Seattle Baby!

So Win and I went to Seattle this last weekend to visit Aunty Eryn! In the usual style we stuck a good old backpack on Joey and her squeaky shoes and we were off!



We got there and were so happy to see our cousis! Joey and Aussie were so cute together! They went and stayed in nursery together the whole time. Aussie got really sad and so I told Joey to go give him loves which she promptly did and they played the rest of the time! (two hours!)





Oh and these two girls were oh so cute! They even had a slumber party the first night! Kay is the best big cousin making sure Joey is right there keeping up with her. We sure do love our Kay Kay! And of course we dressed them the same, it was too cute not to! Best friends, just like their mommas!







The boat at Bell Square. Such a party. We had a girls shopping night and we literally shopped till we dropped Kay was out before we left the parking lot!

It was a snow day on Monday! Yahoo! We had a good old time only Eryn doesn't have any sleds so we used a laundry basket and Travs snowboard until the neighbor kids came out and shared the goods! Look at Tucky go! Six and boarding, too cute!







The "woods" in Eryns backyard. this tree is huge! Easily over 100 feet tall.




A little Seattle scenery.. Eryn and I had grandious ideas of going shooting in downtown but of course we ended up shopping instead... Next time though...

We sure do love our Howeys! Thanks for having us come! Oh and Tuck I hope to move into your neighborhood someday!

Busy Little Bee!

So lately Joey has been so busy! Into everything and wanting to do everything, wanting to know everything! I just can't believe how big she is getting! Kev and I keep looking at her and saying, when did she get so big? She is only 17 months and she is taller than all the lother kids in her play group. She is just so full of personality and always makes me laugh. We go to any store and she stops to wave and say hi to basically every person she sees. Kev keeps trying to teach her stanger danger but I don't think it is working! She sure does keep us on our toes.... But I think we are up for the challenge!

The New Face of Blush Floral.... Me!

So this is really funny. But my great friend and fellow photographer Stacy (who finally started a blog! Yeah!) took these pics of me for Blush Floral in Logan.
Bridal pictures of a girl who has been married for almost 3 year and a mom to a 1 year old! Really I just said okay because I still to this day LOVE my wedding dress more than anything and was really happy to see that after having a baby I still fit in to it!(Stacy remember that guy who asked me if I thought I would ever fit into it again during your crit?) I guess we showed him! Thanks you rock!!

Time to say goodbye!

Oddly enough I have actually had some mixed feelings about leaving Logan... I know, I know.. Yeah I am off to the "big" city and am really excited about it but there are quite a few things I am going to miss..

Like shopping with my mom..
running errands with my mom...
working with my dad...
going out to eat with my parents...
having my mom babysit...
Sunday dinner at my parents house..
And I know Winnie is going to go through Grammy and Pa withdrawal...

So I guess it is more like I will miss my parents than I will actually miss Logan!
Oh well whats done is done. We had some good times there.. I found Kev, who has made me the happiest woman in the world. We thought the day would never come but we both graduated from USU and of course we had our beautiful baby girl there. So I guess Logan will always have a special place in my heart...... (who would have thought!)

Kickin the habit in 08!

So things have been a little crazy lately... Christmas, moving, staying with my parents... Anyway I guess somewhere in the scramble Joey took to drinking, and eating...



I came down the stairs and there she was. Opening reeces peanut butter cups and taffy and had found a diet coke from somewhere... I asked what was up and she just looked at me went on eating her candy. Than proceeded to take big drinks of diet coke and follow with a big ahhhh.....
My new years resolution? Say good bye to the diet coke and keep the candy out of reach!

btw...

I updates/fixed my website! You can now click on the pictures... Oh Yeah!

It Came... It Came Just the Same....

Yeah Christmas was so fun this year! With Winnies excited "whoow" over every present and sledding and snowmobiling what more do you need? For the past 7 years my family has been going to a cabin at Bear Lake. It is great we all go up and stay for a few days, it seems to make Christmas last longer like a little holiday. I love it. This year it was a little smaller than usual with only two grnadkids but Ethan and Win has a great time together, He is one great cousin!





Funny thing was Kev and I woke up before anyone else did so I went down to see if Ethan was up and sure enough he was down in his room awake and just waiting. The second he heard me he jumped out of bed and was ready to go... So at 6 am we went in and woke up Joey. She is just like her mom, NOT a morning person but once she figured out what was going on she got really excited!



It took her a minute to realize that after a month of being told she couldn't open gifts that she finally she could! Once that sunk in there was no stopping her!
Thanks Santa! We had a wonderful Christmas... Can't wait until next year!!!

Santa Claus is comin to town!

This year I got a little carried away and decided to make my own Christmas card... Well Eryn actually called and asked if I would make hers and I of course said yes! I thought it turned out super cute!

Merry Christmas everyone!

It's Official!!

Last Saturday Kev graduated from USU! It was such a fun day and even if he didn't really want to walk I am really glad he did! It just makes it seem more official!
Anyway just a few pics.. Kevin's whole family came!! It as so awesome and I could not be happier about it or more proud of him!







So what is real life like?

A day or two ago... I thought I'd take a ride....

Yeah it is finally Christmas time and there is snow to go with it! We went sledding down Old Main hill last weekend and it was so fun! Kev and I haven't been since we were first dating and we went to Wal-Mart and Kev sprung for twenty bucks on this tube! (That is more than he spent on our first date!) But the good news is it has lasted us 3 years and is still a blast to ride on!



