July 7th

July 7th, 2014
Cousin Nerf + Pie Day!!
In the morning most of the Robbins' went up the canyon to ride the alpine slides!
So much fun and SO Hot!
After all 24 of us made our way down we headed over to the church building to party!
So many cousins came and brought pie and nerf!
We had a few epic battles and waaaay to much pie!
I love my family! and I love that we were able to fit everybody in this photo! [55+!]

July 6th

July 6th, 2014
Making Milkshakes - Tyler has a hard time sharing mom.
He must be the caboose or something.

July 5th

July 5th, 2014
Today I got to photograph the Smiths! [Steph's family]
They've all grown up so much since I last saw them!
Despite a few uncooperative kids, we got some awesome shots!
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That morning Danny and I had to wake up early [after getting to bed late] to make it up to Salt Lake in time to watch the new Transformers movie for Scott's birthday.
I was planning on importing my pictures before we left so I'd have a clean, empty memory card for the shoot. While on our way up, I formatted my memory card because I had forgotten to and didn't want to forget before I got to my shoot.
I didn't realize until we were walking into the theater that I HAD NOT IMPORTED MY PHOTOS
and instead of being efficient, I ended up DELETING ALL MY PHOTOS FROM THE PAST TWO DAYS! 

I was heartbroken.

For the first time in 4 years I didn't have a picture for my "Picture of the Day"
Luckily we were a tad late for the movie so we had to rush right in and sit down.
I'm pretty proud of myself, considering there was a lot of choice words flying through my head that did not make it past my lips.
However, I did spend the first 15 minutes or so silently crying during the movie theater.
But then I gave myself a little pep talk and in the words of my wise photography professor, rule number one is "Don't freak out" -
I remembered my lame selfie I took on my phone from our hike so I had that day covered. But I had nothing to show for the 4th. Danny was so sweet and was trying to help me and comfort me and suggested that we recreate our 4th of July photo.
And that's just what we did.

I am proud at how well I handled the situation. When it boils down to it, yes it sucks, but it happened and there's nothing that I can do about that except try to make the best of the situation. This is my picture of the day, there are no rules, if something like this happens I don't "fail" my photo project, I just figure out what I need to do next.
I guess this is what growing up feels like ;)

July 4th

July 4th, 2014
Happy Fourth of July!
We drove up that morning to the family ranch and had so much fun with family and hiking around the ranch it was so beautiful!
Afterwards we had a Robbins/Jones BBQ fireworks party!
We lit off tons of fireworks in our circle with neighbors and friends and family.
[Danny and I had to recreate this image due to a mishap that I'll talk about on the 5th of July blog post]

July 3rd

July 3rd, 2014
Today Danny, Me, Robert, Rob, Christina, Amy, Ti, Tasia, Talia, Sarah, Lindsay and Sam went on a hike up donut falls. I took tons of pictures and we got a super sweet group photo, but I lost the pictures - which is partly why it's taken me so long to update my blog [I'll talk about it on July 5th's picture of the day since that's when it happened]
When we were done with our hike we were all talking around the cars and on the hike back down I had gathered wild flowers and wove a crown while we talked.
Luckily I snapped this picture of myself while trying to see how it looked on my head.