hobby or obsession? both!!!

I am not a photographer, I really don't want to be one either. But if you know me at all you will know that I love pictures. I always have, that has always been my form of decorating. Some may say I have to much up, to me it's never enough. I think that there is nothing more interesting to look at. I guess you can tell I love them by the amount I have taken of Ever.

Anyways, two of my cousins asked me to take pictures on sunday. We started with my cousin Melesa's family. It was her, her hubby Jeff, and her three step daughters, Ashley and Danielle, who are twins, and Emily. It was a lot of fun and we stumbled across this place on accident, and ended up staying there the whole time. Aren't those 3 girls darling, they actually came up with all the ideas mostly and were fun to photograph. I tell everyone that I dont have the training, knowledge or equipment, so please don't expect much. But I do love it and will capture you as well as i can!

After that family my other cousins showed up,different side of the family, with the color they were wearing and being that they didn't know eachother, I really wanted to go back to that spot. I have never done this before, didn't even realize I had filled my whole card up, and had no back up. We had to use Tara's camera for a but which I am not familiar with, those pics are good, a little blurry since I don't know the settings as well, but it was nice to have it. We wandered over to an old museum. It is no longer in use, but the owner called it his front lawn. He has absolutely no signs posted that say no trespassing, but felt that he should call the cops on us. We werent doing anything wrong, we were not even touching the stupid building, our car was parked on the road and we were always in plain sight. Some people are crazy. His wife was taking our pictures, it was hilarious. He said he was a cop, the cops showed up and said, they are not doing anything wrong, you have no signs, and they let us go. wow, all that over a old abandoned building. We got some darling shots though. Bryce is a senior so we did his pictures for that. Then snapped some family ones. I remember bryce and britney as babies, it is so sad they are this old. They used to come stay with us all the time, and I truly feel like they are my little brother or sister.

Gina Britney Bryce and Justin

The Loosle Clan

Danielle

Ashley

Emily

Jeff and Melesa

Loving the Season

Ever and her twin, she for sure is her daddy's girl! love these 2 more than my life! they are awesome, and she has him wrapped around her little finger.!

Loving the weather, loving our yard, even though I have to rake all the time, it looks so pretty in the fall I think!

treat please!!

she had a blast, she walked from house to house, and from person to person, and from trunk to trunk. we did three different trick or treating sessions. halloween night at aunt marci's neighborhood, my aunt trixie's hospital, and the ward trunk or treat. she had the best manners and started saying thank you every piece of candy without being told. i was very proud of her! i was horrible and didnt take hardly any pics. this is all i got!

this was at the hospital, all the cute people were lining the halls and it was non stop candy. my cousin melesa took this picture actually, i stole it from her facebook. i love ever's expression.

funny part about this, she really doesnt want to eat her candy that much, just the suckers. she is more than willing to share with anyone who asks!

19 months and pumpkins!

This little thing is 19 months now. I think blogging about it makes it come faster, but it is such a good way for me to remember things, it pretty much my diary for her. I hope someday to print it off for her. I want to remember every little thing, I can't help it.

1. Her manners are getting so good, she says thank you, and sometimes thank you so much, thats my favorite. Please and your welcome are becoming a lot more common to.
2. She is starting to be more opinionated about her clothes
3. I let her pick out her shoes most days, she likes it
4. She is getting more shy, which I must say I love because I get to hold her more that way.
5. She is really liking playing with other kids a lot and does fairly well with sharing
6. She is getting better at saying OK mom when I say no to something
7. loves to play in candles and rub the wax everywhere, also loves to take everything out of the dishwasher and spread it around the house.
8. Loves puting on her own lotion
9. She lets me do her hair
10. pretty good about not messing it up, but really hates her bangs in her eyes
11. says thats cute all the time, to clothes, or whatever.
12. Loves lucky charms
13. still loves her 2 bottles at nap and bedtime
14. gets right in her big girl bed at nights and goes to sleep around 9 pm
15. wakes up 2 to 3 times at night and rarely sleeps past 7 am
16. asks for mommy a lot and I love it
17. has seriously stinky feet for a little one
18. hates getting her teeth brushed. its a battle
19. loves to get lipstick (lipgloss) put on
EXTRA's

--Loves when her daddy comes home, runs up to him and gives him a big hug.
--Loves Teg! they are playing together so well and she is a lot softer now.
--when a song comes on she tells everyone to dance individually, like dance Teg, or dance gammy. it so funny!
-- Not really good at feeding herself, she makes a mess and plays in her food mostly. gotta stop that
-- I did a brides hair and her maid of honor here at my house on saturday, when the maid of honor got her dress on Ever said, you are a beautiful ballerina!

Our version of carving pumpkins is
coloring them!

