It is Great to be 8!

My number 3 turned 8 yesterday. It has been two days of celebration. He is an awesome kid,
who loves to be friends with EVERYBODY and loves to play sports.

On Monday he had his party with all his friends.
After cake and ice cream we went to a gym for dodge ball, soccer, and basketball.
It was loud and crazy!
The next day (his actual bday) we celebrated with our family and Grandma. It is now a tradition that my oldest plays happy birthday on the clarinet to the birthday boy. It is also tradition that they get two cakes, one with friends and the other with the family. Usually I am lazy and buy both cakes. This year I thought I would make the family cake. Well that was not a wise decision for a sleep deprived mom of 5 boys.
I made the cake and had put parchment paper in the pan so the layers did not stick. I took them out of the pan to cool and left the parchment paper on so they would not dry out. Later that afternoon I went to frost the cake and the frosting went on surprisingly smooth. When we went to cut the cake the it was hard to cut through and all the frosting came off in one layer. Oh look, I left the parchment paper on and had frosted right over it. We had to take the cake apart and get all the paper out before we could serve it. I will definitely buy a cake next year :

Sisters

Lately, I have been able to spend allot of time with my youngest sisters. Last week we went up to Sundance and took some pics. I love it up there- I wish I lived closer.

As you can tell my sisters got all the looks in the family- oh to be 19 again!

thanks for looking,

j

I love my clients

All my clients are wonderful, but this group of clients have been with me since
I started my business. I have taken photos of these children as newborns on up
to their school days. This was a group of 11 cousins and we were shooting in my small
studio (11 was definitely my studio's limit) They were giving the pics to their mom-aka Grandma - for her birthday. Even though it was a handful it was so much fun, and I fall in love
with these kids each time they come to me for photos. Happy Birthday Grandma B!

Indoor Soccer almost over

We have been so busy at our house, between my work schedule, the boys sports, and Blaine's church and work responsibilities- it gets crazy. Oh and we have had an extra boy staying with us (read below) and my sister needed to stay with us temporarily. Well my sister and exchange student have moved out and indoor soccer has come to an end with a two week break before outdoor season starts. My Ty improved so much over the indoor season, he usually plays goalie or defense, but this season they needed him to play offense. He was able to score a couple of gorgeous goals for our team. He works so hard practicing it is fun to see him improve. Go Champions!

sorry the picture isn't that great as I was shooting in low light through some dirty glass- I did what I could :)

thanks for looking,

j

Good Bye Sung Chul

For the past three months we have had a korean foreign exchange student staying with us. He just became such a part of our family, just another boy added to the mix :) We called him "our brother from another mother" Ty and Sung Chul became extremely close and have started emailing. Tyler wants to go to South Korea so bad, but this mom could not send her child oversees. We are hoping Ty will be called to serve a Korean mission and then he could go baptize Sung Chul. Good Bye friend we will miss you!

jami