Baby Animal Days

Yesterday we went to Farm Animal Days at the American West Heritage Center. We didn't have Kira Last weekend so we missed baby animal days so we went this weekend. It was practially the same thing but much less crowded. It was nice. Kira went there with her mom and a friend for a little bit and then Andy and I picked her up there and went to look at all the animals together. She loves her dad. He can make her so excited to do just about anything. She got to hold some baby chicks, ducks, bunnies and pet a lot more animals. It was a fun outting.

Update - Photo Overload!

Well I'm a little late updating my blog. I've been really busy lately so these new posts are going to be totally out of order! I've been procrastinating because the photographer in me wants to edit all the photos I take, which will take time. So instead I'm posting them SOOC. (Straight out of the camera). I also had a few issues the past few months and lost alot of photos which I'm totally bummed about. My external hard drive crashed. Originally I had lost ALL of my photos but i actually had a back up from Oct and previous, which means I lost all photos from Nov, Dec, Jan, and Feb (Christmas, new years, mine and Andy's birthdays, Kaisley and Kade's Birthdays and all my photography sessions durring that time). Major hiccup. Well I got a new external and i'm working on retreeveing my data, no promises. Then about 2 weeks ago my computer decided to hit the road. So finally i have a new and improved laptop which is awesome and an upgraded and larger external hard drive. Crossing my fingers I have good luck the rest of the year with electronics!

 

Collin's birthday was back in March. Shayna did a really cute Train theme and for some reason I don't have photos of all her decortations and food. Totally surprised me because I thought I had taken some. But anyways.. here are the few photos I did manage to take (or someone with my camera took them). It was nice to have my sister and nieces/nephews in town to hang out with for a while.

 

 

 

 

 

We also did some 2 yr pictures for Collin's birthday... remember the Train theme I mentioned above...

 

While my sister was in town we did a 1 yr cake smash photo shoot of Taylie. I love this girl and it was super easy to get her to smile which NEVER happens!

 

Kira had a tooth pulled that was dying on her so I took a few pictures of her beautiful smile before it changed.

 

 

 

Easter was a such a fun day, not to mention it was beautiful outside! We were able to spend most of the day outside and we had Kira for most the day so that made it even better. We headed to my parents for lunch and had fun playing with Collin. Kira and Collin have a great time together. We missed Jaycie, Dylan, Steven and Taylie this year since they were in sunny Texas, but none the less we had a great day. Easter at my parents is always fun. My mom cooked one of my favorite meals - ham, potatoes, green bean casserole, salad, rolls, chocolate layer dessert - YUM. Then we had an easter egg hunt and Kira and Collin both got a lot of fun toys and candy.

 

 Love this photo of COLLIN!

 Kira - sporting her favorite sun glasses!

We then went to Andy's sisters house for Easter with his family. Kira and Kade have a blast. They are so fun to watch. Dinner was really good - almost the same as lunch :). We then had an easter egg hunt outside with Kade and Kaisley... it started out eh, rough. Kade and Kira took off from the gate and Kade toppled down. Poor guy, but that didn't slow him down he had more eggs than Kira by the end.

Easter was a lot of fun. Glad I got to spend it with almost all of my family.

 

Lately I've had a lot of photo sessions lately and with Dance my spring is pretty busy! We have a lot of fun things planned this summer so I will get better at posting updates!

 

 

Update on Life!

Well this is a quick update on what's going on in Stacey's Adventures!

Life has been super busy. My photography is getting busier and taking up more and more time. I offically have business cards now! Totally stoked. I had been gettng ready to order prints and do a few shows this spring when my hard drive decided to fail on me. I originally thought I had lost EVERYTHING, not to mention about 4 hours prior to the hard drive failing I had deleted everything off my two memories cards. MAJOR BUMMER... but I later found I had a copy on an old hard drive from everything prior to Oct - So slightly better.

Dance is going well - our first competition is next week.

Snowmobiling is awesome. I'm slowly learning and hopefully being more daring. I've rolled my sled a few times so I guess that says something.

My sister is in town from Texas so it's fun to get to see her.

Other than that work is pretty busy at the moment. Keeping up on life and updating the house is always fun.

Relay for Life 2013

Well are off to start this years Relay for Life 2013. I'm so humbled to be able to work with so many great people all working toward fighting against cancer. Makes me miss my grandpa so much. He fought hard and made it through radiation, in the end the pneumonia got him. Miss him every day and love giving back for a cause that directly affected his life.

Whether you are a relay vetran, rookie, sponsor, donator, participant or don't even know what Relay is - I challenge you to give back in some way. Join a team, start a team, donate $5, donate time and volunteer or whatever you can come up with. Cancer affects more and more people every day - I hope we are all doing what we can to help create a world with more birthdays. I am Making Hope Happen.

Team Fish Fight's Webpage

Top 12 pictures of 2012...

I posted the top 12 pictures I took on my photography blog (www.photographybystaceymoss.blogspot.com ) but decided I wanted to do the same thing for my personal photos. Now keep in mind I had 13,126 photos so I quickly went through and picked out those that stood out the most and then narrowed it down to 12 from that 30 or so. These are in no particular order but they are fun memories from 2012.

 

1. Snowboarding. I love snowboarding. I haven't been able to go every often lately but I still love it. This is me standing at the top of Marg's tripple waiting to go down through the trees.

 

2. Dance - I love teaching dance. This is me, Caitlyn, Kyle and Lanli at the Review.

3. This picture reminds me of one of the reasons I love Andy. He is so fun with kids. This is at the St. Anthony sand dunes with our friend Clint and his family. The kids got Andy involved in this all out water fight, even Kira (in the Purple and you can't see her face) got involved.  Makes me smile.

4. Kira LOVES boating, enough said.

5. Another boating picture. Unfortubatly this is not of me but I did take the photo. This is my friend Mary at Hyrum dam. I just love how she's silohetted against the sunset. 

6. This picture reminds me of all the wonderful and amazing people I have met because of Relay for Life, all fighting for the same great cause.

7. Kira makes me giggle. This is taken in New York when we went to visit Andy's parents on their mission. She was making funny faces when we tried to take pictures. 

8. Andy and Myself - this was taken up Bountiful peak while we were Jeeping. We both love the outdoors and love jeeping.

 

 9. Oh I just laugh when I see this. Last summer I spent many nights helping Andy on his jeep. I would wear his coveralls and then sand down the yellow paint from the jeeps doors, hood, side panels etc. I would get covered in dust but it was a lot of fun.  

10. Steven's face in this picture at Christmas just makes giving gifts worth all the hassle of finding that perfect present. 

11. Ragnar 2012. This was my 3rd year doing ragnar. I didn't train very well but this shows our medals and that we were still smiling when we got done.

12. Chicago - This is in Feb just after valentines day. I loved Chicago but could only pick one picture. We love traveling and getting to see new places. 



Love this!

Have I mentioned I do photography and LOVE IT?

 

www.photographybystaceymoss.blogspot.com

 

A quick update!

Here's what we've been up to lately... work, staying warm, sledding, made a headboard, bowling, playing with Collin, Maternity photography shoot, missing my sister, princess dress ups, and more adventures at work with employees that make me smile! Spencer is a hoot. The new year is going well!

Dancing with the Relay Stars