, as you can see I used the weed whacker as well. It took the 4 of us 2 hours to complete this job. Oh yeah, and there was a breeding farm of grasshoppers in there. Thanks dad, for teaching me how to work, otherwise I would have expired on August 22nd 2009.