Oh love pumpkins!

Jeff and I are super excited to carve pumpkins this year!!! This is what we carved last year. ha-ha. if you cant tell, we carved on pumpkin as a Vampire pumpkin and the other two have little punctures to show they've been bitten and little bit of fake blood :o) ha ha. We are both excited to do this again!!!

Super Why

I really want to be Super Why for Halloween . . .

. . . but I can't afford a green spandex body suit . . .

Crazy going slowly Am I?

Seriously, who ever thought trying to shove 2 guns, camo, duck blinds, decoys and clothes- not to mention 6 people- into a mini van- was a good idea. Well, that person should reevaluate their plans. We have been trying to get out of town for a bit now, and I am thinking that next year we are taking two cars to Idaho Falls for hunting. I can't wait to see all of you, but if I am bald from pulling all of my hair out...please don't laugh~

:(

I Propose an Emma Week

Belated, but still on time. I can't get over this little girl's smile.

I remember talking on the phone with her one time and she said she had been swimming with Uncle Mike . . . which is funny because she had not been swimming that day . . . and Uncle Mike lived 100s of miles away.

Happy Birthday Emma! We love you!

Professional Photos for Everyone

Jennifer sent me a picture of one of her clients requesting that I do some Photoshopping of it. I had done it for her on several occasions, and each time I thought, "I wonder if I could market this skill?" I have now attempted to do that.

I created a website called Professional Photos for Everyone designed to allow people to send me their pictures, allow me to doctor them in whatever way they want, and pay me for the finished product. You can see the website here.

Now, I need your advise on a few things:

1. Is this really a service people would use? Would anyone really want to do this? I can see it being more for the person who has one photo that they want to make look nice for a special occasions, but will people even be willing to do it for that? Would you pay for it?

2. Is it too difficult of a process? E-mail me photos, I fix them, send you previews, you pick which ones you want and then pay for them. Will people even go through the trouble? Would you go through the trouble?

3. Are people really going to trust me? Will they be willing to send their pictures to a complete stranger?

4. Is this too much exposure of pictures of my family? I tried to suppress any identifying information, but do I really want photos of my children on this business website?

In the end, it costs nothing for me except the time that I took to build the site. Feel free to post a link to my site on your blog (look to the right for a link on this blog). You can use the picture found here, post it in your sidebar and create a link for it (if you add a picture gadget, it is really easy to do).

I need your input! Tell me what you think!

Now that I am old

Being the oldest- I realize that I am going to ALWAYS be older then you guys- I'll be forging the way into my 40's long before a couple of you even reach your 30's. That being said, I have so many memories of you guys being little kids. Jeff and Alisha's pictures are from right before I graduated, the others are from my Junior year in HS. These are the pictures that I took with me to college. Can you imagine- you weren't much older then this when Blair first met you guys. Thinking about all of you, I realize that we really do have the coolest family ever- I think! Thanks for being the best siblings ever. I can't imagine life without any of you- and QWEST would have been boring to play all by myself! Thanks Greg, for remembering my Christmas plays. I now know where Brooke gets it, and it makes me so much more understanding of her.

I Propose a Jen Week

Few people in the history of mankind had made more of an effort to keep a family close than Jennifer Piippo. I can't tell you the number of times I have been solicited to make Missoula,  Montana my home (actually, both Hayley and I really like montana).

Probably my favorite memory of Jen, aside from some amazing school photos, was Christmas dance routines. Tape on the floor, New Kids on the Block, and a couple of parents wondering if their boys may develop successful dance carreers. What could be better?

We love you, Jen! Happy Birthday!