February 24, 2009

Say Cheese!

I've been taking these photography lessons and it's been so much fun. I love seeing progress in my pictures, so I decided to start a photography blog. Here's the link to anyone that's interested, I won't feel offended if you don't care to look, just don't tell me my pictures suck and we're all good.

Disneyland Here We Come...


...hopefully. For years I have been trying to get Raegan from stop sucking her thumb, and for years I have failed miserably. It hit me the other day when I saw Raegan sucking her thumb while she played Webkinz on the computer, and every time I asked her to take her thumb out of her mouth, it automatically popped back in.
We've tried rewards, we've tried punishments, nothing has worked...until now. I have been dying to take the kids to Disneyland, but we just haven't been able to yet, so now that Kurt has a job, I decided to make that Raegan's reward if she stops sucking her thumb. She has a chart with over 100 squares on it and she gets a sticker every day she doesn't suck her thumb. She is so excited about this, we've tried the chart before, but never with a reward as cool as Disneyland, there isn't a reward better then that is there?
To remind her not to suck her thumb I put a bandaid on it, and this works like a charm. She slept the entire night last night with the bandaid on, and didn't suck her thumb!!! This is a huge break through for my non-stop thumb sucking daughter.

February 9, 2009

Finally Pictures of Christmas Dresses








So I've been taking photography classes from the world's best photographer, and I'm loving it!!! Jen's been teaching me all sorts of tips and tricks, if you ever need a photographer she's the one to call. I love that she isn't afraid, or reluctant to share her knowledge.
This Christmas I wasn't able to take my girls pictures in their dresses, so with tons of help from Jen I took my girls photos. I know it will take years before I'm great at it but for the time being, I'm happy with the way they turned out and I had so much fun doing it and learning. Thanks Jen, you are the BEST!!!!
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