Little Ali

She's here and she is the sweetest little baby girl! I visited Casey, Andrea and Ali for about 2 hours today... it was great :) Ali has the prettiest little face and I love her chubby cheeks. She is one very loved little girl.

Her full name is...

Ali Noel Clinger
How cute is that?!

Ali & her pointy lil Christmas hat.

I am so happy Ali & Andrea are healthy! Take care little happy family.We'll see ya again in a few days!

Christmas 2009

Jeremy, Justin and I just got back from Boise last night. We had a lot of fun with Cindy over the Christmas holiday. I also got a phone call last night that my friend Andrea's water broke and she was in the hospital. She was about 3 hours away from having their little girl! Exciting! I am currently waiting (on pins and needles) for them to call and let me know when I can come visit the new lil family of 3 :) I'll post some pictures of the lil babe when I get home. For now some picture of them while they were expecting:

I'm so excited little miss Ali is here!

Anyways, we had a great Christmas and are excited for what 2010 will bring.Jer and I in front of our Christmas tree wearing our matching red outfits before we left for Boise. I had to beg Jer to wear his red shirt. He didn't want any part of it because he thought we looked stupid. But, as you can see he went along with it. Then...Justin walked in wearing the same outfit as Jer! Haha. I really had to fight and beg for them to let me take this picture. (The small dog in the picture wearing the puffy vest is Justin's, just so you don't confuse him as one of ours :) ) What cute brothers in their matching outfits!

Jeremy really wanted to change after the twinners incident, but he ended up just taking off the vest and off we went. By the way... did I mention we rode all the way in a little red car! lol Oh the Christmas spirit we Rowsell's had that day.

This is the only picture I took on Christmas. Justin playing a really weird game on the Wii. I think we played Mario Party for ohhh.... 6 or 10 hours this weekend. I am very over video games to say the least. But, Cindy did win one (I don't know what they are called) big location, then Jeremy won one, and guess who killed the Rowsell guys last night? Oh lil old me and Toadette! Oh yeah baby! Needless to say, the biggest gamer of us all, (Justin) never tasted sweet, sweet victory. What a shame!

Trimmin the Tree

Ever since we picked our house plans I've been excited for the day we could have a huge Christmas tree. Well, that day is finally here my friends! Yahoo! Jeremy and I couldn't find time to go to Driggs to cut down a tree, so my mom and Lane helped us out. I asked her to find me a big ol' tree and she definitely delivered. I can't believe this "Big Daddy" fit in the back of their little Tacoma!

Jer sure had to tug and tug to get it through the front door. *Please ignore the dead plant in the entry way :)

It was almost as wide in this pic as Jer is tall:

Here's Jer's definition of trimmin' a tree... it involves the saws all ;) Actually, the saws all really was needed. Some of the branches were so long, they were touching the couch and blocking the walkway.

Here is Jer with the broom trying to get the second batch of lights on (we forgot to start at the top). We still need to get a topper, some more ribbon and a few other things, but it sure smells great.

happenings around here

Boy, it sure has been awhile since I've posted some new things on here. (Not near as long as Andrea though- jk ) Let's see... Jeremy and I have been staying pretty busy lately. I recently became the proud owner of a lil red dirt bike.

This is a view from our maiden voyage a few weekends ago:

(Rarely do pictures do hills/mountains justice, this stinker was steep and really washy.)
I did a fair amount of walking down the hill while jer did a lot of hiking up the hill to get my bike :) What a nice guy. I did ride down the last steep hill though. Jeremy stood in front of me and we inched along...I think it took us a good 5 minutes to get down. That's Jer at the top getting my lil Honda. *Once again steeper and longer than it looks. Very deceiving.

I've also been staying pretty busy taking pictures. I've met so many great people and have had a lot of fun. I have a few more sessions booked through the next few weeks and am really looking forward to the new year. Here's a tiny tiny sample of shots from the past few months (I tried to put up ones I haven't posted yet) :

Andrea & Casey's baby girl will be here soon (Jan.) and I can't wait to meet her!

I also have a few holiday cards on my photography blog. They are really affordable (like 5 or 9 bucks), customizable and you the best part is you can print them anywhere you choose! Go here to check them out. I still haven't decided which one I'm going to use... decisions, decisions.

This year my family was lucky enough to get everyone together and head to Nevada. We camped in Logandale and did a lot of dirt biking (one day when we rode over 40 miles). (Check out the hot pink gloves my lovie bought me. Love them. Feel free not to check out how not cute I was while on a camping vacay.yikes)

It was so dusty and dirty out there (especially when you are slow like me and at the back of a 7 man group)!

Mick

Well, I just burnt the heck out of the green beans and they are now stuck to the bottom of a blackened pot, so that's that for the update. Hope everyone else is doing well and you have a great holiday season!

Janelle's Bridals

For those of you who don't know this lovely lady... this is Jer's BEAUTIFUL cousin Janelle. She's gettin hitched this weekend and was kind enough to let me drag her around to practice some bridal shots. Muchas Gracias Janelle, I hope you like them!