Professional Photo Shoot

We had a FABULOUS professional photo shoot done a few weeks ago and the pictures came out FANTASTIC! I was more than a bit surprised. Jenna had been up all night with a horrible ear infection that landed us in the walk-in clinic at 7 am that morning. She and I were both sleep deprived. And Ryan had the snottiest nose in the history of snotty noses. It was runny and red and crusty and I just didn't see how, between my baggy eyes and Ryan's nasty nose, we would have even one shot turn out....let alone all of these beauties......








My hats off to our photographer, Mark Janzen. He's Amazing. Dude's got some vicious Photoshopping skills too. I see now why he makes the big bucks! I have SOOO much to learn.

Thanksgiving 2010

We celebrated Thanksgiving with Jim's family and mine this year. It was great seeing so many family! We had a blast and we. are. stuffed!!!

Jim's cousins Julie and Marisa (they are sisters)

Nana Mara, Marisa, Julie and Elaine


Elizabeth, Jenna and Ryan playing with Marisa's IPad

Ryan getting a look at all the yummy food. Why did I not even notice...until looking at these pictures...that my husband wore a Mickey Mouse T-shirt????

Ty making mashed potatoes

Jim (in the Mickey shirt) and I
Family chit chat and eating...

Jenna now wants an IPad of course

Newlyweds Elaine and Ty

Love it when these two play so nicely together. She's really pulling for that Ipad!


Jenna and Ryan with Auntie Elaine



Cousin David and Ryan

Jim (in the Mickey shirt), Uncle Al, Ryan and David. Seriously....EVERYONE else was dressed so nice...

later....at Poppy and Kye Kye's house....


Cousin Alivia in the kitchen

Alivia and her mom Aunt Kathy

Alivia and me

Ryan enjoying his olives


Kristin (Matt's wife) and Alivia

LOVE these two together. Oh look....Jim's still got the Mickey shirt on! Yay.

My mom and I

Cousin Matt with his new dog, "MJ". This picture is hilarious to me cause this guy is a true blood Cowboy. He has big dogs, horses and cattle. He is NOT a little dog kinda guy....

...especially little dogs who wear rhinestone collars...

and saddles....

My mom, Alivia, Kristin, me and Kathy

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Determination!

She's getting pretty good on those monkey bars....







Yep....pretty sure she's part monkey.

Fun with Friends!

Ryan and I had the pleasure of having Brayden and Madelyn over to play for a little while today while their mommy, Catherine, was at a hair appt. Ryan and Brayden are such good buddies and Madelyn is a little sweetheart so it was a LOT of fun!

The threesome eating some mac-n-cheese

Making silly faces for the camera



Hope we get to play with these kids (and their big sister Addison) again soon!!

Owl Cupcakes!

As an early Thanksgiving treat, Jenna and I decided to make cute owl cupcakes! They turned out SOOO cute and were surprisingly easy to make.







Most important of all...they were SUPER yummy!!!

Downtown Kids

I took the kids downtown to take some pictures. Ryan wore his tuxedo and Jenna wore her flowergirl dress from Auntie Elaine and Uncle Ty's wedding. I thought they turned out pretty cute!










With models as adorable as these....how can you go wrong?