Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Hannah's life...






First of all, I can't believe my baby is 4! Where does the time go? I was thinking of all the things that have happened in her short 4 years of life for our little family. Happy Birthday Hannah. We love you!

Here is a time line of things that happened during Hannah's life so far:

1. Flavio found a job, he had been working an internship at Novell and we were very poor. He had lost his previous job (due to the people at immigration) two weeks after we had moved into our first home. My mom had been really sick and she continued to be sick throughout most of Hannah's life.
2. When Hannah was 3 months and Flavio had a good job, we decided to move to Eagle Mountain, which was one of the best decisions we have ever made.
3. After graduating from college, Flavio ends up getting the BEST job in the world! Working for DigiCert.
4. We tried to have another baby through In-Vitro, but once again, it didn't work.
5. Flavio becomes a member of the bishopric.
6. After grieving a few more months from the loss of our In-Vitro process, we both feel strongly about adopting...after two failed adoptions and some deep sorrow, 10 months later God sends us Lia :)
7. In that time Flavio was made Bishop of our new ward.
8. Our time at DigiCert proves to be amazing. We are blessed with many great opportunities for Flavio's career to grow.
9. After much prayer we feel we needed to move again, this time to Saratoga Springs.
10. We continue to receive many blessings and we are so grateful to our Father in Heaven for all our experiences we have had with our Hannah, good and bad. She is truly a little miracle and we love both her and Lia with all of our hearts. Thank you to all our friends and family who have been there for us during those hard times and for sharing with us all our joys. We have been given a wonderful life and it wouldn't be the same without you.


Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Enough photography, let's get back to the family

Hannah loves to play "school". These are her students. She teaches them the alphabet, numbers and she even gets upset at them if they are talking :) She has such an imagination. I just love watching her come up with all her activities for her an Lia. Usually Lia is also one of those students, but I guess Hannah was good with these guys.

Bath time is always a favorite for my girls. They love the water. They always have fun and I wanted to capture how cute they are in the tub :)

Don't you just love that hair? Both do not have any hair ties...their hair just stays that way until I get it wet.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Free! Free! Free!

So for my next give-a-way I am doing a free family session plus a CD with 10 to 20 basic edited images! Just leave a comment on my photography blog post entitled, "take me out to the ball game" and you will be entered in to win! If you just a a photo done, no problem, you can always get more family pictures! If you know someone who wants their family portraits done, let them know about this deal! Thanks!

The deadline is next Monday, the 17th.

My photography blog is: www.nikimartins.com

Good luck!

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

I need to know

So, I hope this doesn't sound too lame, but I need to know how many of you actually look at or read my blog. I just want to know, so I can see where to post give-a-way stuff for my business. Please just say a little something on this post, so I know if anyone is out there :)

Thanks!