Please Help Me IMPROVE....

So now that I have a nice camera I REALLY want to learn how to take a good picture. I'd LOVE to take a class, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to fit one in before I have the baby! So.....I would LOVE to get some feedback on these pictures. Be brutally honest if you need to be, I don't mind. I just really want to improve, so please help! Angie, Jenny, Lacey, Amber, and anyone else who knows anything about photography...........let me know how to improve, please:) (Keep in mind, Macie was NOT cooperating, next time I will have someone there to help hold her attention. That's why she isn't looking at the camera in ANY of them!)










I also just wanted to post some fun LITTLE sewing projects that I did last night and this morning. When it comes to sewing, if it's not little and simple, it's best not to try it........for me anyway:)
Cute new strap for my camera. I see these all over, but I got a tutorial off of makeitandloveit.blogspot.com(found on my sidebar)

And a new nursing cover for baby boy....the only ones I had for Macie are girly colored:)

Happy Birthday Reed!

Yesterday (the 17th) was Reed's 27th Birthday! It probably wasn't the most exciting day for him because it was on a Sunday, so he went to meetings, and church, then hung out at home the rest of the day:) We did go out to eat on Saturday....but I think I always enjoy that more than him. I just want my hubby to know how much I love him and need him, and I am SO LUCKY he's mine! Happy Birthday Reed! Here are a few pictures from the big 2-7.....


Macie helping me make dad a cake in the morning while Reed was gone to meetings.
Tasting the cake batter....
She loved it of course!
The CAKE......yeah, I don't ever really get creative.
Birthday Boy and Macie

Blowing the candles out......and Macie trying to help.

Loving the frosting:)

My New Furniture.....

So I told you Reed's been spoiling me lately. Well, here's further proof. Our friend Kyle helped him make these chests over the Christmas break....a toy chest for Macie's room, and a bigger one to go in the front room! Thank you SO MUCH Kyle for helping Reed make these, I LOVE them! And THANK YOU Reed, they are beautiful, but I love them even more because YOU built them for ME:)

Nicest Husband...

Reed has been spoiling me rotten lately....not sure why, but I'm not going to complain:) It makes me feel a little guilty, but also loved...so thank you Honey! The latest thing he's spoiled me with is this...A KITCHENAID MIXER! I am SO excited! I was using my mom's old bread mixer that she gave to me up until now. And when I say old, I mean like 30 plus years old. But I was okay with that, at least it worked. Well, until a few week ago, then it finally died:( Reed took it apart and found out which part needed replaced, but I guess they stopped making them a while ago. I was SO sad. But Reed has been secretly looking at them on the Internet, and this weekend while we were in Utah we got this one off of KSL! Never been used and exactly the one I have always dreamed about...even the color! So, I am a nerd, and posted a couple pictures of the beauty and the PERFECT cookie dough that I made today. I didn't think that it would make a difference in the dough, but it did! Perfect consistency. Yesterday I made bread, and it was a BIG step up from before. Thank you Reed.....I LOVE it!

CoUpLe PiCtUrEs Of MaCiE...

I just wanted to post a couple cute pictures of our little girl, and tell you some cute things she's doing lately. I thought she would be too young to care about a new baby coming, but I think she might understand more than I know. Lately she has been obsessed with babies. If there is ever a car seat around, she's peeking in and saying "baby, baby!" When we babysit a baby, she's constantly trying to give them a bottle, or their binky, or poking them in the eye and saying, "eye, eye!" And she even wants to carry them, don't worry, I don't let her:) Macie's had a runny nose lately, so she gets it wiped A LOT. Yesterday she went and got her doll and a couple little teddy bears, then ran to the bathroom and got some tissue, and wiped all their little noses. I thought that was so cute! She wraps her little doll in a blanket and packs it around everywhere giving it lots of kisses and feeding it her sippy. She always wants to see the baby in my tummy, but also thinks there's one in hers....and her dad's, so I don't think she quite understands that one yet:) But she knows what a baby is, and I think she will be lots of "HELP" when our little guy gets here.