wedding bells are ringing...

My dear friend's getting hitched soon! I'm soooo soooo soooo incredibly happy for her. She deserves that smile right there! Lovey love love!!

I {heart} farm fresh eggs. I do!

...and the chicks that lay them...

...and the darling cowboys who gather them...

...and the horsie who watched the darling cowboy gather the eggs...

...mmmmm...farm fresh eggs. yep. love em. i ate one before i even got my camera out to take a pic. can't wait to get my own farm.

A NEW year!! Wooot!

So long 2010 and helllooo 2011. I wonder what's in store for me this new year. Last year was kinda rough...I started off with a trip to the ER because I passed out for no apparent reason. Did some volunteer work over at the hospital...LOVE it there. Then, I did some volunteer training at the Fire Dept. and broke my ankle. So dumb. It still gives me grief but whatevs. Then the hubs got sick with kidney stone issues...all the while the man-boy has given us plenty of reason for lost sleep. Not to be all negative...we've had a TON of fun this year...the kid turned 13 so I pulled him from school to take him out to Benihana for lunch. The hubs met us there and it was really fun. And speaking of school, the kid started middle school this year. Our darling daughter is still plugging away in college and givin' Gramma a run for her money! She's a good girl, and very strong-minded. She has her own idea of how things should be in her life and I love it. Also, we got our house painted and it looks AWESOME! We also re-did TWO rooms in the house: The guest bedroom, which is kinda beachy themed...blue on the top, tan on the bottom with a white chair rail in between. It's so calming and with the new wood floor, it looks so nice. I may just move in there. And THEN...dah da da dahh...my craft room is done, sorta. The wood floor is in, the walls are painted a lovely shade of gray which really makes the counters and shelves and the trim stick out...all I hafta do now is get all of my stuff in and organized and looking good. I got some kitschy things for decor and some spray paint in off-white, aqua, yellow and green for some fun accent colors. So priority one: Get organized...and thennnn...I can start with making crafty things! I can't wait to get it all done and start setting up photo shoots and stuff! Yah! Woot! Oh, but first I have some loose ends to tie up from last year and then off I go!!

Mac Skin

Ha! So I was out camping and this dadgummed fly

wouldn't stop bugging me and then it landed on my white

truck and then cuz I had my camera in my hand

I took its' picture and it turned out pretty all-right

and so I've ordered it as a skin for my Mac buh cuz it's

getting all scratched up and I don't like it scratched up.

Grrrrr...

k, so I tried really hard to make my blog look purdy but it didn't work so much...blah blah blah. I'll give it another shot tomorrow but for now, FHE is on and we're reading scriptures about Jesus and his birth and his life and all of that wonderful Christmas-y stuff so we can all remember what the season is really about. This here's a pic of what the background was SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE. Wahhhhh...I love the red damask. It's ok...I like to learn and more often than not, it's via 'the hard way'.  :o/

Another family shoot

 Same location (Old Town Gilbert)

Different family. I hate to keep shooting at the 

same locations all the time but this one is

becoming my favorite. Maybe cuz DQ is just

up the street...? Maybe.

A family shoot-old town Gilbert

I got to do this shoot on my birthday. I love these folks.

They really are very sweet and were a ton of fun to shoot!

I found a few new action sets and got to try them out...waayyy cool!

Got 'em at Ree's website:

http://thepioneerwoman.com