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Nate took this picture of me and Pearl this evening and I just love it soo much I thought I would share it with you. What do you think... isn't it just precious?! I love my girls. They are such loving dogs and so sweet! They wouldn't hurt a fly and I am so glad everyday we have them (when I don't come home to the contents of the trash strewn out across the house LOL). We take WAY too many pictures of our dogs, ( like WAY WAY too many) but they all turn out soo cute! Plus Nate keeps adding to my camera equipment, so I have to practice as much as possible! He recently got me a flash and a new lens. The 55-200mm! and a new case, diffuser, puffer, wireless remote, and I also got a big and little tripod for christmas. I think I am pretty set! I am always craving to take pictures so if you would like me to take a few for you... I will be more than happy to! Free of charge :) unless you come into Kiddie Kandids. LOL. I get to take some family portraits tomorrow for a friend. I'll let you know how they turn out. :)

Time for giving

We went down to Grantsville for Christmas and spent a lot of time with Nathan's parents. It was very relaxing. We got to see Bill and Melissa and lots of friends and family. We have this bad habit of not being able to wait to open our gifts... so everytime we bought something we would wrap it and then a few hours later it would be opened. Haha. I think we just get to excited to see our expressions so we can't help it. Anyway I want to again thank Tammy for the box of Creative Memories Scrapbooking supplies! I have not been able to put it away! So Nate got me an organizer for all my stuff and it is full! Nate has even joined in a made a few pages :) He's really good and creative. We also got our dogs a great big new bed! They LOVE it. Your welcome pooches! LOL









My AWESOME supplies organizer Nathan got me! It's a little full... I may need another one. I just can't stop going to Hobby Lobby and getting more stuff. Nate told me I need to stop or I wont have any room. LOL. But it's something I love and he enjoys it too sometimes. So... let the shopping commence! Hehe.

The end of another year!

This year for Christmas Tammy ( my awesome stepmom) sent me a box full of Creative Memories scrapbooking supplies and crafts. I love it! Although it is getting to Nate cause every spare second I have I am knee deep in paper and supplies! Oh, and I did drag him to Joann Fabrics last night to get more paper and we ended up getting some soft fleece fabric to make a big blanket out of it. Nate wanted blue and gray. It was on sale HALF OFF! So I told him that he needs to get pink and brown and make one for me! We'll see if I get one LOL. Anyway... somehow I walked out of there with no paper, haha, so I dragged him to Hobby Lobby. Honestly... I think he likes it, he had a good time! I'm glad I have a husband that goes to craft stores with me and even helps me pick out girly crafts! Thanks babe :)


So with work, "photography," playing on photoshop 24/7, scrapbooking, and other crafts and things I do in between, I am one busy girl. I guess they do say, busy hands are happy hands! We'll my hands are definitely happy! But we are really enjoying the season and spending a lot of time together. We were reminiscing last night about this year as I was putting together a few scrapbook pages. My trip to Michigan, my sisters visit here, my mom also came down this year too, oh and at the beginning of the year, we got Keela!




Oh and I was forgetful this year in getting my christmas cards out on time. I had them done about a month ago and just got around to getting them and addressing them. So, sorry, they might come a day or two after christmas. LOL Maybe I need to slow down a little and make lists! I haven't even gotten my shopping done! Ugh... ;) Merry Christmas and we Love all of you!

Trip to Grantsville

This weekend we had a few days off so we decided to drive down to see Nate's parents. We got to see them and Bill, Melissa and Olive. It was great to get to relax and spend time with family and friends. The drive home wasn't so relaxing. When we got past Ogden, it was getting bad. And the canyon was worse. I took us twice as long to get home.

Christmas Crafting

Every year I make a new ornament with something significant from that year that we will always remember. I've been putting it off because I couldn't think of anything small to put in the ornament. Although we did do some fun things this year... not a whole lot of them are easy to fit inside. But I think i figured it out! This year we got Keela... so I put some of her hair in it. And some ribbon from when Casey came to visit. Then I just write on it dates and things that we want to remember. So far we have 5. One that says all of our names... and one for each year we are together. Even though we were married in 2007... I made one for 2006 because that's when we met and I put things in it from my college and the MLM for each of us. I think they are cute and I can't wait til our whole tree is filled with them on our 50th anniversary!

Christmas Came Early! ( for me)

So I have wanted a new camera for a while and Nate has been wanting to get me a nice one since I've been learning Photoshop and am obsessed with taking pictures. I figured I would have one under the tree...( which we don't have up yet, shame on me)... but I never expected to come home from a long and busy day from work to see a Nikon D3000 sitting on my kitchen table! What a great gift to come home to! I can't stop taking pictures and learning my new obsession! I am going to take a few classes (came with the camera), and also take some up on campus as soon as possible. Hopefully now I will post more pictures more often. It is the best gift ever, and just shows how much he loves and listens to me. Thanks love! (now... what to get him!?) Haha. I haven't even started shopping for him. Guess I better get on it. This past week I was really sick... so this makes up for all we went through this week.




Dear Joy,

You are amazing! I love, love, LOVE the soup you made for us! It was phenomenal! Ummm... I make a pretty good meatloaf... if I make that and you make that soup again... can we trade! Haha. Although my meatloaf is probably a fraction of the worth of your cooking! I can't wait til we can get together again soon and play Monopoly and hot tub, Yay! Oh and we have to do crafts and knit! LOL. K well just wanted to tell you how much we appreciate you! Talk to you soon!