Photo Shoot

Here are just a couple of the photos from the shoot I did with my nephews kids last week. I'm bummed though. I dropped off two rolls of film for development of this shoot. I thought they would be back in two days. When I stopped to pick them up on Saturday, they told me it would be this coming Friday...the day after my class that I need them for....bummer!

Yesterday was our baby shower for the women's shelter. I think it turned out pretty well. Other than I forgot that it started at 11:00. I went to town to get the Yukon serviced, and thought it started at noon...so I was late with my lettuce.

Mikayla's Birthday

Saturday, Mikayla had driver's training in the morning, so Danelle took her there and then picked her up and came straight to our home to work on the retreat things. So, I made some hot rolls, hamburger soup, and an angel food cake to celebrate Mikayla's birthday. She helped with us, and Danelle shared that in one month Mikayla had 22,000 text messages. What??? I can't believe it. That's like 700 a day..?? When we went up to Albion for dinner on Sunday, Jeff told Mikayla he wanted to see her thumbs. To see if they were calloused. Just while we were standing there, she had a ton of messages. None of them more than a few words, but still...lots of messages.

Dolls

I have never posted the photo of the doll I dressed for Danelle. Reta (my MIL) came over, I hate to admit it...several years ago, and helped each of the girls make a porcelain doll. It was so much fun. But, none of my girls really sew much, and they left the dolls for me to dress. In trying to clean up my scraproom, I put them on a shelf in the closet. And...forgot about them. Until I cleaned out my closet while Jeff was gone elk hunting last fall. So I put them all out on my table so I would get them finished. Well, here it is March...and I have finished Stephanie's and Danelle's. The rest are still sitting around my room. My goal is to get them done! As Larry the Cable guy would say..."Git R Done". Sorry about the messy table behind her...that's about the way my table always looks...

May Idaho

A couple of weeks ago, Jeff and I went for a drive up through Craters of the Moon, Arco, through a valley to the Salmon River, over to Challis, and back home. We didn't get out of town until about 10:00 and didn't get home until 8:30 that night. Long drive, but fun. I took some photos of May, Idaho. People still live there, but not many. I believe the sign said it was one of Idaho's oldest cities. Here's a couple of the photos I took.

Photo shoot with Chris & Taylor

I got to take some photos of the boys before they left today. Thank you! They were both so awesome the whole weekend. Taylor hates having his photos taken...but we bribed him with angelfood cake and sherbet. This is one of Taylor.

This one is of Chris. I have to make a billboard for my photoshop class next week, and I'm going to make an announcement for his band concert. I took alot of him and his sax so I can use one as a background and then add some smaller ones. I'm really excited to get it done. Love how it turned out.

We had a great time with the boys and Robin. Thanks for coming down and sharing your weekend with us.

Antiques

My mother has been giving me some antiques because she knows how much I love them. Lately, she gave me some lace that my Great-Grandmother crocheted. It was around a doiley, but the doiley has worn out. She also gave me a cupie doll, and an old cigar box that my Aunt gave her back in the 70's. I guess my uncle smoked cigars. I'm sure mom was going to make some crafty thing with it, but never did. So I'm planning to keep it original. I don't know if you can get them anymore or not.

Today we worked on our things for the retreat. Robin and the boys came down last night and we spent the evening just relaxing. Today Janell and Danelle came over and we worked on the projects for the retreat. We got most everything finished too. It's been great. After they left, Robin and I ran over to Katie's and got a few things.

This morning, Mom had the boys come down to her house and they helped make cinnamon rolls. They were really excited about it, and they got to bring two pans of them back for us to eat. They were pretty proud of themselves. They have video of it!

Snow

Treven is such a part of my heart. Has been from the time he was born. He's so smart, and started talking like a grownup right off the batt. There are so many things that he has said over the past few years, that I really wish I had written down. Anyway, yesterday I called Danelle to talk to her, and Treven answered the phone. I asked him what he was doing at home, and he replied that it was Spring Break. I said..."I thought that was next week". He told me in an excited voice..."No! It's today!" I asked what he was doing, and he told me he was holding his sister, Ellie. What a treasure. I asked if it was parent/teacher conference day, and he said he wasn't sure. I said..."Is your mom going to find out how smart you are?" Then he told me ..."I'm not really smart". Huh! He's way too smart I'm afraid.

This Tuesday, we woke up to SNOW...can you believe it? Well, I do live in Idaho. One year, we had a blizzard on the 9th of April. It was so bad, that they closed the freeways, I couldn't even get home from work. Jeff's parents had to stay at his home for the night because they couldn't get home. I remember we had about 12" of snow that morning. Then, of course because I do live in Idaho, the wind started blowing. That was the end of travel.

Anyway, here's a photo of what it looked like out my front door that morning.