casting call (kind of )

first of all, i don't even know if anyone reads this blog, so i guess we'll find out. i am looking for two pregnant women out there who are due sometime in the near future (end of january/february/march) who think they might like some newborns done of their baby. i am hoping to gain some experience by practicing with your newborn. i can't promise perfect pictures because this is a practice session for me and they're free *yeah*! i would hold these sessions in my own home because let's face it, i know the lighting in my home like the back of my hand, and all of my supplies are here. we would have to do it within the first 10 days of your baby's life. the baby tends to be more sleepy and more willing to let us play. i am hoping to get one baby girl and one baby boy if possible, but if not, that's okay.

so, if you think you would be interested let me know! you can either email, call or leave a comment on this blog. i kind of hesitate to leave my email address on the blog, but i think most of you either have it already or have a way to find it, right? if you aren't pregnant but know someone who is, let them know! thanks.

our little memorizer

katelyn has always been a very good memorizer. she learns to sing songs by herself very quickly, she remembers lines from movies she has seen, and recently she started memorizing scriptures.

before we started having her memorize scriptures, we just thought it would be a fun thing to do. but as we progressed along, i became amazed with how much memorizing these scriptures made an impact on her and me. we picked our scriptures right out of the friend magazine which has a page dedicated to one scripture with a correlating picture every month. this made it easy enough to explain and help her remember the subject of the scripture she was memorizing. after we began, i noticed that she started paying attention in sacrament meeting better. i can still remember one sunday after she had memorized a scripture, she kept leaning into me saying, they said commandments, they said righteous and so on. i know for me, i thought having katelyn memorie a scripture meant we would have to set aside a specific time to do this, but that wasn't so. it was amazing how many little moments we were able to find together to memorize. while katelyn was in the tub, driving to the store, sitting on the couch together, at the dinner table, wherever. it was a great moment together to talk about the scriptures and have some good mommy-daughter time. i can honestly say that this has been such a neat experience and would highly recommend this to anyone that is interested.

on a side note: at first we started memorizing one scripture a month, but soon found that the sciptures were getting jumbled in her head, so we slowed it down a little. maybe your child wouldn't have a problem with this though.

two last things: i think i sound a little bossy in this video and wow, i can't believe how much her speech has changed since the summer!

i've been meaning to get this up

i know christmas has come and gone now, but i meant to get this up before christmas. then the week before we left for utah i was running around like a chicken with it's head cut off...so that didn't happen.

i know we wrote a little bit in our card, but we wanted to add that 2010 was a fabulous year for us. we love being here in milwaukee and although we miss our families, we are grateful to be surrounded by so many good people. we were most definitely blessed and well taken care of. we are very grateful for birth of our Savior Jesus Christ, and hope that we can remember those feelings of peace and joy the christmas season brought in this new year.