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Saturday, March 27, 2010

The day has come!


My niece is now six years old and for the last three years of her life we have been convincing her that if she would stop sucking her thumb she could have her ears pierced. You would think that this would be an easy task. However, Daisy and her thumb have a very special connection that could not be broken. Ever since she started school she has started to peter out the thumb sucking. She would tell us that at school as they were reading stories she would want to suck her thumb, "but I just kept it in my mind." We were very proud of her for being conscious of this habit that we so very much wanted her to kick. As I was preparing to get married I tried to get her to stop so that she could wear pretty earrings with a matching necklace and be a part of my line. That still didn't work. But now the day has come that on her own..... THE THUMB SUCKING HAS STOPPED!! I was sitting at my mother-in-law's house and I had Daisy with me. She looked at me and said, "On Friday I am getting my ears pierced at the mall." And being myself I didn't believe her. I teased with her a little, but then when I got back to my sister's she asked Daisy if she had told me the good news. I asked Natasha if I could come along for this very exciting event!! I was so excited that you would have thought that I was the one getting my ears pierced. So I took many pictures of this very brave girl!! Daisy we are so proud!!


Waiting in The Hot Seat


Drawing on the dots




Dots in place!


Ready one, two, three


All finished


Pain settling in


Brother so happy to watch


Proud of my girl!!


Another happy brother

Rian had a state competition that he attended for most of Friday. After watching Daisy get her ears pierced we drove up to Salt Lake to the Awards Ceremony... Unfortunately we didn't come home with any medals.. But we still had fun!!

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Bridals

For my bridals I had my most favorite photographer, Karl Hugh from Studio West Photography, take my pictures. He did such an amazing job. I had some crazy ideas and it was stuff he had never done before but he thought it would be fun to try it out so we went along for a ride. We had so much fun and the weather was fabulous! You would never guess that it was the day before Thanksgiving! I would have posted these earlier, but Rian wasn't aloud to see my dress before the wedding.. So here they are now.........!

My mom suggested this picture so we took it to humor her.. Love ya mom!!





This is my #1 man Winston.. My cute little dog!





Karl had me walk through the ashes and I couldn't even stand up.. I was sinking all over the place and trying my best not to make faces because I knew he was taking pictures of me!




Wedding Day

Rian and I got married in January and we have just barely started to receive pictures from our special day. My regular photographer was out of town for my wedding so he had his friend take our pictures for us. It was a very nice thing for him to do, however, he was not a very personable man and he didn't want to take anything that would have been original to this specific couple. He had his routine spots and poses and that was all he was going to do, and he was going to do it as fast as he possibly could get it done.. Which was rather convenient considering we had other places to be soon, but as a result of the pictures they didn't turn out all that well and I am quite disappointed that this is all I have to show for my wedding day at the temple.






Us with our cute friend Chantel
Rian's parents

My parents


All of our friends and family

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Birthdays!

So Rian's sister and my sister share the same birthday.. Who would have known? Randi (Rian's sister) turned 20 and Chelsea (my sister) turned 25.. We live about 3 hours away from each other so this is how we celebrated separately!

Randi
Randi's dog Daphnie
Birthday Girl!
Making faces at Rian
Friends and family
Happy Birthday!
Birthday Dinner

Proud parents

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Halloween Carving

For Halloween we went to Mesquite and stayed over in the trailer park at the Casa Blanca.. On Halloween Night we carved our pumpkins to get in the spooky Halloween SPIRIT!! These are the result of it!

Chelsea trying to carve Rian

Rian cleaning out my pumpkin

Chelsea carving

Say CHEESE!
Finished product
Rian next to his, then mine, then my daddy's, Chelsea's, and ME!

Engagement Photos

Rian and I had a fun time posing for our engagement pictures. It got really cold towards the end because a storm started to blow in.. We are both wusses and so we were trying to get done as fast as we could so we could get back in the warm truck!! :-/
Thanks Karl for the great pictures!













Photos courtesy of Studio West Photography.