The 0's

I have seen a few do this on their blogs and I thought it would be fun to play. I thought we entered a new decade, however my husband who knows everything tells me the new decade doesn't start until next year. Let me first off say, I apologize for the crappiness of the pictures up to 2005, it was b-d, before digital. I want to recap the last decade since we have officially left the 0's, they were some good years. We started off by welcoming in child #2 into this world. Samantha was born on February 21, 2000

We celebrated the second birthday of #1, Brett and the 26th birthday of his daddy. Also the 22 year of my life!! We bought a boat (I shouldn't say we because I really had no choice in the matter) We rounded out the year with our annual Christmas card photo.



2001 - Spent Easter in Hurricane with gram, Spent summer in Oregon, Saw mom and dad off to Africa. Rounded out the year with our Christmas card picture.



2002-Went to London, Ireland & Africa with gerry and Sheri, Had the Goodrich reunion, took a few trips to California


and rounded out the year with our annual Christmas card picture.


2003 Mom and Dad came home from Africa, Brett turned 5, Sam turned 3 Kristin turned 24 Terry turned 29. Brett began kindergarten and Kristin got pregnant, hence the no annual Christmas card photo!



2004 - It snowed in Las Vegas and stuck for more than a minute, Kristin and Terry went to Ireland (he turned 30 there)



We welcomed child #3 Colby into the world on May 19. Spent the summer (or part of it anyway) in Oregon Brett began piano lessons. Took a Trip to California with the Whole Conk family.


and rounded out the year with our annual Christmas card photo.



2005 - Sam turned 5 and Started Kindergarten


Traveled to Guatemala with the Zob's NO KIDS!!



Samantha started violin and played her first duet with Brett


Went to ride the Polar Express and rounded out the year with our annual Christmas card photo.



2006 - We started out with the Baptism of our oldest kid.



Went to Hawaii with gerry and Sheri to celebrate 10 years of wedded bliss.



Took a lot of trips to the sand dunes and rounded out the year with our annual Christmas card photo.



2007 - Pregnant with #4 took a trip to Seattle/Canada with Michelle and Mike Young



Took a trip to California with all the Conks and welcomed #4 Bonnie on October 25.


And rounded out the year with our annual Christmas card photo.

2008 Took a trip to San Francisco.



Samantha got baptized




We bought and moved into a new house.



and here is our Christmas card!!



2009 - Colby started piano



and Kindergarten



Brett officially became a middle schooler.



And we did something at Christmas time




Whew...I think that my have been the longest post in history. It seems as though I only talked about trips and births but that is what I have pictures of. We did a lot more that that in the O years. They were good, I can only pray the next 10 are as great!

365...a year in pictures

I am nuts! Completely CRAZY! I must be to have committed to this project. I'm only a week in but I am loving it so far. We'll see how I feel about it in a month or two. My reason for committing to this project, I just want to capture my family in non portrait settings. It seems to me that I am just tending to take pictures of my kids that are beautiful pictures but I have no idea what we have going on in our lives because all I take are pretty portraits. So my intention is to take REAL LIFE pictures and that means not worrying about the load of laundry on the couch or the bin of toys strewn all over but beautiful pictures that capture the loves of my life! I figure I will try to keep up this blog with an update of my 365 project every month or so. Well here we GOOOOOO!



Day 1/365 ---Ringing in the new year with a little painting with light.

Day 2/365 ---The Sweetest thing in my life. Potty training and all (a post on that later)


Day 3/365---Lovin on the Bon is such an easy thing to do!


Day 4/365---Back to the grind. First day back to the normal routine after Christmas.


Day 5/365---SPT Self Portrait Tuesday. 2 of my favorite things Polka dots and Reading


Day 6/365---The beautiful sunsets of Las Vegas


Day 7/365---May the force be with you. A typical day in the home of Star Wars fanatics.

December

We've had a big month here just as all of you have as well. We kicked off the holiday season with a Deseret Strings concert at the St. George Tabernacle. It was a beautiful program, and our second year performing with the group.

We continued with a band performance at the middle school where Brett did fabulously!



We celebrated Mom's 60th birthday mid month with an awesome party.




Gram even came down for the festivities, aren't they gorgeous?



We then rounded our the school performances with Colbly's kindergarten Christmas Program where he played on of the drummers drumming. P.S. We LOVE our teacher this year and pray she will stay until the Bon Bon goes to Kinder!

Cousin's camp this year was a whirlwind. We silk screened the t-shirts this year which was really fun. We started by making lunches to had out to the homeless and then delivered the things the kids purchased with the money they got for Christmas from Grandie and Gramps to the Shade Tree Shelter, where we were able to tour the facility. After passing out the lunches we made we headed back to the house for pizza and a dollar store gift exchange, which in my opinion is way better than a real gift exchange!! The kids were a blast to watch.



Christmas eve was spent out in Logandale where we played games and ate Lumpia, a Christmas eve tradition. Christmas morning began at about 6:00 and passed in a blur, I have like a total of 6 pictures from the morning and non with Brett in them. Next year the kids are not allowed to get up before the light is good enough to take decent pictures!! Electronics was the name of the game from Santa this year. Brett got a Nintendo DSi and Sam and Ipod nano, Colby rounded out the bunch with a new Nintendo DS.


Bonnie was the funnest this Christmas with her new princess dresses. She got 6 new dress up dresses but only wants the Cinderella (Grella) dress. She wears it all day long. Always looking for her glass slipper (gas swipper)


We had a wonderful Christmas this year and are looking forward to a wonderful eventful year next year!

serioulsy?

Has it really been a month since I last blogged!! This is for you my dear Maddie who had "gently" urged me to get back on the wagon and update this thing. So as you all see I completely blew the whole picture a day for all of November. I just look at it as a trial run for next year, I am working on a project with my photo peeps. It's a photo a day for the whole year. It is a big undertaking but I hope to do it to really capture our life through pictures.WAAAYYY back in November we had a little recital at our home for our kids to show off their mad skills to all the fam!! They all worked really hard to be ready to play and they all did amazing, I would have a video but my video turned out really dark (i should have shot in night vision, that wouldn't have been to freaky would it?) Anyway we had a great dinner followed by beautiful music.


We spent Thanksgiving it Oregon and I took a total of 5 pictures (not including the family pictures I took) and here they are.








I did do family shoots for my big brothers and their families, and I must say that it is unreal the amount of attractiveness we have in this family!!








When taking the Mitch fam pictures he kept making faces and I told him that if he kept it up they would make it on my blog, so there you go dude!!







I also managed to snap a few of my own kiddos for our Christmas cards!! If you haven't got yours yet leave me your address and I'll drop it in the mail!!



Thanks to Shannon for helping out to get one with all of us!!


So there you have it, a some what of an update though it doesn't even touch all of the things we have been up to for the last month, Maybe I'll blog the rest next month!!

11.07.2009


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Photo.A.Day

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11.06.2009

Don't my booys have goofy grins!!

photo.a.day.november.2009

I have made a goal to take one picture a day for the entire month of November. If you don't like lookin and pictures of my kids you may want to check back in a month!! Here goes...

11.01.2009



11.02.2009

dumont.2009.

Love Dumont. Especially on Halloween weekend. Dirty faces. Boogery noses. Sand in every nook and cranny.








Sleepy babies loving on daddies.



Gorgeous girls in Rhinos


and in shades.






Cute boys raging on rides.

Lovin on babies.