7 years ago today...

I married the man of my dreams!

Who would have thought that seven years, 3 houses, 2 deployments, 1 Law degree, and 2.5 little boys later we would be here. I can't think of a better place to be!

Thank you for the most amazing seven years of my life. Can't wait to see what the next seven have in store for us!

I love you!

Ugh!

I tried to get all crafty and redo my header. Well, apparently it was a bad time to do it because blogger is all messed up and everyone is getting blurry headers now. Should have left good enough alone! Please excuse my awful looking header until the problem is fixed.

Lucille Mayer

I love photography! I have a passion for it and some day I would love to take it further. What I do is nothing special. I don't have professional training, I don't have a degree in photography, or anything artsy for that matter. I just love it. And as with all things, I think that is the most important part of being successful... loving it.

My friend Wendy was kind enough to ask me to do some pictures of her new little one, Lucy. We had a blast! I loved every moment of it. Of course, how couldn't I? It was my 2 favorite things put together... babies and photography. The experience led me to two conclusions: 1) I loved being able to document these precious moments that I for one know goes all too fast and 2) I have a lot to learn to get my photography to a place where I want it. I am constantly pouring over blogs like this and this to find inspiration. I find these two wildly talented and hope to someday hold the talent that they do.

A little slice of heaven

This past weekend my sister, Katie, was kind enough to invite us up for some snow fun at their new "cabin" in Suncadia. We were all over that. Two days of no electronics, no telephones, the great outdoors and some much needed family time... we were in! Who would have thought that the Bugbee family could go 30 hours with no TV, no New Years day football, no facebook and most importantly no blogging?

It was beautiful... and cold.

Like 13 degrees cold!

But that didn't stop us from getting out and enjoying some sledding with cousins Ethan and Lauren.

Yes, that is Alex all tucked in safe in Dan's lap.

After a moment of being terrified, he thought it was hilarious when they crashed at the end.

This little guy was not crazy about the cold and wanted nothing to do with his own gloves.

So after a few runs down the hill with Daddy's gloves mommy and Alex called it quits and went back to warm up by the fire.

and play some cars.

The other were soon to join us

and then the games began!

We started out with Quarto. If you haven't played it you have to try it out. It was fun for everyone! The games lasted well into the night. We played Jenga, Blockus, Trivial Pursuit (the old version) and the adults (minus me) made it a bit more fun by consuming a few beverages.

And even though the trip home was made longer by an accident, I took advantage of the time to play around with my new camera.

Thanks Milne family for a fun and relaxing visit to your new place. We can't wait to do it again!

Brothers

How did we go from this...

...to this

so quickly?

Happy New Year

It's hard to believe that 11 years ago tonight the man I would marry was telling me he loved me for the very first time while standing beneath the space needle.

Now here we are, 2 1/2 kids later, ringing in the new year at 9pm because we are too tired after a long day at work to stay up until midnight. Pretty lame, but it's our life and I wouldn't change it for the world!

I love you Daniel. Thanks for the best 11 years of my life. I can't wait to see what the next 11 will hold!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!