Our first family pictures!

I have wanted to take family pictures for a while now. Since Friday was such a beautiful day, we headed up Provo Canyon to take pictures. I had all these fun ideas, but I couldn't get the hubby to do them. Maybe next time ;) We used our trusty tripod to take most of the pictures. It's no easy task trying to figure out poses when you need to be in the picture too. I'm happy with the way they turned out. I know I'm biased, but I think I have a cute little family!

One from tonight

We went out and took family pictures today. Here is just one of them...

Much more to come!

Because it's too funny not to...

I have to post these pictures because honestly it's too funny not to. Often times when we go to get the baby out of her car seat or pick her up out of the crib, this is what we find...

She grabs her headband and pulls it over her eyes. She never cries about it. She just moves her head side to side trying to figure out what is going on. I need to get it on camera one of these times. Every time I look at it I start to laugh. I hope it brings a smile to your face!

Bybee family

I seriously have the greatest in-laws in the world! We get together every 2nd Sunday of the month. Last month when we got together we took family pictures. It was so cold, but the kids didn't seem to mind since it was at a playground! Here are a few of the pics...the pictures of the kiddos are classic.

Family is the greatest! I can't wait to spend Christmas with them.

On the first day of Christmas...

I have the most creative mother-in-law. For all of her grandchildren she does the 12 days of Christmas. This year it is focused on food storage. Which, I'm so grateful for, since my food storage consists of 2 weeks of groceries. By the end of week one, we are already running low on food. This is probably the reason my hubby can't gain any weight. Sorry! I'm excited to get my rear in gear and get started on food storage. 

Yesterday was the first day of Christmas and the activity was making fudge. Before you judge us, just remember this is our first attempt at making fudge. It shouldn't be that difficult right? Wrong! 

The first problem: we didn't have a candy thermometer. However, the instructions said that if we boiled it for about 5 minutes it should be the temperature needed. LIES!

Second problem: we used the wrong size pot. Don't make this mistake. The mixture is supposed to be boiling the whole time and since our pot was too small it kept overflowing. We had to keep removing the pot from the heat. Good luck getting it to the right temperature when the pot isn't even on the burner! 

Third problem: we almost burnt down the kitchen. The pot overflowed a little too much and went all over the burner. The whole kitchen was filled with smoke! Haha. Who knew we were so fudge retarded.

After cooling the fudge for hours and not setting we put it in the freezer for about an hour. Here is the result...

 

I don't think it's supposed to look like frosting? 

Well my poor hubby was craving fudge so we decided to attempt it again at 9 o'clock last night. We had to run to the store to get the ingredients and get a candy thermometer. It turns out WinCo only has meat thermometers, so we decided to attempt it without one again. 

The picture of my hubby is priceless!

Our baby is totally getting a kick out of watching us attempt to make fudge.

I'm happy to say, it kinda turned out!

Word of advice to those of us who are baking challenged...save yourself some time, go to the bakery, and buy fudge!

Merry first day of Christmas!

"Oh Scrap!"

I just recently learned how to do digital scrapbooking. Can i just tell you it's addicting? I haven't printed any of my pages out yet, but i can't wait to see how they turn out. Here are just a few of the pages I've done...

If you have Photoshop or Photoshop Elements you can totally do this. There are tons of websites with free kits. You can make your pages for free and all you pay for is printing! My favorite part about digital scrapbooking is there is no mess to clean up when you're finished. Also, I love the fact that it's digital pictures you're working with. You can crop and edit them any way you would like and you don't have to ruin a printed picture! It's definitely not for everyone, but it is my new hobby.

My very first photoshoot

Well of course my very first photo shoot was of my baby girl! I have to be honest, I thought taking pictures of a newborn would be easy peasy lemon squeezy. Boy way I wrong. I had all of these outfits and hair pieces I wanted to take her pictures in. But of course, once we got to the site for pictures, she was hungry. She also didn't like the bright sun. Lucky for me, she is just so stinking cute. She is the one that makes the pictures look cute.

My next images are black and white and I can't decide which i like best: high contrast or subtle. I posted one of each. What do you think?

Of course I had to add this picture. This is the face she gave us as soon as we put her in her car seat to go home...

Maybe next photo shoot I'll catch her with her eyes wide open! I love this girl!

Random moments from the day...I was playing with her after I fed her and of course she started filling her pants. I was laughing because she was doing some serious grunting. Well I was all laughs until I felt something warm on my lap. Yeah, she totally pooped through her pants. So i put her in the bath..which is totally the best part of the day! She loves taking baths. She laughs and smiles and splashes around the whole time. While I was washing her face and she somehow grabbed the wash cloth and started sucking on it. I guess she liked the water. Ha Ha! She is so cute. She makes my day!