baby lola

My friend Jenny just had a little baby girl!! Lola is 8 days old today...so sweet! Yesterday i got to take photos of her and little Lola's mommy and daddy and big brother! Here are a few of the photos from yesterday's photo shoot...enjoy!

Little baby Lola...so absolutely adorable...so much hair too!!

Jenny and Lola

Daniel and Lola

Fletcher and Lola

Little Fingers...

Little Toes....

For a few more photos of Lola's photo shoot go here...

faces

oh boy! When brandon and i were up north right before Christmas these photos were taken. i had forgotten they were on iPhoto until today! Self-portraits of course!! My younger sisters Marissa (on the left) and Emma (on the right) with Brandon...

sorry dear...good thing you don't look like this in the morning!!

super-close-up of Emma! beautiful green eyes

Oh, do the girls love doing the bunny-ears!!

just love Emma's pointing finger in the back!!

Brandon looks like a scared frog and Emma looks like a devilish little girl there!!
(She's not really like that at all...she sure is bossy at times, but sweet at heart!!)

~~Boredom~~

Last Saturday...at work...a slow day...not much to do...solution...take photos of your socks!
Luckily i had my camera at work with me. There was a comment made about my funky coloured socks so i proceeded to roll my jeans up far enough to look "weird" and walked around the store with an over-exaggerated large "dorky" walk! Made them laugh at least!

i kinda' like these socks

So, with my jeans still rolled up, i wondered into the coffee shoppe and found a Sharpie on the table...here is my "artwork"!
(above photo)...on the back of my wrist.

This was on the back of my left hand and wrapped a little around my wrist.
Tattoos...sure glad this version came off in the shower (after a bit of scrubbing though!!)

my new camera!!

drum roll please...i finally have my new camera!! i've been saving my photography money for quite some time and finally had enough to buy a new camera. Nikon D40X. Of course i let Brandon do all the research on dslr cameras...and it was a toss up between Canon and Nikon...since i already had a Canon i decided on Nikon this time!

So here she is...

i *love* taking photos with it now!!

baking for Christmas...

i was busy baking cooking one afternoon for a cookie exchange in town with a bunch of ladies.
one kind of cookie and 6 dozen. doesn't sound too tough...just time consuming!! and of course i waited until the last possible minute to make them!! i made them just a few hours before i was supposed to be to the cookie exchange!!
coconut date balls was the cookie i chose to make...they are my absolute favourite!!

oh...i almost i forgot these photos were taken with my new Nikon D40x!!
i **love** the camera!! i got it on Wednesday...and of course started snapping photos right away!!
hope you all had a great Christmas! xoxo

miss elsie jane

brandon and i went up north for an early Christmas...we drove up later on friday and came home late afternoon on sunday (after elsie's baptism). here are a few photos of little elsie
(7 weeks!)

me holding my first little niece!!

i think she's sleepy!

my youngest sister, emma (5), holding elsie

Elsie's baptism

my little niece, Elsie Jane, was baptism last Sunday...here are a few photos of her baptism.

mommy shasta and elsie

daddy jon and elsie

grandma carla, grandpa wayne, jon, shasta and elsie

grandma becky (jon's mom)

grandpa wane (jon's dad)

(for some reason i did not take photos of my mom and dad separately holding elsie!)

liz and ben's interesting ideas...

so...this afternoon liz comes into the store and asks if we have a large plastic bag that would hold a boxspring mattress and also some rope. we were like..."hmmm, okay..what for??" she proceeded to tell us what their plans were...the boxspring wouldn't fit up the stairs, so they were going to pull it up through the window!! now this we had to see!! when they were ready to hoist it up outside...she called and said, "if you want some entertainment this afternoon stop over!!"

ben, tying the ropes onto the mattress...

liz and miles looking down three stories at ben and the mattress...

1, 2, 3...pull!!
(with brandon down below!!)

toward the third story it goes!!

oofdah! it got stuck! so down it went and brandon tied another rope on it and turned the mattress around.

hmmm...liz tied the ropes to the child's gate!!

and one more time...1,2,3 pull!! this time the mattress came in through the window successfully!
it was all for a very good cause though, you see...now liz can take over the spare bedroom with her scrapbook room!!

3 months!!

yeah!! brandon and i have been married for 3 months now!! probably doesn't seem like very long for those who have been married for years...but it means a lot to us!!

**love you brandon**

**love**

just had to share this...i gave this card to brandon the other day...just because. i was shopping for thanksgiving cards at hallmark and i totally love reading through tons of cards and i came across this one. so i bought it for him. and then carried it around in my purse for close to two weeks! i didn't just want to give it to him and say "love you". so i was taking the afternoon off of work to run some errands...and decided this was the perfect time to give him the card!! i bought stuff for a nice dinner, went to the flower shoppe and bought one rose....you betcha' i was going to go all out!! so when he came home from work i had dinner started, a bottle of wine on the coffee table with some candles burning and this card leaning up against the rose. he loved it!! (he probably thought...oh dear, what did she buy now??...just kidding!!)


so we had a nice dinner and then just relaxed for the rest of the evening...enjoying being together with each other...love you hun!

sunset

look at this photo! brandon and i were on our way to mankato, taking the backroads, and to the west of us...this gorgeous sunset! so i had to stop the car and take this photo! (yes, i was driving...i was a little hyper so i wanted to drive so i wouldn't drive brandon crazy as i sat in the car!)

our home

here a few photos of our home....okay i guess just the bedroom!! we recently re-arranged the bedroom...angling the bed, photos on the wall, a new mirror (actually an old one of mine, but new for the house!). i love the look of the bedroom!

it snowed last night!

Isn't it gorgeous!! As brandon and i drove home last night it was snowing for the first time this season! now that i live in-town i got to drive under the glow of the street lights and watch the snow quietly come down and cover the ground! i wanted to try to capture the snow coming down so brandon and i went out to the street and set the tripod up and took a few photos!

this is the original...even with the yellow glow!

i tweaked this one a bit changing the exposure count and the colour!

our home on the first snow!

brandon wrote this message for me on the windshield of his car!
i love you too hun!

Look at this...

Yeah!! i am finally posting!! i took today and just created...i wanted to come up with something that i could use as a class for december and then use it at home...instead of the project just sitting there!! So....this is what i came up with! and i gotta' brag...i kinda like it!

i used a Rusty Pickle album, Cosmo Cricket Christmas stickers and Love*Elsie Home Stickers and felt and Embroidery Floss by Bazzill!