Happy Easter!

 Kason woke up so excited to see what the Easter Bunny brought him!

 We had so much fun celebrating with cousins!

 He was such a pro this year!

 Happy Easter!!



Our Special guest....Nigel!

Kason is in a co-op preschool called the "busy bees" He LOVES it!! This week it was my turn to teach so of course, I had to utilize my connections with "the reptile lady" aka Megan, my Sis. (in law). She has a 6+ foot snake named Nigel. She should really do this full time because it was like having a pro come it. The kids all LOVED him. The one girl in our class was the most interested. The boys would touch him and then shreak and squirm while she full on held him. It was so much fun to watch. Thank you Megan and Nigel!!

I'm engaged!!

I'm so excited to tell you all about my new fiancee! I'll give the full engagement story on a different post.

He is just the best. He is handsome, charming, spiritual, succesful and I can't keep my eyes off him. He has a little boy too so it is just perfect. We've only been dating a little while but when you know, you just know! We haven't set a wedding date yet but are very excited about our engagement. There's a picture of him below if you want to check him out, he's a catch!

...oh, sorry. Sometimes I forget if it's in your wildest dreams day or April Fools...

Cuz girl you're amaaazing...just the way you are...

Kason's cover of "Just the way you are" by Bruno Mars :)

Idiosynchrasies

Every once in a while I stop and think about my daily routine. I notice the things that I do to make my life easier, or just because it's how I've always done it. I often watch my friends as they do their daily routine and notice that every one has their own idiosynchrasies. I'm really pretty laid back when it comes to the rules of household running. I don't cut my flour with a knife when measuring out a cup, I don't use a cutting board all the time and I deffinatly don't iron my sheets. I do have a few little tricks I've found actually helpful to me :)

Here's some of mine...

* When I do laundry, I put the cup that the detergent goes in, into the washer to wash with the clothes. The cup comes out clean with no soap residue.

* When I mop, I have to wear socks.

*In order to get anything done, I always have to have music blarring. It might be cleaning the house, making dinner or playing play-doh with Kason, music is always on.

*I keep a laundry hamper in the bathroom. This is where most of the dirty clothes come from anyway!

* I wash all my jeans inside out and air dry them.

* When cleaning, I have to do one room at a time, usally starting with the kitchen. If I try to do it all at once I get distracted and it never happens :)

These are just some of mine, What are yours?

Point and Shoot "Snow Blast 2011"

It always cracks me up how whenever it snows here, it gets a name. "Snow Blast 2011" "Winter Storm 2010" You'd think we were into snow up to our armpits, but it's amazing what coverage a couple inches can get! Either way, I love a snow day with my little guy. I decided I was going to try out my point and shoot camera today and get some shots of how we survived "Snow Blast 2011". I am teaching a class on Sat. at the Tacoma LDS church building on basic photography and how to get some good shots out of your point and shoot camera. Wish me luck! I thought I should practice what I preach. We had a great day of bundling up, having "races" in the snow, making a snowman, snowball fight, coming inside for hot chocolate, making paper snowflakes, pigs {turkey} in a blanket for lunch etc. Here's a few shots of the day!

FYI: The class is at the LDS Exhibition of the arts. This saturday. 12th and Pearl building. It is all free, there is a photography workshop and a painting workshop. There will also be displays from local artists. The photography workshop will run twice from 1-2 and 3-4. See you there!

workshop day 1

This past weekend I was lucky enough to get to go to Me Ra Koh's photography confidence workshop. Wow, what an inspiring, fun and empowering weekend for me.

On day one we went over some of the basics of shooting in manual or M mode on our SLR cameras. After lunch they brought in several volunteer moms/babies for us to pracitce on. Oh my goodness, were they good sports. Just imagine....bringing yourself and your baby to a hotel lobby and meeting 6 other families like you. After a couple minutes 25 women walk out with cameras. We were then split off into groups so there were about 3 photographers to a model. We walk up and introduce ourselves and then just start shooting away. One photographer tells you to look up, the other to look down etc. Our mom/baby/big sister were AWESOME! They were completely kind, forgiving and cool,calm and collected. Here are some of my best shots from day one.