around the house - may

This little four-wheeler is at grandpa's and grandma's in Mapleton. Cody loves it. Here he is helping grandpa do some farm chores.

calley

Last night I took Calley's senior pics. I still have never taken the time to learn how to use the manual function on digital cameras - I know what I should do but I just can't find the right button! So I was a little nervous. But we got some good ones! Thank goodness for Photoshop. I remember Calley as a 2 year old coming up to me and holding my hand when I first started dating Justin. Ahhh now that's crazy! The announcements.

ashley's business cards

Ashley also had me design a business card and logo for her biz. We went out on a limb on this one, adding in a couple accounting jokes. The concept behind this card is kind of a woodcut print, with a vintage scale illustrating her name, Perfect Balance. What do you think of this card? It's quite a stretch for Ashley, who is very conservative, but I think it adds some memorable humor to the stereotypical boring accountant. The back is similar to Brittany's, but with a general ledger (client: Rusty Busty - such financially responsible babies!). If the print is too small to read, the jokes say, "Eveyone stay calm, I'm an accountant" and "10/9 accountants can't count".

brit's business cards

My sis-in-law asked me to make up some business cards and a graphic for her tax folders. She wanted them feminine yet professional. I love doing business cards because they are so tiny you don't get burned out. She does mostly tax so we put a 1040 tax form on the back. Her baby Bridger is getting a head start on his tax return! (he's on the form).

color me rad

Last week our fam got more colorful than my Grandpa Anderson's language. The guys Justin bought the Dirty Dash from also own Color Me Rad, a 5K that leaves you covered in chalk of every color. It's a photographers paradise. Justin went over early to volunteer and the kids and I ran part of it, then hung out at one of the stations and threw chalk at runners. The kids were in heaven!

h nut and chris' wedding

A few pics from my friend Heathers wedding in February. She looked so so pretty, oh my goodness. It was at an Italian Restaurant in SLC and the food and atmosphere were great. Cammie and I took photos and I designed her invites. I love when people let me do whatever I want. I only had to make 40 invites but they had to be inexpensive. So we went with the thing I am known for when I comes to wedding invites: complicated assembly. Luckily it wasn't 600 like in times past.

around the house - april

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farmhouse baby

My dream life includes goats, chickens, horses, a huge garden complete with a giant compost pile, a greenhouse, and a kitty. We are getting closer...our backyard is a cornfield! And the gardens of our neighbors in Vineyard are breathtaking! So for now I get to pretend while I bathe the baby in the farmhouse sink.

best girl

This is one of my favorite pics to date. I think these colors are indicative of what Taytay's personality will be. Bright, bold, high energy. Ellie makes me think of white, yellow and calm. So maybe a change of colors in the nursery is going to be in order. I finally did the binding on this quilt a couple weeks ago. I started it in Texas almost 3 summers ago!

taylor 11 months

So sad we missed 10 months, I think she had about 20 less hairs, so not much different.

bridger bear

Now that I've discovered the photobucket app I think I'll be posting a lot more! It's awesome! Here is little Bridger Bear, Brittany and Brett's Baby Boy, and Brayden's Brother. I think he's quite Bumble-y, which is the only adjective that starts with a B that I can think of at 10:00 pm.

spur of the moment

A couple weeks ago I had a meltdown - sometimes marriage is hard ya know?! But at the end of the day we are best buds. We talked on the phone that night for 3 hours! I have never talked on the phone to anyone for more than an hour, maybe. I hate the phone. Justin was in ABQ marketing our new Dirty Dash race he bought and then next morning he called me and said, "Pack your bags, your plane leaves at 1:00, I'll find babysitters." That sentence will tell you a lot about how Justin works: make the decision first, then figure out how to make it happen. So after much debate on the stupidity and rashness of this decision I packed my bags, go to check in online, and realize the ticket is for May 16, not March 16. Justin fixed it and I ended up leaving the next day. Thank you too everyone who helped watch the kids on short notice. We really needed some time to reconnect, it was good.












We stayed at one of the cutest boutique hotels I've been to, Hotel Parq Central. Its an old 1920's hospital on Route 66 renovated into a hotel. They have lots of artifacts in box frames throughout the hotel. And amazing quiche every morning.


The only picture of an actual person. I found my dad's long lost twin at the Green Dress Run!

We took the tram, ran in the green dress run for St. Patrick's Day (which I cannot show pictures of if we ever want to run for office), ate out, and relaxed on the roof of the hotel. We also bought shoes from the guy that owns Heart & Soul running store, where he showed us his collection of shoes belonging to Carl Lewis, Paula Radcliff, and 20 or so other runners I don't know about. He had the first shoes from every company and has 30 patents on different shoe designs. So interesting. He brought out what he says is the first Nike ever made and let us hold it. This job is very refreshing for Justin who was really sick of selling people something they didn't want. Trying to talk people into running a mud run is much easier, and part of promoting involves giving free teams away to running stores - definitely a much different vibe.

cinemagraph

Just something I learned last week in my After Effects class. Cinemagraphs are still photographs in which a minor and repeated movement occur. Here are my favorites. I'm excited to try some new ones.

7 is going to be great!

This was my first attempt at a real birthday party at home. I think next year we'll be back to our breakfast at Magleby's tradition. It's just too much work and clean up! And this party was fairly simple too. Luckily, Jess came and helped me pull it off. Anyway, Ellie sure is special. What a fun age: friends, loosing teeth, more independence, reading chapter books, writing in secret journals, emotional breakdowns. Life is great for a seven year old I think.

Our theme was Paper. Everything was made of paper and our activities were making banners with each girls name and paper flowers.



Ellie had Charise, Brielle and Lily over from our old neighborhood, Leah, her new friend on my mom's street, and Kelty and Molly. Such cute girls. The girls came over right after school and we had an after school snack of sandwiches, juice, veggies, grapes, and mini cheesecakes.

im on a blogging roll!

blurry kids on a bed

capital reef last october

5 years old!

in the tent at capital reef last october
Cody turned 5 yesterday! I was in St. George with 10 girls (friends and family) but I think he had more fun without me anyway. He told me on the phone that being five feels "like I'm in 1st grade". Today when I got back in town he showed me how he is much bigger and looks older and is much smarter.
Cody is not self entertaining in the slightest, and sometimes that can cause some tension between us - I'm trying to be more engaging with him. He just eats up my attention. He's so cute and loves to snuggle me and suck his finger (still loves his lambie/tag!). He loves know how things work, which means transformers are his toy of choice. He also loves everything construction. I don't think there is anything cuter than when he gets his tool belt and work gloves on and helps dad build the house.
He's also very proud of the fact that he is the green smoothie drinker. Sometimes I make them so potent I have a hard time downing them, but he'll drink the whole thing happily. Which is such a relief because he doesn't want anything to do with salads or most of the other things I make.
Yesterday Grandpa Nicol took he and Ellie to breakfast and to have a little party at Great Grandma Nicols. Grandma Bagley and Lisa came to see him and gave him a jar of money and Gramdpa Miller made his birthday stop (he never misses anyone's birthday). Justin took him to buy a skateboard after working at the house. Tuesday will be his bounce-house birthday party, which he will love! Love your cute little face Cody! Happy Birthday!