The time is just flying by with my sweet little Virginia. I truly adore having a baby right now, especially a girl. I’m having so much fun putting sweet little dresses on her and cute little headbands. I love listening to her delicate little voice cooing and sighing. She has the funniest little sticky out ears and lovely big brown eyes (yes they did eventually turn brown). She just started grabbing things and putting them up to her mouth and just a few days ago she laughed for the very first time!

I took the kids swimming this week. We got together with a few photographer friends. Here are a few of the photos from our day of fun.

I take back any bad thing that I have ever said about Bludomain’s customer service!

Earlier this week my login page for my photography website (www.modernexpressionsphoto.com) stopped functioning. My site host(bluehost) did everything in their power to fix it but at the end basically told me I’m SOL because there’s nothing they could do.

I urgently pleaded my case to Bludomain.com, expecting nothing, because when I have had site issues in the past they have refused to help because I host with someone else….Well now not TWO hours after I posted my concerns my site is FIXED!!!!!!!!!

I am absolutely flabbergasted and sooo excited to receive my Charlie site that I bought. I will soon be using Jinky for my logo site and Charlie for my photography. I am just bursting with happiness right now and sooo grateful to the folks at Bludomain for their stellar customer service amidst what I know to be a very busy time for them.

Bludomain ROCKS!

Rani had her seventh birthday on Thursday. It’s also her fourth “Gotcha’ Day”. We started the day early with french toast in bed, her favorite! We then talked about the day we met and painted her feet red to remember it. We smelled the powder she wouldn’t let go the first 3 days we knew her and we looked at the clothes she was wearing. After that we went to an Indian restaurant with a friend and her 13yo dd who was also adopted from India. Then we came home for a “Warm Tub Birthday Party” with her friends. All-in-all it was a special day.

Here are her birthday pictures. Can you believe how small she is? That’s my dining room chair!

I took a break from my maternity leave to create some family photos for a family in our ward. It was an interesting experience doing a session with a baby in tow. I nursed her right before and Daddy carried her around while we went from location to location. At one point she started fussing and so I plopped her in the sling, she fell right to sleep and we continued without missing a beat.

So dear H family, here are a few of my favorites!

I couldn’t decide how to process this one so I’m posting it three ways.

I got a call from the pediatrician’s office today and she said those words. Why is it that they are not comforting to me? Shouldn’t I be happy that my baby’s hips look great and she doesn’t need to wear a Pavlik Harness or have surgery and a spica cast? The problem is that her hip is really clicky and I just worry that they will miss the diagnosis and it will get worse to the point where it’s not easy to fix. I’m not sure what I should do about it…..

I wanted to feature the Fancy Nancy Dress by Rae Gun clothing on Etsy. These dresses are just the perfect party dress for dress up or just for fun. The dresses are lined and very well made. You can find the Fancy Nancy dress and other beautiful items at

Rae Gun by Marissa Fischer

Can you believe I took all six of my kids downtown in the sweltering 100 degree heat for a three hour photo shoot? Can you believe they were super cooperative and the only complaint came when I said we were done? They loved it! None of them have ever really walked around downtown Salt Lake before. Oliver couldn’t get over the fact that we were in the City! LOL They were amazed at the sights, sounds, and smells that were everywhere. They loved the odd shaped buildings and when we got in trouble for climbing all over the Federal building they thought it was cool. We had a blast and even though it was sooo hot, we all survived and it was worth it. Virginia slept in the sling through most of it and cried in most of her pictures but the rest of them were surprisingly cooperative. We met a homeless woman on the way. The kids got a lesson in humility and I was pleased that she let me take her picture. Can you believe she was small enough to fit into the shade of the street light pole? We got ice cream sundaes on the way home and I didn’t even yell at Finn for getting chocolate on his new shirt.

This one is going on my wall at home

Well, it’s not red, but it will do! Can you believe this little beauty is in the home of a sweet woman in our ward? I was pleased to discover that she had a set of Victorian furniture and was very accomodating allowing me to come to her home to do a little session with Virginia. I think they turned out quite nice.

My sweet SIL is only 34 yrs old, has two young children, and was just diagnosed with Leukemia this week. She started chemotherapy yesterday and she is and we are all sure that she can beat this thing but I’m sure she could use your prayers that she can make it through chemo comfortably. We are all so worried about her and we feel helpless because there’s not much we can do for her. Thank you for keeping her and her family in your prayers.