So excited!!!!

I'm so pumped!!! As of this morning I have officially been booked for my 16th wedding for 2009! Guess where this one is???? CANCUN MEXICO! The bride lives in Ohio so I haven't met her yet, we've only emailed. I am so excited to venture into destination weddings! The best part is being able to go to tropical locations and get paid for it!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

My wonderful amazing family gave me my dream camera for Christmas!!! Thank you Chris, Craig and Nancy for being so supportive of my business and my dreams! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!

Check it out! Isn't it fabulous!?! So far there's only one other person in St Cloud that owns this camera (according to the Central Camera) This camera was just released at the end of November so most stores don't have it yet. I am so excited!!!!!

Broken tooth

I woke up this morning to a text message from Bill with a picture of T's mouth with a half broken tooth (picture below is from my phone) and a message that said, "Call the Dentist". So I was a little frantic when I saw my baby with a broken tooth! What happened was they were wrestling and T hit her tooth on the edge of the couch and broke it. She is all fixed now thanks to our AWESOME friend Dave who happens to be a dentist! Thank you Dave!!! Dave said there wasn't any nerve damage so she should be ok, but we need to watch it over the years and she will probably need a crown someday. Nothing like just getting out of braces and busting your front tooth huh??? The wire on the back of her teeth from the orthodontist had to come off to fix her tooth, so she's also getting a new wire today. What a morning!

Fargo Trip

When we were in Fargo, my Dad took us to an egg farm. The girls loved it! Of course the kitties was their favorite part. This egg farm ships all their eggs to a plant that makes egg substitute products, but it's also open to the public to come out and pick your own eggs at a $1 a dozen.



My Mom and my Grandma's!

This is my Aunt Cindy!

Visiting Santa

I'm pretty sure in the second photo that T is telling Santa she wants another puppy :) Oh wait! I think her mom is sending her a telepathic message to ask Santa for another puppy!

Fabulous concert!

We went to the Rock-n-Roll Christmas concert last night at the Pioneer Place/Veranda. It was so great!!! All the shows are sold out but they just added a matinee! If you can, you should see it! It's on Tuesday Dec 23rd at 3:30pm. I love the Veranda! They have over 225 wines to choose from! Another great place for food and wine is Mi Famiglia! My favorite wine that I've had there so far is Ceretto Dolcetto d' Alba. It was so yummy! On Thursdays they do $5 glasses of wine! The also have the best eggplant rollatini! It's worth going just for that!

We made it safe and sound

We're home from Fargo and the blizzard only kept us there an extra day. It was a nasty one though. They even closed the mall and grocery stores. I'll post a few pictures of our trip soon. I'm busy trying to wrap Christmas presents and watch my favorite holiday movies. These are two of my favorite! I think everyone should watch them if they have time during this busy season!

"Love actually is all around us"

not feeling well

So we have all been sick this weekend. The girls are home from school today. This flu bug is lasting forever. It started with Kylah not feeling well at gymnastics Friday night and she wouldn't stop practicing because she wanted to get her front hip circle on bars...which she MADE!!! YEA KYLAH! So Saturday morning she got up and said she felt fine so we all went down to the Minneapolis Convention Center for their meet. Kylah ended up with a fever and we pumped her full of Tylenol because she refused to sit out and not compete. What a trooper! She is truly dedicated to what she does. Nothing could convince her to sit out. She still did a great job fever and all. Taylor did an awesome job too! (I will post pictures soon) We came home and we laid low and then I got sick that night and Taylor got sick the next morning. So don't come near us if you want to stay healthy! Hopefully this will pass quickly and we can get healthy for our trip to Fargo this weekend.

long weekend

We had a relaxing long weekend at the cabin over Turkey day. We just hung out and watched movies and sat in the hot tub. I brought my computer so I can keep playing catch up on work. Chris cleared off the biggest skating rink I've ever seen on a lake for the girls! It's AwEsOmE!!! We can't wait to go back and use it again! The girls made some great pumpkin bread last week. Taylor is huge into cooking and making up her own recipes. This causes quite a mess, but fun for her to experiment! The girls took turns mixing the batter. Check out their adorable aprons Sarah made for them!

Taylor and Kylah

FINALLY! We got it done! The first try of pictures the girls weren't feeling it, so we gave up. Then for our second try I promised them ice cream and boy look what ice cream can do! I wanted sassy pictures and I got it! The girls did great! We only had about 15min or so to take these because it was raining and we waited inside a building for it to clear for a few shots. I didn't get a ton of variety but I got what I wanted! I put them all up on my site so my family can see them all. Go to client proofing and the password is sassy all lower case. I haven't had time to enhance color to all of them except the ones posted here, but I will soon. Surprise, I actually love these in COLOR! So to the family and friends that would like any, just email me the number of the photo you want and I'll get it to you.

My lil' gymnasts

Here are some photos from my Turkey and Monkey's last gymnastics meet. Tomorrow they have another one in Buffalo! I'm going to try and post the video soon.

Cincinnati Pics!

We had a fabulous time on our trip! We headed to Ohio for a family friend of Chris's wedding and decided to go early and stay a little after and make it a short vacation. Cincinnati is a BeAuTiFuL city! I think I took about 15 pictures of this first bridge below. It's so cool! Nick and Jessica showed us around Cincinnati one of the days we were there. Jessica is the sister of the groom and friend of Chris from back when he lived in Cincinnati in junior high and part of high school. Her boyfriend Nick works downtown and knew all the great spots to go! I love the skyline of the city. We were actually over in Kentucky eating lunch which is just across the river. From there you can see all of downtown Cincinnati. GORGEOUS!



This is on the roof top of the tallest building downtown.

This was a super cool Market. We got there a little late, so some of the vendors were closed. Inside the building was all fresh cut meat, cheese, and salads. Outside was where all the vendors had fresh produce. Check out the man behind the fruit sticking his tongue out at me!


The two things I was told Cincinnati was famous for were Greaters Ice Cream and Skyline Chili. Skyline chili is definitely different. It comes over spaghetti noodles or a chili dog. I like the idea of the noodles, but the chili was interesting. Craig, Nancy & Chris just love it and think it's fabulous....I'm not quite convinced yet. I'm glad I got to say I've tried it now though!


The last day we were there we took a horse and buggy ride around the city with Craig and Nancy.

VACATION!!!

Tomorrow is our last day home until vacation! We are off to Cincinnati for some R&R! I can't wait to see the city! I would love to check out the gymnastics club where Amanda Borden used to train! For those of you that new me in high school, I'm sorry I made you watch her floor routine every time you came over! It was worth seeing though, right?!

Friday the girls had their 2nd gymnastics meet of the season. They did so AMAZING!!!!!!! Taylor got the highest vault score of the whole meet, a 9.7! At level 4 they don't post the scores, they only give them to the coaches, but if your Dad is the coach then you get to know your score ;) I was so exited for her! Kylah was by far the tiniest little thing out there and she did GREAT! SO CUTE! I have lots of pictures and video that I hope to post soon! Life is so crazy busy!!!

T's Birthday Party

For T's bday all the kids dressed up as animals and we went down to the Como zoo! The weather couldn't have been more beautiful! The amazingly talented Miss Sarah Erickson made Taylor and Kylah's costumes! They were a huge hit! We even had someone come up to us and ask if they were performing in a play at the zoo! How funny is that?!

On our way in the car...everyone's so excited!!! Kylah was starring out the window panting at all the cars driving by. People were laughing and waving at her! It was great fun!


Watching the monkeys...I think we spent the most time at the monkey area!

Giving their best animal faces!

We finished off the afternoon taking a few pictures on the bench then doing cake and presents!