Lake Powell Bruderer Style!

How could a trip to Lake Powell be bad, really? This year we had almost everyone there (Kara was on a senior trip and Adam was working. We missed them). We also had a fun-loving guest join us! My sister Kiersten!! Hooray! Kiersten and I sucessfully dragged Clark and Linda out of bed around 6:00 am. We tried to sleep in, but our grandpa has us trained that as soon as it is light you ski. Amber, Tom, Jason, and Scott were our wakeboarding experts. Scott also mastered the knee board. April, Davis, Kiersten, Linda, Clark and I headed up the slalom skiiers. We celebrated Father's Day at Powell this year. Happy Father's Day to Clark, Steve, and someday Scott! We did an excursion to Cathedral Canyon and Rainbow Bridge. We got to a section of Cathedral canyon that was really narrow. We managed to get the boat through and we found a cool swimming hole on the other side. Kiersten, Linda and I decided to push the boat back out!! Somehow this trip ended pirate themed again. Big surprise, seeing as I married the King of the Pirates. Davis was our most faithful pirate. Otherwise known as Capt. Cut and Jump. We played in lots of pirate games, including: Pirate of the Island, and Pirate's Dice. After somebody had an impressive run they received an "AAARRRRRGGGHH" with a pirate hook hand from the crew on board. Scott had some fun with facial hair. He started with a full beard and worked his way down to a sole patch by the end of the trip. We also got to test out an air chair while we were down there. It was hilarious to watch! The trip was full of good food, lots of sun, and laughs until our last day. That is when two engines died and Linda, Kiersten and I had to brave the channel during peak hours to go to the marina to get gas. Oh man. The water almost tore our boat apart and left us with sea legs for two days!

A New Job!!!

Today I, Britta, got a job offer to be the studio manager for Silver Pelican Photography! Hooray!! This is as close to a dream job as it gets for me! I will be making appointments / calendaring, taking care of customers, viewing appointments, wedding consultations, sales, phones, advertising, studio management, front-desk, re-touching, and associate photographer. I will be able to have my hand in almost everything that goes on there! I am so excited!! As an associate photographer I will be first in line on shoots after the full time photographers! And I will receive a commission off of the shoots and print orders I am involved in! Silver Pelican Photography is located in Salt Lake in Foothill Village! Check out their website: www.silverpelicanphotography.com. Hopefully I will be on there very soon!!!

Paparazzi?

Well Capree and I quit our day jobs and decided to commit our best creative efforts towards pursuing Hollywood Celebrities!!! Psych!! We heard about this shoot for a "movie premiere" that needed people to pose as paparazzi. It was paying $30 an hour so why not, right? And we didn't have to actually shoot. There was no film in our cameras! They just wanted the visual effect of the flash and the "impression" that we were taking pictures! HA! We were under the impression that we were either posing as paparazzi for an actual movie premier or that we were extras in a scene for a movie involving a movie premier with paparazzi. Once we arrived on location however we we totally confused. Only one other paparazzi member had an SLR with external flash (which was in the requirements for the shoot). The others had little point and shoot digitals! We were told that we needed to yell at the people coming into the party like they were celebrities and we were paparazzi. Hilarious! Then we realized that it was a Hollywood / movie premier themed party! And who was throwing the party was very unclear. All we could tell was that there were a lot of senior citizens and a lot of alcohol. So the first thing we assumed was that the sweet senior citizens were getting scammed out of their money. But that guess was also very wrong. Capree and I googled the company name the next day and found out that the host company made external bladder bags for those who no longer had control of their bladders or bowels!! AWESOME!!! Talk about a photo adventure!!

The Last of the Trio!

Ben was the last of the amigos (but certainly not the least) to find an excellent woman to stand by his side. We were so glad we could be there with them to celebrate.We will miss you! Of course Ben and Scott had to trade jackets at some point in the evening. Nice. Now we just have to convince Ben and Nick to come back to Utah so that we can get our three houses all in a row!!! Ben and Lexi are heading to Chicago and Nick and Alisa are heading to Austin, Texas. Good luck guys!

A Farewell To Bachelorhood!

The boys made sure to send Ben off into married life with one final party. The celebration took place at Nick's house. Things got a little out of hand once the root beer kicked in. The sugar rush prompted superman impressions over the couch and onto the love sac. Boys will be boys!