How to keep a 4 year old busy!

As I was in my kitchen making freezer peach pie filling and a peach pie. My sweet little Ty wanted to help soooooo bad! So after what felt like an eternity of help from him I HAD to find something for him to do. SO the question was "How to keep a 4 year old busy"? Their it was my answer laying on the bar! My point and shoot camera! So 389 photo's latter my Pie and Pie filling were done! Below is just a few of his fantastic photo's. Note none of the photo's of my butt were saved!

Note Ty's reflection in the stove front! lol 

WInd and crashing tree's!

Well as you can see our yard was amongst many others that felt the wrath of the storm saturday night! Steven and I were laying in bed late saturday night when we heard a LOUD crash. When we went to the window it was dark so it was hard to see what happened over in that corner of the yard. So we went back to bed. Well the next morning Slade and Ty got up and decided to go outside. In they came running  as fast as their little legs could carry them up the stairs and into our room they burst!  Words were flying out of there mouth's in the excitement we finally got out of them that the neighbors tree had fallen and the gods were mad!  Now before I continue I have to add to the story the my boys LOVE the movie Percy Jackson and the lightning thief. So at this point they started telling us that Zeus, Poseidon , and Hades are mad at each other and made the tree crash. I started laughing and said they were not real. To which they told me "MOM can't you PRETEND"! They then spent the rest of the day out on that tree making huts and climbing! They will be so sad when the tree removers come and cut it up and haul it away.

Far and few between!

So this past summer has been bad for me with blogging. I have just been so busy with kids, Primary, and Photography I have just not had a lot of time to blog! I am hoping with school starting next week I will find the time to do quiet a few things that have been neglected because of summer. School shopping is done in our home. I have to admit though that Steven did most of the boys shopping for me! As for Rachel we made one 2 hour trip to the mall and was done! AND I even picked me up a really great handbag while I was there lol....... I have been doing a lot of photo shoots lately and am loving it! But then I don't foresee me ever getting sick of it. I am however having my 2 am wake up calls!. For those who have no idea what I mean I will explain. I LOVE doing photo's however I will wake up at oh say 2 am or 3am and get the best inspiration for awesome photo shoots I want to do! The next step is finding the right person to go along with my crazy idea's. Well I have had inspiration for 4 inspired or crazy photo shoots. I have all my models on board. Now we just have to set the dates! I am not going to give away to much info but I will drop one hint about each shoot 1) Stilettos and skinny jeans 2) Sweat & heavy equipment 3) A sheet and well not much more lol 4) WWII Old Hollywood glamor! My goal is to do all these shoots before fall or I will go insane all winter waiting to do them! I am still hoping to get a few more fun family outing's in before winter on the list :
1 Motorcycle trip to Cainville
2 Picnic and tour of "This is the place monument and village"
3 Motorcycle trip and camping to Delle
4 Photo shoot of my kids in fall leaves
5 One more fishing trip
6 And a few more great BBQ's in the Backyard!

Mother Daughter party!

The other night was the ward mother daughter party. Each table had to do toilet paper and napkin dresses. Well rachel was the youngest at our table so she got nominated! She was such a good sport. Me and Jubilee went for a 80's Prom theme on our dress! It was really a ton fun!