Harrison 11 Months

Harrison was not in the mood for pictures. We had a real hard time trying to get him to smile and keep his attention, but I think we got some good ones. Good thing I took a lot of pictures.











This last one makes me laugh. Look a little familiar? If you didn't see the last one, check out the last picture on the link. This time he was a little more sly about it. He must not like my camera?

Brooklynn's Brain at Work

I should blog the things my kids say more often because I always think I will remember later and I never do. Here's a good one...

Brooklynn loves watching the garbage truck every week. Our neighbor has a diesel truck and when she hears it she thinks it's the garbage truck. This morning when the garbage truck came she watched it as usual and then was puzzled because it went right past our house. We just got back from taking Braiden to school and the garbage truck was back. He must have left earlier because he was having problems with his truck. When he came back he was still having problems. His truck kept dying and he had to keep starting it back up. As he was finishing up and we were going in the house Brooklynn said "the garbage truck needs batteries, it's not working. It's having problems."

I'm always amazed when I see their little brains at work. It's funny to me how many things my kids remember and how they put things together.

These are for you...

... Amy (although Grandpa and Grandma might like them too). My awesome photography friend let me borrow her lights for a photo shoot. That night after the kids got ready for bed, we had some fun. I'm surprised that the ones of them together weren't all blurry. They were being super silly.











Brooklynn was loving the camera or maybe it was just the cool lights.


I'm so glad I got this next one. I love it!!




She loves her tights. She went and got these while I was trying to take some pictures of Braiden.




What do you think? Totally worth going to bed late huh!

Sneak Peek

Here are a few pictures from what I am working on right now...









More to Come.

Coming...

eventually. Travis and I spent a week in Mexico to celebrate our 10 year anniversary. It was great! I'm working on a few photo shoots I did before we left and have a few more coming up so hopefully I can share some pictures from our trip soon. Here are a few for now...

Soccer Picture Samples

For samples of past soccer pictures, click on the following links:

http://losalkire.blogspot.com/2008/04/soccer-pictures.html

http://losalkire.blogspot.com/2008/05/soccer-pictures.html

http://losalkire.blogspot.com/2007/04/ohs-soccer-pictures.html

First Day of School

Today was Braiden's first day of Kindergarten. I think he was a little nervous, but also excited. He has gone to preschool the last two years so it doesn't seem like that big of a deal. I think the strangest thing will be having him go everyday instead of two days a week.

I had to document his breakfast, just to prove to Travis that I actually made the kids breakfast this morning. My kids love cold cereal (Kix and Cheerios) and that's pretty much all they eat for breakfast every morning. I asked Braiden what he wanted for breakfast this morning and he told me cereal, but I told him that I wanted to make him something like pancakes or waffles or eggs and toast. Thank goodness he choose the easiest, so eggs and toast it was.


Pictures before leaving for school.




If you didn't notice, we went and got his hair cut this morning. I realized late Saturday night that we hadn't done it that day. Good thing he goes in the afternoon so we could go and do it this morning. Here's another of Brooklynn, she had to get in on the action too...


At the school...




He had a great day at school and was pretty good with the details. When we asked him what his favorite thing was he said all of it, so it must have been good. Mondays are early days, so we waited to eat lunch until after we picked him up. The power was out at our house due to a new power pole being put in so I decided to take the kids to Jason's Deli. Here they are enjoying the yummy ice cream!

SLC Temple

I actually took this picture back in May when my sister and her family were sealed. I didn't post them with her pictures because we were surprising her with a canvas. Well I ordered the canvas, but it came back with a lot of green in it. It didn't look quite as green on my computer, but I could tell why it ended up that way. I ended up returning it and now I finally got around to trying again. Sorry it took me so long. Let me know which one you like!

More Harrison

I really haven't taken many pictures lately. These are from a few weeks ago and I finally got to them. I should be taking more pictures soon. (Hint, hint for all of you that want family pictures taken for Christmas cards.)









same picture as above in B/W...


same as picture above with some texture and sepia...

Last Weekend

After my dad was so bummed about not running the Ogden Half Marathon in May with us, we decided to register him for the Provo Half for Father's Day. Of course we couldn't make him do it alone, so we registered also. It was really hard for me to train because I don't like to get up early and was still hot in the evenings. I didn't train as well as I should have, but it went ok. Travis ended up sick that morning and decided at the last minute to take the bus back down. I ran with my dad and brother in law and they did great. My dad really did a great job training and he really pushed me to my limits. Way to go Dad, you did it!!



Sunday we took the kids up and over the Alpine Loop with a stop at Cascade Springs and Tibble Fork. It was nice to get out and go for a drive, but I'm not so sure about the walking part. I was pretty sore.