Bristol Meets Nash

Our good friends Brody and Cara VB have an adorable little dog-Nash. He is just a tiny 3lb yorkie that is so stinking cute. (I love little dogs, if you can't tell, Sam's just not a fan). Of course, the first thing that Bristol does is grab onto his hair and pulls him towards her mouth. A little gross, but at least she knows what a dog tastes like, I guess. I also took a couple other pics, I loved Cara's red chair. Too bad Bristol didn't have a matching outfit on!

Happy Birthday Michael Swenson

We had a fun Saturday a couple of weeks ago at the Swenson's celebrating Michael's first birthday. It is always a fun time when the Kelly's get together. It was great to see everyone and to play with all the kiddos. Bristol, of course, was passed around from person to person, as she is now accustomed to. Sam and I love it because she is entertained by others. It was great to see everyone, even Don and Kathy from Oregon made the trip out to Utah! We love all of you guys and hope we can all get together soon! See some of you in GJ for Thanksgiving, can't wait!!
P.S. Gracy and Gom- Aunt Kathy was dying for me to take those pics of her for you guys!

Her Very Own Room

I finally finished the crib and got it all set up with her amazing bedding that I just "had to have." No regrets there because it is to die for. I love it! So her last night in her pack in play and her first night in here crib was just a bitter sweet moment for me. She's just growing up too fast! (I'm still working the nursery, more pics to come. Oh and sorry Lisa, the picture of the crib before was on the lovely hard-drive. Maybe in about 5 years I will post it! :))

Family Pictures in October

On Tuesday night, October 12, 2010, we trekked out to the Salt Flats, about 10 minutes from Windover, NV, to snap some awesome family pictures. This has been something I've been dying to do (I wanted our engagements out here, but you all know how Sam is about pictures). We made it out there our 5:45pm and had about an hour and a half to get all the shots we wanted. Our good friends, the VB's, were sweet enough to make the trip with us and get amazing pictures. I am still working on the editing but I will get them up asap. Stay on the edges of your seats because they are well worth the wait, I promise!! P.S. We also took some in the studio the next week, I will post those too, and by then Bristol could sit on her own. Crazy how in one week things change so much with this little girl!

Caught You!

Blackmail for her first boyfriend! Sam text me while I was at work one night and said that Bristol is sucking like crazy on her toes. I told him to hurry and snap a picture so we could keep it for her first boyfriend. :) He will be one lucky guy!

More Pictures of Bristol.. Of Course!

Here a just some pictures I took of Bristol wearing the shoes we bought for her before she was born that I used as a prop in my maternity pictures. The other pictures are of her wearing 2 sweaters that were my mom's when she was a baby and that I wore as well, vintage!

Devastation on the Home Front.. At Least for Me!

I think this happens to a lot of people at least once. I dropped our external hard drive, which was the back up to our crashing computer(we deleted everything from it, of course). It's been a rough couple of weeks. Basically, the result- A physically damaged device that has to be sent out to a company that can take out the drive and look at it in a clean room(a particle free room) which is going to end up costing us around $500-$1000. Worth it, you ask? Heck yes! Can we afford it right now? Heavens no. So, this little device that holds all of our precious memories [engagements, wedding pics (thank goodness for hard copies), all of Bristols pics(this is what tears me up inside), videos of Bristol(another one that rips me apart) and much more] is being stored in my dresser drawer between about 5 shirts of padding. I was/am devastated, called Sam and cried, a lot. But, what can you do? I've been taking pictures and videos of Bristol doing the things she's already done- rolling over, sucking out a straw, laughing, and so on. Typical mother who wants to capture every moment on video. The one thing I keep saying is we still have memories and our little girl.