quick note....

I just wanted to let you all know that I have stared a new blog for my photography. I have been asked by a few people to do a session or two of their family/kids/babies and thought it appropriate to send them to view a photography blog rather than my family blog. (man, that was a REALLY long sentence!) Now that I have that out of the way....here is the blog address
http://photographybyjolene.blogspot.com

And also just wanted to let all you, my wonderful blog readers, know that I would love to give you a free session! I am trying to build up my portfolio, and this seems like the best way to do it! (have 100 pictures of my kids in it could boar the best of us, right?!) So please leave a comment below if you would like a FREE session with yours truly!!

The most magial placeon earth!

"Let's GO!!!"
Caleb and Hannah were SO excited to go to Disney Land. I took these pictures right before we left. Kurtis thought that it would not be a good idea to take my Nikon camera, just in cause we went on any watery rides. Well we ended up not going on any all together as a family because of Hannah's meager 38 inches. SO......to say the least I was very sad that we did not take it. I did get a few on our small camera. So those are sure to be coming soon!

P.S. A wonderful friend of mine made her this outfit, it is to DIE for!! While we were waiting in line to go into the park a lady behind us asked to take a picture of her outfit!! We got so many complaints that day....Hannah really felt like a true princess with everyone gocking over her!!

Part 2

This was the easiest way to get all of exciting parts of sea world! As you can tell me PLAYED HARD everyday! (I have not even looked at our Disney Land pictures!!)

Sea World

Evelyn did not like Mr. Walrus very much, poor Evelyn!

How can you go to Sea World with out snapping a shot of Shamu?!

There was this "wild Sting Ray" that just wanted to GET OUT!! He tried with all his might for like 2 min, but no luck! He did how ever scare the pants off Caleb!!

Yes, the same crazy Sting Ray slashing Hannah, if you look closely her 25 cent bracelet is on the ground! She was freaking out!!

Caleb and Evelyn just LOVE each other! It is so cute! The whole trip Evelyn just could not get enough of Caleb!

Poor Star Fish,
"I can't breath! Put me back in, BACK IN!!"

I am working on some really cute pictures, hopefully they will be up later today!!

Beautiful CA

I just love the colors of Spring!

Can someone say: "WARM"?

Yes indeedy, it was WARM!! It got only to the mid to high 60's but it was SO nice to feel the warmth on our faces!! We even got sunburned!! Kurtis and I had to laugh at all the Californian's who where wearing hoodies and winter coats, yes, WINTER COATS!!! At Disneyland I was fanning myself in line and a woman asked, "Are you HOT???!!" I replyed, "Yes, I have lived in MN for 4 years, I know what cold is!" (To all my MN friends, I am so sorry thati it has been so cold!)

We decied to drive to LA, which 10 hours sounded like a piece of cake compaired to our drive here (utah) from MN. But really it was LONG! We stoped half way in St. George to stay with Kurtis's grandparents who live there for the winter. It was fun to see them and their new house. We even got taken out to dinner! Thank you Grandma and Grandpa!!

We got to LA about 6pm on Sunday. We stayed in a nice hotel about 1 mile from Disney. We actually did this trip as cheap as we possably could. We got our Disney tickest for $34 bucks a person per day! I found them on KSL Clasiffieds from a woman who wanted to split a 6 day Disney Hopper pass. She also told me that she worked for a Hotel and that she could get us a hotel room for $29 bucks a night!!! SO to say the least we did it CHEEP! (We also got our Sea World tickets on KSL)

On Monday we went to the LA Zoo and the beach. Here are a few pictures from Monday!

I love this picture!! It is SO Caleb!

Caleb and Hannah had a collection of palm leaves, nuts, seeds, and rocks! I think that they may have been more worried about finding cool things than looking at the animals!


The BEACH!

We went to the beach in the evening, so we got to see this beautiful sunset!!

The kids found so many tiny shells. It was fun to seach for the best shell. (When we got home we cleaned the sand off the shells and put them in a zip lock bag, I set them on the counter in the kitchen, and the next day they SMELLED SO BAD!! Kinda like dead fish! Caleb wanted to throw up!) Oh well it was fun while it lasted!!

GREAT Vacation!!

We has SO much fun in California! I took over 400 pictures and I am afraid that it is going to take a while to get them all edited! So I decided that I would post some pictures from Valentine's Day. Hannah was just so cute in red!!