Happy Birthday girls!

Both Malia and Berkly had birthdays at the end of Nov. We had a little combined party for them down at my moms. Thanks everyone for coming!

Berkly in her Birthday outfit with Aunt Linsdsey

Berkly and Great Aunt Vicky

Malia got some dress up clothes and she was not the only one excited about them! LOL

Malia and her princess castle cake

Berkly loved it too

A few updates..

A few home updates: My cute wall stickers around the window..The window shelf thing still needs to be finished.The entertainment center before:

And after: Not completely finished but much better

And here is my best attempt at catching Berkly walking.. She was really tired and not in the mood!! SHe cant run around but she can walk better than in the video.. On a side note I am crushed because the jammies she is wearing in the video used to be Malias. We are on staying in a condo in Park city for our anniversary this week and i pa

cked them for Berkly to wear. Anyway the reason I was sad is because I thought they would be too big for her because I was sure Malia was just wearing them last winter.. Nope! They are almost too small. So that means They are both growing so fast! I cant even believe it sometimes. They are both having birthdays next month.. WOW..

Here is a picture of Malia from our balcony in Park City.. She doesn't

like pictures.. You can see her trusty companion Toto.. He is always with her.. She is being Dorothy for halloween. She is super excited!

10 Months

I know about the only thing I blog lately are Berklys monthly updates. Yikes Im slacking! Not a whole lot is new around our house. Tyler is starting to do Private Investigating with a relative of mine and is really enjoying it. He has had to switch to the night shift at his job so he can do some of the PI stuff during the day. So basically i never see him which sucks but it wont be this way forever I'm sure. The girls are great! Berkly is starting to walk. I need to get some video pronto of it but tyler is never home and she has to walk to me and fall on me so its hard to take video of..

Tyler and I will be celebrating our Anniversary next month. Wow how time flies!

Also I will have my Photography blog and website up soon and I'm very happy because this blog drains the colors out of my pictures big time!! I know there is stuff i can do to customize it and host my pictures elsewhere (which i will do with the other one) But im a little lazy to do it here. Maybe when the other one gets up..

There are 2 new posts below just FYI :)

Berkly is 9 mths

These are a few pictures from Willard bay last week.. We went for young womens/mens

Now her 9 month pictures!




She loves to clap!

She is showing you her 2 new teeth.

Recent photo shoots

Here are a few favorites from my recent photo shoots ( for you Ash) I will have a website up soon! None of them are sharpened for the web.. so they look a little dull on blogger

Look who is 8 months already

-She is the sweetest baby ever!

-She is crawling all over. 

-No teeth yet.

-She loves her sister 

-She laughs so hard at daddy

-We LOVE her 

Basement updates

A few updates: I forgot to take a before picture prior to starting paint sorry! So this was as I was beginning the bottom layer. Note the small old window tyler is starting to cut. Also our old blue carpet is still down. Its hard to see though. And the room is a mess with all the stuff we cleared out from the other rooms. But you get the idea!

This is the room half done. New carpet and walls painted. We still need to paint the ceiling, get new light fixtures and finish some odds and ends. I have some vinyl designs I need to put up too. That coffee table will be going, i want a really open feel. Some of the decorations for the built in entertainment center are on it. The entertainment center will be built into the wall on the left that you cant see. There will be some shelves that I will have to decorate once its done.

Old window

New window.. Lets in so much light! The base of it still needs to be finished

One bedroom before with pink carpet

And after with new carpet, bed and window. (We only did one window in this room)

I mod podged my light plates with cute scrapbook paper!

So we still have tons of little things to get done but it is coming along!

I also wanted a gray carpet but ended up with a nutral beige like carpet. I like it still and it is better for the bedrooms and down teh road if I redecorate.

Happy 4th

We had a fun weekend. I hope everyone else did too. We had some friends and family over for a small BBQ. It was a lot of fun. The kids had fun on the blow up water slide and playing in the playhouse.








I made lots of fun treats. Anyone planning on making taffy kabobs let me tell you now. NOT worth it. They took me forever. They were just too sticky! So frustrating. My lifesaver firecrackers were much easier to make.

We even roasted mallows and had smores! My fav! We did fireworks after it got dark. The girls loved it.

Then we went to a parade Friday. I know I sound like an old lady but i think I'm going to boycott parades next year. Malia had a taffy chucked at her head by some punk kids on a float. Then she got nailed by a water balloon and so did I while I was holding the baby and my thousand dollar camera. No big deal. BOO. When I saw the float with 30 kids holding squirtguns and buckets that they were filling with water from a hot tub I ran into someones yard with the baby and my camera. I can understand squirting the kids that run up to the float, but not the whole audience. They were throwing buckets of water on everyone. Old people, little kids that were crying, people holding cameras and phones. I mean pay attention. Rant over. :)

Small request:)

If anyone has baby boy clothing that they are no longer in need of and are planning on getting rid of anyways will you get in touch with me. I have a good friend that is in need of a little help, her baby will be born in late fall. It will be GREATLY appreciated, and it always feels nice to help someone out, right! :) Thanks!

Updates

I know its been awhile :) Man. Busy busy.
A few new pics of the girls:



We went to the Zoo last week. So fun! Here is Berkly with her Sophie giraffe and a real giraffe!
Malia had the best time. She had her face painted like a mouse.

