Pictures from the year before Owen was born

Weldon bought me a really nice camera and I love it so so much. I have always been interested in photography and now I have a camera that is capable of doing what I want it to, even if there is quite a learning curve on my end. He got it for me while I was pregnant with Owen and I had plenty of opportunities to play with it and learn how it works by practicing on the other three kids. Here are just a bunch of pictures that I took while learning how it works. I didn't journal much during the year that I took these for several reasons. First, I was pregnant so just keeping up with the other three was a full time job, but also because this was during our faith transition out of the morman church and it was a hard time for me to figure out my thoughts and because of this I stopped writing updates. I love looking through these pictures though because even though it was a hard time for us there are still so many great memories and happy times because we are a family. I love my family.

 Swinging at Grandma and Grandpa's with Uncle Ty

 Preston kissing baby Berjesa

 Playing in the mud at Aunt Larissa's house

 Kaci blowing bubbles

 Swimming at Cluff's Pond

 Story time

 Colton's first day of kindergarten

 practicing taking pics of the horses by our house

 We loved our walks!

 Playing at the park

 What a handsome Daddy!

 Playing at EAC

 went to Apple Annies in Willcox with our cousins

 Fishing at Roper Lake

 Chocolate pudding monster

 Colton in a parade with his karate class

 at the zoo

 krazy Kaci

 At Discovery Park

 Potty training time

 Carving pumpkins

 karate class

 Halloween. we had a princess, Harry Potter, and a pirate who refused to wear his hat for very long

 Colton's sixth birthday photo shoot

 Uncle Shane was there to help with the other kids and then I took his pictures afterwards

 Kaci's 4th birthday

 Preston's 2nd birthday

 A bird! Silly Daddy

 Fall photo shoot at Discovery Park. These kiddos are so patient with me always wanting to dress them up and take pictures of them! They are so cute!

 Making a gingerbread house, and Preston is naked because he is potty training

 Christmas!!

 So pregnant!

 Playing in the snow on Mt Graham

 Tasting the snow

 Belly kisses

 Extremely pregnant, just a couple weeks before Owen was born

 Colton's birthday

Little artists

 Practicing for baby brother

 Daddy helping Colton pull his first tooth

 Its out!

 We were pregnant at the same time!

 best way to watch TV

 keeping warm

The week before Owen was born we took the three older kids to Big Tex and had a great time!