Dinosaur Museum & filling out Valentine's

The kids have been staying in bed until at least after 6:00 lately so we went to the dinosaur museum to celebrate. They love this place. I'm about bored to tears, but they're having fun! We really need to get them back to the one in Salt Lake...now that's a cool dinosaur museum!




I loved the shadow of this dinosaur!


Check out his hair!!!















And then that night BayLea began her Valentine's for school. She was scanning down the list trying to decide who to give that particular Valentine to and I told her to just cross them off as she went so she didn't get confused...she didn't need my help any more. She remembered to cross off, she wrote neatly, she took care of who got what sticker...she's an amazing little girl!

karate time!

Breccan is taking karate. He loves it. So far he has proved to be a very good listener and is able to follow directions...at least as good as it gets for a 4 year old boy!!!


I love this one of him...his face is so cute!






Check out his face!!!




I don't know why these kids don't know I'm trying to take pictures of my kid, and get out of my way!!!! :)

My babies in the reflected light...

cuz I have to take these for my photography class!




Breccan posed himself here...I asked him if I could take his picture and put him next to the wall (as I was going for the reflection from the wall onto his face) and he posed himself. I love it. You can almost see what he'll look like as a grown man.

Ski Lessons

We decided to take the kids up skiing yesterday. They both did VERY well. I was not surprised at all that BayLea did as well as she did as quickly as she did. She just catches on to things like that. Breccan rocked it too. He had another little one in his group and so he spent quite a bit of time waiting his turn to ski with the instructor.








Whenever the instructor would say "pizza wedge" Breccan would fling his skis out but his arms would come up too...almost like they were attached to the back ends of his skis.

Random stuff from the last couple weeks.

SO, I've been crazy busy with the picture a day thing on flickr (and on yet another blog: www.smilesintherepaw.blogspot.com) and I've had a hard time getting anything posted! So here is what I've been up to...some of these you may have seen if you've been following the picture a day project!

But some are new too...


Breccan took this one...it's pretty good! Tongue and all!


Froze my fingers off trying to get frozen river shots...BRRRRR! But I like this little s-curve I've got going on here!


And here I've FINALLY gotten a sunburst! Whoopee!




Some macro shots of my mom's beautiful Christmas cactus!

And a beautiful shot of my girl...

This was taken just before she went to try out for Beauty and the Beast ballet. She will be playing a rose ("GET IT, MOM???? I'm going to be a rose! And my middle name is Rose!!!!")






My necessary evil...MUST. HAVE. COFFEE!


And my favorite candy.


And boy, right now, I am sick of this white stuff. Ready for the beach!


I just love Mt. Garfield.


I like the light in this one!


BayLea and I had bagels and vanilla chai lattes last weekend!


My boy's black eye.


And I love everything about this one...the light on their faces, the concentration on their faces, and the fun action I ran on it from Pioneer Woman.


For the weekly photo challenge...theme being homemade...I had nothing except this. It's not that great of an image, but I love it just the same since it's shows this darling blanket that mom made Breccan.


Breccan "working".

And these are pictures I've taken for the continuing ed photography class I'm taking.
















My Aunt Marie and Uncle Chauncie came for BayLea's birthday party and they were here the weekend before that too! My kids call Aunt Marie, Auntie M. It's just so cute!






Dinner served again!