These are a few of my favorite things.....

christmas version! Okay im doing my own tag he he

Five favorite treats during the holidays:
1. Emils Cookies
2. Emils choc. whipped balls
3. Emils peanut butter squares
4. My cinnimon almonds
5. This yummy toffee sold in Jackson hole, seriously its so yummy so anyone in wy will you send me some please? white box top black bottom seriously im drooling!

Five favorite Christmas movies:
1. The Christmas Story
2. Christmas Vacation
3. The Santa Clause
4. Scrooged (with bill murray lol)
5. The grinch

Five Traditions during the holidays:
1. Decorating the day after thanksgiving and listening to christmas music
2. Looking at the lights at temple square
3. Looking at lights on Candy cane lane in syracuse (so cool the whole street is lit up!)
4. Relaxing and hanging out watching christmas movies on christmas eve
5. Banana Bread on Christmas morning

Okay! We are simple right??? Im tagging people yippee!!!!
Annie, Tina, Ann, Kacee, Nikki, Shiloh, Stacy, Lori, and anyone else who looks at this old bloggie!

A few things about Christmas.....

Frajeely, it must be Italian! I think that says Fragile honey.

This is a tree Emils Great grandma helen made! Awesome right? the lights light up too so cute!

This is our house all lit! Heres a tribute to Clark, my Clark lol. Except he forgot to do hundreds of lights on the top of the roof hmmm.....

Nativity!

Our snowie on the ladder lol

Santa Skiing :)

A man who needs no introduction...

Bren decorating the tree

Well we FINALLY got our Christmas tree up and the decorating almost complete, although I have a lot on my part to do still and yes our house is a rotten nightmare!!!! Boxes torn out everywhere tinsel on the floor ugh! I cant wait to be organized, but I do love to have all of the christmas decor out and have the feeling of christmas around me. I love it! So in light of that, you will notice throughout the next few weeks you will see many things I love about Christmas :)

Heres a few of our favorite decorations. They have a lot of meaning to us, which I will explain!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

I wanted to take a moment to tell everyone happy thanksgiving! I dont want this to turn into a cliche post but i did want to list a few of the many things I am thankful for.....
Well of course my savior! He is at the top of my list :)
Family
Our health
Our home
My talent to be able to capture beautiful art for people
My husband (I wanted to do him seperate from family because he has gone through some hard times, well we both have but through it all he has stayed so strong, I know its hard for him it is for all of us, but I just am amazed at his strength, so I wanted him to know that :) )
My friends. Especially the ones who dont mind sharing their knowledge with me, that is priceless and sure does mean alot. Then there are those friends who have been there for me through thick and thin, and since I was in diapers, okay well maybe not that long lol but you get it!
Like many of my other peers financial times are tough, tougher than they have ever been, but I still have to say Im thankful that I am in my home, and will be enjoying a hot meal with the ones I love, okay well some of the ones I love, the others live in Idaho, and then a few ditched us to go to Idaho...oh well Ill catch you guys next year! And you mikesells and armstrongs? Dont think your getting off that easy, we will be there to torment you this holiday season :)
And I want to thank all of those that come to my blog to read about my family and my photography, it means a lot for people to come to me and trust me with their memories and that means a great deal to me!
Love ya all!

Life in a nutshell

Photography is in full swing, life is crazy, kids are lucky if they see me and who is scared that christmas is in 44 days!!!!!!!

---blog posting will continue soon---

Happy Halloween!!!!

Woohoo! was today a busy one! I wanted to post a few pics of the kids on halloween!

Poor Brenley she tripped and fell on this guys sidewalk twice!!! Once on the way into his door and once on the way out :(

Its okay though, the candy was worth it!!!

Happy Birthday Brenley!!!!!

I cant believe it I have a two year old!!! (again!) lol. I cant believe you are already two!!! I remember the first year of your life it was so difficult for you but now things are getting better and I couldnt enjoy your personality any more! You are very stubborn but you are also the class clown! You do the funniest things! I laugh on a daily basis at the new things you come up with. Yesterday you took a miniture skateboard (and yes im talking keychain size) and put it under one of your feet and skated around the kitchen. And who would have thought! you have never seen anyone skateboard!!!

You are so musically inclined i cant wait to see what you teach us in this upcoming year. Happy birthday baby! Or I should say little girl!

Happy Birthday McKenna!!!

2 down 1 to go!!! Happy Birthday sweetheart!!! You are the big 9 today!!! I can remember like it was yesterday that you were born! All I can say is Mckenna loves art, school, friends and the Jonas Brothers. Im sure she loves way more than that too lol. McKenna is such a sweet kid, my husband had to interview her and I was amazed at her intelligence, she told my husband that it was hard to be 9 and he asked why and she said because its important that she be an excellent role model for her brother and sister because they look up to her. Im excited to be able to go shopping with her to buy some clothes, she got a lot of moula for her bday so it will be nice to spend some alone time with her. I love you Kenna!