so i know i totally cant bake (im actually not that great of a cook either but anyway….) so this morning while trying to come up with some fun kitchen activities for my kids and me to do on our second snow day, i set my sights low and thought of the perfect baking treat….rice krispie cookies.
rice krispie cookies are the beginning baker’s delight… “3 ingredients” is what the recipe on the side of the box claims.  i figured i could do that while vacuuming the kitchen.
having fully come to terms with my (lake of) baking abilities last year when i was assigned cupcakes as the preschool mom treat to bring and nearly broke andrews classmate’s teeth on them, i was determined to follow the recipe exactly  as it was written.  so i instructed elle to read it carefully: keep the burner low, have the 9×13 ready and the rice krispies measured.  so she did. but our marshmallows wouldnt melt!  we seriously stirred them for 20 minutes…tag teamed because our arms hurt so much from stirring.  finally the marshmallows just turned into a giant blob (not the melted buttery substance i was imagining it would become).  so i threw in the rice krispies and kneaded them into the marshmallow blob until i had rice krispie treat pieces stuck to every finger and halfway up my arm.  oh my word.  seriously. i cant even make rice krispy treats????
next time i will buy jett puffs.  maybe that was the problem…?

every january i update my website. i change the pictures, restructure it to be more user friendly, tweak collections to line up more with what i heard clients asking for.  this year i started from scratch. i wanted a cleaner look, a link to facebook, and a site that you could view from your mobile phones.  so… after long last, it is finally finished!!  so check it out!

and, as always…no posting without pictures!!  here are a couple of sweet dude sessions from this summer.

i am offering a few new things this year, so i wanted to get some pictures of them to get you excited

this is the leather assembled album available in 11×14, 8×10 and 5×5 sizes with lay flat pages and a classic clean look.

the 8×10 album comes with the child keepsake session and is a fabulous way to get all the pictures from their milestones in one place each year!

loved working with my dear friend, jodie, to get some pictures of her rockin’ family this summer.  it’s hard to imagine now as i freeze my bootie off, but i vaguely recall it being about ninety degrees this night and we didnt even start shooting until about 8:45pm.  haha…and everyone except jodie rolled with the heat… that scarf was killin her!

but anyway, i love this girl. she is a great friend… she’s super generous, a thoughtful listener, and she loves Jesus.  and it sounds cliche, but she really was placed (more like dropped) into my life at a perfectly ordained time… and im so grateful.