I ♥ Faces: Hilarious Outtakes

This is the last week for this years challenge at I Heart Faces. Next year starts a whole new series of challenges! Can't wait! So I do have four outtakes that I am submitting! I think they are pretty hilarious! Most of them of course are of my son! Enjoy!

My first entry is of my son, Tristan, this is his new face that he always does to us! So funny.

#2. Tristan loves bath time! Especially splashing the water! I took this right before my lap got all wet! haha! Such a silly boy!

#3. This is my niece, Addison, she's such a silly girl! She always gives me the cheesiest smiles. Every once in a while I catch a nice one! :)

#4. So when Tristan was younger, well lets say around 6 months or so, he disliked anything on his head, touching his ears, etc. So this is him trying to pull his hoodie off. His expression cracks me up! Love it! :)

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Merry Christmas!!

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!! We sure did! Christmas Eve I made our Christmas dinner.. and it was so good!! I will be showing you our Christmas in photos and also explaining what each picture is! So enjoy!! :) And have a Happy New Year!


These are the cookie dough truffles I made! and they are delicious..especially if you like cookie dough! I will post the recipe at the end of this blog!

My Christmas cookies!

Corn bread that we had for our Christmas Eve dinner! We also had asparagus!

A yummy beef tenderloin that I made. It was delicious!

Tristan opening a present Christmas Eve. Jake told me a tradition they did when they were younger. Him and his brother would always open a present Christmas Eve and it would always be pjs! So I thought we could start that tradition also! :)

Here is what Santa got Tristan! And he of course got a few other gifts! :)

Tristan making a silly face.

What my husband got me for Christmas!

After our Christmas we went to Jake's moms house for Christmas! We had an awesome dinner of seafood! Yum! I didn't get too many pictures while we were there. But this is their tree! It was beautiful! :)

Cookie Dough Truffles:
Ingredients:

1/2 c butter, softened

3/4 c packed brown sugar

1 tsp. vanilla extract

2 c all-purpose flour

1 can (14oz) sweetened condensed milk

1/2 c mini semisweet chocolate chips

1/2 c chopped walnuts (I did not use any)

1 1/2 lb semisweet candy coating, chopped

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, cream the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla. Gradually add the flour, alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. Stir in te chocolate chips and walnuts. Shape into 1-in balls. place on waxed paper-lined baking shts. Loosely cover and refrigerate for 1-2 hours or until firm.

2. In a microwave-safe bowl, melt candy coating; stir until smooth. Dip balls in coating, allowing excess to drip off; place on waxed paper-lined baking shts. Refrigerate until firm, about 15 min. If desired, remelt remaining candy coating and drizzle over candies. Store in refrigerator.

I Heart Faces: Pet week

This week's theme for I Heart Faces is Pets! I have so many pictures I would love to post of my pets but sadly I can only choose one! I had a hard time choosing one too. But this is what I came up with! This is Sparky. He is a Siberian Husky and he's 5 months old. I just love his blue eyes!

I do have several cute photos of my dappled dachshund, named Dewey, that I wanted to post, but I guess that will have to be another entry! :)

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I Heart Faces: Sweet Dreams

This weeks theme for I Heart Faces is "Sweet Dreams". Such a great theme! I love it! I had a couple choices of photos to choose from of my son..but I ended up with a pretty good one. He was about 5months old when this was taken. When he couldn't walk or crawl..he loved his jumper! Oh my word..he would jump until he fell asleep...literally. Ha! So here is Tristan fast asleep in his jumper. He did this quite often too! Some people have to drive their children around the block for them to fall asleep but we just had to put him in his jumper. :)

Here is a video of him jumping like crazy..sorry it's not a very good video..I think I took it with my phone. But it is still really cute!

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I Heart Faces: Tooshies

This week's challenge for I Heart Faces is "Tooshies"! I have been looking forward to this challenge for a while..I was going to post a picture of my son's tooshie b/c I had a really cute one but I got a pretty cool shot this past weekend of some guys shooting clay pigeons. And since I usually enter pictures of my son into the contest, I thought I would share a picture of some my cousins shooting clay pigeons. This is a family tradition that we do every Christmas! Enjoy!

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I Heart Faces: Sun Flare

This week's photo challenge at I Heart Faces is sun flare! I love this picture of my son, Tristan! We were playing at the park..and it was one of the beautiful fall afternoons that we have had in November! :) Instead of playing on the playground.. we decided to take him into the field where he could run around. :) He had so much fun! And it was so nice outside too!





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Autumn Beaty!

This weeks contest for I ♥ Faces is Autumt Beauty! I love fall! It's so beautiful! :) This photo is of my son, Tristan. He doesn't really get to play in the leaves all that much b/c we don't have any trees in our backyard. So we took him to a park and he absolutely loved playing in all the leaves! He loved the crunching sound as he ran through the leaves! And as you can see, this picture is also the header of my blog b/c I love it!

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I Heart Faces: Balloons

This weeks challenge on I heart faces is "Balloons". I had two photos that I wanted to share but could only use one! So here is my son with his first balloon at 10 months old! I just love this picture of him! Enjoy!

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Halloween

Ok..so I haven't posted since my birthday..which was on the 10th! I just haven't had anything fun to write about. :) We haven't had too many house showing...we did have 3 in a row about 2 weeks ago..and they really liked our house but ended finding a new construction for less. oh well..then we had a buyer that loved our house, but the only negative thing about it was that it faced the wrong direction for them..weird response I think. Haven't had any showing in about a week. Hopefully one this weekend! :)

Last night we carved pumpkins for Halloween! Tristan loved it! His favorite part was digging out the pumpkin then feeding it to Dewey. He did try a little bit himself but I don't think he really liked it. :) ha! Here are a few pictures from last night! Enjoy!

digging for goodies!

mmm...yummy pumpkins

feeding Dewey pumpkin seeds

left to right: Jake, me, and Tristan's pumpkin

We are going to Bonneville Mill on saturday and then trick or treating later that afternoon! Check back on Monday for pictures!! :)

I Heart Faces: Excited!

So this weeks theme for I ♥ Faces is "Excited"! I took this photo yesterday at the Pumpkin Patch. We went through the corn maze with my son Tristan. He was trying to avoid all the stalks that we hanging over the path. Finally he was brave enough to touch one and he loved it! As you can tell by the picture he thought it was pretty exciting!! :)

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My Story in Photos: My favorite things

This week for is "my favorite things". This will be non-judged. So I have a lot of favorite things..my list is going to be really long..and I plan to post all my pictures. Enjoy! :)

My favorite things are

1.) My husband! I love him so much!

2.) Our son- Tristan Edward...He's such a sweet little man!

3.) Our dog Dewey- miniature dachshund- or as Tristan calls him Dew Dew

4.) My nieces and nephews- there are 2 missing from this photo. and also Tristan is in the photo.

5.) Taking pictures of little toes and feet!

6.) Baby animals

7.) Photographing close ups of wildlife

8.) Wildlife

9.) Storms

10.) Nature

11.) Parks

12.) things that are blue

13.) close ups of flowers

14.) and flowers in general

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Friend Makin Monday

So this is my first time posting for Friend Makin Mondays! My sister actually informed me of this website and I thought I should try it sometime! :) So the topic this week is What are your hobbies? What do you wish that you knew how to do?

What are my hobbies:

1.) Photography- I love taking pictures of children & nature

2.) Painting- Ok so I painted these in high school. But I do love to paint when I get a chance.

3.) Be on the internet- who doesn't?!

What I would love to learn how to do:

1.) Interior Design

2.) Cook

Have a great Monday everyone!!!!!