What Happened This Week...

1) Two days after Christmas it no longer looked like Christmas over here. Maybe it is because I have a small house but I was ready to have it down. I put it up right after Thanksgiving. I love having it down and cleaning and having the extra space again. I need to paint a shelf I got for the corner in our front room. They are to display my new vintage cameras I got from my mother in law. So so excited.
2) I caught a chest cold that I am now battling today. Ugg not fun I feel like I have a man voice and hope to get better soon. It could be worse though. Lyla has a bit of a  cough too. She stayed home from church with me today.
3) I was fed up with ABC families sex scene commercials so I decided to email them my thoughts. I don't know if it helped much but it made me feel better to express my feelings. We had a Disney movie recorded and when it went to commercial it was all about committing adultery in your marriage and stuff. We can't watch recorded movies on that channel again. I wish I could punch someone in the face....
4) My mom and I had some great fun going to Mesquite to see Les Miserables together. Oh it was so fun. Getting popcorn, and lemonade and loving every minute of it. What a great movie. I would edit out some stuff if I could but that is usually how it goes.
5) Life is grander since Trent installed my backup camera for my Denali....oh man. The five hours of installment was worth it. I had to help Trent feed the new wire through. I am excited to put it in reverse now. It has great night vision as well. Now I will know the girls aren't behind me while I back up. I always worried about that, I think it is a parents worst nightmare to imagine it.
6) Trent got the Firebird running and has been driving it everywhere. It is pretty neat seeing it being driven again. Cruiser.....after Trent makes sure it won't break down. Him and his brother will sell it.
7) We hosted a Mob get together over at our house. Chase & Nicole Woods were passing through after visiting family for Christmas. It was really fun seeing Danny & Heather, Chase & Nicole, Scott, and Jay. I got to play with two adorable baby girls. A 1 month old and a 8 month old. Adorable:) Good get-together.
8) Evelyn has been a little less busy her preschool is on the same school schedule as the school district. It has been fun having her but I know she misses it. I am so grateful for her teacher and that she can go there. She is learning soooo much and will be so ready for kindergarden.

Christmas and such....

1) The day after Christmas we had a wonderful day. Christmas Eve we went and saw Trent's Grandma & Grandpa Leavitt. And to my moms and also to Grandma & Grandpa Adams that night. Good food and lots of fun. Christmas morning the girls ran into our room waking us up screaming. It was so fun this year. Santa brought both of them bikes...Evelyn one without training wheels. She has had a balance bike for a year and 1/2. He also brought them more dress-ups Tangled for Evelyn and Snow White for Lyla.....they are very blinged out princesses now. I love it, girls are sooo fun. Trent is complaining about the amount of glitter he now sits on and such at our house. lol. We got the girls a Littly People princess palace...the cutest toy I have ever seen.
  Trent gave me a backup camera for the Denali....wahoo we have had a broken one ever since we bought it last Feb. and have wanted one every time I put that thing into reverse when the screen goes black and I know it wants to work for me but can't. Yes...Trent is installing it as we speak. Love that man. He also got me some editing tools and the first and second season of the middle on DVD. He did good:)
  I gave Trent a Craftsman 5 drawer tool chest, he has always wanted one. Also a Ford Racing Bar Stool with a back for his new work table he welded in the garage. so talented:) He also got the movie Avengers we are excited to watch it together.
  I also made a yummy breakfast that morning. Cinnamon rolls, bacon, and eggs. Yes, me Tara made me some bacon:) Trent was proud of his wife for doing that. I am not a bacon fan, never have been. Call me crazy if you would like too.
 We headed to Trent's parents, opened gifts, headed to the Messer's to talk to Austrie Messer who is on a mission in Canada. And then to my parents to hang out, eat and talk to my younger brother Ty, who is currently in Australia serving a mission. We got to skype with him and oh how we love him and miss him. I think we all cried including Ty. What a great example he is too us. Love you Tybud!!
2)Today my mom and I drove to Mesquite to see Les Miserable oh my gosh, what an awesome fantastic, epic movie. I loved it...and the singing was really great. A few parts were a little too graphic for me but I loved it!! Bravo Bravo:) Plus I love spending time with my amazing mother who is my best girlfriend:)
3)Evelyn tried out her new bike today and took off......She completely can ride a big kid bike and pedal on. No training wheels ever for her. It was a wonderful glorious sight to see Trent and her on the road. Once she got the pedaling motion down she was off. Proud mommy moment right there. And I am so grateful to Trent that he is such a wonderful daddy that takes time for the girls. And shows them so much love. I found the such a good man to spend eternity with:)
4)Last Sunday our primary did a nativity program and I was stressing over it. I was running the show but lacking a little bit. Evelyn was an angel and she was soo cute.
5)I have had a break in shoots for a few weeks and it was nice before the holiday. However I have some lined up for next week. That are making me excited to take. Brave the cold I will:)

Bowling, Santa, & Fun At Home...

Evelyn's Prayer...

