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.

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.

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!

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!

2 Free Movie Tickets Giveaway!

This week we’re holding a drawing for 2 Free Movie Tickets!!! How can you enter? Easy! Become a fan of Niki Martins Photography on Facebook.

You can become a fan by going to http://www.facebook.com/nikimartinsphotography on Facebook and clicking to become a fan. Hurry on over to our Facebook site and become a fan to be entered in this week’s drawing.

The first give-a-way!

Okay, I am going to be doing give-a-ways in regards to my photography business. Now, I need your help and input in this. What do people want? Do they want discounts on pictures? Or do you want other things like movie tickets, gift certificates, etc? Please let me know as I will be doing this for awhile, and then for special occasions. Please let me know.

For the first give-a-way I am asking that you either become a fan on my facebook for my photography business, or you can put my business logo on your blog. Just go to www.nikimartins.com and copy and paste the logo into your blog. It is all set up for you to do this. If you do one of these or both I will enter you in a contest for two free movie tickets. If you do both, you get a better chance to win. The deadline for this is April 25. :)

Thank you everyone for being so supportive! Also, please let all your friends know as they can enter as well. Keep watching my blog, as I will be doing more give-a-ways in the future!

What we have been up to...

April is going by fast. We had a fun Easter, where the Easter Bunny brought many fun toys and candy for the girls. We did try to help Hannah understand the real meaning of Easter and hope that she and Lia will come to love and appreciate all that their Savior did for them. We also had Flavio's uncle Rick come and stay with us. He was here for General Conference as he is an Area Authority in Brazil. We had a wonderful visit with him. Me and the girls were able to go visit my parents this last weekend. We had a great time in the sun. St. George is like another world. It was green and warm and all the flowers were out. It was beautiful. Here are a few pictures from our adventures these past few weeks...hope you enjoy :)

Hannah was so excited to color eggs this year...although we only did four...and one broke :)

Lia loves to sweep. I hope she stays that way :)

Lia is also Miss Diva, she cracks us up...she has such a little attitude...I hope that doesn't stay :)

Hannah all tuckered out after destroying the play room...I guess I would be tired too

Us with Uncle Rick

The girls with my parents, Gramma gave them new Easter p.j.'s

My dad and I were able to take a fun hike together...I miss hiking.

At Gramma and Grandpa's house...always a treat for the girls :)

A couple of pictures I took while hiking with my dad. I think I could really get into landscape photography as well :)