The Party

She loves doing hair, the blow dryer turns on too!

Pinkalicious dress and her new twinkle toe shoes. She is such a girl!!

A Barbie and a Barbie movie. The Barbie came with a flat iron that lets you color your or Barbie's hair pink!! It is just chalk but she loves it. Thanks Caley family!!

The decorations, I am cheap folks, I made most everything myself from construction paper and leftover wrapping paper. I did buy the crown for her to wear for the day. And the york patties are her and Nathan's fave.

The Barbie cake. The puppy is a ring and Barbie's skirt lights up. She insisted on using it for a nightlight last night! I hope she had a good day, we went to McDonalds for lunch and saw Whinnie The Pooh after. A nice man found out it was her birthday at the theater and bought Nathan and Nora kid snack packs. It was really nice of him and they loved it. I cannot wait to see how much she will grow up this year. She is so special and we love her to pieces!

Nora is 4 today!!

Well folks, she is no longer a baby. She turns four today. I love her so much, I cried in bed last night like a baby just thinking about the joy she has brought to our family.

We love you Nora!

Videos of Nathan at T-Ball

I am so proud of Nathan! He did such a good job in t-ball. This was his first sport and I think he will stick with it. He caught on pretty quickly and progressed very well in the few months he was in it. Go Nathan!!

Last T-Ball Game!

Nathan and Caleb's team photo. Our kids are great! Love that Caleb is giving the thumbs up!

This is one of Nathan's buddies, he also goes to church with us. They had tons of fun wrestling in between innings.

Maternity Photo Shoot - New Location!

Dan and I have been searching for a great photo location since we moved to the valley. I do believe that we have found it. It has a rail road track, with a curve.

It has some amazing doors with a great set of knockers!

Look at this one, just amazing doors!
We drove by it one day and I was amazed by the location. This session is the first time we have ever been back. It worked out well and we didn't even use all the spots we could have used. We will definitely use it again.

I think this picture is the largest I could make Aly's belly look. She is due just shy of three weeks but her belly is just so tiny!

For this session Alyssa wanted to go with muted tones. They photograph so well, very natural and relaxed.

This was all Drew, he didn't know that Dan was shooting. I love it, a little risque'.

It was so hard for her to get her legs up over that rail! Thanks for playing along Aly!

There was a very small window to get this shot. Dan was laying on the ground to frame it properly. The effort paid off I think!


This last one is just so cute! She hardly looks like she is preggers but I think it is beautiful.
thanks for a great session Aly and Drew!

Duck Pond

A few weeks ago we took the kids to the mouth of Logan Canyon to feed the ducks.
Dan got this picture, it was one of those that you didn't realize how beautiful it was until you looked at it later. We are loving the scenery here.

Mom, does this pose look familiar? Oh no! She is a mini-me!

It was time for Nathan to get a new bike. I couldn't make him wait until his birthday. Nora got his old bike. We had to take the tires off the rims and rotate them on Nora's bike. Nathan worked them over pretty good, they were down to the threads. Nora is quite a bit more timid that he is so she should do just fine with the worn tires.

Parade Day

THANK YOU ALPINE!!

A few weeks ago we got to go with Bart and family and ride in this bad boy in a parade. We had a blast throwing candy.

Afterwards there was a community fun day that we stayed for. The children spent a lot of their time like this. Waiting in line to either go down the big slide or to play in the bouncy house. They all did pretty good being patient.

Max and Nora were a little timid about the big slide so Nathan helped them out.

As you can see . . . He is a pro.

Nora finally got up the courage to do it on her own. Max did too.

At the end of the day they had a critter chase. They divided into age groups and then were let loose to capture some unsuspecting animals. If they catch an animal they get to keep it! Or they can trade the animal in for a prize. Nora and Max's group had new albino bunnies to try to catch.

They were not successful and were heartbroken. They thought for sure that they were going to catch them and keep them for their own. It was very traumatic.

Nora lucked out and was able to hold another person's bunny for awhile. She was still very upset and talks about having her own bunny still.

Nathan and Caleb's group had larger rabbits. They were runners and went all over the place. Nathan and Caleb were also not effective rabbits catchers, thank goodness!

The older age groups chased chickens and the last group was this pig. The boy who caught it was bit by the pig and was bleeding. He did not want the pig so they auctioned it off. It was a lot of fun to watch. Overall it was a great day and we can't wait to do another parade with Bart.