Jake {Portrait of an 8 Year-Old}

My nephew Jacob turned eight today. When we visited last, Jake and I went out for a little photo shoot to take pictures for an announcement his mom is putting together for his upcoming baptism (in our religion, children are baptized at the age of eight). He's so excited about serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints when he's 19 that he wanted to incorporate his new suit and "future missionary" badge into the shoot. How clever. The jumping shots at the end were his reward for being so cooperative during the shoot. Works every time with boys his age...

we shot at the Idaho Falls Temple and two sisters missionaries stopped by to see what we were up to... and I made them get in a shot. They were thrilled :)

Applique Onesies {easy sewing project}

My amazing sister sent yet another package filled with homemade goodies our way. This time it was filled with 3 darling applique onesies. Similar to THIS darling gift she sent, she bought the onesies, appliqued a cute fabric shape using heat-n-bond lite, hand-stitched around the edge, and then hand-stitched words below. The obvious favorite was the football onesie with Jones' name on the back.

I'm definitely stealing this idea.