We are back!

So back from Disneyland...kind of sad I know. Although, I am happy to be back home. All in all the trip (meaning car ride) was fairly sucessful, only a few minor melt downs, mostly of course, when we broke the news that we were on our way home this time (did not go over very well with Tasia as you can imagine. I firmly believe that Tasia would rather live there than here! I mean really, where does a princess belong? Living in Sleeping Beauty's gorgeous castle, or back in our plain old house...hmm not much to debate.) Anyway, it's about 1:00 in the morning here, and my brain is not functioning as it should...so here are some pics!

Pincher Creek...

So we are in Pincher Creek, and I must admit, as much as I love my family, and I do love my family here, they are fabulous, I'm just a tad bored. I know, how can that possibly be in Pincher Creek? That's crazy talk. Alas, it is true, Pincher Creek is not exactly the hub of excitement...At least we will have many adorable subjects to take pictures of (boy it's a good thing all my family here has cute children of their own!) so that will be fun. We have actually got our first session for tonight (a brand new baby girl!...and of course a cute little boy!)
Now the wedding pictures I'm very excited for, well the prebridal ones anyway. Shara is coming out tomorrow to do that...and of course my little Tasia, the flower girl, will get to come out and have some done too (poor thing, the camera is practically attached to her, but that is what she gets when both Grandma and Mommy take pictures), with such pretty subjects they can only turn out cute...right? Now as for the actual wedding ones, I am slightly more nervous, that's only like a girls most special day right? Hey no pressure or anything.

Hmmm...time to update!

Well, I guess it`s been long enough without an update, sorry about that, we have actually been very busy with our photography...gosh, there is so much to learn, we practically have enough books to cover the entire photography section in a library!!! I had no idea (but if you get the urge check out our photography blog it is athousandwordsphotography1.blogspot.com) but it`s been really great just being able to do it. So what`s new...well it`s Wade`s 29th birthday tomorrow...he is practically ancient. Just Kidding, but don`t tell him he`s almost 30 because that doesn`t go over so well, but it`s still funny...trust me.
I also just finished up packing for our Alberta trip...yes, I enjoyed every second of it. Ahhh the sound of the zip from the zip lock bag...music! (I`m glad many of you have come to see the many benefits if the zip lock bag for travel, now not only am I a little crazy, but I have now managed to convince others to join me. No worries, I`m sure we will have much more fun on this side of sanity, I have enjoyed a good amount of time over here, and I like it!) Even better though was packing for me. Fun...ha right! I love when you have to try on your outfits ahead of time to make sure they fit properly, because heaven forbid you should end up with a bunch of outfits that accentuate that last 5 pounds you need to lose, that always looks so attractive! But, on the brighter side, it`s fun to `pre-trip`shop...little Miss Kelly Ann is coming with us to Pincher, so of course she had to make a few trips to the mall. I love that place and I firmly believe that it loves me too. Is it bad when your favorite stores employees know who you are, so well in fact, that when you don`t show up with your kids they ask you where they are? I didn`t think so either, I was just checking. Anyway, even more than our company, I think Kelly is looking forward to the Zoo (can you believe she has never seen a real Zebra?) Anyway, it should be an interesting car ride, can you imagine, one van, 5 girls, 10 suitcases...oh yes, believe me, that`s packing light. However, being the very resourceful women that we are, we WILL make it all fit...I mean really, every shoe packed is vital and cannot be left behind! My poor girls, they have no hope, I`m creating shopping monsters. Oh well, at least they will be seasoned shopping monsters.

Finally...a beach day!!!

So I mean really, it is seriously about time, just when it seems like summer was just a beautiful day dream and not really a reality the sun finally decides to make an appearance! YEAH!!! So as you can imagine we made for a day at the beach...and lucky for Tasia she had her cousin Kiera to play with! And boy did they have fun...sadly though the water was a bit chilly and they only made it as deep as their little tummy's. And well Lexi...she made it as deep as her tip toes and made it abundently clear that it was not to her liking, she will only have her water at room temperature thank you very much (princess much?) I do beleieve her favorite part was the sand! Oh the sand in between her toes and fingers, pure delight!...and I don't believe Kylie even made it in the water (smart choice Shjannon!). But never the less, the sun was shining and a beach day it was! Oh man, I love summer! I bet ya'll just wished you lived on the coast huh? Oh please, you know you do!

10 weeks till Disneyland!

What...what? So maybe I like Disneyland a little bit. Don't judge me. Lets be honest okay, if you don't like Disneyland you are trying to be way to cool, don't you know it's the 'most magical place on earth' (not mention all the great picture places in California!). And if you haven't been to Disneyland well you are missing out. Anyway, so we will be making the long drive in about 10 weeks...perhaps we'll actually get some sun down there, crazy idea I know, does the sun even exist anymore? It pains me not to able to wear all those adorable summer clothes on my girls...
okay let me rephrase that...it pains me not to be able to wear all those adorable summer clothes on my girls without their sweaters. Yes, you heard me correct, I have given up on waiting for that perfect summer day for them to don their gorgeous 'strasburg' attire, instead I have resorted to wearing it any old day and slapping a sweater on them...hardly the same effect I know, but seriously, it's so cute! Ah girls, what fun. Anyway, I was just excited about Disneyland or 'Mickey Mouse Land' as Tasia would say...only 10 weeks (and only one more size till the goal weight and all my Disneyland clothes, babies are not so kind to the figure...it takes way to long and way to much work to get back into shape...and for those of you who didn't have to work at it...I hate you...I hate you passionately.)!!!!

By the way, is case you wondered 'THE HAPPENING' well it's a special king of movie. I know everybody is saying that it sucked, but I disagree, let's just say that it was not what I thought it was, it actually turned out to be fairly funny at moments. Funny you say? It's true, for an 'end of the world' kind of movie, it had Kelly and I giggling away...although I fear that we may have laughed at a few inappropriate moments, but I had a good time. Mark Wahlberg is great. Date night, it's good fun (By the way, I am still the reigning preview guesser...don't listen to Wade he's just jealous). Thanks for babysitting mom. Anyway, I'm off the the barn to take pictures!

Taking pictures...what fun!

So, I am very much enjoying playing with my new camera...and moms beautiful lenses! So much in fact, that we have sort of run out of children to shoot (thank you to Keira, Lindy and Nicole), and well, I might like to add, that it is darn hard to find an adult who is willing. As much as I adore my darling daughters I fear my little Tasia might start to run off screaming next time she spots us pulling out the cameras, well either that or start packing on the pounds due to the 'picture taking smarties'. Any volunteers? I can provide smarties to one and all.

Mooshoo?

So apparently my Mischa is a Mooshoo. Say what? I know, how does one mistake the sex of a cat...well I won't go into details, but lets just say that not until 12 weeks can one be certain. Yes, here I am going along thinking I have this tiny little girly kitty...wrong! My wonderful Auntie Dawn (I really do mean that, I'm not being facetious here) calls to tell us that perhaps she was a bit hasty in determining the sex of our kitty, and maybe just maybe (and by maybe she means the 99.9% certain kind of maybe) that I might have a mooshoo on my hands. Fabulous! So now my pink kitty bowls and everything else girly may be slightly too pink (how can that be I know, but even I can't have everything pink regardless of the fact that it is just a cat, I know no one else could tell but I can). So back to the store (shucks hey?) for new accessories, no manly cat of mine is going to have pink bowls, can you imagine how embarrassed he would be? How do you think fuchsia would work out? No, it's safe to say that Mooshoo has a very striking burgundy set of bowls, and a tan kitty bed. Manly. So everyone, welcome Mooshoo!