Once again..

..I'm a little behind, but at least i'm doing it right?! Last weekend was of course 4th of July weekend as you all know so I thought I would share a few photos. I just realized after looking what photos to put on here, I didn't take that many. oops. I just didn't want to be tied to my camera all weekend. Shaylin has some ones of us on the water.


Wednesday night my mom, sister, and niece came down to go to the Oquirrh Mountain temple open house. What an amazing temple. I love it.

I loved this picture of Mckenna and Jackie so I HAD to put it on.

Doesn't my mom look extra summery.. her apron and shirt match the watermelon. Cute mom. :)


And I had to capture this moment of Mckenna eating the watermelon. If you look close she has watermelon dripping down her chin. She loves watermelon that's for sure.




The yummy dessert Kendra made for us on Sunday. I ate a lot of it and thought it was okay b/c there were fresh strawberries and fresh blueberries to make up for it. I made those toppers one day at work and was going to make cupcakes but that would be too much dessert in one weekend. Inspiration found on this blog.

Hope you had a great 4th!
Love
-L

New American Crafts Stuff Already?!

Yes that's right folks! American Crafts is giving you a sneak peak of their new lines! Here are some of the samples that I made withe the new product. I had a lot of fun with all these new lines. They are awesome!

Here is the Junior line:

Cannot forget about cute little Max! Isn't he the cutest ever!? Thanks Ashlee for the picture. Send more whenever you want of your cute boys. :)

American Crafts' everyday line known as Blue Skies:


The new Valentine line I Heart You. Love it!

And of course I have to put my cute little Mckenna in here as well. :)






And then there is the new Christmas line, Merrymint:

Check more goodies on American Crafts' Blog.

Love,
-L

Balloon photoshoot: Take 2

Remember when I took a photoshoot with my friend Shaylin? Well, my other friend and co-worker Paige wanted to do the same thing and I said I would be more than happy to do it. Paige got her little sister Allie and her friend Bianca to be the models. This was way fun! Especially to have two people in the picture together. I was experimenting by using different actions to see which ones I really liked. I still can't decide. By the way, these are out of order. Enjoy!




We saw this random shopping cart at the park where we were. Not even close to a grocery store. This one with the two of them in the shopping cart will probably have to be my favorite one of the whole bunch and Paige took it! Good job paige!









And of course we had to do a few jumping pictures!

Love,
-L

I had to....

add this to top off the weekend.




(don't mind my voice)

Father's Day Weekend

Here are a few things that I did this past weekend:

Watched Mckenna ride her bike and tell us all about it.


Mckenna earned her bike and she loves it! Look how proud and happy she is!


The soil was awesome!! It was somewhat damp when we started and then it started to rain when we got done planting. Then the sun came out the first of the week. How perfect is that?!



We planted the garden on Saturday. It was great bonding time with just my dad and me.


Kendra and everyone else showed up at the last part. I don't look that great because it was raining on my dad and me while were were planting the garden. (check out how pink my hand got from the seeds!)


I taught Mckenna how to throw the pop-its! She loved it. What great entertainment for only a dollar. I love her at this age because she loves to show you all the different things she can do as a big girl.
And this was on my way back to my place Sunday night. Pictures cannot describe how pretty this rainbow was! The fields were so bright and GREEN and then you had two FULL rainbows in the fields. So pretty.

I also went on a 10 mile bike ride with my mom. How lucky am I to spend time alone with my parents. I love them so much! Can't wait for the 4th of July weekend now!

Love,
-L

Remember how cool

.... and amazing my co-workers are?! Well Nichole is just that! This Saturday Nichole will have a booth at the Bijou market with all her crafty stuff. Come see how creative and amazing she is. Her stuff will just blow you away that you'll want to buy something from her. It's also free to get into the market to see all the different booths. See more at the Bijou Market of what's going to be there.



This is just a little sneak peak of what Nichole will have in her booth! If you don't have anyone to go with, you can sure come with me because I will definitely be there.

Love,
-L

HOLY BALLOONS...

...are the coolest way to take happy pictures! I thought that this was worth posting in front of my Arizona trip photos.
Shaylin and I decided that we needed to be creative again. I've seen so many different photos with balloons so I told Shaylin we need to get balloons and take pictures! We went to this really cool park to take them. We had a lot of fun doing it! If anyone else is interested in doing it with us, we would be more than glad to do it with you! Oh and balloons make me happy!
















Love,
-L