Technically he’s been four for a month now, but we celebrate a month later so that he can have his own special day (Christmas is pretty hard to compete with). I decided to do friend parties every other year, so this year we had over the limited family that was in town and Isaac’s best grown-up buddy, our neighbor Bryan.

We had a day of his favorites, which included: powdered doughnuts and bacon for breakfast, homemade mac n’cheese and quesadillas for dinner, cupcakes with green frosting, and a night out at the BYU basketball game. He was so embarrassed with all the attention that he walked around with his eyes closed most of the time (or made faces like the one he’s making with the cupcake). It was funny, and a little weird.

After waiting almost an hour and half at the doctor’s office (a HUGE pet peeve of mine), Lucy’s cast was removed. It’s very tender still and she carries it like it’s still in the cast, but can I tell you how excited I am to give her a normal bath?

After getting her cast off, we drove to Heber (and then on to Park City for the rest of the day) where Geoff did a student teacher observation while I played at McDonalds with the kids. It had “grown-up” toys, so Isaac was in heaven. You might notice that he is freshly shoren, that would be due to the fact that he decided bangs are lame and cut them.

This is Shanna. She is a photographer here in Utah who asked if I would spend an hour with her doing a bit of training. We had a great time together, even though we both had to sit in front of the camera-ugh!

It’s only fair to post one she took of me.

She mentioned how helpful she felt our training session was so I thought I’d see if there is any interest out there from my fellow bloggers for a more formal class. This would involve a mini shoot and Photoshop training. If there’s enough interest, I just might entertain the idea.

Leave me a comment if you’re interested and I’ll work out the details if there are more than one of you…

Someday I’ll get a picture of her real smile, or maybe even a picture of her AND Isaac together. In the meantime, this is what I have, a picture of her enamored with the dogs in The Fox and the Hound.

I finally got a picture of the lip thing she does when she’s being shy or concentrating. She is just so kissable!

I really need to get my camera out! I’ve been getting caught up on my OTHER work and spending time with the kids. I reinstated “quiet time” for Isaac and it’s been a dream. Thank you Amy for the kitchen timer, it’s worked wonders!

Isaac was bored so we took silly pictures of each other.

Thank you for all the well wishes on behalf if Lucy. She is doing well and her weekly x-rays show she is healing properly.

Also, thank you for such a wonderful response to my adoption post. I have had a flood of emails and it makes me feel good to think that this blog might actually do some good!

You may remember this family from previous shoots and this precious baby girl that they adopted. The mother just contacted me concerning the agency that they adopted from. Right now they have 10 African American birth mothers all due from this month to June and NONE have chosen families for their babies. The chances are good that they would be matched with a birth mother and the family will have a baby in their home in the next few months. It would be a private adoption, so it is expensive, but there is information on financing private adoptions.

I’ve seen very closely the wonderful benefits of adoption. I am a huge advocate of it, and that is why I have chosen to post this. If you are interested in more information about adopting, send me an email to my pelousedesign account (linked under my photography), and I will direct to you whom you need to speak with.

Let’s find these sweet babies loving homes!

Our friend’s dog just had puppies. They are full bred Golden Retrievers and DARLING. Apparently they get even cuter and more take-homeable in the following weeks. I’m not sure we can go back because at 2 weeks old, they were already very persuasive.