Our little Family

Our family members are Keith, his daughter Mia, Leona and Leona's dogs Chelsea & Poquito. We were married on August 25, 2007. We have a beautiful 4 bedroom 2.5 bath house in West Jordan, UT. We love to teach 6 and 7 year old kids in primary. Family is very important to us and we try to spend as much time as possible with them. We love that our parents both live so close and that we are able to visit them often. As a family we love to go camping, swimming, hiking, play video games and watch movies. We also love to go to Vegas to visit Keith's sisters as often as possible. We are very playful and a little goofy at times. Here are some fun photos of our family....

Mia's First Game of the Season!!

Yesterday was Mia's first soccer game of the season. They should have had a couple already but the stupid snow made that impossible. It was still a little cold but was a ton of fun. Her team won 3 to 0 and Mia scored the first goal of the game! GO MIA!!! I had a blast taking photos of Mia and her team while they were playing. I made the mistake of wearing my work cloths and shoes to the game and after standing the whole time my feet were killing me. I won't make that mistake again! Here are some fun photos of that day.........
Mia getting ready for the game to start! Mia right after she scored her goal. She was so excited!
This is Mia's team at half time taking a break!
This is Mia's friend Sammy. I love love love this photo. Check out both of the girls faces! : ) Just a fun photo of Mia. I love that she is the only one in focus. This turned out really cool!
After the game is over (win or loose) all the parents make a half circle and give the girls a high five. I love that they do this for the girls and they seem to really love it as well. Another thing they do after the game is take off their shoes and run the field as a team. These girls work so hard and they do an awesome job. They have such awesome team spirit and have a good time. I am very proud of Mia and her team!
Anyone who knows me knows that my dogs go everywhere with me. So of course they were at the game last night with us. I forgot to take their coats and blanket when we first walked to the field. I let them use my jacket for a bit but I was freezing and so I went to the car to get them. The first two photos are them before they got the coats and blanket and they were freezing to death. Poor kids! I added some photos of them in the coats and blanket. They are just so cute!!

Twelfth Night Staring Mia Poulsen

Twelfth Night a play by William Shakespeare

Thursday night was Mia's school play. She was Viola and did an amazing job! We are so proud of her. Here are some cute photos of her....

Mia as "Viola"

Mia as "Cesario"

Summary of the plot or story. Viola, surviving a shipwreck, walks ashore at Illyria, and immediately embarks on a gambit to allow her to make her way in a world of men. Dressed as a man, Viola, now Cesario, insinuates herself into the service of the Duke of Illyria, Orsino. Orsino longs for the love of a neighbouring countess, Olivia , who as she is in mourning for the death of her brother, repels his advances. When Cesario (Viola) undertakes Orsino's bidding and gains admittance to Olivia's chamber, she becomes infatuated with the messenger. Viola (Cesario) then falls in love with Orsino. To add to the farce Viola's (Cesario) identical twin, Sebastian arrives on the scene. Sebastian has also survived the shipwreck, although Viola thinks he has drowned. Sebastian has been rescued by a sea captain, Antonio. But Sebastian is sad, for he believes his twin sister has drowned. The kindly Antonio gives him money to get along in Illyria but remains behind for the time being because the Illyrians think he is a pirate. Living in Olivia’s household is her uncle, Sir Toby Belch, a merry character. Belch pretends to promote Sir Andrew Aguecheek as Olivia’s rightful suitor. Belch just wants to use Aguecheeck' money. The steward of the household is the conceited Malvolio. Late one night Belch, Aguecheek and Olivia’s jester, Feste, are drinking and singing as they often do. Olivia's handmaiden, Maria tries to quieten them but they take no notice. Malvolio catches them and blames Maria for allowing them to behave so badly in Olivia's house. Maria and the others plan to gets their own back by forging a love letter from Olivia to Malvolio. More confusion ensues with jealousy, mistaken Identity and fights and duels. Sebastian and Olivia fall in love and marry. Orsino realises that it is Viola that he loves and she agrees to marry him. Sir Toby Belch and Maria also decide to marry! Twelfth Night ends and everyone, except Malvolio, is happy and Shakespeare speaks of the madness of love

Learning to Use My Camera

This year for Christmas Keith got me an awesome new camera. I love to take photos and so he thought I would like a more professional camera to use. The only problem is that I don't have any idea how to use it yet. I plan to take some classes at Inkley's (they came with the camera). In the mean time I am just trying to play around with it as much as I can. It is a lot of fun but also kind of frustrating. I am excited for Mia's soccer season to start so that I can try getting some fun photos of her playing.
Saturday we had a photographer come to my office to take family photos for my clients. It is something I do every year just as a kind of "thank you" for my current clients. I had him take some of Chelsea & Poquito but also decided to take some of my own that day. I think the ones that he did will be better than what I have. By the time I decided to take them they were tired of being nice for the camera. These are the photos that I took and I think they came out not to bad concerting the armature photographer and the tired puppies. I am also just learning to play with Picasa and making these fun little collages. I hope to get better at all of this and post some great photos soon!

Valentines Day!!!

Keith and I had big plans to go out to sushi and a movie Valentines Day but it did not work out that way. It was our weekend to have Mia and we wanted to spend more time with her. Poquito was also pretty sick and I just could not leave him home alone when was not feeling well. Keith made us a great dinner at home and we had a blast playing video games together.
Keith got me a beautiful necklace that has black diamonds. I didn't even know that they made black diamonds. Keith knows how much I love black (That is all that I wear to work) and jewelry so it was a perfect prize.
I got Keith tickets to the Boston vs Jazz game and a new video game.
I also got Keith and Mia a bunch of cookies. A friend made them for me (I am not good at that kind of thing) and they turned out way cute!

We got Mia a new Webkinz for her prize and my mom got all of us prizes as well. Chelsea and Poquito even got a prize from Grandma. We were all very spoiled!!