First Snow Day

Love the snow, love these boys, love being home for the holidays! And- Gotta love the mismatched winter box accessories! Being from CA, we haven't stocked up on snow gear.... Yet!

Very Merry

Merry Christmas to All

And to All a Goodnight....

Special Thanks to my sisters in law, the makers of our Christmas Card this year.

Becca took the family photo and Amy designed the card!

Just FYI: Update #2... Someday

So. In just 5 short months Stephen is GRADUATING! It's really just right around the corner and I couldn't be prouder of this guy. He has worked SO hard to get to this point. Over 20 years of school in his life. Whew! And now its time to start planning where we go from here.

So. Let me ask you, Where SHOULD we go from here?

Stay in California? Go back to Utah? Try out Colorado, Washington, or Oregon?

Or maybe go to Alaska for a couple years- (an amazing starting salary, plus extra $ to help us pay back student loans!) I lightly, partly jokingly, brought this up to Stephen after seeing a postcard from Fairbanks with the offer. Then later that week I spotted Stephen looking up some Alaskan stats that showed I really put a bee in his bonnet. (BTW one of those stats was the average winter temp being -27 degrees F. Whoah.)

We may just be considering all the aforementioned. Including the Alaska.

Sure I'd have to invest in one of these.

And maybe some of these.

My son might look like this.

And be afraid of this.

But hey, how many people can say that they've actually seen this?

Maybe someday that could be me.

So. I guess we'll see.

Wish us luck as we welcome any new adventure coming our way.

In the Hood

You know how parents think every little thing their kid does is "SO cute"? Well, this is my current favorite video of the week.

As we were driving around on a rainy day, I looked at the back seat mirror and found this....

I was lucky enough to have my camera in the car already.

These little moments sure make me smile.

This Morning...

Our boy woke up with his first case of real bed head.

And when we asked him to smile for the camera. He gave us his "Stare Down" instead.

Sounds like a boy to me.

He's Had a Birthday, Shout Hooray!

My heart is so full. I feel like I have a million things I want to say. A million things I want to remember about this last year. I was trying to think of what I could put in a birthday post for my little guy, but there just was too much for me to wrap my brain around completely, too many pictures, too many videos- and too much for the average blog checker. So, I guess I will save those for my journal and instead just post a few simple "baby favorites" from the day.

November 28th, my baby turned 1.

He was all boy...

And despite what this looks like- he actually enjoyed wearing the hat for most of the day.

It was also an Elmo day. Of course. Started with him recieving his first birthday present, an Elmo t-shirt. He was so captivated, kept pointed and saying "DAH!"

Even though I took a couple cake decorating classes when I was younger, I was a little intimidated by the idea of decorating 15 Elmo cupcakes- so instead, we had a CONTEST- who could make the best Elmo cupcake. It was fun. And funny. Kimmie's cake got chosen by the birthday boy, so she won!

Seriously, he just gets cuter and funnier each day.

I just feel so so lucky.

And speaking of lucky- he was lucky enough to spend his birthday in Utah where he could party with my family, Steve's family, and even visit his great grandparents. What a loved little boy.

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OUR PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESS WEBSITE:

www.truly-you-photography.com

You can also get to the same site by going to www.juliadavisphotography.com

Still many a thing to add and update on there, but its about time I posted the link. I realized with continuing business there is always going to be something to improve on. So here is the first official announcement.

Thanks to everyone we have worked with thus far.

Surprise, you may find yourself in a starring role in the site!