Utah

We went to Utah the first weekend of April and it snowed on us in Cedar City!  It was fun to see snow even if it was just for a couple of hours.  I love how snow looks on plants

This next picture I took while driving ( um...I mean my husband was driving NOT me! ) I was also taking it through the window ( I get yelled at if I roll it down to take pictures ) and we were going at least 65 MPH .  I think it cam out pretty darn good under the circumstances.  haha  One of these days I would love to drive through the Gorge without kids and maybe stop a couple of places and take some pictures.

The bushes in the corners are blurry but that's okay.  I like this picture any ways.  It's just so pretty and peaceful there!  More pictures to come...I have just been to busy to shrink them yet.

Practice

I am HOPEFULLY doing a photo shoot tomorrow for some friends.  I wanted to practice a little since I haven't had opportunities for photo shoots since we moved.  Today I tried taking pictures of the kids by the window light.  Kayla is a hard one because she doesn't stop moving.  Here are some of my favorites.

You can see I need the practice because in some of Kayla's pictures her eyes aren't totally in focus.  practice makes perfect though right?!  Hopefully...someday.  haha

And here are the couple I got of Tyler.

I love practicing when I get pictures like these!!

Emotions

I love when you catch a pout or a strong emotion on camera. Those are the best! I read the theme for Trendy Treehouse this week and saw that it was emotions and had a couple of pictures in mind. I finally decided ( with the help of my friend ) which one was the funniest. Here is my adorable niece Bradlie. She hurt herself on a trampoline while we were out on it having a fun time. She had HUGE crocodile tears.

What I love most about this picture is the cute little piggy tails AND that her mom is laughing hysterically at her. We ALL were. It was pretty funny and the best part was that about 2 minutes later she was laughing and jumping on the trampoline again! Heehee

Go check out the rest of the emotions over at Trendy Treehouse and vote for your favorite.

SUN FLARE

Sun flare in pictures are my FAVORITE!  Seriously, I try really hard to get sun flare in all of my out side pictures.  This weeks theme for Iheartfaces is SUN FLARE!  I HAD to enter a picture but when I have SO many with sun flare, which do I choose?  I had some serious decisions to make.  I finally decided upon one and I am happy with my choice.

I just love this moment.  I hope you like it to.  Go check out all of the other entries.  All of that AWESOME sun flare.

Anything Else

I heartfaces is dedicated to doing pictures with people's faces in it.  Every once in a while the theme is something other then faces.  This week is one of those times!  YEAH!  I almost forgot.  It's really hard to pick a picture each week but I finally decided to use this one.

For those who don't regularly look at my page, my sister and her husband have not been able to get pregnant.  About 10 months or so ago they were told they get to be parents.  Someone had picked them to be parents.  The mom to be was very nice and wanted to be a part of everything including the baby shower we threw for my sister.  After the shower was over, I had the privilege of taking pictures of the three of them together.   This was everyone's favorite from the photo shoot.  I love everything about it and this picture is in a frame in Jacob's bedroom.  What a blessed boy he is.

Go check out all of the other AMAZING pictures.  There are some super fantastic ones this week.

Jacob

Check out how cute this little guy is.

We tried really hard to get a great smile picture out of him when he was here visiting.  The problem is that Kayla REALLY wanted to be on the bed to help, it was dark in my bed room and Jacob spits up A LOT!   Between those three things we got a couple of good one but we didn't get the huge smile his mommy was hoping for.  I think we got some good ones though.  He is such a sweet baby!

A LONG Time A-Coming

I have neglected this blog a lot lately.  I have good reasons.  Mainly because since I moved, I no longer have people requesting to have their photo taken.  Nevertheless, my kids have had theirs taken plenty.  I haven't posted many of those but maybe one of these days I'll get around to it.  I haven't been entering the iheartfaces or the trendytreehouse contest either.  Sometimes I check the theme and then just forget.  Other times I just forget all together.  This week over at IHEARTFACES they have a theme I wanted to join in on.  It's cell phones!  I started going through all of my cell phone pictures and I actually have quite a few good ones.  I had one in mine I was going to use but as I went through I decided to go with something else.  Not because I think this one will win or even get placed ( it won't ) but just because I loved the moment.

Makes me laugh every time!  I miss when my daughter used to make this face all the time.  I am glad I got a picture of it.  There are several things she did that I kept saying, "I have to get that on video" and never did.  Bummer.  Enjoy all of the other cell phone pictures over at iheartfaces.  There are some amazing photos.