Also I have taken up photography. I am loving it. I recently met with the amazing Dustin Izatt and he taught me a ton. Here are a few shots from that day of Kami.

I am currently in a David Beckstead workshop hosted by Julie Parker that has been so cool! It ends Thursday but here are a few of my favorite shots so far.

Oh and I will have some photos of the basement soon! Our carpet is in. Its not all done but its coming along, finally!

6 Months!

Isnt she adorable!!

The remodel is coming along. I just finished redoing this chair it turned out sooo cute. I forgot to take a before picture before I started. It was was just plain light wood and ugly crushed velvet orange fabric. Our carpet is coming in a little over a week. The new windows have taken a LOT longer than expected. 

I just got a new camera and am sooo happy. I love it!! Unfortunatly i lost my old memory card (I WILL find it). As soon as it shows up I will post before pictures of the chair and some cute shots I took of my little brothers with the new camera. Berkly's pictures above are with it. I have no idea how to use it yet but i am learning. 

*5 Months *

Her first painted toe nails!

And first sweet glasses!

I love her little onsie. I found this great seller on etsy that sells stickers of 0-12 months.  They are cute and you just stick them on a plain onsie. They aren't reusable and by the end of me taking pictures her slobber had demolished it, but its better than paying for the onsie sets that have the months appliqued on that are almost a hundred bucks.

Her cute new diaper

She loves this little toy. Not for to long but she'll play in it for a little bit. We just put her jumper in the doorway too. She cant use it very well but really likes it.

Messy girl!

Her other new cute diaper

A few new pictures of the girls

Malia had a fun time at her cousin Emmas birthday party last week!

Berkly and her Grandpa Mike

Big smile!

Malia likes to play on her new toys now that they are back out for Berkly!

-The basement is coming along!

-My grandma ended up passing away on Good Friday. We love and miss her but are so happy for her to be with grandpa and her siblings and parents!

I am an incredible blog-slacker! Sorry!Life has been busy. I started my MBA and its a little stressful. On a happy note life will soon be getting less stressful as I am selling my website. It is doing great however I just don't have the time to dedicate to orders and emails and phone calls that I would like. I'm excited about the sell thought because A. I'm turning a profit and B. the couple buying it have the money and ability to make it so much bigger than I could. They even want to keep me around to help them out in the future as it grows, so it could turn into a great experience. They live in bountiful and are the owners of Upper Case Living, which is a very successful national vinyl lettering company. They have even talked about turning it into an Eco friendly baby store, an actual brick and mortar store, which I think would do really well. I am going to help them transition it for the next few weeks and then I will have less worries in my life. I'm so excited because with some of the money we are finishing our basement! Now i can put my college interior design courses to good use. I am doing a black white and yellow theme in the living room and am SOO excited to see how it turns out. These pictures are what I envision for the room....

I know these are wedding photos but this is my color scheme. :)

I am actually getting this exact love seat. We are planning on a grey carpet. 2 yellow striped walls. Not bright yellow but not really light either, like a light bright yellow if that makes sense.I am also doing the stripes in the same color just different sheens. A flat and a high gloss. It makes for a really classy look. This is the only example I could find and its not in yellow but you get the idea.

We are getting a black leather sectional and we have 2 small black modern end tables. I want an open look so we wont be doing any coffee tables. I'm going for an open modern vintage feel. I'm excited and cant wait to be done. Ive bought a few black frames for the walls with cute sayings on them and some vases with lemons and some vases with yellow daisies to accent with. I'm getting these floral circles in black and grey to put behind the couch on the yellow wall.

We are also finishing the bathroom but I don't have a lot of plans yet for that. I do think i want to go with a light blue and a little brown. Its a small bathroom so I don't want to make it feel any smaller with too much brown. I want it really simple. I like this vinyl bird wall decal. Obviously different colors. we will see how it comes.

Finally my sweet Grandma Ruth is about to pass away. It is a bitter sweet thing. Like so many are when an older relative is going to pass I am happy because she is old and will be happier. I however am feeling very selfish about it because I will miss her so much. Also because I feel like my girl are being robbed of getting to know how wonderful she is. I felt the same when my grandpa passed a few years ago. I have memories I can hold on to but it breaks my heart that they don't. She is my great grandma and obviously I cant expect her to be around forever. In times like this I am very grateful for my testimony and understanding of the gospel . What an almost exciting experience something like this can be when you truly understand the big picture. How incredible is it to know that in just a few days she will be with her husband and with our heavenly father. We love her and will miss her. She will be in a better place and will be able to watch over us until we are with her again.



Devin is doing great in Paraguay. He is staying so positive and is really enjoying his time over there. I'm so proud of him!

Also I got a new laptop so hopefully I will be posting more. We got a MAC and LOVE it!
I have new pictures of the girls I need to post.

Berkly is getting Soo big. Her reflux is getting better which is great. She is SUCH a happy baby except when her reflux is acting up its so sad. She will be 5 months on the 21st. Wow time flies. She weighed 12 lbs 8 oz at her 4 month appt. She is sort of sitting up alone. She is rolling from front to back. She sleeps really well, up at max once per night. We love her she is great. I will post new pictures soon! We are getting family pictures taken soon! As soon as my silly husband gets his braces off :) Hopefully in another month.