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…buy a hat!

I guess Chase’s haircut really isn’t that bad — it’s just not the fluffy, crazy, wavy mess that I love so much. I needed to do Valentine pictures for his cards for school so I set out in search of a hat. I fell in love with this one…

Chase was so excited about his “Air Force hair cut” (that’s what he told everyone because he got it cut at the BX on base) that I played off of that…

Enough is enough!!! I came home one evening to find that Daddy took the boys and they all got new haircuts. They thought “it would be a fun surprise for Mommy” — AKA “let’s not mention it to Mommy until the damage is done and she can’t say ‘no’.” I was speechless. (Well, okay maybe not, but Justin probably wished I were.) Saying I was not happy is putting it mildly. I know, I know it’s just hair, it will grow back but there is so much more to it than that – things that I think only a mother would understand. This is my baby. By the time his hair grows out as long as it was (the messy mop-top!) he will be too old to have it that way. Once he starts Kindergarten in 6 months, I will have to resign myself to the fact that my baby is not a baby any longer. The short hair makes him look so much older and I am not quite ready to accept that yet.

Oh, wait — here’s the best part.
Annika came straight to me and told me “I wanted to call you but they wouldn’t give me Daddy’s cell phone.” I asked “You were going to tell me before they did it?” to which she replied “Yes, I said ‘Mommy is not going to be happy.’ but Daddy said ‘She’ll get over it and she will start to like it.’”

Yup… I’m waiting for just the right moment to use that exact line against him. In his defense, he did tell me that he thought that I would want to take pictures of the three of them with the same military haircut. You bet I took him up on that offer!

Congratulations to Courteney & Joseph! They had a beautiful wedding at the Mount Timpanogos Temple and reception following in Springville. I have been sitting here with several hundred of their images for a week and can’t even work on them without pulling my hair out! I am waiting (ever so patiently… or not) for my new computer to arrive so I can edit all of their awesome images. UPS was nice enough to deliver to me an awesome new camera the night before their wedding and it occurred to me as I started editing the images just how ancient my computer is! So here are a few images I did edit before doing the math in my head… 14 minutes per image (yes, I timed it!) times several hundred images and came up with “insane!” The computer should be here any day now and I decided to take this time to update my web log and some other things that have been neglected recently. Very soon we will be working on your album, but in the mean time here are a few fun ones to take a look at…

Take a look at this sweetie and her Daddy!

The garter toss…

The bouquet toss…

Legend says that whomever catches the toss will be the next to marry, and guess who’s wedding I will be doing in June?!!

…part 1

I am looking forward to being there for Cristy & Jon’s wedding in June (and for Cristy’s bridal session at a great location!) Here’s a sneak peak at the first part of Cristy & Jon’s engagement session. Once the weather warms up a bit and it gets prettier outside we will head out and do some fun outdoors stuff, too.

The Moore family men were such great sports about their family session! You would never have known that they weren’t just as excited as the girls to have their pictures done. They were out of there pretty quickly, though, when I said we were through. Thanks, guys, for a great session!