This One With a Digital Kit

This one was even more fun! I love Shabby Princess!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Ok so this didn't turn out exactly as I hoped. Has anybody else ever used smilebox? Is it worth the 5 bucks a month?

Still it was SUPER easy and well worth the 5 minutes it took me to plunk the pictures in!

SPT

So I had been wondering what SPT meant for a long time. Finally, after my slow turtle power brain finally caught up with the rest of the blogger world, I got it. Self Portrait Tuesday. Take a self portrait, post it, share some meaningful insight or something entirely frivolous. Here is to frivolous:

5 Frivolous Face Favorites:

1. my eyes, up close
2. my round cheeks (both sets)
3. my freckles. . . people call them skin tone imperfections, I call them cute and I don't want to cover them up!
4. my nose - from the front, or slightly from the side. But from a profile angle, my nose is too small for my big cheeks.
5. my lips. . . I had someone tell me I had great lips once (not while I was smooching them either) and since then I have had to agree!

Snap INTO It!

Just bought a membership to one of these! Anyone else have one of these cool little places near you? Open 24/7. Just swipe your card and you are in. I am excited. Put the kids down at night and head to the gym for an hour. And then hopefully my Self Portrait Tuesdays will become something pleasing to look at!

Not to mention this little franchise looks like a great investment. Wish I had just a titch more money and time.

Round These Parts

. . . we're in survival mode. Well have been for the last several months. Thus the long absence. Chuck logged on to read my blog the other day and was amazed it had been so long too. I think he sometimes assumes the the cluttered home and 2 day old laundry still sitting in the washing machine is a result of my web surfing. Which by the way hasn't been something I have enjoyed in FOREVER! He quickly assured me he was not assuming anything, rather the picture that heads my blog was explanation enough.

See, for a while I have been teetering at the edge of that line. Seemingly against the will of my children, my job, my body, etc. And while my body is bent over that line backward like a wet noodle, my feet are miraculously still planted on this side of sanity.

And my kids are happy, my paying job is still largely neglected, and I am always and forever indebted to my husband who comes home from long tedious teenage tending days to make us dinner.

Family Portraits and "It hasn't been 2 months!"

Not my family's portraits, but my first attempt at taking a serious family picture for someone. I would love to do this for a living, but for now, I am just grateful that there are a few people who trust me enough to let me practice on them and theirs! What do you think?

and for some reason it says that I haven't posted for 2 months. I know it has been that long. . . so here is to a more recent post listing!

they can be so sweet to eachother!
I really like this picture except for how dark alaina's face is. any suggestions?

and my personal fav. trying to fiddle with it. so far this is all i have.

one of my favorite things to do when I visit any town is go to the nearest temple. We almost always stop in St. George for temple pictures whenever we go to Utah, but this last time we zipped right on by it. So I absolutely had to go to one of the many in Salt Lake area. Here are so me of my favorite pictures from that trip!