Those that have been following my blog for a while, know that every October, we get our family pictures taken. My wonderful neighbor Amber was kind enough to come shoot the family and the pictures of Sean and I and then I did the boys. This year we went to the road by the Shaw's house/barn, because I saw that Amber did hers there and I loved the look of it.
I finished the layouts of our photo shoot. Here is the last one of the family. Hope you enjoyed them all.
Every year on Conference weekend in October, we get our family pictures taken. Usually, I set up the tri-pod and use the timer feature on my camera, but this year I asked my wonderful neighbor to do our family pictures. She also did a few of Sean and I and then I did the pictures of the boys myself.
We went for the more serious look this year so I didn't want you to think that they were mad that they were getting their picture taken, we told them to look serious on some of the shots. I think they turned out great. I edited them a bit with a 70s photo action to give them the old faded look.
We took them at Peteetneet which is an old school in Payson now turned into a museum. It actually reminds me a ton of the elementary school I went to in Colorado when I was in 1-6th grade. I think it is the same building plan because it is almost identical on the inside.
My friend Nicole let me use her new kit to scrap my pages with. I thought the colors looked good with our photos. You would never know it is actually a golf kit......
We had a family photo shoot at Thanksgiving with my family. It has taken me a while to get all of the photos edited and in layouts, but here they all are. I thought there were some cute one's. I especially love the one of Heidi, me and our Dad. The only one I didn't like was the one of Sean and I with his Steelers jacket on. The yellow just didn't go with the rest and the ones we took without the jacket all look goofy. Oh well, I think I have mentioned before that it is impossible to get all good pictures. The one regret I have is that we didn't get a picture of Jaron by himself. What was the photographer thinking? (LOL, that was me)
Well, we did our annual family photo shoot on Monday for family night. My boys like the waterfall pictures the best and I like the ones in the leaves. So, I'm posting to see what you think!? We did part of them up the canyon with the timer and the tripod as the photographer and then we did a couple in my neighbor Kelly's back yard in front of her waterfall. We only had a couple of family ones that turned out because Sean kept making a stupid face when he was telling everyone to smile (wrinkled up forehead and bug eyes), so there wasn't a whole lot of choice there. I think Tyrel is out a little far to the left, but it is pretty good.
I liked both of these. I kind of like the casualness of the one by the waterfall.
I narrowed down the choices to 6 of each boy and then I had them pick their favorite two. I did lighten up the one of Trevin for the final, this is the one before I lightened. Aren't the leaves gorgeous?
Football is over. Yes, I am kind of sad about it. It was fun to watch my boys play and I really did enjoy the games. I am glad the practices are over. It kind of takes a toll on family time when there is practice every night from 5:30 to 7:00. Then we just rush home, eat, take showers and go to bed. But anyway here are the standings for the Superbowl.
Travis - won his final game 39-0 and then WON THE SUPERBOWL 12-6. His favorite position that he played this year was noseguard. Here is his photo!
Tyrel - WON THE SUPERBOWL 13-12. It was a close game, but they managed to pull it off. Here is a picture of him tackling the running back.
Trevin - had his first flag football game and won 39-21 with Trevin scoring one of the touchdowns! I missed it because it was at the same time as Travis' game, but Dad said he did great! He was pretty excited. He had his 2nd game last Saturday and lost. I don't even remember the score, but it was pretty sad. It was Fall Break, so there were lots of kids missing, but the few remaining hung in there despite the rain. Trevin got to play center. Here is his picture!
We went to take our annual family pictures on Conference weekend. They turned out pretty well but you will all have to wait to see when you get your Christmas cards. Sean thought we should all wear Steelers sweatshirts, but I refuse to have bright yellow clothes on for a family photo, so we settled on BYU hoodies and T-shirts.
I had set a goal to do 365 scrapbook pages this year. I've done pretty well. To date I am at 350, so I believe I should be able to get those last 15 pages done before the end of the year. Now I just need to get caught up on the journaling for all of those pages. That will have to be my goal for next year. Actually, I am about 3 years behind on journaling in my scrapbooks. OOPS!
Well, first off I have to apologize for getting behind. It has been a crazy week!
I'll start off with sports. Most new stations end with sports, so I thought I'd be different. Tyrel's game 2 weeks ago Saturday they won 36-0, last Wednesday they won 48-0, and last Saturday they won 12-6. He has another game tonight and then will have his Superbowl on Saturday. It has been a fun season and in a way I'm sad to see it end. We all love the games, but I will be glad to not have to run around to practices every day. Tyrel thinks he is going to go back to soccer next year. He likes it a little better than football to play, but he loves to watch football and is one of the most avid Steelers fans you will find. His room is even decorated wall to wall with Steeler stuff.
Travis' team won their game last night 12-0 against their rivals, the other Payson team. It was a really good game, but it is getting kind of cold for these night games. They won their Saturday game 20-0 and had a bye the previous Tuesday, so only 2 scores for him. I, being the great mother and photographer that I am, left my card in my computer last week when I was dowloading pictures, so I was clicking away at the Saturday games last week and went to look at the pictures I had taken and lo and behold, there were none! UGGH! I have it safely in the camera now, so hopefully I can get some this Saturday. It is too dark at the weeknight games for me to get pictures. The field is lighted, but I can't get a decent photo ever.
Trevin tied at his game last week 0-0. That seems to be a popular score. All of the teams are pretty evenly matched this year. Tonight is his last soccer game and he starts flag football on Saturday. He is pretty excited for his first year of football. They are already asking me when they get to start basketball. I'm glad that there will be a little break before that starts although it isn't as bad because they only practice a couple of times a week instead of every day.
We want to thank everyone for their prayers and thoughts concerning my dad. He had his surgery last Wednesday. It was a long a stressful day for everyone but worth it. It went great! He ended up having a hemangioblastoma which is the fancy word for a mass of blood vessels. The Dr. said it was scary for a bit when he got to them and they started bleeding, but once he got all of them stopped everything looked clear and normal. They had ordered up blood, but for some reason Dad's red blood cell count was really high and once they got everything stopped it was back down to normal, so there was no need for a transfusion. They also said that it wasn't cancer and that it as a very low chance of growing back. He was released on Satur
day which was a couple of days earlier than they thought and has been here at our house since Sunday to be closer to physical therapy for this week. It has been great to have him here and hope he enjoys his stay with us as much as we enjoy having him here. Here is a cute picture of him in his cap and gown before surgery. Sorry dad, I couldn't resist.
We are having family pictures this weekend as long as the weather cooperates. We did have snow earlier this week which seems really early for this time of year and more storms are coming later this week, so I hope we can get them done since we all just got our hair cut and are ready to go. Will post pictures next time I update.
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