Just Because

Shawn came home after work on Friday with these beautiful flowers! Why you ask? Just because! He's such a sweety. These are the kind of flowers I like receiving the best. They're the unexpected, the for no reason at all kind that really mean the most. I love my guy!

Picture Happy!

Just practicing with my camera. Taking pictures of Grant is so much easier than Kinsley. Grant just sits there and smiles at everything I do. Kinsley has to be totally coaxed to stay in one place. Even with a bribe all she do is pout for the pics. The first picture of her was taken under our kitchen table. She was under there hiding from me, the little stinker! I love the shot of her with her face buried in the corner. It describes in a nutshell how she feels about my most recent hobbies. Oh well she'll have to get used to it, I'll be doing it for years to come! I love photography! I don't know what the heck I'm doing yet, but what I've figured out thus far is really fun.

Picaso? No Kinsley!

Here's a short little video of Kinsley drawing. I recorded this about a month ago and have been meaning to upload it forever but I just couldn't get the thing to work! I realized after an hour of uploading this morning that I had chosen the wrong video. The other version is better but this will have to do! Anyway it's still really cool. She has taken to drawing faces recently and is improving daily. Ahh.... our little artist!

Boots

I bought Kinsley these cute new rain boots yesterday and she has been hooked ever since! From the moment we left the store she was shouting "I need my rain boots!" This morning when she woke up she put them on right over her pajamas, she looked so adorable. Later in the afternoon I decided to take her out to the parking lot and let her splash around. She had so much fun it took some major coaxing from me to get her back inside. While she was having a good ole' time getting wet (in the freezing cold I might add, why do children love this?) I was having fun taking pictures. I recently bought a Rebel XTI with some of my remaining Americorps money. I can't seem to put the camera down. Photography is fast becoming a hobby of mine. I better start saving my pennies because the equipment needed for great photography isn't cheap! It's totally addicting! That first good shot sucks you in, urging you to top that, then the next one, and the next......

To see more of these cute pics check out our web album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/thesorensenfam/NewBoots

Happy Halloween

A friend of mine helped me host a Halloween party at my place. We had so much fun preparing for the party and made some great food to go along with it. Kinsley and I were indians and Grant was a cowboy. Shawn went to work earlier in the day dressed as a nerd. After he took off the glasses the plaid shirt fit right in with our theme.



These were so yummy and so much fun to make!


Ahh... I just loved Kinsley's costume. When asked what she was going to be for Halloween she would respond with "an indian princess". The funny part was once she actually got in the costume and someone asked "Kinsley what are you?" She replied with "I'm a costume."

We set up a carmel apple bar and umm it was delicious!


We played games like Gravediggers and Poison

The Watkins went as Napoleon, Deb and Pedro


A cowboy and his horse. The Swensens were dressed up in the western theme too. Brent made the cutest little horse


Poor Shawn! While we were all playing he had to sit on the couch and work on a paper for legal writing. His teacher set the deadline for 11:00pm that night. I bet she was a witch for Halloween ha, ha!

To see more pics from Halloween visit our web album at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/thesorensenfam/Halloween07