Loving Life :)

LOVE these two pictures, love my boys!

Logan is five and a half months now :) He gives high fives, low fives, gets our nose, sits up on his own, walks with support, plays bonk, scoots, rolls every where and guess what! He started crawling tonight! We are so proud of him. Of coarse he only went once or twice, but he actually did it! He amazes us so much! Rory gave me my birthday/Christmas present early since he got his early :) He got me the 18 megapixel Canol T2i. It is an AMAZING camera! I can't wait for my next shoot to use it. I got asked to do the Highschools Winter Formal dance pictures. I am stoked and so proud of my self. Rory and I reorganized our room, it looks great! I am so excited for Thanksgiving. I love the holidays and getting together with family! Next month Rorys cousin Brixton comes home from his mission. He left before Rory and I got married, so he has never met Logan. We are so excited to see him! Tonight we went to Olive Garden with my family. It is nice to just be with them. Tonight I was filling out Logans baby book and realized how blessed I really am. I am amazed with what I actually have. My family. They are the most understanding, caring, helpful people ever. Especially my mom. She would drop her life to help the ones she loves most. My husband. He always puts me and Logan first. He cares about me, really. He cares if I am feeling down. He loves me. A lot. I know some days I am the biggest brat to him, and he solely takes it, and gives me a hug and makes every thing better. My baby boy, Logan. He is so smart. So handsome and so perfect. He is healthy. I can't believe how much we love him. He has brightened our already perfect lives. My self. I make me happy. I am proud of where I am at. I worked hard to be who I am. I love photography. I love being a small part of some ones life and capturing memories that will forever be cherished by them. I love being the mom I am. I know I do everything I can for Logan and I know I would do whatever it takes to give him a great life like I did. I love being the wife I am. I know I have and still do make mistakes and I get raunchy and rude to Rory, but I also know that I make him happy. The fact that he is happy makes me happy. He made me who I am today. I love my life and I cherish what I have. There are times when I am down and some things are just not fitting in place, but time keeps going so I have to figure out how to keep going to. I do that with the help of all of my family. Rory, Logan, my mom and every one else. Reily has been coming home from school lately really sad and upset because she is getting teased. I dreaded this day. I my self was teased all through middle school. There was no escape, kids are mean, but the fact that one of my baby sisters is being hurt kills me. My mom has not been feeling so well lately, so I went into her school after hours a few days ago and talked about it to her teacher. She is going to help Reily. Luckily, the girl that has been physcially hurting Reily, was suspended for hurting someone else as well. Hopefully it will teach her a lesson, but if it doesn't, I don't know how long I can hold my anger in on this girl. The other kids have been teasing her, and hurting her emotionally. Kids are so cruel these days. Bullying is such a problem. I hate that Reily HAS to go to school every day and instead of learning she is being teased. I hope it gets better for her. Anyways, I forgot to add, Logan now has four teeth. He is getting so big! Well, off I go!

Busy month!

Photos I took when we saw Austin the first time.

I love this picture!

110 pounds. Always be happy with your self, but strive to get to what will make you happiest!

Hoffman clan!

Hubby and son :)

My perfect family.

Logan is now five months. He can sit up by him self, roll from back to stomach and stomach to back, he can dance, and walk with our support. He now has THREE teeth! Yes 3! He can play bonk :) He is so smart. SOOOO SMART! We love him so much. We are so proud of Logan. We are also so proud of our selves and how far we have come. We are great parents, and so in love with eachother. Life is wonderful and I could not be happier with where we are at. I weigh 110 pounds and wear a size 1/2 jean and XS shirt. Woah. I never thought I would be this small again in my life. Here I am now though! I am so happy with my body. 5 pounds til my goal weight. I am not saying I was ever fat. I am saying that I was not happy with where I was at, and I am now. Every one has their own place that makes them happy. Their own decisions that they choose to make which leads to their own consequences. Whether they be good consequences or bad. I feel like what I chose led to me to a happy place. I am happy with my body, my attitude, my self. Rory on the other hand, he would be happy if I weighed 300 pounds and was balding. He loves me for me. That is what makes me the happiest. I have an amazing husband, best friend and father for my child. What more could I ask for? Halloween was a lot of fun. I went and did a family shoot for Rorys family the morning of saturday, than that night we went and visited family with Logans cute costume on and Sunday we invited Conley and Brandie over for some 21! We had a lot of fun. We are going to Wendover on Sunday with them and my mom. Rory and I decided he could go spend some time on the floor gambeling and I would stay in the suite ( my mom gets comped free suites! :) ) with Logan than we would go hot tubbing or swimming. Austin is now back in Cali. It was so good to see my brother safe and sound. He had a lot of stories to tell and it was great to have him finally meet Logan. Now that October is over, I could sit back and relax for a day :), Mayyybbee. Well, Rory and I went and got an Iphone. We love it yes! We have two phones now which is nice. My endoscopy results came back. I do have some ulcers, but those are not to serious, and I have a problem in my esophagus with some allergens. Interesting yes! Anyways, we are off to hang out. Adios world!

Safe and sound, finally!

One of the many pictures I got of Leeanns family

Rory the amazing hubs, Logan the sweetest baby and my self

Logan eating bananas, first time with jarred foods :)

Yea, had one of my up. We got colored contacts, which I think look pretty neat!

Hahah what a cutie!

