A Dancing Indian Princess

Tessie had preference a few weeks ago and I had to post pictures. She looked so beautiful. I helped her get some of the accessories for her dress and did her hair and make up.

We made her a raw silk flower with some added beads, tulle and feathers. then added some Russian lace for a bird cage veil look.

I just adore the way it looked on her.

A closer look

We found this phenomenal vintage inspired bolero online. I bought a pattern on ETSY for it. I wish I could say I made it but I didn't. They got the bolero made and we then made some more fabric flowers and added them to the bolero.

A full dress shot with her date. Isn't her dress beautiful?? I loved it. She looks like an Indian Princess ;)

I decided to make Zanna a few fabric flower hair pieces. They look so cute in her hair!!

A few firsts for my little Trooper!

At 5 months, Troop gets a few firsts....

His first haircut!

and his bottom two teeth!!

Here is a before shot of his hair cut. His hair was getting a little funny. He had a very thick tuft of hair right at the front of his head. He was also strutting long locks that curled around his ears. Yes it was high time this little stud received a hair cut.

Can you see the curls around his ears. They were adorable and cute in a very comical way.

Jathan the professional stylist.... or he looks professional in a very straight way :)

I think he was getting a little bit of hair in his eyes because he kept rubbing them. Poor little guy!

Did I say Professional?? Oops... definitely not!

When Jathan thought he was all done he combed his hair forward and then thought otherwise!!

Can you believe all of this hair came off of my 5 month old baby??

What a little stud! I can not get over his new do. It is so dang cute. It makes his eyes look so big and sparkly!



After a long day... looking handsome as ever. He is all tuckered out. I mean really, it has got to be hard being that cute :)

A Cabin New Year

Zanna, Troop and I headed to Montana for the new year!

Jathan stayed home to bring home the bacon :(. We missed him!! But had such a great time.

One of the many reasons I love going to the cabin is my little girl gets to run about with her cousins playing to her hearts content. This trip she may have had a little too much fun though...

She got into things EVERYWHERE!!

Poured fabric softener onto the carpet and onto a chair. Poured one of my eye shadows all over the carpet. Smeared my mascara all over the back of a couch. Poured detergent all over the floor of my parents room... luckily it was powder detergent and not liquid. Christian caught her in the act of squeezing mustard into the sour cream. Carolynn found a bottle of Clorox in the middle of the room (thank heavens for child proof caps) that could have been very bad! The list goes on.... I mean when they say terrible two's they don't exaggerate! This child is resourceful! She is quick as can be and can get to pretty much anything.

Well other than all the crazy things Zanna got into it was a fabulous trip!

Here she is strutting her snow clothing..

We headed out to go sledding (is that mascara under my eyes from the day before?? Yeah pretty sure it is!)

Zanna froze her buns off so that did not last long. I am pretty sure it was 2 degrees outside.

Cameron, Bergen and Troop hanging out on the couch in their jammies. One of the fabulous things about the cabin in the winter... jammies all day long! (nice new bright blue couch eh?? All the furniture at the cabin is hand me down's from the family)

Zanna... trying to figure out which wall needs a little extra color!! ;)

Mikelle is always doing fun things with the kids. Below she has Andlein and Bergen preforming acrobats on her hands and feet.

Zanna is loving the show... and getting an idea...

there she goes....

A little help from Andelin and Voila!!!

Mikelle and Bergy

Jamming out on the piano!

I am starting to realize that I need to start taking pictures of more than just my children. We were there with so much family and I didn't take pictures of hardly anyone!

We brought in the new year by playing card games around the table... Pretty exciting eh??... I wouldn't have it any other way!!

CHEERS TO 2010!!!!!

Christmas Morning

The presents under the tree...

The stockings......

The excited little girl (we are in the process of moving, hence the boxes)...
The aftermath.....

Christmas morning can be so hard for a little girl....

And Christmas night... getting comfy in Troops Bumbo

The winning photo of the season...

Christmas morning was so fun. Zanna had a blast opening her presents and playing with her fun new toys. She got a cute little food set, a tea set, an apron specially crafted by her mother, a dolly and some clothing.

After opening presents at our house we went to my Parents house to open presents and have our annual Christmas breakfast of Eggs Benedict. SO DELICIOUS!! This has been a tradition for as long as I can remember. Started by my Grandma Ruth.

We then headed to Jathan's parents, opened presents and had some delicious hot cocoa.

It was a great Christmas and so fun to celebrate the season with our two little ones.

Christmas Time!

Christmas time was MAGIC for Zanna this year!

She absoluetly adored seeing all of the Christmas lights and all of the Christmas Trees.

I could not keep her hands off of the decorations.

Her favorite stuffed animal was a cute little snowman Grandma Alta gave us.

She took him to bed with her every night.

As we would drive from place to place in the evenings Zanna would say "Hi tisole lights. (tisole=Christmas... ha ha)

She made Jathan say hi to them too. If he missed even one house... ONE house, she would say "Daddy! Hi tisole lights" Which he then had to say as well.

Here she is playing by our Christmas trees.

We spent Christmas Eve day with my family at Carolynn and Corby's house.

My parents handed out our super cute Christmas jamies.

We drew names with all of my siblings and did a "Home Made" Christmas.

It was really fun to see the gifts everyone made for eachother.

Jathan... always pulling a funny face.

My Happy little man! He is the smiliest little guy and I LOVE it!!


Troop and his ladies! Avery and Grace.

Zanna opening her present from Great Grandma and Grandpa Latimer

She LOVED Gus Gus, the mouse that came with this cinderella barbi. She is giving him a little kiss.

Here are all the home made gifts. I made Jared a belt with his name engraved in it. Western style. Christian made Amanda a frame with pictures of all of her children signing I LOVE YOU! Hannah made Corby a leather and beaded bracelet. Joshua made Carolynn a chest with glass knobs. Jathan welded Christian a bike stand for two bikes. Mikelle mad Joshua a collage of pictures of him and his kiddos. Carolynn made Melissa a shirt with a beaded flour. Amanda made Jathan a barnwood picture frame with a picture beautiful pic of Hebgen Lake. Gretchen made me a frame with pictures of my little family. Jared made Gretchen a barnwood frame with a picture of Huckleberry bushes. Corby made Mikelle a picture book of Mikelle with all of our family and Melissa made Hannah a jewlery box with cute glass knobs.

Then we went to the Garretts and had a delicious Christmas Eve meal of Crab and Steak!

Afterwards we exchanged gifts and opened our Christmas Jamies.

The girls had Zebra jamies, so cute.

The boys got comfy fleece jamies.

Zanna would not stay away from this gingerbread house Meagan made.

I don't blame her. It looks delicious.

Troop hanging out under the tree. This wrapping paper kept him busy for a while!

Zanna with Gus Gus again.

A beautiful Christmas Tree.

Milli is a professional decorator and the hals were decked!

And more fun pictures.