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Credits: Whitie Tighties by Amy Teets
Stamped Moments brush set by Katie Pertiet

My Kids

You probably have been wondering why I haven't

done any cute layouts with my kids in them.

Well here you go. I just bought a black backdrop.

(Fun Fun Fun!!) And I took these awesome pics

of the kids today. And I worked up this lovely

layout. I still need to work on the lighting a

little bit. But with Photoshop I can tweak

things so they don't look so bad.

Before

After

LIZ HAS GLASSES

I will put this in a cute layout tonight or tomorrow.

But Liz wouldn't let me rest till I got this on the blog.

Howdy Cowboy!

As you can see I am having fun with Photoshop.

This is a collage of Jake's western gear. I am going

to enlarge it to a 16x20 and have it framed for his birthday.

Don't worry, he doesn't read this blog.

Family Tree

Today I have been cleaning out my bedroom closet.

Wow I found some great things. One is the catalog

of the family tree that I gave to my parents and to

Jake's parents a couple of years ago for Christmas. I

couldn't remember the name of the company or the

site to which I bought it from. Which made me mad, because

I wanted one for our family and never bought one for

us. And others have asked me where I had got them

and I couldn't tell them. So for all who want them

I got them from the company called "Once Upon a Family".

They can be found at www.onceuponafamily.com

And actually the other reason I am putting this information

on the blog is because I am going to throw the catalog

away and I needed somewhere to put the information

where I wouldn't loose it again. So hopefully I will

remember that I put the information on my blog. And some

further information about finding it on the site. ( For me and others)

Look on the left hand side under"Family Heritage".

All right back to cleaning. Hope you guys all have a wonderful

day!!!!

Hyrum

Hyrum has joined the ranks of the crazy cowboys

of the family. I have some pictures from Winter Range

that I will post in the next few days. Here is my new layout from

my scrapbooking class. Girls if you want to check out this

class, look at www.JessicaSprague.com there is some

great stuff. These pictures of Hyrum are actually from

his first shoot in November when we were up for

Thanksgiving.

Yeah my second lay out is done. Thanks to Kari for

a little bit of tech support. And new ideas on how to

support my addiction!! This beautiful girl is my niece

Brooke. She is such a cutie. Check out some cute

video of her on her The Lillywhites blog!!

I found something very addicting!!!

I am taking an online digital scrapbooking class so

I can figure out how to play around with photoshop

a little more. A friend told me about this class and

loves it. I had my first class this week. And this is

my first 12 x 12 layout. How cute is Ezra? So you

will hopefully be seeing more cute posts from me.

I have to appologize for not updating my blog lately. I am sitting here in the kitchen having my carpets cleaned. And to wait for it to get done I have been amusing myself by looking through the family blogs. And since I have no new pictures I thought I would just post a note to everyone.
I have a new job. I haven't told a ton of people yet because I have been so busy at it that I haven't had a chance to call or email or obviously update my blog about it. I am a baby photographer. I work for a company that is called "Our 365 Portraits." AFter the new year I was feeling discouraged with the Real Estate business. The market is bad here. Homes are not selling and I am was putting in more money than I was making. I went to a great Conference in Las Vegas in November and I figured out how to make more money in this type of market. Shovel more money and work about 80 hours a week. Well I didn't want to shell out more money. I am actually trying to make money to pay to finish my mouth. And I didn't want to sacrifice time with my family and put in too many hours working. I have talked to a couple of successful mothers in Real Estate and the one complaint they had is that it took too much time away from the family. So I was talking to Meredith when she did her little job change and I thought I should do the same thing. So I found this cute job. I get to play with babies all day. I wish I could post some of my pictures, because some of the kids I photograph are just the cutest. I take pictures of babies as young as 1 month all the way up to 7 years old. And I take a few family pictures as well. Ofcourse working this job has gotten my photography bug flaired up again and so ofcourse now I want a Digital SLR. And I have been reading a ton on photography. I am focusing on lighting right now and trying to figure that whole thing out. It is a fun job but sometimes very challenging. Because babies and toddlers do have a mind of their own.

I do promise pictures soon. We are having a visit from Papa and Nana and Hyrum this week. It is the week of Winter Range and they are coming to shoot. So we should have some fun pitures soon. And Ryon and the boys are coming at the end of the month for spring training.

I love you all and love your blogs. I think it is such a great way to keep in touch with one another.

Love,

Amy