yearbook yourself

this little site called yearbookyourself.com is. awesome.

we've been having fun the past couple of days going back in time.

funny face

here is carmen's new face:



She is a little ham and has been making these funny faces all night.

Some other new things she has been doing are:

Neatly feeding herself with a fork or spoon

Saying sentences like, "mommy, I want some cheese."

Tricking us by asking for us to hold her and then tickling us after we pick her up

Expanding her movie choices to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Making her bouncy seat a slide.
That's right, her bouncy seat from when she was a baby. It resurfaced when we moved and she put it next to our ottoman and started sliding down it. She has also made it her easy chair and maxes and relaxes in it while watching tv, or tb, as she calls it.

She's so fun and spunky. We just love her.

elegant images

Hey there!

Shay and I have launched another site! It has been a project we've been working on for the past few months for Elegant Images, also known as Candace Simpson. Candace was the photographer at our wedding and she is amazing. Check it:



elegantimages.com

halloween time!

we had a very excellent halloween. Carmen was a very cute bumble bee this year. She pretty much fit the character by buzzing around everywhere she went. She also went trick-or-treating for the first time. She was totally into it and didn't want anyone to touch her CANDY! It was cute. We had a blast.









carmen trick-r-treating:



carmen defending her candy:



Shay's parents were also in town this weekend and we all had a good time seeing carmen start to get excited about halloween. We went to a persian restaurant for Fred's birthday and Carmen had a good time dancing and watching the belly dancers. She picked up a few new dance moves too!

the next generation

it's fun and weird and cool that most all my friends have kids. and it's really awesome to get together with them and well, just see them all together and hope our kids will grow up together and be as close as I am with all their parents. Good Times!

Carmen with Bella, Sophie (Sam's daughter) and Mateo (Chrissy's son) they were in a "band" and had practice and then showed us their grand finale:



Carmen with Kai (Adie's son) at Auntie Roxy's 30th birthday. Carmen figured out how to get the doggies out of their kennels:



Carmen with Garret and Amanda (Carrie's kids):

a retrospective

We have a camera that we've been taking tons of pictures on and until recently, could not find the cord to download a whole bunch of gems. Finally, I have downloaded them. It is always fun, and sad, to see how much carmen has changed. So, of course, I'm posting some of my favs. It's so hard to believe how much she's growing and changing.



In Utah in February:



march:



completely terrified at the beach in march:


asleep with grammy in may:



looking pretty in june:



looking pretty in august:



working with mom in september:



Currently, her favorite movie is Annie. We watch it at least twice a day.
She loves to give big hugs.
She loves, loves, loves her auntie "janny" and calls her "my janny".
She likes to sing and dance and count, she can count to 15.
She's just a whole lot of fun. I think we'll keep her.

my portfolio site

enjoy: http://www.jeramehrdad.com

nothing fancy. just a nice clean site to show what i do.