Closet Doors

I've been on a kick lately. I have been removing a few closet doors in our house. After the third closet door was removed Brooklyn came home asking what closet was next. Here are just a few photos.

The first two closets are in the kids room. The closet doors were the tri fold doors. I hate them. We have a few broken throughout the house. I think in their room I will add curtains in the doorway. 

The third closet is our coat closet next to the front door. I want to find baskets to cover blankets and diapering stuff. Hopefully the diapering stuff will be gone soon. I think a really fun color could be fun inside the closet. 

My next plan is to add a shoe cabinet right under Brooklyn's art work. I think I might start taking off all doors. That way our house can be considered an open floor plan. 

Camden is 6!!!!!!!

I can't believe she is 6. She has definitely taught me a lot since she was a baby. This is from her one year birthday party. This year we are going to take her to build a bear with a friend and Brooklyn. She is a happy, energetic, and determined girl. She loves Kindergarten and her teachers.

Camden loves music and dancing most of all. Her favorite song right now is "Some Nights" by Fun. She is still trying to figure out the reading thing but wants nothing to do with learning sight words and small books. She wants to read what Brooklyn is reading. She creates her own stories as she is looking through the many pages of words. She is very close to independently riding her bike without training wheels. I am so proud everything she has accomplished so far. Happy Birthday Camden!

Home Beautifying Project

I am constantly trying to think of ways I can improve our house without spending a lot of money. My need to be inexpensive causes me to delay the improvement in some rooms. Its so easy to start coming up with simple ideas that explode into huge ideas that are far from being practical. However with the reupholstery of our sectional complete I think I have come to a semi complete family room design. I say semi because I don't think I will ever be complete. I seem to move things in and out of rooms when necessary. Here are some photos.

I think I am leaning towards doing my wingback chair in a yellow velvet over the stripes. I like the pop of color the yellow offers. The rug from West Elm will have to wait for now. 

Visitors

We had visitors. We love having family come for visits. We have been very fortunate to have family come out off and on since August. We recently had Tara (my sister), Kensington (Tara's daughter), and my mom. A week later my sister Tobi and her Husband showed up in NC. They were celebrating their anniversary and were nice enough to join us for a night.

The girls had so much fun in their princess costumes. Dallin however did not want to dress up in his simple Jedi costume I made him. Oh well.

Tobi and Ron with the girls. Not sure where Dallin is again. 

When Did This Happen?

He has survived to the ripe old age of three. I can't believe it. He is no longer a baby. I love this kid so much it hurts sometimes. Literally. Having a boy has been a huge adjustment for me. He is always surprising us with new things he is learning.

Things he currently likes:
Chocolate Milk
Hot Chocolate
Bananas
Trains
Train Tracks
Anything to do with Trains
Throwing anything
Going on walks

Photography

Photography. I love it! I have loved it ever since I started posing my stuffed animals, cabbage patch dolls, and barbies. I now do it with people. I love to capture people as naturally as possible in an unnatural situation. Most people don't show up to parks in coordinated clothing and walk along a path with all hands being held.

I just did a photo shoot this past weekend in a very popular photo shoot location. The intimidation factor always goes up when many of the photographers show up with all their gear. Many different lenses, reflectors, and many props.

I have decided the more photo shoots I do the less I need. However a girl can always dream about different photo gear.

I have also found I need photo shop less. The better I have gotten with my settings the less I am trying to make the photo look better with photo shop. I have come to the conclusion that photo shop can't fix poor in camera settings it can only enhance good in camera settings. I do love photo shop for a good head swap. Here is a good example from a photo shoot this past weekend.

This is the straight out of camera version. Its fine as is. However it was a very dark gloomy day. I wanted to add some warmth in the photo and pump up the colors. Be careful with pumping some colors up because they can turn to neon. Yikes.

Here are some great photographers I like looking at. They are mainly wedding photographers which I am not nor will I ever be. I love their images. Julia Wade and Sloan photographers.

Here is my website. Tassi Photography

AZ Photo Shoots

When Tatum texted to say that her water broke I decided I needed to find a way to get to Mesa. I sent out an email to family members without Tatum knowing that I wanted to come but was wondering if anyone needed photos to help pay my airfare. The last thing I had to do was convince Brandon it was a good idea. He was very willing to take on the extra responsibility as long as I made arrangements for the kids while I was gone. I decided to keep it secret from Tatum with everyone else knowing I was coming. I think Tatum was getting annoyed by everyone trying to convince her she did not need newborn photos done in the first week.  I got in later Tuesday night. Chase had told us to come by their place to surprise Tatum. I knocked on the door close to 11:00PM. I definitely surprised her. It was a great quick trip. I wish I could have spent more time with different people. Here are some photos from the different photo shoots.

Tatum, Chase, Baby Sydney

Tara, Matt, Kensington

Tait, Bethany, Macy, Collin, Emily, Evan

Crystal, Kett, Abby, Spencer, Owen

I will share more on my photography blog in the next few days.