Iraq Sept 08

Here are some nice pictures of where I'm at.

Here is my first dust storm. The dust is like very fine powder that somehow gets through everything including your boots and socks.

New Job

So, an update on Emily...I have officially moved in with my parents and Ashley to save on rent for the last 7-8 months that Jaren will be gone. I am grateful for their hospitality in allowing me to take up some of their space but alas, I will miss my OWN space. It's only for a few (several) months. I decided not to do college because we are trying to save money for a house when Jaren gets back. So to occupy some of my time I got a part-time job. I will be working at Kohl's for the holiday season. I start next week. I was also just asked to be in charge of organizing and putting together the Relief Society/Enrichment Christmas activity (dinner/program). My mom was asked too but she says I'm in charge and she's my helper. I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. This will definitely take up any spare time that I won't be working. I guess I don't have to worry about staying busy through the holidays!

Playing Photographer

My Mom and Dad are off touring all of the church history sights back east for a couple of weeks, so I'm hanging out with Ashley. She has been bugging me to take pictures of her with my new digital camera, a Nikon D40X. So we went out today and I played with my new camera. I do think that Ashley makes a cute subject. I did some slight editing of the photos on Picasa. Here are a few I took!

Playing Photographer continued...

This one of Ashley I saturated the color a bit to enhance the color of her new blue contacts.


We found a fuzzy caterpillar while we were taking pictures and decided to take one of him too.