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This is the best I could do with Chance, Melissa got way better ones. He was way too distracted by everything
This is Cade and Chloe practicing The Bachelor. Cade just said "Chloe will you accept this rose?"
Cade tried so hard during the entire photo shoot. He can't get the natural smile down yet but he sure is sweet and seriously wore himself out smiling his HUGE grin.

Honeyville

This one truly captures my children and how they feel about my photo shoots
We loved the coloring on this shot. I have better non sun spot shot but I'm too lazy to reload

Last week Dan was working his tail off running a kids basketball camp and high school tournament here in Idaho. We left him to the work and headed off to my parents in Honeyville. We love visiting there because we get to play and hang out with all the friends we made while we lived there. The Haws showed us there favorite photo shoot locations and took a bunch of fun pictures.

Hi Jenny. I'm actually doing it.

So my cousin Jenny tagged me. This is the first time I followed through and I must say I am quite proud of myself. I hope you're not bored out of your mind but here is some info about me:


4 Jobs I've had:
1. Wal-Mart Cashier and covered Greeter's lunch break (I looked hot in my yellow smiley smock and all my high school friends seemed to come to Wal-mart during the greeter's lunch break. Crazy how that happened)
2. TPUSA no explanation needed right? Inbound phone sales. It basically sucked but I was a trooper, as usual
3. PGM outbound phone surveys. Well I must say I cried the first day and tried to tell Dan it wasn't going to work. I lasted over a year and was promoted twice probably would still be working there if...... nope I sure wouldn't
4. Owner of Chloe Reese. Best part is designing. Worst part is taxes YUCK. Love it though and love staying home with the kiddos


4 tv shows I watch
1. So You Think You Can Dance. I am such a wanna be. I am absolutely addicted.
2. The Office. Yeah some of the stuff is obscene (we fast forward some) I can't help it though I cry I laugh so hard
3. Design to Sell. Lisa Laporta rocks. If only they did an Idaho Segment...
4. Bachelor. Sorry people I can't help it.



4 places I've been (keep in mind I'm young. I still have a lot of time left for traveling and I want to just hasn't happened yet.)
1. Lake Havasu Arizona (my honeymoon)
2. Virginia (trip to see my sis)
3. California
4. Idaho/Wyoming

4 people that email me. I have to say that I refuse to include forwarders. YOU DON'T COUNT. I hate forwards in case you haven't gotten that sentiment yet.

1. Dan. He is my only regular non forwarding email buddy.
2. Steph Mc.
3. My Customers
4. I can't think of anyone else who is a regular emailer. I am non-social on the computer I guess.

4 Favorite Foods
1. Bajios Chicken Chimichanga
2. Stack-ups (think nachos grandes with yummy hamburger rice sauce I'll email you the recipe if you ask nice)
3. Homemade meat pie
4. Pizza

9 Friends I tag
1. Rach
2. Krysta
3. Steph
4. Jo
5. Candace
6. Deanna
7. Katie
8. Deb
9. Mandi

4 Things in 08
1. Put the fence up
2. New roof
3. Keep the house more clean
4. Enjoy the day to day more

A Little Fire Pitting

Cade keeping it lively with a little mud puddle jumping.



Last week we decided to light up the fire pit and do some mallow roasting and dog burning. Check us out.

Desperate

Is one word for it. Dan and I have been trying to think of non costing ways to bribe the children into behaving once in a while. They seem to be getting out of hand and we were on the verge of losing control. Cade came up with this idea and so far so good, keep in mind it's only day 2 but hey I'll take 2 days of pretty good behavior.

This is how is works:

In the morning we all get a clean sheet of white paper. We write our names on it and decorate however our creative mind so desires, today we did glue glitter names and they turned out pretty cool. We then draw a line down the center.
One side is for circles.
Circles = good behavior
The other is for triangles
Triangles = bad behavior

(keep in mind this was all Cade's idea)

Yesterday Cade and Chloe did everything I asked of them with merely a circle bribe. Zero triangles were earned. They cleaned their rooms, set the table, helped with Chance. It was a miracle. Hardly any fighting. Anytime a war was beginning all I had to do was threaten a triangle and it suddenly ended. It was AWESOME. They have never shared with each other so well.

Today is not quite as heavenly. I already have a triangle and so does Cade. It was Cade's fault I earned my triangle though.

One funny quote from Chloe today that I want to share that coordinates with this circle triangle idea. They had made a huge mess while I was finishing an order so I put them to work cleaning it up. It took a while and they pretty much have to be ordered one thing at a time (especially Cade). They were really getting frustrated because it was so many things to clean up. Anyway Chloe goes into her room and comes out and has huge tears coming down her cheeks. She says in the saddest voice. "I really want to say something but I don't want to get a triangle for saying it." I promise her she won't get a triangle to go ahead and get it off her chest. A huge tear rolls down her cheek and she says, "Mom I just feel like I'm your slave." I almost laughed but kept it to a smile and then I assured her that in order for her to be my slave she would have to be picking up MY stuff. Since she was picking up her own stuff she wouldn't qualify as my slave.

The After Pics of the Redesign

After posting that last one I realized it's kind of confusing. The pics start off with the befores (I shouldn't have cleaned it and made it look so nice because it makes you think it looks just fine). I love huge transformations so it would have been more dramatic with a big disaster but what can I say - hindsights 20/20.

Bathroom Redesign

Here are the pics of our huge process of changing the bathroom to our style.