what a weekend

My Parents came down this weekend and what a fun weekend it was. They got here early Friday Morning and we went over to The kids school to watch field day just for a little bit. Then we went to my favorite little shop in town called Green's Nursery. It sells not only flowers (which I have absolutely no interest in) but cute little decorations for the house (which I love). I could spend quite a bit of money there if I didnt watch myself. Then we hung out for the rest of the day. The next day we got up bright and early so that we could go to Boise and get new windows at Home Depot (yay new windows) when we got back Nate and my dad put them in then we had to rush off to Crazee days. Which is not only how I have been feeling about my days lately but also the name of the celebration here in town. which was were the girls performed the Cheerleading that they had been learning (If you know me at all you must know how I feel about that so I don't think I need to say anything). The big girls also won 1st and 2nd place in the Hola Hoop competion. Natalie hooped for oer 4 min. and Nichole hooped for 2.3 min. (Nichole started later then Natalie or she would of hooped that long too) Both could of gone longer but I made them quit because they had thier second cheer performance they had to get back too. Then the 2 little kids had 2 differant bday parties to go to. While they were gone the rest of us went to lunch. Later we played a game of baseball. Sadly my parents got up bright and early and left this morning. We had a great weekend together. I sure will miss them.I know the picture is fuzzy but it shows some of the action.
Batter up Nichole
Tyler insisted on playing even with his "sprained foot"

Ella played in the puddle almost the whole game.
Don't they look like they were excercising a ton during field day.
Natalie wasn't too happy here. Some little boy pushed her into some weeds and she had a hard time getting over it
Tyler sitting with his class.

Field day was a joke this year. I guess the school was told that they were behind in science so they had a science themed field day. Which included very little field and a whole lotta science. The kids were all so dissapointed.
My mom and I
This is what I made my mom for mothers day. Happy Mothers Day Mom. Almost a week late.

soooo busy

Over this last week I have been sooo busy with Photography I didn't even know what to do with myself. I had 4 photoshoots and I edited for atleast 10 hours. But all of them are done know (with the exception of the baby I am taking pictures of today). I know realistically that a photographer that is busy has several shoots to do a day and on top of that several hours of editing. I personally don't ever want to be that busy. I still want to love taking pictures. I just wanted to share with you 4 of my favorite pictures from the 4 differant shoots and if you wanted to see more you can look at my photography blog.

This is my friends 3 week old little girl. You don't know how excited I was to get to use my zebra blanket. You really have to know your customer if they are going to let you use a zebra print with thier 3 week old.
This 6 week old has 3 older sisters that I got to take pictures of that day too.
I did family pictures for people in my ward. The last time they had them done was 6 years ago and since then they have added 2 son in laws. This is one of them.

I also took pictures at a wedding reception this weekend. This is a picture of the bride dancing with her daddy.

Happy Mothers Day Mom!!!!

How lucky am I to have such a wonderful Mother. She is the best mom I could of asked for. And she is my best friend. I hope that when my girls grow up that I will have the same kind of relationship with them as I do with my mom. I love you Mom!!! You are the best. Whenever my mom says that I am pretty I tell her she has to say that because I look just like her.
My mom holding hands with my chillens'

I thought that this was interesting

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 3 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

For some odd reason I thought that there would be more then that. I know with a unique name like Musil not likely but with such a common first name I just thought that there would be more.

BTW there are 358 Jessica Banks' (my maiden name)

Happy Birthday Mindi

Happy Birthday Mindi!!!!! Sadly I had to steal this picture from Mindi's blog because I realized that although I have know her for over 11 years I do not have a digital picture of her at all and I do not one of me and her together either (we might have to remedy that next time I am in town) Mindi I think that you are a fabulous person, an amazing mom, and I am lucky enough to call you my cousin and even luckier to call you my friend. I hope you have a great birthday!!! Loves ya!

Yes another post

I think spring may be here. Nate is sooo excited with the blossoms on his pear tree. He is going to start planting this weekend. We are crossing our fingers that it has stopped freezing at night. This is the pear tree in our backyard
here it is in color
look how pretty the blossoms are

Spring Chicken

Nate finagled me into getting another kind of animal. We went and picked out 6 baby chicks. He used it as it will be so good for food storage. Ugh that gets me everytime. Those chickens have to lay a ton of eggs to make it worth the money we spent on it. Approximately 80 dozen eggs that is 960 eggs. Does that seem worth it. Not to me either. But he always gets his way. Oh well. So that makes me a pet owner of 1 cat, 1 dog, 4 fish, 2 squirrels, and 6 chickens that is 14 animals. Nate and his coop. If you look careful you can see ella's head poking out of the box
This is where they will lay their eggs
the 6 chickens... Named Hillary, Nancy, Jane Fonda, Churro, and Doughnut and I can't remember the last one
The kids with all of the chickens.

Ella's new hair cut

Ella got her hair cut off today and it was such a big improvement from what it normally looks like. They took off over 6 inches. That little girls hair grows so fast.

BEFORE

AFTER
plus I think that this is such a great picture of her anyway!!!

Ella first time playing soccer

I can't believe I did this but Ella had her last soccer game this year and right after I took this picture I ran out of batteries on my camera. My friends husband took some pictures for me on his camera I just haven't received them yet and to which I feel very bad, apparently he took more pictures of Ella then he did his own daughter. So this is it. Ella played soccer for the first time this year and it was one of the funniest things I have ever seen. She tried really hard and would manage to kick the ball (wether it was the right way or not) every game which made her very happy. Everytime the ball would come toward her we would have to remind her to chase the ball which she would eventually. She had a hard time playing instead of talking to her friends. But she loved it and was very sad now that soccer is all over. We are proud of you Lou for doing the best you could.

Just when I thought that she was getting better

It never fails everytime I think that Ella is getting better and starting to act older she does something like this. Yep those were her pants one of the few that fit her these days and she cut them all into shreds. Why? you ask. Because she was hot. That was her explanation which seems logical if say she was wearing something that she couldn't just take off. Plus it has been freezing cold around here. That girl. What am I ever going to do with her?

If you look right above her knee you will see that she even cut herself trying to cool down.