What I did when I was lonely..haha

I did 3 pages!!!! without feeling guilty for not spending time with the boys cause andy wasn't even home.. so here they are....


(the heart is a template from this super creative lady (shanna) who's blog i like checking on)




That's it for now....off to work so I need to go fill up moose's pool so he can play and stay cool while I'm gone :)

xoxo <3, Nicole & Co.

So So crappy!

So this weekend sucked! We were supposed to go to the river but as our luck has it andy's job in San Fransisco ran over so he wouldn't be home on friday...so friday turned to sat night would be his homecoming and then I got the dreaded phone call Sat night that since the job they are doing next week is in the same area that they wern't sending him home at all! AT ALL!!!! ugh!!!!!! poor guy was so upset! he had a rough week and is sooo tired! he worked over 90 hours this week! 90!! and so now it's still just me and the moose missing him here at home.....we've never been apart for this long and this really sucks! So of course I took the oppurtunity to scrap! what else am I gonna do? :) but I'll share later because I still have to upload the new stuff....oh and i so forgot to share the book I did for my cousins super amazing family so that's on the to do list as well!

Hope everyone's weekend was better than ours!

xoxo <3, Nicole & Co.

The cutest lil Red Head ever!

My cousin has three little red head boys all under 5 and we watched them friday night so I took the oppurtunity and did some pics of the baby (he's 1) Hyatt... he was the best such a happy smiling boy!! It was so hard to pick only a few because they all came out so good but heres my favs....




I also have some scrappy stuff to share from this weekend but I'll have to do that after work!

xoxo <3, Nicole &Co.

our lil TRIPOD

So Andy was so amazing today that after he took me out to breakfast he agreed to let me set-up the tripod and take some pics!!! It was the first time I used the tripod and the self timer and was pretty pleased with the results. Moose was too funny he of course followed us into the lil studio room I have set up in one of our spare bedrooms and had to be right in the middle of everything!!! but I wasn't complaining because I got a great picture of our lil tripod which will be sure to end up on a wall in our house! We bbq'd tonight and in the morning will be at my cousin's birthday pool party and somewhere in between I plan on doing a couple scrappy pages and posting them since it's been a while and I did finaly clean my scrap room!! but for now here's the results of todays lil adventures with the tripod and self timer!






Wishing all the world's daddy's a happy daddy day!!

xoxo <3, Nicole & Co.

WOW...it really is easy to get behind!

So maybe because it's a new thing (this blogging world) but I keep putting off new posts and now I don't know where to start.....hmmm let's see, I haven't been scrapping much because after my last project my scrap room is in shambles and I just have yet to get around to cleaning it up..tisk tisk! Between cousins graduating, big river trips, crazy crazy weather (huge hail storm that covered the ground like snow in may in SoCal?!), my first couple photo shoots (yay!!!!!), lots of playdates for moose with our neighbor's 2 dogs who just moved back, and trying to squeeze every last minute out of the weekends when andy's home, oh and we went to Havasu this past weekend! I'll post some pics of all the recent activities.... I'm so excited because I have gotten some interest in people wanting me to do pictures for them!!! So very excited!! I'm still working on my skills in photoshop, I don't know why I have struggled so much with it!!! I like to think I am a fast learner and I can teach myself usually but goodness that darn program is being a real tool with me!! Any tips would greatly be appreciated!!!!! Oh and a little something scary...so this weekend I was talking to Andy about how I get scared being alone at night in our way to huge of a house for 2 people and a moose, probably because I watch too much without a trace, csi, and law & order...but still, we live in a gated community that has security 24/7 and we live in a really good area but some nights I still feel wierd being alone, so anyways Andy left yesterday and is in Colorado this week (lucky! we were talking about moving there but niether of us has been haha) and last night security dropped off a note at our door that said..."WARNING there have been 4 burglaries in this community in the last couple weeks, the last one being this afternoon....." I couldn't believe that! So I was extra carefull when I was locking up the house last night before me and my moose went night night. So I'll post a couple of the pics I did of my cousin and this other family...I made the tutu and the hair bow!!!!






I love the lashes and the little lip in the last one of my cousin!!! Hope the world is fabulous!

xoxo <3, Nicole & Co.