Update on Bill and Mar :)

Well, I just wanted to show my new photography skills :)
I took this picture with Brittany learning how to use Bills camera and how to work the shutter speed :) Im practicing more and learning I really love photography just as much as videography!
Bill and I are doing good. Bills been getting more Real Estate clients, which is really a miracle right now in this horrible Phoenix market. I just videoed 2 weddings, that yes... I got paid on.... 2 weddings in 1 week. It was wonderful. I hope to start getting really busy! Nothing beats working for yourself! We love you all!!!
~Billy & Mar
Pic I took of Brit :) Will show more once I get them all edited :)!!

South Dakota Trip!

Christina and new fiance Ben at Bear Country :) awwww....
Ben shooting the pigeons off for us to shoot!
Billy & Mar... Jewel Cave

Mar ready for pic, Curt..not ready for pic, Dad.. thinks everyone is listening to him :)
What a pair of cuties!
Hello Handsome!
Um, ewww....... Jewel Cave walls
Jewel Cave
Billy & Mar.. Cosmos
Come on Mar, push it!
Everybody fallin at Cosmos
Mar sideways!
Hey Curt! Get down from there!
Man, thats gonna leave a mark!
Bear Country.. McLaws Hotties!
Billy & Mar
Cute baby mtn. lion .. at 6 months the spots and blue eyes will be gone. Cute!
Good pic Billy!
Mar, Ben R., Curt, Fo, looking at baby lion!
Mar & Fo
Mar shooting!
Christina Shooting!
Orrin Shooting!
Benjamin Shooting!

Dad and Curtis.. waiting their turn :) They are Twins too!

Bike Ride In The Storybook Countryside!

Ok let me tell you about the other day that way amazing! We left Vienna
at 7:00 in the morning and traveled to a city called Melk about an hour
away. There we went to an ancient monastery palace and took a tour through
it. We got to see wooden sculptures that are over 800 years old, old books
that the Monks studied out of, crowns, royal chalices, bones of Saints
(disgusting but interesting), and an AMAZING royal Catholic cathedral. The
cathedral was COVERED in gold. Everything was gold. It was cool.
After the palace/monastery, we rented bikes and took a 7 hour bike ride
along the Danube river from Melk to Krems. It was the most beautiful thing I
have ever experienced. I wish I had words to do it justice. The pictures
don't even show you how amazing it was. I want everyone I love to experience
this. We rode through the most beautiful country side I have EVER seen. It
was covered in vineyards, mountains, rivers, hills, flowers, wild berries,
and little towns that I honestly didn't realize existed. I'm not kidding,
these little villages looked like they were pulled from a story book. You
know the song "We danced anyways" by Deana Carter when she sings "In a happy
little foreign town, where the stars are upside-down, a half a world away".
That was all I could think while I rode through these towns. Another image I
though of to illustrate what I saw was the movie "A Walk in the Clouds". Do
you remember when the first get there and Victoria and Paul look out over
the vineyard and she says " We call it (some spanish word), it means, the
clouds". Do you remember what it looked like? That was EXACTLY what I was
riding through for 7 hours!!!! It was INCREDIBLE!!!!!
Half way through the ride we found the ruins of a castle that Richard
the Lion Heart was held captive in however many hundreds of years ago! It
was placed on top of a hill covered in flowers and wild vines that we hiked
up. I wish you could have see the castle. I took pictures, but again, they
don't to it justice. It was so cool to walk through it and imagine the
history there. I loved examining everything and understanding why they built
it certain ways. For example, the windows were really large from the inside,
but they narrowed down so that they just looked like slits from the outside.
They probably did that so they would have no problem shooting arrows out the
windows, but it would be so hard to shoot from the outside in. Oh man, the
whole thing was just so cool. There was moss everywhere and the way it was
placed overlooking the Danube on one side and hills and hills covered in
vineyards on the other was just breathtaking. I kept thinking "Where is Ben
when I want to take the most amazing engagement pictures EVER!!!???"
The whole experience was one that I will never ever forget. I am pretty
sure that when I look back on this day, I will remember it as the best of
this whole trip. I don't know how to top a day like that. I have to admit
that my butt was less pleased with the experience.....I'm still not sitting
on anything very comfortably :), but it was so worth the pain in the
butt:)!!!!! So that was my amazing day! When I got home that night I was so
exhausted because of the miles and miles I had ridden that day. I slept so
well :)! I love you so much! Thanks for letting me splurge and tell you all
that. I wish you could experience it with me!

Love, Christina

Christina Safe In Vienna!

From Christina:
I have a chance to write to you so I wanted you to know I
am safe and sound in Vienna. It's about 6:15 pm here and we are all super
tired! We arrived at about 8 our time, midnight your time We checked
into the hotel we are staying at tonight and headed out to tour the town.
It's unbelievable here! Holy cow! It's too cool for words and the pictures I take do
it no justice! You would love it here. It's beautiful. All the buildings are
so imaculate and ornate. It's amazing how much art there is in ALL the
archatecture! I love it!
In about an hour we get to go to dinner together with the group and
then we come back to the hotel and go to bed! I'm so excited to do that
I can't even tell you. I will sleep so well tonight.
Saying goodbye to Ben was awful. It was super hard and I don't want
to do that again. But now I'm here and I'm missing him and all you, but totally happy and excited to be here.
I hope you have a good August the 30th, mine was pretty good :)
LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!
From Abroad,
Christina C. McLaws  :)

Welcome~

Well, this is yet another attempt to get the family to all see what each other is doing on ONE web page :) so many things are out there... Myspace, Facebook, email, etc... too many to keep track of! So this way we can all see each others pictures/videos, especially since Curts in ID, Christina is half way around the world, Mom/Dad/Orrin/Ben in MT and Billy & I in AZ, we're just everywhere..so.... I'll start! :) Heres the video of the girls this summer :) LOVE YOU ALL!!! This is going to be awesome!!