Family Pictures

A few weeks again my Aunt asked me to take her family photos before my cousin left for the military. I was honored and so happy they turned out well!

Quiet Time

A few months ago Wilson stopped taking naps (just in time might I add for me to need naps because of pregnancy). So we started to do quiet time in him room. He can play, read books (really he just makes a big mess) for about an hour so I can lay down. There have been a few times (too few if you as me) where I come to get him out of his room and I will find him asleep. The first few he would actually crawl into bed like this picture.


Then it moved to more random places. Like this. (Please note the large mess surrounding him.)


And this is what I found today. Right in his doorway.


Like I said it doesn't happen often, but when it does man is it cute!

3 Year old pictures take 2

This morning I woke up and decided to try pictures again. I got a cute sweater for Wilson for a screaming deal at JC Penny and thought it would look great. After a few errands we were off. My friend and I have been talking about checking out daybreak again so that is where we headed.

Cute kid + cute scenery should = cute pictures right?

Well turns out your cute kid needs to smile at the camera too (something that use to happen but has since changed). These three were the best I could do. I see another photo shoot in Wilson's future!

3 Year old Pictures

Yesterday I was headed out to help a friend with some pictures and decided to take some of Wilson's three year old pictures. I didn't get a lot, but some turned out cute!

Amy

Amy is one of my Young Women and was nice enough to let me take her Senior Pictures! I had so much fun taking her pictures and as you can see she is super photogenic! Enjoy my favorites!

State Fair

I am going to enter some photos into the state fair again this year. I want to do at least 2 maybe three. I need help deciding which ones to enter.

I am pretty sure I want to do the first picture, but am stuck after that. Opinions? Think artistic...

Friday Night - Date Night

Since Ryan got a new job (don't think I have mentioned that) he has to ride trax to work. Wilson has been dying to ride on trax (he calls it the train).

Finally Friday I was feeling pretty good (didn't last) so we decided to take the train. We got on at about 1300 south and rode down to gateway to have dinner and see Ryan's new work.

This is Wilson so excited to get on the train!
Finally on the train and he is literally speechless. He loved it!


This is his quizzical look...



As soon as we got there he spotted the fountain and well we didn't hear the end of it during dinner until we took him to play. He loved it!



After the fountain we took a trip to Ryan's new office. Wilson thought it was so cool!



Then the trip home!


The whole trip was a success! It wont be Wilson's last trip on the train for sure!

A post a long time in the making

Not even sure where to start. A little over a year ago Ryan and I decided it was time to try to have another baby. Well to make a long story short, last year we had three miscarriages. I have debated for a year if I should post this or not, but I came to the conclusion that I should. Telling the world (or the short list of people who read my blog) helps me to feel more understood and maybe I could help someone else through the same struggles.

Two of the three happened on their own (which I am thankful for) and the other I had to have a D and C (while Ryan was out of town). Not a fun thing to go through, but was so blessed by family and friends during a hard time.

It was needless to say a hard year, but a year that made our family closer together. In January we were able to see a specialist who told us that as far as he could tell nothing was wrong with us, but bad timing between pregnancies and a 1 in 4 chance of everyone loosing a baby. He told us we needed to wait 6 months before trying again. And well, we are pregnant again!!!

We have had two ultrasounds so far and after the last one they told me we only had about a 1 to 2% chance of the same type of miscarriage. We are feeling really good about things. I am about 12 weeks along and sicker than a dog.

I have yet again been so blessed by family and friends to take care of me and my family during this hard time. Poor Wilson is bored out of his mind and doesn't really understand why I want to spend most of my time in bed. But people have been generous and have taken Wilson to their house to play. He loves it and it gives me time to rest. I am crossing my fingers that the sickness will get bearable soon.

I am so truly grateful to my Heavenly Father for the opportunity we have again to welcome another spirit into our family! I also know that sometimes we don't know or understand the trials we have to go through, but that they are his way of making us stronger people.

That being said February can not get here soon enough.

Wow! A month, really?

Does anyone else feel bad when they realize it has been more than a month since they blogged?
Totally feel bad. Life has been crazy lately. And of course I don't have photographic proof of it.

My dear friend Lisa asked me to take her family pictures
and 2 year old pictures of her daughter.
We had so much fun and they turned out great!

Grateful for nap time

Nap time = me time. Grateful for most days I get to spend sometime with myself. And sometimes catch a glimpse of this.

365 Grateful

Yesterday I was reading through a photography newsletter I get and came across a documentary that is being done called 365 Grateful. Essentially it was a photographer who was down on life and decided to do a project. She took one picture a day of something that she was grateful for and put it in a book with a caption. The idea took off and many people started to do it. Now she is making a documentary about it. You can ready more about it here.

Needless to say I loved the idea. I loved how she said it not only made her life happy and have more meaning, but she saw things in the world she had never seen before.

I know life is full of wonderful things that I don't always see. I want to take time out of everyday to find and recognize something I am grateful for.

I hope to have the strength and desire to do for a full year.

Here goes nothing.