Where has the last week gone?!?

This last week has been a BLUR! Between "Our Natalie" (as Maci calls her) being in the hospital, my birthday and photography stuff, it's gone by fast!!

First off, my bday! I turned the big 24 on Tuesday, haha!! We just had a nice relaxed day, I went and worked in Maci's class like I always do on Tuesdays and then had Pizza and Cake with my family. My husband got me Dance Dance Revolution for our Wii! It is SO fun!! And my parents got me a beautiful picture of Mt. Timpanogos Temple... I just took this picture with my webcam on my laptop, not the best but it is beautiful! You have to see it in person, we hung it over my piano, I love it!!!!




Kernan wore a special shirt on my birthday!! I got so many comments on how cute he looked!! I love it!! Here is the handsome boy showing it off!!



I love this one of him looking down at it... He is so cute!!!


Then my week continued, I had the wonderful opportunity to take wedding pictures at the temple for my friend Jenny's brother! It was so much fun!! I really enjoyed it!! I've only gotten to edit a few pictures so when I have them all done I'll put put a post with a bunch more pictures but for now, here is one....



Congrats Jordan and Ruby and thanks for letting me take your pictures!! It was so fun!!
I'm looking forward to the entire family pictures I'll be taking for their family and then Jenny's sister Julieann is getting married in September so I get to take those too!! Fun!! Thanks Jenny for all your families business! :) Love ya!!

Now, "Our Natalie" is doing good! She's been in the hospital since last Monday keeping little Cali in!! She has had lots of help with her family and hopefully will have her this week, the baby is looking so good and healthy and Natalie is doing good as well! Maci has been so cute about all of this though! When I told her on Monday what was going on she said "You mean OUR Natalie!" So cute! Then she asked me on Thursday when Cali was going to be here and I said it could be any day now, and she said "Yes, I get to be a cousin again!" hahaha!! And finally on Saturday she asked when Nat was coming home, it's really effecting her for some reason! I think it's so sweet and Natalie is loving it too!! We all love Nat so much and hope everything goes good! I'll be sure to update you when I know more!!

Everyone have a GREAT week!!

Happy Easter!!

Happy belated Easter everyone!! Here are a few pictures from our day yesterday...
Maci in her pretty easter dress...

And once again, this is how my son felt about getting his picture taken!! I really need to have a talk with him! Where did my little boy go that smiled so cute every time I lifted my camera up?!? Needless to say, this is the only picture I took of him in his outfit!

Onto the Egg Hunt! Brian's Mom always stuffs eggs for the kids to find, and the bigger "kids" ie: Brian, Phil, Christtina, Paul and I hide them in the backyard!

Kernan loved finding the eggs, he would find one and would open it and then we would have to remind him that there were more to find!

Smile Chris!!!

Trevor didn't know what to think of all this!
Giddy up horsey!!

Yummm... Candy, wrapper and all!! Haha!!

Here is Maci counting her eggs...

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter!

Happy Birthday Stockton!!

Today my littlest brother is 8! I can't believe that he is already old enough to get baptized! Even more unbelievable is that Maci is only 2 years away from that as well!! WOW!!

I took these pictures the other day for his birthday party invitations!

And here is his invitation I made... I really enjoy making creations in Photoshop!!

Happy Birthday Stockton!! Have a good day! We love you!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Hope you all have green on today! :) My kids do! I wanted to take pictures of them before I took Maci to school so we went outside to snap some...

Maci is always willing to smile for the camera!!

Kernan on the other hand... Wasn't in a picture mood!!

So we went inside to use the tv to keep him still! I only got like 2 of him looking at me instead of the TV but at least he isn't crying!!

Then we took sister to school and came home, guess who was willing to have their picture taken!! What a little stinker!! But I got a couple cute ones of him, maybe after school I'll try again!!

Happy St. Patty's Day Everyone!!

Lesson learned the HARD way...

... so PLEASE learn something from me!!

