Monday, December 15, 2014

Bandito Christmas show...

This past Saturday Grandma and Grandpa Harry, Aunt Kelli, Boo and Calvin came down to go to lunch and to go to the Bandito Christmas show at the Eccles Theater. We got our tickets a long time ago and had great seats again.
We all decided we liked the Pickleville summer show a little better, but we still loved this one too! Lots of fun :)
We ate at Olive Garden, then picked up a friend of the boys' since Tianna couldn't make it.
Once again kicking myself for not using my real camera!

Family pictures 2014...taken by ME!

Well after much procrastination and almost deciding to just not do a Christmas card this year, I finally decided to get a tripod and take our own pictures to at least have a picture to throw together a card with.
A cute older lady from my church was what really helped me decide to do it when she came up to me a couple weeks ago and said that she looks forward to getting my card every year and couldn't wait to see it this year.
How could I not do one?
Sooooo...last Saturday we all got dressed and ready for the day (most of us not happily!) and after much fighting on the way there, we went to this neat spot and  set up the camera and it actually ended up being really fun and we got a few cute ones :)
Ashton and Gunnar surprised me with how cooperative they were! I think it made it fun for them too when I let them be the one to push the button, then run to get into the picture.
My favorites...
 Photo bombed by this friendly horse!
He stuck his head over the fence just as the camera clicked...haha :)
 
And the Christmas card I put together...they are all finally sent out!
Not too bad for the first time doing it myself!
 


Catching up...

Let's see if I can get this post done before it's time to go pick up the boys from school...
I finally got the pictures off of my phone again and am realizing like I said before that I really need to use my nice camera more!
Oh well...it is so convenient to just pull my phone out to snap pictures.
So here's what we've been up to lately.
The biggest news is that Gunnar joined the rest of us and got glasses!
Luckily he was so, so excited to get them. He had failed the eye test at school, so I got him into the eye dr. the next week and sure enough he'd reached the point (like we knew he would) where it was time to get him some glasses.
We didn't order them that day because Lars wanted us to look around and compare prices and he was so sad to have to wait.
But we ended up getting them the next week back at the eye dr.'s office and this pair just fits him perfectly and he loves them!
And I just think he is adorable in them :)
 I got some new ones too, but they drive me crazy...I need to take them back in and see if they got the prescription wrong! Not that I hardly ever wear glasses anyway, I just had an insurance credit I needed to use before the end of the year...
It was Thanksgiving weekend right after he got his glasses. We went to Price for the long weekend.
Driving down... 
 It is always relaxing to go there, I can read while the boys play with Hunter!
I am loving this series...The Selection
Cute redheads in glasses...
 Thursday morning we got up and went and did the Turkey Trot.
An 8 mile run/walk. I actually did 6 of it...ran 3 and walked 3 back and my knee didn't hurt too bad!
Cute Gunnar on the way... 
 So pretty and quiet out there...I ran/walked it alone
because everyone else walked it.
 3 mile point...
 My thought when I saw this sign was "Yep...that's accurate...SLOW!"
 I met back up with them at the bottom...
These guys thought they were pretty funny posing by the 7 sign (it was on the back of the 1 mile sign that they had really passed!)
 After we got done with that we went right home and started getting our dinner ready...
I made rolls and deviled eggs...
 The prayer the boys wrote and read before we ate :)
Working on puzzles afterwards...
 The project I worked on the rest of the weekend...sets of homemade cards for my neighbor gifts. 250 cards! Then I still didn't end up having enough so I made 50 more when I got home.
 Gunnar still sporting his cute hat/glasses look :)
 I love how little he looked in Papa's big chair :)
 Everyone had a fun weekend besides me getting sick on Friday suddenly. I think it must have been food poisoning...it was terrible! But I was glad I was the only one who got it.
We got up on Sunday morning and went to church then to lunch at Subway then packed up and drove home. 
 Pictures on the porch before we left...
Blurry! Yep I need to use my nice camera!
 
 

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

This poor blog!

One of these days I will get caught up again...
This time of year it's almost impossible. Besides getting ready for Christmas I have been doing more photoshoots! But now I think I'm done for awhile. I did my last one yesterday.
These were all from this past weekend. And I set up a tripod and tookmy own family pictures as well!
A friend's niece's baptism pictures...
My good friend Cheryl (who was in my wedding!) and her family. I was there when Kinley was born and she is 16 now!
And Carson was the ring bearer at my wedding! He's 18...
Crazy.
We had to document that we were actually together...It had been way too long!
 The Villas...
 Maybe tomorrow I will get pictures off of my phone again and get caught up!