Winnie was lovin it! We took her all the way to the top of the hill and send her down on her own! A little dangerous yes but she loved every minute of it! What a doll!



But in the end it was really Maizy that she liked the best! (Todd and Megans dog) She is lovin dogs now a days. She has the uff uuf down pat. She really must be daddy's little girl! We all know how I feel about pets!



And ofcourse a trip to see Santa! Went about as well as we thought it would! She really likes to get the candy cane but really doesn't like sitting on his lap!

3 moves in 1 year!

First I have to say how proud I am of Kev! Honestly, the man is a work horse and does such an amazing job caring for two very high maintenance babes!

Anyway, Kevin is graduating from Utah State University in two weeks with a dual major in Accounting and Spanish.
He recently accepted a position with Utah Retirement Systems in Salt Lake. So we will be there until May.
Then it is off to London for an internship with Deloitte,
Then to Washington D.C. for a permanent position with PricewaterhouseCoopers!!
Does that sound like a lot to anyone else? We could not be more excited!
Or more proud of Kev! Way to be! We sure do love you!

The Slog for Thanksgiving!

So for Thanksgiving we went to Seattle and Portland! Kev and I have been talking about it for a while. His sister Lanie lives in Portland and my sister Eryn just moved back to Seattle. So I was a little more than excited when Kev looked up one day and said how about we go to Seattle this weekend and Portland on Wedensday? Needless to say I jumped all over it. But I had to ask why would Kev have changed his mind about going? Well... The Chicago Bears were playing the Seahawks! So we loaded up our back and got Win a pack of 1000 stickers and fruit snacks and we were on our way!



The fam on the ferry from Seattle to Bainbridge Island



me and Tucker on the ferry! When Trav was in Dental school I went and lived with Eryn for a few months. Tucker was two and he was my man! It was the most fun I have ever had living in Seattle! I loved it! I think Tucker is my only roommate I never fought with!!



The woodland park zoo! Best Zoo ever! and Wins first time to a Zoo. She loved it! Grunted all her grunts at all the animals!



even when we got attacked by this lioness! It was awesome!



And ofcourse the Troll!! Don't worry that is a real Volkswagon bug under his hand! So Seattle!

And after a few shopping trips it was on to Portland! The drive is only supposed to take three hours, but for some reason the traffic is always so bad that it takes hours and hours to get there, hence the slog...Anyway I have never been to Portland and it is such a cool city! Of course I didn't take pictures of anything! Dumb me! Anyway Lanie made a delicious Thanksgiving Feast! It was so fun! Win LOVED her two girl cousins, everything is pink! She was in heaven!




It was a riot Abby(5) would put ALL the necklaces and bracelets and rings they owned on Win and she would come running out of the room to show us! It was so funny!



family picture time! I thought this one of the girls was so cute! They are best friends and Emma does everything Abby does! Sisters, gotta love em!

Thanks to our sisters for having us! We had a blast!

My Mom.... and... Me!

The other day I made my mom let me take pictures of her and myself for my series.... It is funny I have been doing photography for so many years and she has always been my biggest supporter but I have never acutally photographed her. I am so glad I did it! I love my mom! She is really one of my best friends and I love the relationship we have with each other! I really don't know what I would do with out her! Heck I even named my daughter after her, if that isn't love I don't know what is!
I love my mom and I love these pics.... So thanks for posing mom! Your the best!

Gotta Love Girlfriends!

So my good friend Jordan was in town from Ohio and I am so glad I got to see her. Jordan is the girl that I always had the most fun with when she would come in to town from Montana. We did some crazy stuff in our day.... But Jordy will alway be known best for her classic line such as, "when I grow up I want to live somewhere exciting, like Wyoming!!" I still laugh when I think about it. Well now we are "grown up" and both have little girls of our own. Crazy but true. So I couldn't pass up on taking some pictures of her and her girl. Jordan has always been one of my dearest friends, more like a sister than just a friend and boy do I love her! So here are some pics, and Jordy babe, you are BEAUTIFUL!!

Happy...... Halloween!!

I have to say that Winnie's 2nd Halloween was so fun! She was just the cutest little bunny on the block! We went to Jens for trick or treating, pumpkin carving, and halloween games!



It was great and Win loved to trick or treat she just sat in the stroller and ate her candy just as happy as can be!



We had it all in our party... Darth Vador, Anakin Skywalker, Genreal Grevious, The Emperor, a monkey, a skeleton and a bunny! We were quite the site! Even Ty and Kev came dressed up. Kev came a Travis and Ty came as a monkey's uncle! Oh and I was a magician to go with my little white bunny!



Happy Haloween! Thanks Jen, Eryn, Mom and Kev we had a blast!!

Corn, Corn and More Corn Adventures!

It was Jen's birthday on the 30th so we went down to celebrate in style... At a corn maze! It was so fun! They had huge slides a pumpkin bounce around and a box of corn! It was so fun! Eryn and her kids stopped in on their move to Seattle and my good friend Jordan was in town from Ohio.



So we partied it up right! Win had so much fun with her cousins and her friend Adalynn! The funniest thing was when we were walling through the corn maze Win and Austin decided they wanted to hold hands so Aussie led her through for a little while.



It was so fun! Happy Birthday Jen! We sure do love you!!