A busy week

Sometimes, the blog gets forgotten when a busy week comes along. The sun was out this week. Everything drops for the sun up here:) 

I had the wonderful blessing of  arranging two fun photography shoots with my new photographer friend, Mallory Wilkes, and are young lady friends. First off, I packed up the family and we went location scouting. While the boys explored for bugs and nature stuff, Brooke was my willing model. I asked her to do a cute pose with her hands, and she did it! It blew me away. Girls really love to rock a photo session. She was being so darling. 

Fun things that happened this week:

• A sweet family watched our kids, while Shaun and I went on our first date in 6 months. It was such a treat. We visited the Portland LDS temple, and had some insanely good whole wheat gourmet pizza. Portland is awesome for food. It was such a gift to have a date with my sweetheart.
• I read a great book to the boys, Steven R. Covey's 7 habits of Happy Kids. We read a story about selling lemonade to earn some money. Ethan loved that story, and went straight to work to put up a garage sale outside with some of his toys. He made a sign that said $1 for everything, and sat in a chair, waiting for people to come. Shaun was out there with him, and our kind neighbor came by and bought some things for her grandkids. Angel neighbor. Ethan earned some money, and was delighted. He is so passionate, just like me. He just puts his mind to something, and does it. I think I have a real leader in that boy. Sure lucky to be his Mom, even on the rough days. 
• Kevin continues to love dinosaurs, and has proclaimed himself a T-rex. I have to remind him to not bit me when he says he's trying to eat meat:)
• I had so much fun on the photo shoots with the girls. I just love photographing teenage girls, and helping them to see how beautiful they are. Its a rough world for them today, with so much crap being put on them to be a certain way and such. I just want to help them remember that they are beautiful inside and out. Photographing this week made me fall in love with educating myself about photography, business, marketing, etc. again. My youtube Creative Live playlist became loaded with new videos I found and saved for later. Oh, to have free, solid education available today. Supreme blessing, but I can't study all the time. Balance, balance, balance. 

Tonight, I just look forward to reading books with my kids, and holding them on the couch, if they'll let me. For some reason, the boys go nuts at 6pm, and start chasing each other around the house. It takes me a bit to wind them down, get them to bed, and finally have a break. I love tucking them in, and checking on them later, just to see them sleeping. My favorite:)