Which Kid Is This?

I am just curious to see how well everyone can tell our kids apart... and Josh and I think they look especially identical from the profile? What do you think?? Do you know who this is??

New Camera!!

So my Nikon D50 has been a great camera... and I have loved it for the past 3 years, but I have really been wanting to take photography more seriously and felt that it was time to upgrade. ...and I finally did it! I am now the proud owner of a Nikon D300!! I can't even believe I have it!!I came across a great deal where the owner had it for 6 months and it was still under warranty, and everything looked good so I got it!! It is a lot more complex than my camera, so I still have a ton to learn... but so far I am loving it!
Josh was home the other morning, so I decided to take Maddox out and take some pictures. He was not very willing, but I had fun playing with my new camera! These are some of the pictures from the day!

It's been a while....

So Christmas is definitely old news... but I just haven't felt like posting anything lately! I still wanted to post some pictures so I can feel like I am caught up on things!! We had an awesome Christmas this year. We stayed here this year and had a great time with all of Josh's family. We had a great time at Josh's Mom's annual Christmas eve party. Christmas morning was fun waking up at our house and seeing the boy's reactions to the tree and all the presents!! They had fun opening presents and were super excited about their new table. The big hit was the dinosaur figurines! Go figure!! After presents at our house we went and had breakfast at Papa Joe and NinNin's house and opened presents there. We had a great time and got spoiled with a lot of fun stuff, and had fun with all the cousins!! After that we headed to Grandma DiAnn and Grandpa Stans to open more presents. Again we were completely spoiled!! Let's just say the boys are pretty lucky to have 3 sets of Grandparents. We could pretty much get away with not buying them anything and they would be in great shape!! We really missed my family this year, but were thankful for all the nice things they sent!! Overall it was a great Christmas, and it was so fun to have the boys be so excited about things this year... I am sure it will get even better next year! To top of the Holidays we had a great dinner on New Year's Day at Josh's Mom's house. Every year we have prime rib and seafood!! It was awesome as usual this year!

{Mason}

{Maddox, Mason, Jake, Gunner, Parker, Aspen}
{Maddox w/Mase in background}

{Papa Joe and Mase}

{Mase}

{Mase}

{Maddox... he really was excited I promise!}

Snow

A couple of days before Christmas we gave the boys their snow suits and boots and took them outside to play. Maddox loved it, and without any prompting started eating the snow! Mason didn't love it quite as much!! He face planted after being in the snow for about 2 minutes, so that probably didn't help! I love the pictures though, and will have to get back out in the snow to take more pictures of them. Maddox looks hilarious in all the pictures from the day. Even though Mason didn't love it, I am glad I got some good pictures of him! That's what matters right??

Maddox

Maddox
Mason

Mason

Our Family Pictures

We had our family pictures taken by Jessica Kettle (lookthroughmylens.blogspot.com or jessicakettle.com) in October. It took me a while to make an order because she did such a great job! Here are some of the pictures from the day. I am withholding a few that are on our Christmas Cards, just so everyone can be really surprised!! (I know that you are all watching your mailbox for our card (jk)... don't worry it is on it's way!) I will post more in a few days! She really is an amazing photographer, and I am so happy with how they turned out!

{Julia}

Is she not the most adorable thing you have ever seen?? It was 38 degrees when we took these... so it was fast, but I am loving them so far!
{Definitely click on them.... they always look better enlarged! Especially the last one!}

{To Kalee}

Here are a few pictures... I am not quite done yet, but I wanted you to see a few before I get the disc to to you!
P.S. Click on the pictures... they look a lot better big!

{I am pretty sure this is my best work yet!jk!}