Project 52

My Favorite photographer, Katie Moss with Peek A Boo Photos, challenged her friends at the beginning of the year to do "Project 52." Obviously, I am a little late getting started but here I go anyway. The project is to take photos of your children every week for 52 weeks and at the end of the year you will have some great pictures that you can make into a book. Since I got a somewhat beginner camera at Christmas time (Nikon D60) I thought this would be the perfect challenge to help me get better at photography. Here are my pictures 1/52!

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Nothing great but it's a start. I learned that I do not know how to edit, maybe James can do that for me. I know I love using natural light but I still need lots of practice doing outside shots. This was so fun I can't wait to see what else I can come up with. It will be neat to see if there is any improvement as the year goes by.

Which one do you like the best?

Bet you didn't know!

Here are Dallin, Georgia, and Conner at the airport waiting for their Dad to arrive!

Yea!, he is here for GOOD! James is hopefully finished working in Iraq. There is a slight possibility he would have to go back for a month or two but we think he is home for good. He came home about 3 weeks ago and needs to get a job! haha!

Here James and I are in Las Vegas. We went there last Sunday and came back Wednesday. My mom came out and stayed with the kids so we could spend some time alone together. I kept winning money in the slot machines and James kept loosing it at the Texas hold em table. But it was tons of fun.

Another reason we went to Las Vegas was for the Textile Convention. James and I are starting an online designer fabric retail store. We will be launching our store in the next few months. So the convention in Las Vegas was perfect timing. We met a lot of sales reps for the fabric designers that we will be featuring in our store. It is crazy to think that we will have hundreds of bolts of fabric in our home, I will be in heaven. So if you need anything let me know, our site is NewLineFabric.com. Right now we are still working with our web designer, she hasn't quite captured the look we are going for, yet! When you go to the site it is just a temporary page until our site opens.

Now the fun stuff! My sister Lauren came to visit this weekend so we had this air mattress out. Conner thought it would be fun to launch Georgia into the air, she loved it. And the responsible adult taking the picture is of course James!

I can't believe it, Conner turned 10 today, April 5th. I have a son in his double digits. He thinks he is 16 though. He is really into girls, and asked me the other day what would happen if he got caught kissing this girl that he likes. He wanted to see if the punishment would be worth it. We are in trouble!

Happy Birthday Conner, I love you!

Georgia update!

Here are some fun pictures of Georgia. She is a typical girl and loves to dress up with clothes, shoes and my jewelry. It's so cute.

This is Georgia in her Snow White dress up. It is a little long on her so she doesn't wear it that often. But when she does she thinks she is pretty!

Here she is wearing my shoes. She figured this out all on her own and when ever she sees a pair of shoes laying around she slips them on. I have a picture of her sitting on her princess chair with tons of jewelry on I just can't find it. So I'll have to post it later.

This is Georgia eating olives. She figured out all on her own how to put them on her fingers and eat them. How do kids know to do that?

You're Invited!

Flower Party!!!!!
Thursday, February 5, 2009
My House
424 West Misty Sage Way
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

FLOWER PARTY
Buy pre-made flower hair clips (100's to choose from)
OR
make your own with my supplies.
Match a flower to your favorite outfit.
Custom coordinating centers available.
Fun for kids, teens and adults.

The busier, the better, Right?

So we have been pretty busy lately and that is my excuse for not blogging. Here's what we've been up to:
Dallin got to perform at the UVU Flash Basketball game with his karate SWAT team at half time. They did really well and it was so much fun to watch him. I guess when I cheer him on it embarrasses him!










Here is a picture of me when my hubby was home in December, as you can tell I am pretty happy!






My friend Brandi and I had a girls overnighter up in Park City. Brandi's husband had ankle surgery and was out for a while. He wanted to pay her back for all she had done so we planned an overnighter.
Brandi thought that the two of them were going away overnight



and that I was coming over to babysit her kids. Well on her way out the door I followed her to the car instead of her husband. We had a blast. It was so relaxing. We had an awesome dinner, stayed at Club Le Sprie and of course went shopping the next day. James was home to take my kids and I of course needed a little get away myself.
Here we are soaking our freezing cold feet in the warm bath tub.


This is the lovely picture painted onto the wall of our room. We got to look at this all night! I wonder if they purposely put us two women in this room!











Here is my HOT husband with little Georgia. She is wearing his jacket from when he was a little boy! How Cute!








Awww! I love this guy! He looks so happy in this picture.








Here is Conner holding his map of Utah that he made from rice crispy treat and other yummies. This was a school project.








This is our lovely family on the Heber Railway, Polar Express. We also had James' mother with us.







Georgia wasn't too sure about Santa Clause. I have a feeling she will like him better next year.









Conner and Dallin love sledding this year. Here they are on a Saturday at their school sliding down the hill.






At the beginning of December we flew James' Mother out to see us. She was here for a week or so.








Here is my Hot husband again on Christmas morning. He is wearing Georgia's Snow White cape with his Superman shirt. Very fitting!







Christmas morning at my Dad's house in San Jose, CA. Georgia is riding her new little pink princess bike while wearing her new Snow White dress up.





All Conner wanted for Christmas this year was the Lego Train set. We told him that was all he would get since it is expensive. He got it and of course a few more things!







Dallin got an Electric Fender Guitar.







Dallin turned 8 in November and earned his Bobcat in one week with the help of his Dad. Here he is being awarded his Bobcat.

Oh Sweet Sadie in Daybreak

http://www.ohsweetsadie.com/

Come see MariahMade at the Oh Sweet Sadie Boutique in Daybreak - 15 minutes north of Saratoga. This is a pretty big show with TONS of shops crammed into three massive model homes. Lots of great Christmas shopping. See you there!

Dallin turned 8! Yea!
Here he is opening his "Cub Scout" shirt!







Here Dallin is giving his Dad a great big hug because he got $100. We decided to give him some money this year so he can choose what he wants to buy. Things are so expensive and kids don't realize that. When kids only get two things for their birthday they can't understand why they didn't get more. So we thought if we helped him decided what to spend his money on it would teach him that things cost a lot of money and you have to be wise how you spend it!

Here Dallin is blowing out his candles!








THANKSGIVING with the Family. My Dad, twin sister and her husband came to visit us for Thanksgiving this year. We had tons of fun. I LOVE being around my family, they are so important to me.

This is my twin sister Corene. She kept busy by making some aprons for three of her "Young Women" for Christmas. She has these three sisters come over every week to her house and teaches them how to cook. So she thought she would make them aprons for Christmas. One of them wanted to learn how to make grilled cheese because she had a problem everytime she went to make it it would make a mess in the "Toaster"!


After a huge all homemade Thanksgiving dinner the boys went outside and played football with Dallin's new birthday football. Isn't that what guys do on Thanksgiving anyway!






Little Georgia wanted to be outside with the guys so bad but she wasn't feeling well so she watched from the window.







My sweet Dad kept my kitchen clean the whole week. What Dad does that! I love him so much, he is the best Dad ever.







James and Rick (Corene's husband) ran a 5k at Thanksgiving Point on Thanksgiving morning. Rick came in 9th and James came in 13th. Great job guys! I don't remember their exact times but I know they were under 30 minutes.






So every year at Thanksgiving we all get a pair of jammies so we can wear them throughout the winter. This is a picture of us last year with our jammies!






This is a picture of us this year with our jammies. We are so glad James was with us and in this picture.







Since we had extra family this year we all got a new pair of pajamas, and here we are!