Family Photos...

We are SO grateful to know Christia Palizzi from HERE! She is actually a wife of a medical student here at Des Moines University. She is also a mother, knitter, friend, sister, daughter, blogger, along with many other things. I was able to win a free photo session from her (because she had a contest) and seeing that Aspen's birthday and the holiday season were both upon us she offered to do split it and do a family session (outside - because the weather has been beautiful) and then a studio session with Aspen. So here are a few pictures from those sessions. PLEASE do NOT print these...if you would like them please contact. IF you are family...maybe you are getting some for Christmas!

 Family Picture

 Rick and Ezekiel

 Aspen

 Aspen (in studio)

 Ezekiel (our 1st session...right after his nap...which didn't turn out well)

 Aspen (our 1st session)

 Aspen (our 1st session)

Me and my kiddos...I love them to pieces!

I HIGHLY recommend Christia if you are here in the Des Moines area (or surrounding area) Family Photos are a great way to create memories of your children and families. As well as wonderful gifts for family and friends during the Holiday season!

10 on the 11th...because I can. :)

So my dear blog friend Meredith at Life at 7000ft did another 10 on the 10th. She did a wish list...
For me I didn't know what I was going to talk about...all I know is that it had to be somewhat special because of it being 10-10-10. Even though I'm a day late it's still pretty special.
So I'm going to do 10 reasons why I'm glad it's October...
1) Today, Monday the 11th, I am 2 weeks away from being a mommy to a little baby girl. On the 25th, I will be going into the hospital 8am (central time) for C-Section (or what I have been calling C-Day)
2) October is another crazy birthday month...My mother-in-laws birthday was on the 1st, Rick (my husband) birthday was on the 5th (of course he was in Mount Ayr so we haven't celebrated his birthday 2 year in a row), my sister (Becca's) birthday is on the 20th, my sister-in-law's (Jen) birthday is on the 24th, and my father-in-law's birthday is on the 29th.
3) For me, I really enjoy that October is like a full amount of Fall is in the air. It's still nice for weather, the colors are AMAZING, the sound of crunchy leaves start laying on the ground.4) I really like cooking with Pumpkin...and pumpkins are out either fresh or via the can.
5) In less than 2 weeks my mother and my sister (Caroline) will be here to celebrate the birth of Baby Girl as well as help with "Z" while we are in the hospital.
6) I really like carving pumpkins...I like fresh done pumpkin seeds. :)7) I love the weather (I know I already mentioned that before) however it's so much easier for me to wear my jeans, t-shirt, grab a hoodie and where my chacos (until my toes get too cold) and sit outside or go to the park. But it's SO much easier to knit when I'm not sweating. :)
8) My 2 year old little boy "Z" will become a BIG BROTHER...he has been so cuddly I'm hoping that he doesn't change too much when Baby Sister comes. Randomly he will come up and give me hugs, kisses and snuggles. I'm treasuring those moments. :) 9) I love what this time of the year represents with the changing of seasons and I know that I'm changing too. I love the holidays that will start approaching with Thanksgiving and Christmas. It's just a season of change, colors, crispness, coolness, and so many other "c" names for me.
10) So October, is becoming more and more one of my favortie months of the year...

30 days of me...day 18

So day 18 is a some of my dreams or goals...
It felt like already blogged about this recently...so I went back through my post and sure enough I blogged back in June for a 10 on the 10th. As I was looking at the goals and such...I realized that nothing has changed...I still want those to come true in the future. So I'm going to cheat and you can either check HERE! or you can read the below and see...

My 10 Dreams...

(these are in NO particular order!!!)

-- Have my own photography studio; where I can have people come in and do shoots, have my own dark room so I can do B&W film photography, and also have my own digital stuff as well.

-- Open a tea shop (sort of like a coffee shop...however I don't drink coffee so that is why it would be tea there) In the tea shop we would have loose leaf tea, free WI-FI, a used book swap area, comfy chairs & some conference rooms.

-- Have enough land to have a farm: have Alpacas, chickens and maybe other animals.

-- Have a mini-green house because I would LOVE fresh veggies & possibly some fruit all year long.

-- Would love to add to the family through adoption (primarily international adoption).

-- Go on a missions trip either every year or every other year for about 2-3 weeks.

-- Send the photos I take to put them either in calendars or make them into note cards or postcards and sell them.

-- Be a great wife, mom, daughter, sister, grand-daughter, friend, craft-er, etc.

-- Sell the fiber from the alpacas and make stuff with them for gifts or to sell them too.

-- To Learn & Grow in my faith DAILY!!!

Here are some pictures of the changing Aspen trees...LOVELY!!!Well...I hope that you had a wonderful Saturday....and that you have a fabulous Sunday.