Photo Shoot

 So Have I been a lame blogger or What!!!  Haha.  Anyway, I am due tomorrow (but have another week of waiting probably) and wanted to get these pictures we took last week of the girls posted before our little boy makes his appearance.

 Our beautiful and fiesty, London Mae

 Our ever learning cutie pie, Miss Ashby.

These two sisters love each other soo much.  And can't wait for brother to come.

It's my turn

Shortly after this happened:

These happened:                                                                                 

It's fun to watch her grow.  This helps me to see it literally through her eyes.

the girls had a little play time before bed.  The sure are sweet together!  We are loving having 2!

the Weather

So if we can stop getting so much of this

And start getting more days of this

 Then I'm sure these will come to help welcome

SPRING :)

Oh sweet Spring, come soon.  We long to play outside in your beauty and warmth

Weekend in Vegas

So this is the second time that I've had the chance to travel with my good friend Tracy. 2 years ago we traveled together to the same destination.

Where: Las Vegas. Lolly's house.

What: Car Trip.

When: Winter/early Spring

Who: Tracy, Cheryl, Asbhy and London*

Why: Fun. Sun. Friends.

*London was of course not able to travel with us 2 years ago.

I think we have mini tradition here. Drive out for the weekend. Don't get enough sleep. Eat yummy food (thanks Lolly for the meals and Tracy for the dessert). Laugh. A Lot. Talk. Shop. "Lollification". Photo shoot. Visit the Strip. Chase kids. Cute kids. Soothe kids. Church. Home.

Yeah, I think that was both trips in a nut shell. But both trips were fun. I love being able to keep in touch with old friends. Thanks Tracy for helping me with that.

Maybe I'll get a little better at it. I don't think it would hurt to catch up more often than once every 2 years. haha.

Tracy, thanks for the idea. Lolly, your kids are soo cute. Brian, thanks for watching the kids.

Here are a few pics. I'll try to post more soon. Tracy took most of 'um. Great camera, always on hand, and she knows how to use it!

photo shot

We love our girls so much.

We all had fun with these.

For Amy

My little sister (1st of 2 little sisters), Miss Lu as I call her, is currently serving on a mission. She has been serving for a year now. We took her to the MTC last December 17th. Wow. I havn't been so good at sending pictures lately. Yes I know you are soo surprised. But last week I told her I would post some on my blog so she could check it out the next time she is online (tomorrow).

So this post is mostly to get me back into blogging. It isn't that I don't enjoy or want to blog. I do, I love sharing pictures and stories from our everyday lives. I just don't always make the time for it.

So without further ado, Pictures!

Here we have Ashby a week ago as compared to:


A year ago. (yes she is wearing her training panties on the outside. haha She LOVES dress up!)


Here's some London Love:


There are some pics of our two cute girls!

London's Infant Photos

These photos were taken when London was 2 weeks old. She wasn't sleepy like we thought she'd be, but I love how they turned out. Marcie Jessee, our photographer, did a fantastic job. Thanks so much Marcie. I can't wait to have her take our family photos!

If your interested in having her take photos for your family or special event, stop by her website to get more info. www.jesseephotography.com

Logan

While Ashby and I were on our merry little way to visit our good friends the Curdy's (see last post) in Logan we stopped a couple times along to way to document the beauty.

We also stopped to see the Temple. Ashby's first visit to the Logan Temple. :) She liked it a lot. She said it is "so very beautiful"

Loveless Family Pictures

Adam came out for three things:

1. Mom's 52nd birthday CHECK

2. Michelle's Play (Peter Pan) CHECK

3. Early Thanksgiving CHECK

Now, my parents used to take all us kids dressed up and "happy" to Olen Mills picture studios for family photos. That ended after too many of us were teenagers. So up until a couple of years ago we didn't have any recent (like in the past 5 years) family pictures.

Anyway, now we try and do it at least once every year when we all together.

Yellowstone

I love my digital photography becuase a memory card is soo much more convinient to carry than bunches of rolls of film! Enjoy.

Three of the things I love best

Taking Pictures

Being a mom

My Handsome, Her Daddy, Ryan

Ladies in Las Vegas

Tracy and I got in the car with her awesome selection for music, a rather well written "dating book" and Ashby and drove down to Vegas to have a nice weekend visit with Lolly, Ava and Brian. We had late night talks and movies. We worked out together, shopped and had a photo shoot! We decided that college friends can be fun even with a couple of toddlers. Ashby and Ava had lots of fun. And so did we!

Lolly helping to beautify our hair!

Each of us took a turn being "America's Top Model"

I think we all had a lot of fun.

We went down to Ceasar's Palace and had a nice lunch, didn't really gamble and tried catch some fun moments.

Beautiful day in Vegas

Ava and Ashby didn't miss a beat, they shopped together, played together, they even had fun in the tub!

Brain, thanks for sharing your girls this weekend, Happy Birthday too.