My brother Austin is finally safe and sound. He was deployed to Afghanistan earlier in the year. He is now oficially home in California, and we will be seeing him tomorrow morning! We are extatic. My brother is a true hero. He risked his life so we could have our freedom. I am so proud of him. It will be the first time Austin will meet Logan and his other new nephew Knox. I am so excited. So I went and did my sisters family pictures on saturday. We drove up a very pretty canyon. I had lots of fun and the pictures turned out great. I am doing a childs birthday party shoot on saturday, as well as another child shoot saturday morning, than my sisters cousin in laws pictures. I can't wait. Logan is just about 5 months old, wow time freaken flies! He sits up on his own now, what a big boy! He is so advanced for his age. He plays peek a boo. Cutest thing ever. Him and Dad are the cutest boys ever. I am so proud of my little and big family. Anyways, I am now in a size 2 jeans. W00t W00t! I am cutting and dying my hair tomorrow. I am so excited for halloween. Rory and I are going to be vampires and Logan is a little tiger :) We will have the best costumes and I WILL post pictures. I better get to bed, we have to be at the airport pretty early. Good bye!

Logan is four months old!

Rory was Jareds best man, this was after the wedding. Logans first taste of cereal :)

He loves bath time!

Prettiest boy eyes ever!

At the wedding, he did so good! And he looked so handsome, as well as his daddy!

Our little man is now four months old. We took him and got his shots, so sad :(. He is so tall and smart and soooo handsome! He has two teeth, and two more coming in. He can roll both ways, just a little trouble rolling from back to tummy, but the fact that he can even do it is great because most babies can not do it til closer to six months. Dr. Oneida said he is functioning at about a 9 month old level. Awesome! Marci and Jareds wedding was a hit. Lot's of fun! We started Logan on rice cereal before he goes to bed and he loves it. I am planning on breast feeding til he is one so he can get the ful beneficals of it. He is a stud! We love him lots. Tomorrow we are doing my sisters family shoot which I am excited about. Gives her a chance to get a break from school and have nice family time. She has started Pharmacy school and it is hard! You can tell she is stressed and it is sad to see, but she is doing great. I am so proud of her, proud of all of my family and Rory and Logan. They have so much to show for their lifes and acheivements. I am blessed. We are also planning to go see my other sister Julie and her family. I am 2 pounds from 110. Yipee! I am planning on maintaining my weight and keeping it at 100 pounds. I am so happy with my body now, but I will be that much happier. Plus, I promised Rory I would stop at 100 lol. We decided to be vampires for halloween. We are buying colored contacts and false teeth and dressing normal, maybe a little edgy clothes. Logan is going to be a Lion, super cute! I go in next month for another endoscopy to check my liver and all of that good stuff. Sounds fun huh? We are going to the Swap Meet this weekend with Conley and Brandie, that should be fun. I still can not believe Logan is four months and a week. Holy cow! Got a family shoot on the 23rd which I am excited about, and a maternity the next day. Also doing my other sisters pictures for her little kids next weekend and another maternity next month. Woo. Well, I am off to finish laundry and dishes. Adios!

Two teeth, huge fire and numerous hospital visits!

This has been one adventerous week! As I have said, Logan began teething last month, but this week his first TWO!!!, yes I said two, teeth came in in two days! He is miserable but he is doing better. Than, I had a horrible pain in my tummy so I went into the ER, turns out my liver is messed up. My enzyme level should be at about 50-100, it is at a 500. They sent me home with an antibitioc and told me to get an appt for a scope in my tummy, went home and it got worst with a high fever. Went back in and had to stay the night. Hopefully this works out, I will have to get a camera shoved down my throat to see what is going on. Also, the mountain right next to our house is on fire. HUGE fire. It is spreading fast. I got some nifty pictures of it too! Well, off to cuddle Logan. Good night :)

Love Laughing with Rory

:) He always makes me laugh so hard. We just laughed so hard my tummy hurts. Speaking of laughing, Logan can do it now! Him and Rory are sitting here talking and copying eachother and he thinks it is the funniest thing ever! He loves his dad, it is so sweet. Rory can get him to fall asleep by singing to him. Logan is getting so big. He is almost sitting by him self. Today we are going to get my pants, Miss Me jeans. Yay! Had to go shopping again because none of my clothes fit. I am down to a size 27 (3-4) jeans and small shirt. 117lbs, I feel pretty good! Tomorrow we are having our friends over which should be pretty fun. Jared is getting married next week, finally lol. Oh my gosh, Logan is so cute, he is just chatting with his dad over here. I love it. He is sleeping through most of the night now. He wakes up at 1 than sleeps til 6 or 7. I am glad lol. I am just about finished with my second course for photography. It was hard, but so fun to learn all the things I needed to to improve my photos, and they did imencely. Sunday we are going to the fair with Conley and Brandie. I am excited. Rory and I were just talking last night about how happy we are with where life has gone for us. We could not imagine life with out eachother and Logan. He has brought so much joy to us. We love doing everything as a family. We don't get to do a lot of the things we used to, but its a sacrifice worth losing, because we have so much more fun doing things as a family. I love my family. Well I am off to hang out with Logan and Rory! Bye!

I remember

9/11, a tragic day for many. Millions lost loved ones, a mother, father, child, brother or sister, a friend. We all lost tears. I lost hope. When the towers were hit, moments with in eachother, I was young. I really didn't understand what was going on. I remember sitting on the edge of my bed watching anchormen cry and not knowing why this was so tragic. Here we are now, 9 years later, and I know now. I know the tragedy that struck us that morning. A tragedy we will never forget. I lost hope in humanity that day, but gained it back to see the strong young men stepping up to fight for our freedom, the firefighters running in to save the ones they can, the police officers and emt helping the needy, and our country coming together as one. I will never forget.


Austin finally comes home October 5th, he will return to California than coming back to Utah. He won't have to be deployed for atleast another year. Yay! We missed him so much. I am so proud of him. He has turned out to be a great, brave, strong Man. I am so thankful for my family and what they have turned out to be. I am so happy to have my husband and my beautiful baby boy. I love what my life has turned out to be. I love who I am. I am off to spend some time with my Logey boy and hubby. God bless our troops, Austin, and my family.