Dancing Queen

Future Dancer? I see performing potential.....You be the judge.... ;)

Notice that while Kate sticks to a furious routine of mostly Riverdance/Tap, Haylee's moves include a combination of the robot, some tap, a little jazzercize and some funk! Work it OUT!!!!

Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam--REMIX dance party version (coming soon to Itunes)!

I'd say at least three nights a week the girls get dressed up in something "pretty" and perform for us. I use "us" loosely, because, as you can see, Kate is happy to perform for herself in the window reflection, TV reflection, mirror...any reflection at all really! Usually the performance has already begun by the time we find her. I have video after video with the girls (mostly Kate--Haylee comes and goes during the show) dancing and singing. These are a couple of my very favorites, I wish that I knew how to edit video so that I could make a highlights video.

I'll work on that!

I think she's ready to try dance classes again next year!

Easter Pictures

A few weeks ago I was driving around town looking for train track access and instead I found this beautiful field of poppies. It was in a private yard, so I went to the door and left my business card with a note asking if I could come back and use their amazing yard for a session...no particular session in mind....wink wink. The owner called me that night. Turns out she's a friend of a friend who has seen my work before. She is such a nice lady and was very excited to let me use her yard! Yay!!!! I took the girls out that next weekend. At first they didn't know what to think. They carefully stepped around all of the flowers--freaked out about the bees once or twice and were absolute angels the entire time. I can't wait to go back next year with clients! This year I kept it exclusive to my girls! :)

"Go get ready for bed, girls......."

.....and this is what we got! Busy nightlife I guess!

Build-A-Bear

I'm finally getting around to posting some pictures from Spring Break. We stayed home for most of the break--which was sooooo nice! The last weekend of the break we went to Eugene to go to Build-A-Bear with Liss, Cade, Ava and Gram. Gram has started a B-A-B tradition with all of the grandkids. The Utah grandkids have been loving their special friends from Gram, and now it was the Oregon grandkids' turn to share the fun! The kids all stood outside of the store for several minutes looking at all the options. When Gram announced it was time to choose their "bear" they all gave her a big hug of excitement!

Haylee chose a frog and named it "Froggy"

Kate chose a dog and named it "Puppy" but has since changed it's name to "Doggy" now that she has a puppy to go with it.

Here they are with their loot. They had such a great time! Thank you Gram for starting such a neat tradition! Haylee wouldn't go to bed tonight until I found Froggy....and his shirt....and his shorts...........which are girl clothes, but froggy has become a boy all of a sudden. ;)

Big News!!!!

I never thought the day would come! We'd like to announce the arrival of our newest family members......

3 new baby tigers.

Kate delivered them just a few minutes ago. It was quite impressive, and she did really well through the whole ordeal. I am always amazed at the resiliency of my children.

Details: At approximately 11:20 am I heard Kate gagging and choking from the other room. I ran in to see what was wrong (prepared to do the Heimlich maneuver) and she was writhing around on the ground--clearly in a lot of discomfort. After stopping to let me make sure that she wasn't dying, she got right back to work. She coughed out one kitten, then another, then a third!!!!

When I asked her where they were coming from she pointed to her tummy and said, "They in my tummy, then my throat, then my mae-outh." With a look that clearly said, "DUH!"

I'm pleased to report that all three of the imaginary tigers are healthy and quite cute--aside from being surprisingly noisy for imaginary kittens. We rushed them to the studio shortly after their arrival for an emergency photo session--at Kate's request.

What a good momma!