You might be a RED NECK if........

you open your front door and you are greeted by this thing!!!

I have no clue were this gross rabbit came from. Quincey and Gracie think that their cat Nacho killed it and drug it to our front step. Who knows....

Just For Fun...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

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Faiths #3

I wonder who made up the term "TERRIBLE TWOS!" Whoever it was had no clue what they were talking about........

Faith just had her third birthday. She used the be the nicest, sweetest, most loving girl in the word until one day everything changed. She is three now and she Rules the Roost. She has forgotten how to share, how to be nice, how to obey and to say yes. Everything is NO NO NO, MINE MINE MINE!!!

Yikes Faith I hope we make it til this little phase gets over with.

Okay now to the good side of Faith..... She was so excited for her birthday this year. She was old enough to understand what was going to happen. About a month before her birthday she would say to me. "Mom I want to have my Birthday," than she would sing happy birthday to herself.

I made her a cupcake tower for her birthday party and let me tell you it looked really sad. I always think that it is going to be so fun to make my kids' cakes, but they always turn out terrible. In fact it reminded me of the cake on sleeping beauty when the fairy god mothers are trying to make Roses cake without there magic wands.

After I was done I came back into the kitchen and Faith had licked the frosting off of about 6 cupcakes. I was so glad. I let her snitch in her cake all day, and than I ran to DQ and got an ice cream cake for everybody else.

Some of the things that Faith got: Dora movie, Dora umbrella, Dora PJ's, a baby blanket and burp cloth for her baby, and a singing Hanna Montana doll. (her dad let her pick that one out)

Anyways Happy Birthday Faith we love you!!!!

I have been tagged....
.... Sorry Amy I am kind of a slacker. But I am not going to be this time so here you have it.

7 Things I do:
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I try to take pictures
scrapbook
exercise
lately a lot of wiping bums and boogies
talk on the phone
sing in the ovac choir
blog

7 Things I can't do:
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keep my house clean or stay caught up with my laundry
one pull up
braid my own hair
touch my nose with my tongue
give a talk in church (I am allergic)
go one day with out getting mad at at least one of my kids
can't pee standing up(well I could but it wouldn't be too cool)

7 Things I always say:
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Hey Nate have you seen my Debit card
Knock it off!!!
Cooper stop hitting!
Good night I LOVE YOU
Do you know what I mean
Don't make a mess OR ELSE!
"Funny"

7 Things I always eat:
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Chicken out of a can
string cheese
apples
salad
baked Potatoes
yogurt
water water water water water water water water (8 glasses a day)

Okay so this was not in the original blog and I thought I needed to add it.

7 things I love to eat:
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candy
french fries
Mexican food
chips
soda pop
cookies
popcorn

7 people I tag: Lib, Amylee, Amy, Dee, Katrina, Karen C., & Anganette

During Thanksgiving I got a chance to do a little photo shoot with my sister in law and their cute little family. Here are a couple of my favorites.

Festival of Trees

Quincey was really excited to ride the bus to the festival of trees with her class to perform some Christmas songs. Sorry the video is really blury but I figured it was the thought that count. GOOD JOB QUIN!!!

The other day Gracie woke up and saw me putting on my

makeup, and of coarse she wanted some too. I told her she

could have some only if we could do a little photo shoot. It

was so much fun. I think I might start doing this for my

kids on there birthdays, that way I will have at least one

good picture of them for each year.

Thanksgiving

Holy smokes it feels like I haven't made a post forever!!! I can't believe that Thanksgiving has come and gone already. Before we know it we will be saying that about Christmas. I Really don't have much to say about Thanksgiving other than it was great, had fun just hanging out with family, good food, YUMMY pies, lots of cooking, lots of dirty dishes, lots of KIDS, Salty Banana pancakes(Thanks Kat they were great), gained at least 5 lbs, Christian lost McQueen, the boys playing with the cats, 4 wheelers, the Motorcycle, late nights, early mornings. Over all FUN FUN !!!

