He is on the move..

This morning we found Edmen in our Christmas cards!

I wonder where we will find him tomorrow????

We have a visiter!!!

This is Edmen he is our Elf on the Shelf

Have you ever wondered how Santa could know if your naughty or nice each year as you grow? Well at Christmas time Santa sends his elf's to come and watch and see if you have been good or bad. Each night while everyone is sleeping the elf's go back to Santa and tell him everything. Each night when the elf's return they are in a new place, and you have to find them!!
This is the first year we have had Edmen our Elf! Cameran and Carley LOVE finding where he is every morning.
Here are some of the places we hove found him this week....

We found him trying to pick up on Bell this morning.... WHAT a little flirt!

My Christmas List...

So this year Conan asked me to make a LIST of what I wanted for Christmas and let me tell you it was FUN! here are some of the things that are on my list!!!!!Can you tell I'm looking to spice up my wardrobe:)

AND MORE THEN ANYTHING I WANT THIS......I can't wait!!!
To all my blogger friends out there you are tagged!! What does your Christmas list look like????

When I grow up....

I know I just posted this on my FB but it was so cute. This afternoon Cameran informed me that when she grows up she is going to spend 5 days being a mermaid and then she is going to be a musketeer! Oh to be young again when everything was that simple... On that note I'm thinking she is watching this movie a little to much!

Welcome back Melody to the blogging world!

So you don't have to say anything.... I already know I have neglected my little family blog for some time now, BUT alas it is time to stop being lazy and just BLOG!
I wanted to start by sharing some photos of our family photo shoot we had about a month ago in Utah. I'm sooo in love with these photos!
Here are some of my favorites.

They are taken my Jess from Photography By Jess! She is AWESOME.

Can you say BLOG SLACKER!

Yeah that would be me! I feel like I have just taken the summer off from all blogging. I can't seem to find the time in my days to watch the girls, edit photos, do ALL the house hold stuff and then blog. Man I admire you mommies that can do it all! You ROCK! But I guess this is the way God made me and I will just have to learn to one day except that. RIGHT?
I don't know about anyone else but it feels like this summer has just flown by. I blinked and then it was over. Ok, I think that is a country song right? Anyhow back on track, I feel like summer just started a couple weeks ago and now the girls are BOTH starting preschool next week. where did the past couple months go??? But when it comes to the girls starting school can you say AWESOMENESS! I am in SOOOOO desperate need of some alone time. I feel like my photography has had to take a back seat because the girls have been so busy. But alas I will have some QUITE time to return phone calls, edit photos, and market. I cant wait:)
So now to blog about our summer.....
We took one big family vacation this summer and it was up north to Florence, OR. It was beautiful up there. We rented a lake house and the girls swam and played in the lake while Conan fished every day. It was so relaxing and just what we needed!

The lake house we stayed out was about 10 minutes from the ocean. I'm not kidding when I say the weather felt like we were in Hawaii. It was perfect.

we has a BLAST. I cant wait for our next family vacation!
And last one of my new favorite pictures of Cameran and one cute one of Carley!

Camping at the KOA with our home group!

First let me just start off by saying this was LUXURY camping to the max! I don't know if any of you have ever been to a KOA but this was our first time and let me tell you its NICE:) They had a pool, water park, playground, miniature golf course, fishing pond, and many more fun activities for the family to enjoy.
We all had a great time and I was wishing that it would have lasted longer I wasn't quite ready to go home on Sunday. I have to say it was nice to take a shower and crawl into my own bed though!
Cameran has even requested that her next birthday be there. I'm still thinking about that one:)
Here are some photos from our trip, I did't take many photos because my brain just was on relax mode but here are the couple I got.

What am I going to do with her.....

EVERYDAY Carley is getting up on the counters and making messes eating food that she is not aloud to and just being a total two year old. But on the flip side she is pretty cute:)
Here is a photos of my little trouble maker in action naked in all:)

What cutie pies they are!

I scream you scream

We ALL scream for ICE CREAM! Hot summer days call for a visit from the good old ice cream truck!

American River Resort Vacation

What a fun weekend! Conan and I took the girls up to Coloma to go camp and white water rafting.  American River Resort was a dream, there was a pool, pond for fishing and rafting! The girls had a BLAST and it was great to spend some family time together.  We went with family friends that grew up with Conan, they are all experienced white water rafters and invited us to join us on this trip.  Conan loved rafting (I got to stay behind with the girls) but next time I'm going! Here are some photos from our weekend...

The fishing hole 

The boys on the river

      Our sweet Girls

Cameran's feeling a little Pinkalicious

So today we were killing time before we had to head over to Faith s birthday party so I took the girls to Cooperfields Book Store and let the girls pick out one book each. Right away Camerans eyes went to Pinkalicious and it was LOVE at first sight. We sat there and read it together and laughed the WHOLE time. What a cute book! She is my little Pinkerbelle,Pinkerella princess!