It Has Been Awhile

For all of the people that look at my blog I am deeply sorry that I have not updated it in over a month. This as been the busiest month and a half in my life and a believe also in my whole families. We have a thousand things going on at one time every single day. I will give you a quick update and promise to post pictures tonight or tomorrow.

I have been busy with school and football. Football has seem to takin' a life of its own. When I get home at night it seems I am ready for bed at 7 and have no motivation for anything else.

Sarah business has become extremely busy. She has 4-5 shoots every weekend plus 3-4 during the week. It has become very productive but very busy. We are starting to think about remodeling the basement and making it her permanent photo studio. We are both tired of living in her studio now. She still loves taking pictures and we only see business increasing.

The girls are always busy. Ava started Pre-school last week and goes three days a week to Meredith Drive Reform Church Pre-school. She loves it and wishes she could go every day. On Thursdays she has Pre-school and dance. So on those days I speed from football practice to dance so Sarah can go home to fix dinner. Ella is being her typical self and half the times annoys the daylights out of Ava and the other half loving her to death.

That is our fall in a nutshell. Please pray for Sarah and I's sanity for the next 4 weeks until football is over. Hopefully I will be able to post more then once a month. Thanks for staying with us.

Ogden Fun Days

Sorry for not posting in the past week. We have been super busy around here and it doesn't look like that is going to end till, well I have no idea when it will end. Sarah has been super busy with her business. She has had 6 photo shoots in the past 3 days. We have been traveling back to Ogden the past 2 weekends, for Fun Days and this weekend for a family reunion on Sarah's side. Last weekend was the annual Fun Days for Ogden. The girls with their cousins, Brady and Hunter, were on a float with Grandma Jane and Grandpa Mark. This is Mark's last year as mayor of Ogden, which he has been for the last 18 years. Jane wanted to make it special so she designed a float for the mayor and his grandkids. The girls had a wonderful time in the parade waving and throwing candy. We also went up town where they had just as much fun. We will be gone Monday- Wednesday of next we as we are taking the girls to Omaha. We are looking forwad to this as it will be our first offical family vacation, just us 4. See you all when we get back and make sure to look back for pictures of the big vacation.

Science Center and Spaghetti Works

Today we got up and took the girls to the Science Center for the morning.  They really enjoyed themselves playing with all the experiments.  I am not sure who had more fun the girls or us.  It was a great time and Ava even got on Channel 13 News at Noon.  Channel 13 does their weather every weekday from the Science Center and all the kids who are there get to be on TV.  After the Science Center we took the girls to Spaghetti Works for lunch.  It was a beautiful afternoon and we set outside to eat.  Ella said Hi to everyone that walked by.  Now it is off to the swimming pool this evening.

Click to see more pictures from the Science Center.

Ava on News Channel 13 weather.

Sarah and the girls at the Science Center. Who is having more fun?

Big Weekend

It was a very big past weekend. Sarah had her very first wedding shoot of her cousin Tim and his wife Tammy. I think she enjoyed it and now has to make the decision if she wants to book two more weddings later this year. Here are some pictures of hers and also a video of the girls dancing at the reception. They loved the whole thing and enjoyed all the dancing.

The End of an Era

Well our little girl is all grown up.  We switched her crib into her big girl bed.  She could not wait to get into and after the fiasco of getting the bed (don't ask, long story).  It was somewhat sad seeing our little girl finally getting bigger.

On a side on Ava is having Bible School at Luthern Church of Hope and is loving every minute of it.  It is from 9-noon all this week.  She comes home excited and singing all the songs they learned.  It is inspired us, especially me, to start going back to church.  I see how much Ava loves learning about God and the messages of Jesus that I want to get back to hear the message.

Ava and Ella playing in the bed.

Cy tired after watching us put together the bed.

Ava loving her sister.

All tucked in.

Ava Swimming Lessons

Ava had swimming lessons last week. It was amazing to see the progress from last year to this year. She started swimming by herself to her teacher and jumping off the board and kicking to the surface with no help. Enjoy the video of her swimming.

Big Fall

Well it finally happened in our house. Ella got stitches last night. She fell from the top step outside head first onto the concrete. When she got up she was covered in blood and had a gash on her forehead. Sarah and I took here to the ER where she received 3 stitches on her forehead. She didn't a great job getting them and didn't move a muscle during the entire ordeal. She just sat there and talked to the nurse and doctor while they were stiching her up. Afterwards she got a brownie and some Dora bandaids. The top picture shows her laying in the ER and the bottom is of her this morning. The stitches stay in unitl Saturday and she will be good to go.