LOVE

I love these two. They are so funny when they are playing nicely together, which doesn't happen all that often. Usually one of them (usually Grace) steals a toy and the other one gets mad. But this is what it looks like when they are playing nice. :)

And we finished Kyler's toybox! Grace has one identical to this that we made her when she was about 9 months old. If you haven't seen it, it's a super bright, dark pink with her name in a scripty font in light pink on the front.

Here's Ky's....

Family Haircuts

We all needed a haircut so we just went across the street to Cost Cutters the other night.

This meant Kyler's first haircut!

I feel terrible that I forgot to take pictures though like I did for Grace's first haircut. :(

But here he is after!

He did great! He sat on Mommy's lap and was surprisingly calm and still.

This looks much better. Before you could comb his hair down all the way over his entire ear and cover his earlobe!

And Miss Grace got 3 inches off. I love how cute her hair is shorter like this. Her curls look better too!

Thug or beauty princess???

Grace wanted to glam up Monday. So here is her all decked out in some of her own bling. But I'm not quite sure why she looks like such a thug.......:)

And I love this picture. This is one of the 12 beautiful roses Dustin brought home for me for Valentines Day. Beautiful! And I love how my new camera can actually capture it up close!

He's a walker!

These pictures are from last Wednesday.

I can tell because Grace has her dance clothes on. :)

Look at him go!

:o)

He's actually doing much better and can walk across the room by himself now!

Fun in the.....SNOW!

So we got 12 inches of snow this weekend! And it was wet, heavy snow! Dustin and I spent an hour digging out our driveway and sidewalks but were able to get it all clean! Lots of the neighbor kids were out while we were doing this and Kyler was taking a nap, so Grace went across the street and played with the kids. It was really nice not having to watch her while we were trying to scoop. She had such a blast playing for an hour with those kids!

The next day we went out and built a little snowman. The wet, heavy snow turned very powdery the next day so we couldn't do as much as we wanted. But at least this snow that was sitting in the sun worked for a little one!

And yesterday and today Grace has wanted to go outside to play. With Dustin at work, it's very hard for me to take her and Kyler out, especially since Kyler really hates the snow. So I just bundled her up and let her play in the backyard by herself. She has loved it! She runs around with Mack and loves going down the slide. I was a little nervous about her climbing the rocks up the slide with boots on, but she does a great job! And she uses the slide more now than she ever has in the summer! Here are some action shots of her having some fun on the slide yesterday.

New Camera!!!!!!

So I have been wanting a nice, DSLR camera for a long time! Like, since Grace was born! I've always felt bad that I didn't have great pictures of my kids. Like, good quality. Sure, those grainy things work, but I wanted something a little higher quality!

After a LOT of research, I finally settled on a Canon Rebel! I really like it and am enjoying learning about it! Right now I'm mostly on the auto settings and am just using a kit lens, but even with that, it's unreal the difference! I plan on learning a little more about it and how to do more manual shooting later on with a higher quality lens, but for now, I'm definitely enjoying taking pictures!

There were two main things I wanted from a camera, other than just overall better quality pictures. The first is the ability to shoot something up close and not have it be all blurry. I wanted to be able to capture details up close. I know it's not an interesting subject, but here is an up close picture of Kyler's peas for lunch one day.... :)

And I have always LOVED photos where the main subject is clear with everything else blurred out. And I did it!

This is definitely a fun new toy and I'm sure I'll love getting to know more about photography!