Olivia and I this weekend

We are still alive:)
This was from Aunt Beth and Uncle Don's 25th Anniversary party this weekend:)

Happy Birthday Baby Thomas

Jeff's best friend Brian and his wife Allie had a beautiful baby boy early this morning! Little Thomas Albert was born at 1:22am and apparently did not want mommy and daddy to get any rest- as he was born a few weeks early!
You can check out their blog, www.briandandallie.blogspot.com for some more pictures:)
CONGRATS GUYS!!!!!!

On another note. Oddly enough we booked plane tickets to come out and see them in September- FIVE months ago. And today, the baby's birthday, we got a phone call from the airline saying they had changed our flight. They left a message saying that instead of us leaving Oregon at 8pm we were now leaving at 2pm. Cutting SIX hours off of our trip. Six hours!
So I called them right back and tried bitching my way into another flight, but they told me that this was the latest light out that day and everything else had been canceled. Keep in mind this is TWO months from now. And the flight it already canceled!

So I hang up, ticked off, and got the intimidator on the phone. Jeff calls them, raises hell, gets hung up on and then calls back. The second time he got a sweet girl who put him on hold for 15 minutes (we thought she was never coming back). But she did and she transfered us to another airline and got us back on a later flight. With NO hassle.

So why is it that me, a woman talking to a man on the phone could get nowhere? But Jeff, a loud angry man talking to a woman could get exactly what he wanted?

It's like the airline leaves you a message and tells you one thing, just HOPING that the majority of the people will just take it and deal with it.... and they get away with it because people are too afraid to question their authority. Well not us! We fight back:) And we won~

Another weekend

Another weekend update, no pictures. Ha! I've got to be the worst blogger that I have ever been! Sorry!
I need about four extra hours in each day. Please!

We did a small home improvement this weekend. We FINALLY updated the landscaping in front of the house. There really was nothing there except a few flowering bushes. So we added about 12 more small bushes and some flowering plants. We also found a STEAL and got our trailer half filled with woodchips for only FIVE BUCKS. It covered the whole front of the house:)

Saturday we had a fun time at Zach's birthday party. I can't believe he is 14! He will forever be 9 years old in my mind...

Sunday we had photo shoots in and out of the rain. They all went well and the rain broke and the HEAT came on... flashbacks to Louisiana! YUCK.

Sunday Jeff and I snuck off to see the new Batman movie while my parents had the kids. It was AWESOME. Really, it was. I'm not usually into the Batman flicks, but this one was loaded. The special effects were so real. The sound was amazing. It was thrilling, romantic, dramatic, funny and sad. Heath Ledger did an amazing job as the joker. So real you couldn't even tell who it was! It's a sad loss! If you get a chance, go see it. It's one you don't want to miss in theaters:)

Hope you all had a great weekend!

July Family Photo

This is my new favorite family photo:)
It was taken this past weekend at Nicole's daughter's first birthday party.
Deagan is, well, Deagan!
Love It!

Working with Mavi

Since Olivia is a big girl now and she has decided to give up napping (or at least make her best effort not to) I have started to let her play in the studio while I'm working. Because as you see, my only solid work time when there is no babysitter here is during nap time. I hope and pray daily for a quality nap from the kids. However, the princess is almost five and is almost done with napping, so I give her the benefit of the doubt!
These were a few pictures taken last week of her playing quietly with Maverick while I worked.
What a tolerant little dog! He loves her and will do anything just to be with her...even let the dolls rest on him:)

*HaPpY bIrThDaY mOm*

Today is my wonderful mother's birthday! She brightens our world and made me the creative professional I am today, Happy Birthday Mom:)
We love you!

I know I'm bad....

...it's the summer! It sucks the life out of you! I can't help it we are so busy and more importantly the business is soo busy that I can't keep up with my own photoshop! So you all will just have to live without pictures for a little bit. I've got them, stockpiling. Waiting for a down day- or a late night!
sorry for boring you:)
t

*HaPpY 20th AnNiVeRsArY PaUlLa AnD rOn*

We would like to wish Jeff's parents, Paulla and Ron, a VERY happy 20th wedding anniversary!
We love you:)
Jeff and Tricia

HAPPY 1st Wedding Anniversary to Us!

Our anniversary sort of snuck up on us this year, but seeing as how it's a 'bonus' anniversary that's ok. We didn't do anything too exciting... I made my homemade spaghetti and meatballs. And we thawed out our cake topper. Of course the kids were sleeping, so I set a self timer on the counter and took a picture of us:) It was surprisingly DELICIOUS!