Sunday, February 16, 2014

Happy Late Valentines Day


For Valentines Day this year Phil finally got me a diamond necklace! I have to admit, the kids were a lot more excited about this diamond than I was. Sullivan wanted to know if it really was a real diamond! Drezden and Emmett both wanted to wear it for a bit, and they did. 
Minecraft fans- you will really appreciate this gift!





Sunday, January 26, 2014

So much in so little time!

The end of 2013 brought so many changes!
-Phil left Fatpot after a year of being with them. He really enjoyed his coworkers there and the lunches and inside jokes.
-Phil got a job offer with Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. He is working for the Visual Studios team, helping with a compiler and other fun things. This new job is actually perfect for him since he was working on the grandmaster C++ compiler for fun! Now he gets paid to do what he was doing as a hobby!
-New job meant moving to a completely new state!
-We left our family, friends, and home in Tooele which is currently a rental.
-We stayed in Temporary housing for a couple months before finding a nice little rental in Kirkland, Washington. Phil's commute is about 15 minutes now, instead of the almost hour each way back at Fatpot.
-We found out we were expecting baby #4 and a few weeks ago we found out we will be having another cute little girl.
-I was called to be a wolf den leader and I will be co leading with my SIL Beth! It will be quite an adventure working with the crazy 8 year old boys! They have a ton of energy!
 
So far Washington has been a lot of rainy days and staying at home. With me being pregnant I don't feel like doing much outside the home at all. We miss our home back in Utah and sometimes I say we will end up right back there, but for now Phil is getting some valuable work experience and enjoying it as well!
 Drezden is enjoying her new school, and it is fun to watch her learn! She is learning to write complete sentences! It is fun to see some of what she comes up with. I try to encourage her as much as possible to sound out words as she writes them.
Sullivan has been busy playing lots of video games. I try to encourage him to play outside more, but with it being rainy and cold I don't blame him.
Emmett has a new obsession with video games as well. It has actually caused us to have to put our xbox away. So we haven't been able to enjoy our usual games or being able to play on xbox live because of it. He is finally weaning himself off the binky! It is pretty exciting! Soon he will be a big boy and we will take the plunge on him being potty trained as well.
Hopefully soon I will get some pictures up!

Sunday, August 11, 2013

Sullivan is 5!

Happy Birthday to my sweet and fun and VERY VERY ENERGETIC little boy! 


Friday, May 3, 2013

Drezden is 6! Well, tomorrow she will be!

It is amazing how fast 6 years has gone! I love to look back and see how much she has changed throughout the years! She is turning into such a beautiful girl! 


Wednesday, April 10, 2013

got a new lens

I got a new lens! A 50mm 1.4
Here are some of my images using the new lens!





Monday, November 26, 2012

My beautiful kids...

Every now and then I pull out my camera so I can capture these precious faces. Emmett was napping when these were taken, otherwise I would have gotten one of him too!
Drezden has now lost 2 of her bottom front teeth! I remember when those 2 were the only ones she had! Kinda sad, but she is growing up! Sullivan is enjoying preschool so much and just loves his teachers! 
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday visiting family from out of state and a little closer to home! Hope you all did too!


Sunday, November 11, 2012

Halloween Pumpkins

One of our Halloween traditions is to carve jack-o-lanterns! Here are a few of the ones we carved! Emmett was so cute saying Happy Birthday and blowing out the candles! Cute boy!