Mom's & Photoshoots

Everybody loves picture time.

So my Mom's Birthday was on Friday, and since my two little brothers had just gotten their letterman's jackets, we thought it would be fun to get a picture done of all three of us in our jackets for Mom as a surprise present. Well that whole experience was quite hilarious from my brothers realizing they don't know how to comb their own hair to Cruella Deville coming into picture people right after us to do a shoot with three of her dalmatians. Funny times. Anyway it worked and so Meagan and I went down to St. David to give Mom her present yesterday. Judging by her reaction I think she liked her picture.

At the same time Dawn Sheree and Steven brought their boys down to visit as well and had asked Meagan to do a photoshoot with them to try and get some family pictures done. We went and borrowed some of the rustic scenery of Grandpa Kartchner's corrals and tried and tried to get those boys to smile (or even look at us for that matter). It was so much fun that I just had to take a shot of all the good times in action.

The Little Bro Leaves! (and other updates)

On November 4th we sent my little brother, Seth, off to the MTC to start a mission in the Dominican Republic! It's a little crazy thinking that my little brother is old enough to serve a mission! He was so ready, though, and we are so excited for him and this adventure of his. If you want to follow his adventures on the mission, click on the link to his blog from our blog list on the right or just go to eldersethindr.blogspot.com. We got his first letter on Wednesday and it is super funny. Good kid.

We went to Mt. Lemmon a couple of days before he left on a drive and took some photos for his mission picture. It was a great last little chat session before he left.

Here's a picture of us seeing him off at the airport.
In other news, the HOLIDAYS are in the air at the Hancock house! We are so excited! I know we kind of skipped Thanksgiving, but we seriously had our Fall-ish decorations up for FOREVER so now it's time for our favorite...Christmas! Here's some pictures of the fun we had on Sunday. I realized I never got a finished product picture of all the decorations, but decorating the tree will have to do for now.

While Dustin was putting lights on the tree I made some cinnamon rolls for a lady in our ward and they actually worked! I couldn't believe it! Usually my cinnamon rolls taste okay, but look pretty homemade. I had to take a picture of them while they were raising because I was so excited.

Lastly, here's the 28 week update picture. Seriously, it is IMPOSSIBLE to get a good prego shot, that's all I have to say. I got the results from the glucose intolerance test and they were good, thank Heavens, because I was really stressed about that for some reason. The only minor problem is that my blood shows I'm anemic, so iron supplements here I come! If that's the only thing that goes wrong with this pregnancy, I'll take it! I have been so blessed with a nice healthy pregnancy.

Winning Project

This semester we had our final studio class, which is the class where the bulk of the designing happens. For this class we had an actual client, which this year was the University Medical Center. We were commissioned to design a children's garden for the new Diamond Medical Center expansion of the university. The class was split up into five groups of three and let loose.

The project was set up competition style and my group Won!

This means that UMC will now take the concept & material we gave them and contract a licensed Landscape Architect to develop construction documents and then it will be built. Who knows how much of our design will remain after the Landscape Architect puts his two bits on the design, but it is still exciting knowing that we sparked the original ideas.

Here's a bunch of renderings that my 2 classmates and I put together for it, including a fly-through video. Sorry the quality of the video got really bad when I shrunk it down to be manageable online. Hope you can still get the general idea.