EDD: July 19, 2011

Ouch.

Times two. No, I don't beat my kids up... they are very accident prone, especially Jack.

We went 4 wheeling on Saturday, well, we were in a Rino. Abby was in the front seat (because Jack refuses to sit with anyone other than me... unless Grandma is there, but she wasn't:). We had stopped and she leaned out to try and touch the snow, Ben started to go without realizing this, and she got caught by a bush. Then later in the trip she got hit again (this time sitting up straight) by a tree. This was taken yesterday, so a few days after the incident... doesn't look as bad now, she had horizontal scratches all over her forehead.



Then to Jack. If this kid doesn't have a bruise or a scratch, he must have slept through the day. I swear he nearly kills himself at least once a day. This kid knows no fear. On Sunday he was playing in Abby's room and we heard a crash... then a blood curdling scream. He had pulled the dresser over on himself while trying to climb it. He has a pretty mean black eye and scratches galore. The picture really doesn't do him justice.




At least they got the injuries after family pictures... right? :)

Dinos and ducks.

Ben has been slow at work this week, so we took advantage of that and of the nice day and took the kids out for an adventure!


Have you met Abby? She is OBSESSED with dinosaurs. She knows almost everything there is to know about them. (well for an extremely interested kid, that is) She wants to be a paleontologist when she grows up. yeah. She has been telling us that for 2 years now, so I kinda take her seriously. Really, next time you see her ask her anything about dinos, she probably has an answer!



Moments that make you go 'aw!'

She was so funny. She says to us, 'Mom, Dad, I have a hypothesis... ' have you ever seen "dinosaur train" that is Buddy's famous line, so it was pretty funny.

He was trying to make his own footprints:) But mostly I just love that he finally will *almost* happily wear his boots. They are some pretty sweet kicks.

Well, we really went to the duck pond first, but I don't know how to move my pictures around...

Haha. He was sooo nervous at first!

For a good reason... He got bit throwing out the first slice he got his hands on.

Which lead us to this... He felt a little better up on the bench.

And eventually started to feed them again.

It was a fun day! Glad Ben could spend it with us... But, work please pick up... Christmas is around the corner:)

Best.Cookies.Ever.

Well, best pumpkin cookies anyways. (and the easiest) .

Ingredients:
1 small can of pumpkin
1 box spice cake mix
1 pkg chocolate chips

Heat the oven to 350 degrees, and bake for 8-10 minutes! They wont expand or change shape, so how you slap them on there is how they will come out:)

Get a big glass of milk and enjoy!!

I heart photoshop.

Oh yes I do. I just wanted to show some before and afters because I am always amazed how great the lighting and colors turn out.

Before After

Notice the wrinkles in the sheet? and the blah saturation?

Before After

This one just makes me happy. I really love the brightness of it.

Of course, having beautiful subjects always helps:)

The last two days.

I had two shoots in the last two days. yay!

Miss T


Big sis Miss K

And my gorgeous soon to be sister-in-law and brother-in-law.

Fun stuff! Oh, and I took a bunch of my niece's blessing after party, but I havent had time to edit yet.

So if anyone wants some pictures done... I am totally up for it! ;)

A new dress.

I offered to test another pattern for Littlelizardking who sells patterns on etsy. It was a lot of work, but LOVE it!! After I forget about how much work it was, I may make another one:) She has worn it all afternoon!

Halloween

We had 3 halloween parties to go to this year, and we dressed up for 2 of them. Here were some of my favorites from the night.

Of course, my kids were on the top of my list:)

He is still asking me to get his skeleton face on;)

Rachel won best costume. And Brandon was just awesome, especially his skinny legs.

Nate even wore eyeliner. Awesome. And Alisha said most of her stuff came from Rue21, so yeah, people actually still wear this stuff.