Do you know these people!? :)

This is one of my good friends here in Moscow and the boy is one of Elvin and Camden's best friends. These are probably some of my favorites from their shoot. Go and check out her and the rest of her spectacular family HERE.

Even a 3 year old can do this... Happy 4th!

If this does not make you stand up and cry cheer I do not know what will. This is my 3 year old son and he loves to say the pledge. Thank you to all the men and women who continually put themselves in harms way to protect our freedoms. This is the land of the free BECAUSE of the brave. Happy 4th of July everyone!

What I am sort of working on...Any interested?

So I have been super busy processing a few photo shoots trying to get them done. But sometimes I need a break when my photo creative juice is drying up. And today I stumbled upon a color palette that spoke to me. ;) Anyways I had this idea... take a look and tell me what you think. I have no idea why I thought of this theme as my boys are still young. But I had the idea and went with it. Well, just keep in mind this is a work in progress. If there is enough interest, I will do more and offer it for free! :) So be sure to leave a comment and let me know if you would want this. Thanks.

What is going through my mind. :)

Mmmm...Doesn't this just make you so hungry. :) One of my favorite cookies photos! Just thought I would share before I update with pictures from AZ. :) 

Elvin tells a story...

Elvin loves to tell stories and we often will take turns. I love to hear how his imagination works and it helps me to know what he is into at the time. I also love it because it is mom and Elvin time. He is so dang cute :)

I was featured!!

Head over to Adorable Digital Designs to see the awesome tutorial I did. You can even grab this paper pack freebie. 

Enjoy!

Elvin's Basketball Team

Elvin started basketball over in Pullman and he is loving it! 

 Here they are warming up. 

 There is a lot of this that happens... 

 And this... 

This winter seemed really long...as in it still feels like winter. :(  And we are loving this outlet for his energy. 

Easter 2011

We did most of our Easter stuff on Saturday. But on Friday our ward had an activity and the Easter bunny came! They had so much fun!

Getting more organised

This is a screen shot of what I have done with my desktop. I had so many files and was losing track of a bunch of stuff. So I decided to get organised. I am LOVING it! Just thought I would share. 

Downloadable Scripture Felt Board Figures

So my friend Missy found this blog where THIS lady had made colored figures available for download. The stories were not printable so I went to the original sites (from the LDS church's site for the Friend magazine) and spent a long time copying and pasting so that I could have the stories that go with it. Then there is THIS site that gives you the tutorial on how to create your own felt figures using felt and iron on t-shirt transfers! WAY cheaper than buying the figures from another site already made. I cannot tell you all how excited I was that my friend Missy had found these. I have been looking for something like this FOREVER! Anyways, I made it easier for all of you to download them and print them. Just go to THIS site for the tutorial on how to make them into your fabulous new felt figures. Now you are all set to have lots and lots of Family Home Evening Lessons. YAY! So without further ado... Here are the links to get the zipped files I created for you all. Enjoy! 

Old Testament

New Testament

Book of Mormon

Church History and Other Topics

Go check this out!

There is an awesome giveaway. Go check it out.
http://florabellacollection.com/blog/2011/03/25/florabella-theit-camera-bag-giveaway/

Latest and greatest...

Some of you may have already seen some of these pictures. But enjoy anyways! :) 

Winter 2010...yep thats right!

Better late than never right!?

SO I have FINALLY gotten around to start scrapbooking this years family scrapbook. But I had to finish off just a few things from this past fall and Christmas. Which means you will probably see our Thanksgiving & Christmas ones soon. :) Enjoy. 

Here are the links to download the kit!

I sort of figured it out. :) Anyways go HERE and then just make sure you click on each file (as the kit is separated into 3 folders for faster downloading time) and click download and hopefully viola! You should have a brand new digital scrapbooking kit. Now the one I am working on is much cuter :) than this one. lol. It is for easter/spring. YAY! PLEASE let me know how this works. And if you have any tips or requests, I welcome them. Enjoy everyone. And keep checking back for the next kit. I am having so much fun!

Help! Anyone out there??

So I have been playing around and learning how to design my own scrapbooking kits. And this is my first one that I came up with. 

I had this old photo storage box that I got the inspiration from. Here is a photo of it:

So my question is this: If I did more kits and made them downloadable here (or on my photography blog) for free, would anyone want them?? Would you download them? I want to see how much interest there would be in them before I go to the effort of making them. I love doing it and I do it for myself already. So leave me a comment and let me know your thoughts. Thanks everyone. OH! And let me know what you think of this kit. 

Yeah, I know.... but you still have to love me! Its almost Valentines Day!

I know you all are sick of reading, and hearing, and seeing (well hopefully not seeing) posts of my Project 365. But after doing it for a month now, I think what works best is just posting them to my business Facebook account. If you are not a fan yet, just click on the "Like" button in the right side bar in my Facebook badge. SOooo, I am back to my regular scheduled Family Circle blog here. Thanks everyone for your love and support-and PATIENCE! :) And just as a treat for you all here are some REALLY cute videos that I did this past week of my boys. 

And in this next one you can see my little own Superman. In some of the other videos I took, Elvin would keep starting out with "Batman" and then switching to Superman when he remembered which cape he had on.  So cute! Camden was Batman that day, but I could not get him to come out and show me his own super powers. What was also funny is BOTH boys wanted their shirts off before I put on their capes. Hilarious!! I guess they wanted to show their...uh...buffness?? lol

Do I have some cute kids or what?!

Worst nightmare or funniest moment??

John was gone for the career fair tonight and so it was just me and the boys. Needless to say making a grandiose dinner for just me and the munch kins was not at the top of my priority list, especially when one of those said munch kins hardly ever eats dinner. So I let the picky eater himself choose dinner with the hopes that he would eat well. And, surprise surprise, he chose pastaroni. It is probably his favorite thing to eat next to nuggets. Anyways, when he was on his third bowl, YEP HIS THIRD BOWL! You read that correctly! I was praising him for being such a good eater as we always try to be over the top happy when he eats well. I was telling him how he was going to grow so big and strong because he was eating so well. His reply was this:

"Yep! I AM growing so big and strong. And when I grow SUPER big and strong then I can use mamas sewing machine, and her camera, and her computer, AND her car!" 

Ahhhhh! When did my little man get so smart?? I will be posting a video tomorrow of all his cuteness (and such humility). Just you wait and see. :) Stay tuned!

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