the life of a fotobug

Sunday, November 6, 2011

halloween...

these are all SOOC (straight out of camera)...had no time to edit this week yet.

chloe as a witch...

brinley went with a MSU fan costume...something that took her about 10 minutes to complete.

jordan went with a soccer player...super easy & always on hand at this house!

and all 3 together...

the weather actually cooperated for the most part. it was in the 40's & dropped down into the 30's by the time we finished. the wind was blowing when we first started...but it died down. we trick-or-treated for 2.5 hours!! definitely enough time for some considerable loot! buck took jordan & her 2 friends to a haunted house that was put on by a nearby family in a subdivision up the street. it was free as long as each person entering brought a can of food to donate to the local foodbank! LOVE that!

Monday, October 31, 2011

just ask....bucket list

what are some items on your bucket list?
do you have one?
i haven't written mine down anywhere to record them...but i have a visual list.
*go on an african safari
*see the northern lights
*travel around europe
*fly in a hot air balloon
*dye my hair
*take a scrapbook cruise with girlfriends.
*have professional family photos taken by my amazing friend jaymee foster
*go on a sisters/mom trip to NYC
*run a 5K
*continue to donate blood every 56 days for the rest of my life
*go on a sled-dog trip (one day trip)
*ride on an elephant
*swim with dolphins
*have a house on the river somewhere in our valley
*flyfish in new zealand

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Monday, September 19, 2011

happy birthday to my brinley!

12 years ago, 9-19-1999, at 4:44pm, brinley grace marie was born! happy birthday my sweet girl!

here she is at just a week old...

and at her one week check-up...

"check-up" pictures are kind of weird to upload & share but it's all i have on my computer of her as a baby...these 3 pictures. my negative scanning hasn't went past 1997. it's on hold right now. but on my to-do list.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

let the games begin...

jordan's first game was against livingston. they tied 2-2.
brinley worked on her homework.

the sunshine was short lived. rained pretty good in spurts. good thing i had the umbrellas & blankets in the car.

jordan LOVES playing in the rain! it's her favorite!

there was actually a triple rainbow! never seen one of those before?! the bottom of the rainbow is a double stacked.

chloe is also playing soccer this fall. she's purple...the purple dolphins! she's excited to have a "girl color".

she absolutely loves doing throw-ins...

her bestie twin sister friends, brooke & jenny are on her team. they often goof around on the field & during breaks!

so HOT! not our normal soccer cool weather! but we'll take it!

parent bridge...

labor day weekend...

for labor day weekend we headed up to canyon ferry lake. the first night because of a misunderstanding in directions we ended up at our friends ranch 45 minutes later than what we were suppose too. oh well. we didn't eat dinner until 10pm! we were all starving. the next morning we slowly got around & ate breakfast. packed all our gear up & headed to the lake. cody & his family, chase & his family, their mom were meeting us there as well. our friends with whom we stayed with the first night have a house boat...they were toodling out into the lake while we went & found cody & everyone. we then tied the boats together & anchored down. one of the big draws to the house boat is that you can jump off the top of it.

kim & kylee hanging out on the top of the house boat.

kim's daughter, kiah, jumping off the boat...

chloe swimming around with craig watching everyone jump.

jordan brought along one of her best friends, jonathan for the weekend.

he didn't hesitate at all by jumping off the house boat, but i don't have any photos of his jumps.

buck & chloe swimming around

cody jumping off the boat...

it took quite some convincing for jordan to jump. buck was in the water waiting for her to jump...after about 20 minutes she finally did it!

love her look of accomplishment...she just kept saying over & over, "i did it, i did it!!"

craig diving off...

megan & axcin...

when there is music to be heard, there will be moves coming from this girls' body! she loves to dance & boy does she have soul (i think i've said that many times on here).

buck making the jump...

leta, megan & kara...

leta's puppy, bitsy, stayed inside her bag in the floor of the boat the entire time. so dang cute!

chase, axcin & keelin

brinley...loves to be in the water swimming around, but does NOT like the tube!

megan & axcin...LOVE this shot!

axcin & his mohawk i gave him :)

that night we sat around the camp fire & made smores, ate dinner (for the kids...it happened in that order), drank some brewskies (well the guys did) & chatted until 1am at least. i had fun entertaining myself trying to get shots around the campfire.
chloe...

jordan & jonathan...

and i must say after this trip...we watched them interact & their friendship! just amazing friends! & so much respect for each other!

buck says, cheers!

when there is a campfire...jordan always is snapping pics!

brinley just hangs out!

sunday the weather was pretty dicey & throwing some major wind into the equation. so we took our boat with all 17 of us & headed for a cove.
megan & axcin...

our last day...monday...
we found a little cove to drop all the kiddos off to play at the "beach" & the boys & i headed out on the boat to get some major tubing in.
jordan, zane & jonathan...

first up was buck & chase:

i love this shot! love the action freezing motion & the water spray behind the tube!

next up- chase & cody (the brothers).
buck had previously looked up tubing on youtube & found a way to get the most "action" into the playbook. they had a fun time for certain!

they hit heads & the tube landed upside down in the water! but they got back on!

then this shot! OMG...i can't believe how crisp it is, perfect lighting (i was being pulled with the light on their faces, woot) & the action...just amazing!