Dear Heavenly Father, Please bless that we can be nice to our friends and our family. Please bless that we can see Uncle Ty again, and Austrie again. Please bless that mommy doesn't get mad at me tomorrow, and that Lyla doesn't kick me. In the name of Jesus Christ Amen...
*My heart was so touched by this prayer. Children have such a way of wording things. I feel bad about the mommy getting mad part but she also called me a naughty mommy because I threatened to call Santa Clause.....who is really the naughty one?? lol

Weekly Ten-O

1)We went to the Mob Christmas party (the MOB is Trent's group of friends from highschool and their wives/girlfriends. We have done this party for a few years. Lots of fun. This year it was at Doug Burkeland's house in Vegas. We thought we would make the trip worth while and pick up our Christmas card and do some shopping at Costco. The girls had a blast at the party and we had great food and so much fun. We had the best white elephant gift game going. The girls scored a Spongebob icecream set and a homemade I-pad that was hilarious. Seriously I laughed so hard over so many gifts.
2)Trent has been working on the Firebird he replaced the headlights and is getting closer to selling all the time.
3) It rained a lot the last few days and my black car is dirty and sad.....lol. The mud in our driveway is horrible and I can't wait until it dries out again.
4)With all the rain we got I have been getting a big water leak in my car.....in the back after much searching and taking apart the whole floor....we found out it was from the satellite tv they had installed on the top of their car...Ya...satellite tv on a car...a little much right? lol. So Trent fixed that and hopefully no more weeks.
5)I spend almost all of Friday running errands in Mesquite for Christmas presents and everything. And was sooo tired from it. Had fun though.
6)My family usually pays me in props for photoshoots. My sister Kylee gave me some adorable toddler chairs. One is pink and the other green. I am starting to think props is a great trade off for me.
7)I was busy working out all week with Zumba and Pilates and I feel great. Sometimes I wonder if I am getting too toned..I don't mean that cocky or anything. but I tend to build muscle easily.  My class tones,tones, tones:) My sisters and I have always been able to get toned arms very easily in high school weight training classes. I feel my arms and thighs are well, maybe too toned. Well, the thing is I just never have been this toned before but I just can't stop working out...lol. I never want to look manly;/ I love my class so much and am so fortunate to be able to teach here in this community:)
8)The girls are having so much fun together and Lyla lives in her Snow White costume and Evelyn is such a good big sister to her.
9)Evelyn colored a picture for Trent and put it under his pillow for him to find before he went to bed. It was a Arial picture and she is coloring so good at staying in the lines now. She is so thoughtful of all of those around her.

10)Lyla is talking so much now, drawing people with her left hand...she's a lefty and throwing some award winning fits....almost as good as Evelyn's. Fits are tough we usually just laugh when Evelyn's carry on for more than 30 minutes.  So silly.

10 of our week....

1) Trent and I spent about 3 hours bagging our leaves yesterday, and only have of 1/2 of the leaves that have come off the trees. At least Trent can pick them up and pile them with the lawn mower.....saves hours of time from last year. We love our yard and those pretty trees.
2) I did two photo shoots this week. One was with my good friend Shelby Turner. We just did a mini shoot with her kiddos. The other shoot was with my good ol'cheerleading pal Becca Marsh Applegate. The last time I saw her was when I was prego with Evelyn at my baby shower. Really fun shoots with both of them. Onto editing once again.
3) A good chunk of my week went towards editing this so fun shoot with Britney Chapel Lundquist and drooling over the finished product. Girly-girl shoots are so fun. Now I get to deliver them and see how much they love them. One of my favorite parts.
4) I needed to deliver my friend Cara Kynaston her photo CD so we went over to her beautiful home. The girls had a blast playing with their girls. We both talked about being lazy with cadio so I dragged her with my Tues. night. It was really fun and I can see us becoming great friends.
5) Thursday night I the double-whammy workout. Taught my class then stayed for Zumba holy smokes. It was tough, because you usually walk away from pilates a little tight, but at the same time it wasn't as hard as I thought either. When you put your mind to it and tell yourself you can do it....then you can:) That goes with anything in life.
6) Sat after my shoot I went to my moms house and made her come with me to a yard sale we got some great stuff. I found a chest which I have always wanted for a photo prop, and only payed $10 for it. Ahhhh victory, also grabbed a really neat vintage fan too. Wahoo:)
7) Trent fixed up and drove the Firebird car that was dead from his sister Taryn's wreck and it is now safely in our garage. Him and his brother are going to fix it up a little more and then sell it. Not a bad idea:)
8) My wonderful Grandma Leslie and Grandpa Ron from AZ mailed us a lovely gingerbread man plate. They always send us a neat gift in the mail every year for Christmas. I love and miss them, wish our kids knew them better.
9) I have been scoring on our local facebook yardsale page. I scored a free dresser and we got some Santa gifts as well. I love it I love it.
10)I have been eating a little too much crap this past week, onto a healthier week I hope. With more will power:)