4.22.2015

Shake It Off

Bree was moving and groovin to Shake It Off, by Taylor Swift...
This girl has gone from "go with the flow", "sweet to everyone" to....cRaZy!! She has been kind of an emotional roller coaster lately.  Keeping calm while Bree pushes every boundary known to man is insanely hard. She has just enough funny, sweet moments that she is still a keeper though! Ten days until this little lady is the big 3!

4.12.2015

Love Day

These lucky girls were spoiled by their Daddy with cotton candy and flowers! I just had to breathe deeply as they dug into pure sugar for breakfast! I eventually wrested it out of their sticky hands so I could feed them some breakfast.
 Target always has great socks for every holiday!
 Brian spoiled me with a lot of jewelry and a beautiful bouquet! I still feel super lame that I didn't do anything or buy anything for him. I really need to step up my game next year. Sorry Bri!!
School Parties
Emmy had one of her buddies over after preschool so they could revel in their glories V-day cards. 
 The girls and I went to Sadie's class party to help. I was in charge of the craft and we did a photobooth the day before and made popsicle frames at the party. Emmy and Bree always feel very important when they are surrounded by older kids that give them attention.
 I just love, love, love Sadie's artwork on her Valentine envelope. I wish you could see the cupid on the bottom picture that had shot the arrow into her head. She cracks me up! Sadie has had two crushes thus far since starting preschool. Tanner...and now Jack.
Valentine Pictures
Bree was testing out some backdrops for a little boy shoot I was doing...hence the reason hers aren't all that V-dayish. She LOVES this dress though so I am glad I got to capture it and her spunky personality!
This was Bree's actual Valentine that we gave to a few special friends and family members. 
 Sadie likes to come up with her poses these days! She is always fun to photograph! I like to turn the fan on to give her hair some movement and she can only take it for a few minutes so most of her shoots are what I like to call "mini shoots". Less than ten minutes, no outfit changes...quick and to the point!
Yes, I know you have already seen Emmy's V-day pictures on her birthday post, but I guess that is what happens when your bday is so close to Valentine's Day. You get to just have one shoot. I'll have to get her outside for pictures when it warms up. 

4.11.2015

Easter

Let's just say how amazing it is that I am actually blogging something that happened less than a week ago!! My usually turn around is a few months. Go ME! :) We were looking forward to Conference Weekend and Easter. My girls just LOVE holidays and Brian and I love hearing all of the great talks. Before any of that happened....about 8am Saturday we were coloring eggs. Bree got the hard boiled eggs and the two oldest were doing regular eggs. Emmy was surprisingly okay when she cracked about three of her eggs. Gotta love Brian's picture face!
That night while Brian and his Dad were at the priesthood session, we went out to eat and then to get some dessert. We have quite the group of fun gals if I do say so myself!
These lucky girls got cute Easter bags from their Grandma with treats, a stuffed animal, and a egg and spoon race game. I should have took some pictures of all of the crazy ways they decided to hold their eggs in the spoons.They included under the neck, in their mouths, hopping around. Bree would just throw the egg right to the ground to get it to crack, obviously not quite getting the point of the game.
 
Easter Morning
I always find it funny that my girls will somehow know that it is a holiday and their internal clocks will wake them up bright and early. The Easter Bunny had hidden their baskets and they all found a lot of treats and a hula hoop or a "Whirlawoop" if you ask Bree. 
 Bree just LOVES princess gloves and there was such a great sale at Little Adventures Dress Up while we were in Utah that I stocked up on things Bree loves, princess dresses, capes, accessories. Even Baby Roslyn has a few things that are going to be stored until she has some bdays. 
They all requested coloring pages while I made breakfast.
After both Sunday sessions, Grandparents came over and the Easter Egg hunt began.
 One of the few pregnancy bump pictures I have. I am 30 weeks in this picture.
I gave each of the girls a shellac glitter nail makeover! Very bright and shimmery.
Those hula hoops provided a lot of entertainment!
Even Great Grandma got in on the action!