Happy New Year!

Brian and I had a wonderful start for 2012. We spent New Year's Eve at home with friends then off to Vegas in the morning! After Vegas, we drove to Yuma, AZ to visit our friends, Katie and Jim. Here are a few snaps from my G6 and Zi8!

Jan 1, 2012 12:00a.m.
We stayed at Bill's Gambling Hall and had breakfast at Paris. Yummy waffles!

Main Street looking south.

On U.S.-95 south toward Yuma.

Katie and Jim took us to the Yuma Territorial Prison.

A reflection shot at the Yuma Proving Ground.

Ocean to Ocean Bridge- the link in joining the

Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans in 1915.

Along the Colorado River.

At Katie and Jim's winter home. They are snowbirds from IN and WV.

Here I am with my best bud, Katie Ayers.

Jim and Katie

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Stephen Scsavnicki { senior snapshoot }

My very handsome nephew, Stephen, will be graduating from Options for Youth in January. Yay! So, it was time to get some senior portraits done! I had a great time taking his snaps and if I may say so myself, they came out GREAT! :) Here are a few of my favorites.

Sneak peek: My beautiful niece, Angie, asked to take a few snaps of her. Here is my favorite. :)

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Merry Christmas!

We had a wonderful time with our families over Christmas weekend. On Christmas Eve, we had all of Brian's family over. What a houseful! On Christmas day, we spent the morning with the girls opening loads of gifts and then off we go to Grandma's house to be with my family. Oh what fun!!

Our gift from Emily and Rachel! A day at Disneyland! Yay! Now, when we were
kids, an eTicket meant something totally different!

Mission Inn { with two of my favorite people }

Last night, my niece Angie, my mom and I went to see the lights at the Mission Inn in Riverside. This was the first time my mom has seen them! We had such a nice time walking around looking at all the decorations and the lights! And I'm talking about a billion lights! Here are a few of my favorite snaps.

Angie, my mom and me. Love this snap!

above: Mom and Angie. below: My mom is soo cute!

Thanks Angie, for this snap. :)

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Thanksgiving 2011 { fun family snaps }

We had a wonderful time with Brian's family for Thanksgiving lunch. We all met up at Karen and Richard's in Rialto. The food was de.li.cious!! The only bad thing about eating turkey dinner at someone else's house is that, you do NOT have leftovers!! Boooo. ;) Right after lunch, I took my family outside for some snaps. (Karen and Richard's backyard is LOVELY.) Setting my camera on a tripod and setting the timer, I took the following snaps.

above: I do love this snap!

above: Emily with Billy below: Rachel with Andrew CW
(didn't use my tripod for these)

As you can tell, there was a lot of silliness happening!!
And I still got the 'hurry up mom' look!

above and below: Love Love Love how these came out. :)

I also took a snap of the 'Hixson kids'.

l to r: Richard, Brian, me and Bob. sitting: Karen and Melissa (Brian's sisters)

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Leaves { I love fall colors }

Fall is my favorite time of the year. I love the cool weather and the sound of football on the t.v. But most of all, I love when the leaves turn colors. Here are a few snaps taken this week.

above and below: Liquid Amber (Taken at Karen's)
below: Crepe Myrtle. (My favorite snap-also taken at Karen's.)

The snaps below were taken in my backyard. All Liquid Ambers.

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Halloween 2011 { + fun }

I love passing out Halloween candy! Love to see the kids all dressed up and having fun. I decided to take a few snaps of the neighbor kids and made a collage.

Above are my lovelys, Emily and Rachel, in this year's costumes.
Travis, Owen and Shannon visit and started the trick or treating.

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A couple of fun pics. Above: Spinning Chucks

Below: Shadow fun with my mom.

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