Been.

Where have I been? Why editing pictures and taking pictures and designing Christmas cards and on and on and on and well trying to finish the basement of course-- my plate feels a little full-- hopefully I can eat it all :)

The latest shoots + a pic just for Great Grandma of her new twin grandchildren!

And I thought taking pics of just one newborn was challenging :) I love my new niece and nephew they are little sweeties!

Fall is definitely a busier time for pics-- and man it just seems to be flying by anyone else wonder where in the heck October went to?! I pretty sure someone stole it off the calendar and tricked everyone into thinking that it really was the 30th.

Progress + Organization tips series

So things are chugging along in the basement-- Today actually I'll be tiling the bathroom :) I'm excited it'll be with 18x18 tiles and I looovvvee big tiles :)

Just for a reminder here is the basement when I moved in:

It was well...... umm........ slightly overrun with stuff-- we'll call it many fast quick moves and not enough time to go through it all or fix it all up.

Here's after the first day...

 The first step {in this pretty much overwhelming project for me} was to start separating stuff out and making piles, I knew my parents didn't want all this stuff and a lot of it could go to DI but I had to get approval on what could go and what had to stay, so I had to make piles that later my mom could come down and check off and confirm what was okay to be gone.

Here's the currently.....

and ya a lot of steps are missing in between (and a lot of time :) but it was just too hard to document a project this big cuz' half the time I was too frustrated to feel like it would actually ever get clean and I just had to force myself to keep going and face those scary spiders hiding in those nasty cardboard boxes {ughhhhhhh}

The storage room still isn't quite done-- but really it's the best I could do with what they wanted to keep (and they did get rid of a lot so it was a great first step-- and I'm still part of the family-yay- they didn't disown me or want to kill me-most the time- so that's really Really good :)

And now were on to the next step of finishing the basement-- the actual fun stuff! Wish me Luck!

But..... also I've decided that it'd be kinda fun to do some organization tips on my blog every so often... I love to organize, and do fall and spring cleaning- (ya I might be slightly crazy but hey at least I can admit it!:)) so...I'm introducing my.......

{ps. I  know I am no professional and I myself am thinking "geez who am I to be all high and mighty and give tips" but I do know some and it couldn't hurt, could it??? right??? right?? and if you have some great tips to by all means share them in the comments of the posts we'll just all share and learn it'll be great :)}

Anxiously awaiting....

The arrival of my new niece and nephew!

 They're either coming today or being forced to come tomorrow cuz' momma has gone far enough :)

isn't she so pretty?!-- even  9 mo.pregnant with twins!-- I tried to tell my brother he couldn't marry her cuz' I did not want to be the ugly duckling in the family but did he listen to me NO-- O-well, I guess I can handle it cuz' she is a pretty great sis in law to have.

Did I mention I'm so excited for them to come! Plus I get to take pictures of them it's gonna be GREAT! :)

FALL IN {♥ w/} IDAHO

So..... have I been overwhelmed lately-- yes, have I not felt like blogging lately--- yep, have I wanted to change my blog for like ever now--- yes siree  Did I even shower today-- that'd be a big fat no :) but I did cuddle and get to play with my 2 sweet girls so that's better than a shower any day  right :)

Seriously though life's been a bit busy and overwhelming and I feel like I have about a million and a half halfway completed projects that I just can't seem to finish-- anyone else experiencing this problem lately :) ya it's fun, but now I'm vowing to complete those projects and keep up with my blog cuz' ya it makes me happy :) Anyways.... now that really had nothing to do with this post :)

This post is about how we just barely had our great friends from Colorado come and visit us here in good ol' Idaho, and Idaho in the fall is SWEET! Ya this post is pretty much just fall pictures cuz' I lovveee fall and I like pictures so it's all yummy goodness :) it's all good :)

For their visit they ended up going to Yellowstone National park but since Dave was starting his first week of work and had to work friday we ended up not being able to go there with them but we met them up at our friends cabin and played games and games and laughed and showed off my new camera to some friends that would appreciate it and all it's loveliness :) and laughed some more and than crashed cuz' we were all tired :) But the next morning we took them to Mesa Falls but just the lower falls cuz' hey were kinda cheap like that and you have to pay now for the upper falls :)

It was pretty fun but freezing cold and payton was bummed cuz' he wanted to be closer so of course his sister gave him some luvs {so cute to bad they're not like that all the time}

Next we dragged the Bastians down to Warm River to feed the fish-- and the kids loved it!

It was pretty fun to try to catch the fish in pictures too!

 Next up was The Rexburg Temple and BYU-I gardens

 Where little Katie was such a cutie she did much better pictures for the camera than my kiddos' who everytime I point the camera at them now they gotta make some sort of silly face-- but I still love them :)

After Rexburg we went and ate ate BAMBINO'S yummy yummy yummy!

and than headed to the Idaho falls Temple {the Bastians like to take pics of the temples and do alot bettter job at it than I do}

The falls were very pretty too and had such nice lighting :) I loved the geese all lined up on the edge

And the kids had fun playing in all the leaves

 Don't you just LOVE FALL?!