Tiny Angel

I knew I wanted newborn pictures taken professionally. I totally love the creative photographer and what they can do with photoshop. Our photographer is no exception to true talent. Brittany Stucki with My Framed Photography.
Go check her out and let her take your next awesome family picture.

Sessions are only supposed to take 2-3 hours but Alayna decided she wanted to be social and be wide awake so it took almost 5 hours to finish and Brittany was incredibly patient.

Thank you SO much Brittany!

These were taken at 6 days old...I can't believe she's already a month old.

Enjoy ;)

Seriously??!!!

Have you seen this awesome, incredible, brilliant machine???



I've been in a CraZy craft funk for the last few months and am slowly becoming a crafting junkie. It's what I do when I'm bored, which lately is more often than not and with a new baby being stuck in the house has given me full run of the computer all day and of limitless craft blogs to drool over.

My favorites file runneth over.

Any Who...there was a giveaway on Little Miss Momma which I am a loyal follower and out of 2,381 entries I totally won!!
{Insert my face here}



This is only a few awesome projects it can help you create...









Mike says he has not seen me that excited in a LONG time. Yep! I'm Stoked and can't wait for the precious package to arrive at my doorstep.

Farewell I'm off to plan my first project!

Christmas at our house

Christmas at our house was totally fun...of course. Poor Isaiah woke up early and we made him watch cartoons until Joshua woke up so I could sleep in a little longer. He had to wait for over an hour before we finally got up and decided we'd tortured him long enough and woke Joshua up so we could unwrap.

The boys are a little on the obsessed side with Star Wars and the jammies seemed to fuel the craziness even more.












We had to put her in a stocking...she was our favorite present of all!



What an incredible year it was! I'm so grateful for all these little squirts. They make holidays so much more fun...I can't even imagine how life was without them.

The princess has arrived!

Alayna decided she just couldn't wait any longer to see us and decided to grace us with her presence. There has never been anything so sweet that has existed on earth thus far. We are completely smitten by her!

Monday afternoon I went for an unscheduled appointment to ask some questions about a few things that were going on and they ended up doing an ultrasound and notice that...
1. My amniotic fluid was quite low
2. She was measuring very small--only four pounds, which is where she should have been a few weeks before. It seemed to make the doctor nervous so he made a decision that she would be better off here and so they walked me right over and admitted me. I called Mike, who had just left for Vegas hours before and told him the news. He got here as quick as he could.

They started pitocin at 5:30pm and she was here at 1:30am. Weighed 5lbs 4ozs. 18in. long. They had the whole NICU and respitory clan in my room waiting just in case there were any complications but she was a total champ and surprised us all. So happy she was finally here and as healthy as can be.

Pictures are SO deceiving. She doesn't look half as small as she really is.



This was totally Joshua's reaction to her...he came in the room and saw her and couldn't stop giggling. He's doing awesome with her.




Plus one more makes FIVE!


She's already got him wrapped pretty tightly around her teeny little finger.






There will be many more pictures to come. Now if I can just wrap my head around how life is going to be now I'll be in a good place. It takes a mentally tough woman to do this...I hope I can.

Turkey Tri

Turkey Tri...athlon that is!

Isaiah has asked to do some sort of a race for probably over a year and I finally looked into it enough to get him signed up for this one. Why did I start with a triathlon??? Who knows...I knew he could do it. He's an excellent swimmer and biker and loves to run so why not?

As you can tell he was totally stoked about the whole thing.


Notice...goggles on top of his head??? He was to anxious to jump in...once he hit the first lap he finally put them on.








Go #230!!! I was quite a proud mom that day. He makes me want to do one myself...I've always wanted to. I think he's caught the runners bug...he's already asking when he can do it again.

Ellen baby!!! Talk about an incredible girls vacation!!! Lots of driving and my poor ankles had turned cankles by the drive home. We left the night before this little squirts birthday...hey don't judge! He got to spend the night at Grandmas and was thrilled about it and Mike came home the next afternoon and they played like crazy while I was gone. So now this cute thing is 4!!


While we were waiting and waiting to go inside the studio...me and my sis Summer.


While we were sitting there at the studio waiting to go in we looked over and saw this adorable girl walking by.....who else totally loves her???


Totally did a triple take wondering if it was really her and then she looked over at us and smiled and we were retarded and let her go by BUT she came back about 20 minutes later and I was a total goob and asked for a picture with her. She was going in for an audition and was incredibly nice. She actually sat and talked to us for a little bit. Totally a fan!!!

Why am I showing such an awful picture of myself??
Don't ask...it's proof!


The Ellen show was ridiculously fun...there is seriously a buzz when you walk in there and when you watch the show and see all the crazies dancing and wonder to yourself how on earth they could do those things on tv well...I was probably one of them. You can't help yourself! Ellen actually danced two feet from me but they cut it out of the taping and I'm convinced it was because my unbearable dancing and they just couldn't air something so vile.
But me and my baby bump were shakin'!




We ended up being totally surprised that we were taping the 1200th show and she gave everyone one of these.....Merry Christmas Us!!



While we were in LA we also got tickets to see...



It was the day after the election so everything was very political...not my thing but it's fun to say we've been and his band was incredible.

The trip was incredible...when we checked into our hotel we even got upgraded to the presidential suite and slept in total luxury while we were there. It was hard to come home from such pampering.

Seven

This boy is Seven today! This morning he asked me what things he was good at now that he was seven (like when you have a birthday you automatically get a new talent...imagine if it were true). So I listed things that he is good at and afterwards he says "You're the best at making babies in your tummy."
He is SO excited for this baby to come!
Happy Birthday Isaiah!!

Halloween...we're ready for you!

My boys are Mario Crazy! They chose their costumes and I wanted to make them this year. Halloween is so much more fun for me now that I get to dress up my kids.
I think they look stinkin cute...what do ya think??

Giveaway

My very talented friend Brittany is a photographer and she's doing a giveaway on her blog that I'd LOVE to win. Check out her website and blog to see her work. Her most recent newborn session is stinkin adorable!

http://myframedphotography.com/Blog/

Refinishing.....finished

I've been having a love obsession with craft blogs, decorating blogs and anything-to-do-with making-fun-things-blogs lately. There are many blogs I check daily, one of my favorite being All Things Thrifty which I'm sure many of you like minded crafty folk are plenty familiar with. I've seen too many projects done by super women crafters that I thought it was about time I give it a go. Inspired is what I was...hoping to just come across something wonderful that would be begging for a new life. Knowing I would need a new dresser for my little one on the way I began my search. Fellow Craigslisters will know that when you start searching it becomes addicting until you find just the thing and also the challenge to beat everyone to it.

Well this is the beauty that I came across the FIRST time I looked on Craigslist. It was perfect in every way and I could see it's makeover in my head immediately....called on it before 9:00am and was off to pick it up right away. $35.00 for a solid wood perfect condition dresser....SCORE!!!



I couldn't wait to get my hands on it...who knew that a primer, paint and a little glaze could be so trasforming. The result was just what I wanted. What made it even better is how much Mike loved it!

I have since put the rest of the hardware back on and it looks perfect. It was the funnest project I've ever done and WAY makes me want to do something else...after all I have tons of glaze left over ;) I'd better not waste it.