Ok, let me explain! I had a very bad week last week! One of the bad things was, my desktop computer CRASHED! I lost everything! I cried!! I didn't back up like 2 months of pictures, so I lost my entire Idaho and Utah trip and Oregon trip from last summer! I had all my addresses on my computer, I lost all of those! I lost all my tax information that I had just finished but hadn't printed off because I needed more computer paper!! I lost all my emails... Thankfully Southwest emailed me my confirmation email for my trip to Baltimore (22 days Sheena!!) again today!! That was the one I was worried about the most!!! Oh and on that note, I also lost ALL my email addresses! So if I had your email address and/or home address could you please email me at my NEW email address so I can put it in my address book! Or if you want me to have your address or email. I changed from cox to mac so that all my emails will always be on the internet and I will hopefully never lose them again!!
So email me at mandiles[at]mac[dot]com...
(I typed it like that so I wouldn't get spam!!!) Also be sure to change my email address in your address book! I'll be checking the cox one every once in awhile but I have turned to an APPLE/MACINTOSH lover!!! We are currently in the market for an iMac! No more PCs for us, especially after this hole incident!
So please learn from me! Back up all of your pictures, documents, addresses, and emails!! Or I would even suggest getting an internet email address, I know that Outlook is nice and easy since it's right on your computer, but if something happens you'll lose all of them!! The good news is Natalie's Dad thinks he can get me my documents so say a quick prayer that maybe there will be a happy ending to this!!

Now you all know I can't not put pictures in my posts! :) So I saw this on Brittany's blog and have wanted to do it...

What's in a name?
She listed why/where each kid got their name.. So I thought it would be fun!



Maci J -
She got her name from no one really. We were at the temple looking at the Christmas lights and had just found out we were having a girl. No one else in our families knew it yet. And someone walked in and said to the people in front of us "They need Maci, they're leaving." and I looked at Brian and said.. I like that name! And J is her middle name, we have a lot of "J's" in our family so we just summed them all up into a letter for her middle name.

Broc Christopher-
He is our angel!! We wanted him to have the same initials as his Daddy so that narrowed the first names to "B's". I don't know where I had heard Broc but I just thought of it one night as we were driving. We both liked it and so here it is. We went through a lot of other "B" names before but this one stuck. Christopher is Brian's middle name as well as Brian's Dad's middle name. We never thought as we were picking out his name that we would have such a short time with him! We are so thankful for that experience and miss him EVERYDAY!!




Kernan Christopher-
Oh goodness!! His name was a battle!! At first when we found out we were having a boy again, we kinda thought about doing the B.C thing again but then decided that even though Broc wasn't with us he was still our first boy and so that should still be his "honor". So then the battle begun!! I like different names, I get on the top 1000 baby names and look at the very bottom and work up!! So some of the names I came up with were a bit off the wall! And my husband has to think like a school kid and find something to make fun of in every name! Anywho, after months of battling, I decided I wanted to name him after my doctor, Dr. McKernan, because he was such a huge support for us during Broc and was is just a wonderful guy! So I came up with Kernan, it took a lot of begging but in the end I "won"! :) So he is named after Dr. McKernan. His middle name at first we wanted it to be Broc, to name him after him, but then my Mom pointed out that if we wanted "Christopher" to be passed down, Broc wasn't going to be able to do so. So we decided to give him Christopher as well.
So there you have it... My kids names... That was fun! Anyone else that wants to do this go for it! I'd love to read about your kids names as well!!!

Family Photo Shoot...

** Warning: Lots of Pictures Below!!**
I found a new way to post my photos. It makes them bigger and adds a watermark!! I'm so excited!
Anywho, these are pictures from our family photo shoot that we went and did last Sunday... As mentioned before, Brian's family hadn't had family pictures since his youngest sister was a baby! She is 9! So it was well over due!! I had so much fun doing them and am very happy with how they turned out! So enjoy and if you don't want to look at the 25+ pictures, have a good week! ;)

The whole family!

Mom, Dad and their Kids....

My beautiful Mother-in-law Lisa!

Isn't he adorable?!

The Girlies...

I *LOVE* this Picture!

Brian's Grandma or as we all call her..
Mee Maw

They have the same look in this picture! Can't deny who's kid he is!! :)

Two of the most wonderful men in my life!
Brian and his Dad...

Emilee... Isn't she cute?!

The way they really act!!

I love this picture too!! Emilee's expression is SO Emilee!!

Michayla... She is beautiful!
You are Peach!! ;)

I love all their expressions in this one!

I'm a STUD!!

Brian got some shots of me too... You know the photographer never gets photographed! :)

I swear!! She does not take a bad picture!!

I love this one too!

OK, so I LOVE a lot of them!!
If you made it to the end, Congrats! I would have put more on here but I didn't want to TOTALLY overdue it!!
Have a good week everyone!