Carly Crosland

Another school year has started! Lucy is going to Pre-School at the same place as last year, but just jumped from two mornings a week to three! She is also in the same class as 3 of her best friends, not to mention a bunch of other friends from last year, and then some! I bet Jess has her hands full! Haha. Lucy LOVES going to school, and more than anything else, that's all I care about. I love that she is SO excited to see her teacher and friends each day. She comes home singing fun new songs, showing off lots of new art projects, and is happy!   I accidentally left my good camera at home, so these pictures aren't the best quality, but at least I had my phone! She wanted to wear this skirt SO bad on the first day! Thanks Grandma Carrie! ;-) She also has the same backpack from last year, and I think she wore these shoes on the first day last year! Thank goodness things are starting to work for 2 years now- kids grow WAY too fast!  Clara was a little bumm...

Today is September 17th- which means 100 days until Christmas! Wahoo! About 5 years ago or so... in our BYU Student Married ward we did a 100% for 100 days, which I can honestly say, I did not complete. So I'm giving it another go! It is basically a way to get on top of scripture reading, prayers, Visiting teaching, etc... All of those 'seminary answers'. But don't they always seem to make the most sense? My main focus will be scripture reading, I'm going to read 5.3 pages a day to finish the B.O.M. by Christmas Day. The idea is that this is your 'gift' to the savior for Christmas. Anyone want to join!? Send me an e-mail if you are interested and I'll shoot you over the handy-dandy charts I made to keep my butt in line. My goals go a little something like this: Daily: Personal Prayer and Scripture Study Family Prayer and Scripture Study Love your Fam. Read to the Girls Weekly: Family Home Evening Attend Church Magnify Calling Date with Tyle...

We finally got some updated family pictures taken while we were in Utah by the fabulous Jessie Evans! She did our pictures 2 years ago, and we love, loved them! So glad we finally got some updated ones for the girls 2 & 4 year old pictures as well! Check her out. She is fabulous! jessiealexisphotography.com I am just so glad this all worked out. I ended up canceling on Jessie the week before, then last minute we were able to miraculously make something happen! The outfits were pulled together SO last minute, I just threw a bunch of outfits in my suitcase before we left incase we were able to make it work then scrambled around my mom and sister's closets as well! Good thing these girls of mine are pretty cute! I'm just glad no one was screaming! these next two are probably my favorite from the whole shoot- I love these crazy girls!  These outfits aren't my favorite, but I still love these pictures.  I'm really gl...