Yes Cooper is sticking his fork up his nose.

Thanksgiving wouldn't have been the same with this sweet little boy! Dutch and Karen giving the motorbike a try.
The kids kept on sneaking into the paper cups. Building towers with these cups entertained these guys for quite sometime.

Last week when we were driving to photo class this is what we saw. It was so breath taking we had to stop and capture the moment.

Assignment #2 & #3

This week our assignment is HDR pictures. If you don't know what

an HDR picture is you need to google it and check them out. There

are some out there that are pretty dang amazing. Here are a few

of mine. I will add the rest when I finish them up.

Photo class has been quite interesting. I really have been enjoying

the assignments, but our teacher is a little bit on the crazy side.

Last week our assignment was still life again but using different

lighting. I didn't really get in to it all too much. I just don't see

myself taking pictures in the dark with only one light on. Its just

not something that is practical. Although it was good for me to

see the ways light can add different effects to your subject.

Double Dose of Dog Dewormer.....

Apparently Cooper likes Dog Dewormer. YUM YUM!!!



Here is the story....

Today most of my time was spent in the kitchen cleaning. While I was scrubbing out my refrigerator (which by the way was disgusting) I put the garbage can next to the fridge so I could chuck all of the gross food in it.

Last winter we got a parvo shot and some dewormer from the vet to give to our dog. The job never got done, and this stuff has been in our fridge for over a year.

So today when cleaning out the fridge I put the dewormer in the garbage can. I never saw Cooper get it out of the garbage, but he came into to kitchen with all this white stuff all over his face, and he was holding the dewormer syringe. Yes it was completely gone.

The Idaho Poison Control number is 1-800-222-1222. No worries, they actually give kids the same kind of medicine if they have pin worms or tapeworms. The amount that was in the syringe was a double dose for his weight and age. I haven't noticed any side affects so I am sure he is okay.

Today it started snowing and the flake were huge and so I was going to take a picture of them. Well we got side tracked and this is what I got a picture of instead. Faith and Cooper were helping me take the picture. Faith thought that is would be a better idea to take a picture of her. So I tried but every time I would try to take her picture she would look into the hole of an orange paint roller. (Do you love the Peanut Butter all over her face??)

This is the real picture I was trying to get.

Happy Halloween

Halloween is alway so crazy at our house. The kids get so excited that they are bouncing off the walls before they even eat any candy. Quincey and Gracie are being a little bit more careful with how much candy they actually eat tonight, because last year Quincey learned the hard way! (We all know to much candy will make you throw up.) Hopefully this year we won't be having any of that. These pictures are not as great as I would have hoped for but we were running late for the trunk or treat, and by the time we got home I was not about to take pictures.

Another great Halloween over with, and more candy than we know what to do with!

Happy Halloween...

Testing the Limits

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I was having one of those mom moments the other day, so I sent Faith and Cooper outside to play. Lately these two can go from one end of my house to the next and destroy everything in sight. It doesn't take them more than about 10 minutes!!! Apparently it the same outside. Yikes they are driving me CRAZY! I always have to remember to look at them while they are sleeping so that I can remember how cute and nice they really can be.

I Love You Faith & Cooper!!!

Class assignment

Some friends and I have been taking a photo class and I thought I would post our first assignment. The actual assignment was to shoot still life pictures. At first I was having a hard time thinking of things to photograph but it got easier each time. Anyways so here they are.

Happy Birthday Nate!!

For Nate's birthday we spent a couple of days in Ketchum, Idaho.

On Saturday a guide took us out to the Big Wood River and taught

us a little bit about fly fishing. Not only did we have a blast, I think

fly fishing is going to be a new hobby for us. It is going to take alot

of practice for me to get it down, but Nate was fishing like a pro.

Total fish caught: 9 (Nate 8 & Kd 1)

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