When I'm a mom

Over the past couple of weeks, Katelyn has been on this kick of "When I'm a Mom." What's triggered this, I'm really not sure other than she must think that I'm being spiteful in not letting her do what she wants.

"When I'm a mom I'm going to name my kids Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Princess and the Frog."

"When I'm a mom and have a baby she's going to wear the same dress for 3 Sundays in a row."

Any my personal favorite

"When I'm a mom I'm going to give my kids only crumbs and I will get all the big pieces." No idea really where this is coming from since I share whatever it is I have and it's usually gone before I even get a second bite!!

Gotta love her!

Addison's 1 year pictures

Back in September I took the girls to get their pictures taken. I needed to get Addison's first year and updates of the other girls. I had it all planned out, down to the naps and even coordinating outfits. Well, the pictures turned out to be a complete bust. The photographer made Addison cry in the 2nd pose she tried to make her do, and it went downhill from there. I didn't even think she caught Kelsey and Katelyn's best smiles either. So after looking at them and hearing the shocking news of the amount they wanted to charge me for purchasing the CD with only 16 pictures, I gathered up my girls and left. I was a little bit frustrated and frazzled with how it went so needless to say no pictures were purchased.

Score: Addison 1, Pictures 0

So when I came home and retold the story to Dave he jumped to the next solution. We were already headed down to California for this huge motorcycle blowout sale over Conference weekend and since we would be halfway there, we decided to go all the way to my parents house and stay for the weekend so Alyson could take pictures of the girls. Sounds perfect, right? That's what I thought too.

We showed up at the studio after Alyson's last client for the day and we started shooting. She took some of Kelsey and Katelyn together and then some of each separately to warm Addison up to the idea. Addison is definitely not new to the camera being in her face. In fact, it's the complete opposite since she has become Kelsey subject for photographing and is to the point where she is closing her eyes before the picture is taken in anticipation of the flash going off. So I thought this would be a piece of cake. The pictures she got of Kelsey and Katelyn are darling to the point where there are too many to choose from to get printed. Here are a few of my favorites.

Kelsey loves her pictures with her teeth missing. And her favorites are those in the white shirt and jeans. Little Miss Attitude coming through all the way.

And Katelyn is just so angelic but to capture her true smile is nearly impossible. But Alyson did it and again, too many to choose from.

So then we tried throwing Addison into the mix. Alyson was able to get a few pictures of her before she went postal. I say that because by the end of the night I could laugh at it and then going through them it became quite comical like one of those old animation flip books. The faster we clicked through the pictures the funnier it became and it told the story of how traumatic this really was for Addison, not to mention Alyson who felt terrible that she wasn't able to get any good ones.

I guess she saw this as torture since I wasn't holding her and it would've been better if Dave had been there instead of me. After the crying started the pacifier went in and I had to leave the room just for her to calm down. Everytime Kelsey tried to sneak it out, she went postal again.

Here's Addison's single shots with her arms throw up in the air in protest.

This is what happens when the girls are too comfortable with their photographer. They decided how they wanted to pose and what props to use.

Apparently this was just torture for her. So I'm over it. She's going to have a crying 1 year picture on the wall next to her sisters huge smiles. And when she's older and asks why she is the only one crying, I will have these to look back on and show her the nightmare she was on this day!! So here's to next year being a little better than her first

Proud Owner

Dave is so proud to say he has a trailer all his own. It's functional and best of all, it was free. At least he can say we have a way to transport the motorcycles and all the gear to go along with them now.

Where do you go from here?

Last week Dave went on his first deer hunt. He put in for Utah and Nevada tags last year and with some divine intervention since Addison was only a month old, he was unsuccessful. However this year he did the same thing and pulled deer tags for both Southern Utah and Nevada. His deer tag was for Northern Nevada about 6 hours away but his friend that was guiding him was very confident he would get something, just not sure when. He left Sunday afternoon to get up there with plenty of time for scoping out before the season opening on Tuesday. As with anything there is a long story to go along with it, but since this is a family blog, I'll spare everyone the details. He shot this on Tuesday mid afternoon and was home late Wednesday afternoon. Not a bad rack for his first deer. Kelsey's already planning a place to mount it in our house!! Now for next weekend when Utah's season opens he's hoping for anything since they had quite a bit of dead loss from the winter.

Great job, Dave!!