Teeny little super models

Do you remember this guy?

I've had his song stuck in my head for nearly a week now.

I got to take some photos last week for a friend of a friend who wanted some photos for her business. She makes and sells hair bows, so she brought her 3 daughters to model the bows for us. Oh my heck, these girls were stinking adorable. Seriously. I kept getting distracted by their FACES and I had to keep reminding myself that I was supposed to be taking pictures of the bows. Anyway, I thought I'd share a couple of my favorites. You'll see what I mean.

I am SO glad that I did this - I was really nervous about it because I've never taken pictures for anybody but friends and family. But I am learning that practice is really the best way to improve, and I really do want to improve.

I also got to take some photos recently for a friend/neighbor of her new baby girl. You can see some of them on her blog here. The whole time I was there I kept thinking to myself "Wow, I really should stop referring to Londyn as a baby." You forget how tiny they once were until you hold a real baby again.

Okay, on to other topics. Sorry if I bore you with all the photo-talk.

We took a super-quick trip down to Vegas on Thursday. We headed down after work so we could help with the packing/moving. This was only phase 1 - there's still phase 2 to be done at the end of the month, but scheduling isn't going to let us go down then. So we thought we'd go help bring up the first truckload. Everything is going into storage for now while my folks house-hunt.

Will would probably disagree, but I think I held myself together quite well. We were busy the whole time, right up until we ran out the door Saturday to drive back to Utah. So there wasn't a ton of time to get emotional about it all. We played games on Friday night around the kitchen table with a bowl of M&Ms and I had to really try not to think about the fact that it would be our last time. But I did kind of choke up when we left town.

I have a confession to make - I've never loved Las Vegas. It was always just, you know, where I happened to live. I don't mean that I didn't like living there - I liked my schools, and I liked my ward - but I didn't ever feel any real sense of attachment to the city itself. And in recent years as Las Vegas has more proudly touted it's evil image, I have liked it even less. (The whole "what happens in Vegas" thing - don't get me started.) But as we were driving away I really surprised myself by realizing that I was going to miss Las Vegas! Who knew? I guess there is enough history there now that I really feel connected to it.

Anyway, so that was that. And now my folks will load up the 2nd truck at the end of the month and will be staying with us for a while until they find a house they want to buy. Which we are very excited about. And Jacey is going to freak. We're selfishly hoping they don't find a house for a loooong time. :)