Can you say Christmas pictures for Cards anyone?

It's time for Christmas pictures!!! If you want some pics taken contact my sister and friend at this website: http://www.utahphotographicmemories.com/

Here is some of their work!

The above picture is the one where we were at a wedding and I told he she should get down by the flower... LOOK it turned out way better than I was even thinking!! I love these next temple ones!!

More Pictures from my sisters website!

xmas

I have seen so many fun ideas for Halloween that I wanted to post on my blogs, but I have been very busy. Now that I am not feeling all that well I decided to just stop an take a minute to relax. I have been sleeping all day and now I decided to share with you some of the ideas I have found that I am going to do for Christmas. The economy got you down? That's ok because these ideas are cheap, handmade, and will give you a new talent. Hopefully. First thing I am trying to look at my talents. I like to make montages for people on their wedding and so forth. I decided I want to make movies for the people I love of why I love them so much. My kids will LOVE It. They watch their Little baby movie I made them Over and over again. I'm not exactly sure how I will do this yet. Maybe I will do " 25 reasons I love you" and find pictures to go with it.

2. Next idea I decided I want my neighbor Hilary to teach me how to tie tutu's. She makes the cutest Halloween costumes ever! Her little baby girl was Tinkerbell and she made the cutest little tutu. She told me she is making capes for her son and asked if I wanted to come over *thankfully she has two sewing machines, and I don't have one so that works* to help make one for my son! She told me that er mom sewed dresses for their Christmas presents and they loved them for years.
(picture from Ehow)

The Next couple Ideas I found from The Idea Room HERE:
3. I am learning about the sewing and hand stitching things, but I Found this on a website and thought it would be a great fun idea for friends, grandparents, or parents. Due to terms of use you will need to go to her blog "Theidearoom.blogspot.com" on the link above. Check out the handtowels and candles Idea she has used. This is what I want to do!!

4. LOVE LOVE LOVE this idea.Remember the Read along Disney used to put out? I love them!! My kids LOVE to read. Even Faith pretends to read and blabber words as she turns the pages. I am going to get Trent and I to read the kids books and put it on tape like this smart woman did! Then if they want to read a book at bedtime they can put on the tape, hear our voices and go to sleep. This would be something to treasure for years to come. I think I will even ask my parents and Trent's parents to read and record one of our books. We get a book for Christmas every year so it might be fun to have them do the Christmas books and Trent and I to do normal everyday books. That is something to love
Now I just need to borrow someones tape recorder!!

Website of the Week:

My sister Kelli and her Friend Kari, have taken some photography classes together. They are both very talented and I enjoyed looking at their pictures. (Not just because my kids were in some of them ;) I remember going to watch Kelli take video and pictures of some of our friends for their weddings. I once told her to get down and take a shot by the flower to look up at the temple. When she did and I saw the result little did I know it would turn out better than the thought I had in my head! Ever since I have asked her many times to take pictures of my family and kids. I like how Kari likes to take pictures with a punch of color and trendy sass, and I like how Kelli captures moments with simple grace and perfection ! These two are a great team!! Now that she has a business I guess I will need to start paying her LOL But it is well worth it!! Check them out:



www.utahphotographicmemories.com/







Here is some of my sisters work I would post more of the temple pictures she took but I don't want people taking them since they aren't mine. Check out her site or more!!:

GhOsTs of Halloween PAST~

2008- "Yo Ho"

2008- "Under the Sea"

"Woof, Woof! hahaha " -Cruela

2007- Snow princess, Dalmatian and Mr. & Mrs. DeViL

2007- Princess Liaha

Party at the pumps

2006- "Frankenstein, Bo Peep, Cops& robbers oh My!"



She ate one too many APPLES
2004 " Disney"
2004 " There's No Place Like HOME, My Pretty!"2003- "Lady Bug, Lady Bug fly away home.."
2002- No pictures for this. Trent dressed up in a Gorilla suit and I dressed as a freaky zombie and we scared kids at my mom's in the garage. I was a couple months pregnant at that time! 2001 - "Wanna grow Old With You"

I saw some blogs while surfing the net the other day do this.

GHosTs of Halloween Past

Halloween!

Last year Hannah was sick for Halloween. I had my fingers crossed that everyone would be healthy for it this year. Besides Hannah's friend Halloween party, I did a preschool party with my preschoolers. They were dressed up so cute! We went to a friend party and enjoyed every one's company. We went to my sister in Law Cindy's party at the Pump house on Utah lake. She does an awesome job and I love how she makes a pirate ship on the lake with the music " yo Ho" to it. We ended up leaving early because I got asthma. My brother Ryan came and helped out this year. We decorated the outside and inside all fun for the holiday. I made a Halloween dinner and the kids thought the fake flies in their drink was just gross!We watched Monster House, Hocus Pocus, and some other fun Halloween movies. We went trick or treating with the neighbors and enjoyed a little haunted house at the end. Austin liked passing out candy rather then trick or treating. I went and helped Hannah out at her school this year. While at the school they did a costume parade. A teacher dressed up as a barbie in a box! pretty creative

Hannah was student of the week in her class. We made a poster all about her. She helped me glue on all the pictures, and she chose out the ones she wanted. Her teacher and I have been trying to get Hannah to enjoy all day school. Last year she loved kindergarten, I am not sure if it is because she is in the portables, or because two little boys try to tease her (I told her boys will tease her if they like her, she still didn't think it was funny.) Or whatnot but she had been struggling a little bit this year. It has been hard to see your daughter struggle, you just want to be able to pull her out and do everything to make it better. I remember being in Jr. high and HATING It. It wasn't until 9th grade when I started to enjoy school again. I wished my mom had taken me out and home schooled me like my neighbor friend was. It works for a lot of people, but even though I had to go through the crap I did, I honestly think it made me a stronger person. So we decided to help Hannah make new friends, be more vocal to the teacher if there are problems and to stick up for herself. So far she is been doing great. I am glad we stuck to our guns and worked together to make her happy, and she realized that when there is problems she can come to us and we will help HER make the right choices in fixing the problem. While I told Trent we needed to switch classes, he showed me that we just needed to give it time and that she needed to get out of this problem, or she would always think we could run to her rescue on anything. I am proud of her and she has made a lot of progress. She was student of the month in Kindergarten and she was also Student of the Month in first grade this year. I told Hannah if she was good and helped me around the house she could invite some new friends to her own Halloween party. We frosted sugar cookies, did the monster mash, watched the Great Pumpkin, musical chairs, Pumpkin,pumpkin Witch (duck duck goose) and sparkled pumpkins. The kids loved it!

Things to do.

this jar isn't mine I found it on google, but you get the idea.

http://downloads.sugardoodle.net/Thanksgiving%20Thankful%20Countdown.pdf

All you have to do is print it out above.

For Thanksgiving I decided to make a Thankful Jar. it turned out cute!
This is a fun thanksgiving countdown to do with your kids!!!

I am in charge of coming up with a craft for thanksgiving. We are going with Trent's moms side of the family. I believe there are 13 children in her family and she alone has 8 kids and we all have around 3 kids each. It will be HUGE. So here are the two snowman crafts I decided I may do.

I have been busy making a Christmas poster for our ward Pioneer HoeDown Christmas. It was fun to decorate a poster,a nd gave me something to do when the kids would want to color.