Treasured Portraits Photo Competition

Hey Everyone, I am hosting a photo competition. It should be a lot of fun. Go here to view details. Please enter I would love to see what you come up with. There is also a prize!!

New Blog

Hey everyone,

We have started a New Blog. www.treasuredportraits.blogspot.com. It is for our Photography business. We recently purchased our DBA license: Treasured Portraits. We are very excited.

Remember that this blog is a work in progress. We will be posting some of our latest work. We wanted a place to showcase as many pictures as we could. We will also be posting some of our creative photography. We will also do Photography challenges for those who want to showcase your own creative photography.

Let us know if you have any critiques. This blog is a work in progress right now. We would love your suggestions. The tabs at the top are navigation tabs. Check those out and see if they work for you. Also give our email button a try and see if that works for you.

If you want to help advertise for me: Put www.treasuredportraits.blogspot.com on your Blog list so that others can read it to. If any of you have pictures that I have taken of you on your blogs, you could make them a link to www.treasuredportraitsboise.com . Let me know if you want help in figuring out how to do that.

we are going to be adding a vendors list to the sidebar. If you have a business and want to swap advertising with us just contact us and let us know. Tamara was making a Cake Blog and we were going to swap advertising. We were going to put a link for Brigitte and Jeremy for Dance instruction. So if you have a business or know of someone who has a business that might relate to weddings or portraits Let us know!

Thank Heaven for Little Boys Updated.

Last night we had gotten a little fed up with how wild our boys were being. Jayden had gotten a late nap. 6:30 p.m. Usually he is our easy one to put to sleep. Alex for some reason wanted to sleep on the top bunk. Which would be fine if we could be sure he would stay there all night long. (He is doing much better now with a little super hero incentive) So Stillman told him if he didn't get in his own bed we were going to leave and let him fall asleep on his own. (yeah right). Anyway we leave and are getting ready for bed when suddenly the screaming (that would be Jayden) from the other room stops. Stillman sneaks a peak in the room. Alex is sitting next to Jayden's bed and tickling his back trying to put him to sleep. How Sweet. He lasted about two minutes before he told Daddy that his arm was tired and it was his turn.

Today after church Alex said. " Mommy I love going to church and seeing that picture of Jesus where all the kids are gathered around Jesus. It is my favorite picture, I wish we had money so we could by that picture and put it in our house." "I also loved that song we sang today." Stillman and I were out of the room for teacher orientation so I had no idea what picture and song he was talking about. He said the song went like this: "The children were gathered rounds Jesus." After he described it a few more times, We figured out that it was the picture for this year theme and the song for this year's theme. I Know My Savior Loves Me. Here is the picture he was talking about.



Here is a movie of some random videos I have been taking.

Nerd Alert

I have to write these funny things down least I forget.

So today Alex is getting out of the bathtub and he informs me of his new name. It is ALEXPARKERNORTONFOUR. That is what he would like to go by. I told him that sounded like he was some kind of prototype. "No, silly Mommy".

So then later he is deciding what he wants to wear today. I have to give you a little background to this story: We were at the D.I. and Alex found this Spiderman dress shirt. A little too fancy to wear anywhere but church and yet a little irreverent for church. He brings me it and shows me it. So I tell him to go ask Daddy what he thinks. Instead Alex put it in the cart and then Stillman paid for it. We both assumed the other one had wanted to buy the shirt for Alex. Nope. So he decided he wants to where the shirt. It is mostly blue and red. The only pair of pants he has is a green cordiroy pair. So we put it on him and he insist that he button all the buttons up to the very top. It looks so Nerdy that we can't stand to see him go out like this. Stillman wonders if he would be a bad parent if he "accidently" spilled water on him. And yet he insists, because, and I qoute, "It's like Spiderman (The Shirt) is attacking the Green Goblin (The pants)". Yep that is exactly what it looks like.

We finally convince him to wear a pair of khaki pants. He looks a little better. Just a little dressy for the Dr. Office. But oh well. He is still insisting that he button the top button. I asked him if I could at least spike his hair so he looks a little better.
"No, because I won't be myself anymore, I will be STILLMANNORTONTWO."

P.S. Alex calls his Christmas Stocking his Beanstock. He also calls his elbow his Arm Bow.

What's up!

Man does time fly.
Here is what we have been up to the last couple of months.
In honor of New Moon the chapters will be as such.



October

We tricked

We went to football games

We treated

We did the corn maze

We carved pumpkins

We played in leaves.

November

We were sealed in the temple. This was a very special time for us. Everyone present felt the spirit. We are all so grateful for this special blessing in our lives.

This was the cake I made for them.

We celebrated some birthdays.

We went to more bronco games.

We repainted our walls a different color due to the old paint washing off.

Just some cute pictures.

We took fall pictures, more to come later.

We bought a rock. We also celebrated Thanksgiving, but I forgot the camera.

I made the best cookies.

Jayden colored on everything

December

We decorated the Christmas tree and are still trying to finish decorating everything.

We made snow angles

I think you are all caught up now. sorry it took so long. For most of September, and October we have been sick with one thing and then another. And once again we are sick. but the good new is I think we have had almost every virus out there. So hopefully we are done.

Family Video

Sealing Invite

For those of you who would like to come. Here is the information for the sealing.
Wednesday
November, 11 2009
Sealing Time 7:00 p.m.
Guest Arrival time 6:30 p.m.
Boise, ID Temple