Ever had a blast, did this for like 45 minutes, she was very proud. she takes after her daddy! Sorry little girl, mommy hates messy things really bad!

I kinda think her hair is looking red, i have been blow drying it, its so shiny and seriously looks red sometimes. not sure where that came from! But I love it!

More Everbell, bowling, halloween, etc........

I really took pictures for like 10 minutes, and 2 places. I thought maybe I could get like 2 or 3 good ones for a halloween card. Ended up loving basically everyone I snapped. Mostly cause I love this little fart. She is so in love with her halloween party, she wants to wear it all the time, but we can't yet. I am sure as soon as halloween is over she will be in it a lot. Love my FAIRY.

The other night we had people over for the really sad byu game. This was Ever enjoying an ice cream sandwich after the game, our friend thought it would be funny to tell Ever to smash it in her own face. What is with people thinking it is funny to get you kid all messy and then leave you to clean up? Anyway, she doesn't love to be dirty and when we showed her her face she cried. It made for some cute pics though!

I love trying to get a picture of four little kids, I think it is so funny how no one can concentrate and they all do different things.
This is my cousing darling little boy Andrew. He watches Rocky like every day I guess and loves to act out the scenes. He makes the cutest boxer I know and is great at having his picture taken.

We had a lot of fun bowling the other night, Ever wasn't digging it to much since she can't really hold the ball, but she ran around the place instead and we chased her all night and tried to stop her from running down the lanes.

Here is a picture of the clown costume I was in love with. The description says it is really puffy and bounces around when they run from house to house. I was so excited to have it, didn't get it though, maybe they will sell it and I can have it next year. Or i can have one made!

This is Dilynne. I have taken some pictures of her before, but she is one now. I snapped a few the other day, but isn't she so stinking cute?

For the record..................
Week 2 in nursery not so good. Main reason might be that Ever is waking up before 5 in the morning, crying all the time, and getting a 2 year molar. Not a good combo. She went right in and when relief society was about 15 minutes from being over I couldn't take it any longer and went and checked. Snack time was happening, Ever was not sitting at the table. I heard her screaming and found the poor nursery lady trying to calm her down. They didn't want me to take her, said she would be fine, but I wasn't. We were all tired but she wanted her mom, and I caved like I always do. She stayed right by me the rest of church though. I took her back for the last 10 minutes of nursery and she had a ball, she liked that i was in there. Another little girl came and sat on my lap and she tried to rip her out of my arms. She is at a funny age right now, she is changing, getting more shy, and I love seeing her personality!

first time.....

I can't get enough of her smile!!!
Tara and I look the same in every picture, Ever looks different in all, what a nut!

Sunday was Ever's first time in nursery.
I was definitely more nervous than I should have been
I did not want her to be the naughty or mean kid
The last of my worries was that she would miss me.

I was wrong
She did well though
I checked on her way to many times
she was standing at the door asking for me
I was so sad and happy at the same time
she is pretty independent and I thought she wouldn't miss me a bit
she loved snack time
only got pushed over once that I saw, good for her, she needs that
didn't love singing time, that meant she had to sit still
it was kind of funny watching the nursery lady try to get her to sit down

Over all I think she liked it
I missed her like crazy and forgot what it was like to sit still and listen
the hours dragged for me
felt like it was never going to be time to go and get her
when I did she was so happy and gave me a big hug
made my day

love my baby more than anything
can't believe she is in nursery.
It was weird leaving her, I rarely do that
and it is always with family.
Rhett and I were sure happy to see her!

funny ever.......

loving her age right now, she is our little firecracker, we can't get enough of her, and her new cheesy smile! LOVE YOU EVER

she is so stinking funny right now, she told me to calm down in the middle of the night last night. i kept telling her to go to bed, she woke up at 4 am for the day. i was not to happy, i just kept saying go to sleep as she was asking me for cereal, and to read books and watch barney, and all of the above. so she thought she needed to tell me to calm down i guess. hilarious!

pretty sure she is getting her 2 year molars, really fun, whats new though, teething never ends i swear. she had her 18 month well check appointment. stats are

28 lbs 75%
34 1/2 in 97%
head was in the 97% also

it was weird that this is the first time she hasn't at least gained 2 or 3 lbs, so he was a bit concerned. she actually lost a bit, but i told him she was really sick and that was the reason. she is doing great. she is talking better and better every day. she loves to sing, she didn't know i was listening in the car today but she sang basically the whole chorus to party in the usa, it was so stinking cute. whenever that song comes on she says, i love this song, and starts to dance.


(i am very aware that she wore the black shirt like 3 times, it was not all right together, but happened to be days i had the camera, and i love it so better have her wear it before she out grew it to.)

we watched a super fast circus parade, lasted like 8 minutes, but she loves elephants.

went to a petting zoo, she is so NOT scared of the animals, gets right in there and pets them all.