Dustin and Erin Watson

Two weeks?

I think this may be the longest I've gone without updating my blog. The truth is, I can't think of anything to write about! All my creative juices have been flowing into photography lately, and there is little left over for anything else. So here is what we've been up to lately.

Kate is such a hoot! Her personality is really coming through lately. She is so expressive, and she loves to show off. She knows she is cute. Example: In church a couple weeks ago we arrived late so we were sitting in the overflow. She would escape from us, run to the front of the chairs, look back at everyone and smile, pose, laugh..etc. She is so funny, and we love her so much.

Like I mentioned before, I am in love with photography! I am so glad I finally bit the bullet and bought my camera. Worth every penny! It seems as though there is an infinite amount of information out there to learn, which makes me very happy because I love learning. I've been offering free practice/portfolio building sessions in June. Those are all booked now, and I will start charging in July. I have my fingers crossed that all will go well with this. It would be so fun to make some money doing this! I've been doing hair from my home lately too, and that's a blast as well.

Dustin is doing good too. He still loves his job, and does awesome illustrations on the side. Have you checked out his blog lately? He's very talented.

We are loving it out here in Queen Creek. We live very close to family, and it's unbelievably awesome. Dustin's brother and sisters live out here, so we've started a tradition of getting our families together every Monday night for FHE. It's so fun. I love it. I was in charge on dinner last night. Check out my cooking blog to see what I made. So delicious.

Well, I think that's enough rambling for one day. I will get better at updating this!

Cute.

My little explorer

This little girl just loves to explore our house! Her favorite places to get into are my cupboards. She's in them constantly! She loves to take things out of them and hide them elsewhere. I still can't find my cutting board!

On this day I was distracted cleaning, and I found Kate here.

She had gotten into my pantry, found the hamburger buns, opened them and was chowing down on one saying "Mmmmm!".

She sure is a handful, but I love her for it!

6 years ago

6 years ago, I was on my way to the Snowflake temple extremely nervous and excited to be married.

6 years ago we were sealed for time and all eternity.

6 years ago I was 19 and Dustin was 22. We were SO young!

6 years ago we were blissful newlyweds with no thoughts of having children.

6 years ago we lived in Thatcher and went to college at EAC.

6 years ago we lived in a one room (scorpion infested!) house and slept on a twin bed.

6 years ago we didn't have cable. Most of our time was spent playing nintendo 64 and taking advantage of the unlimited blockbuster plans.

6 years ago I worked at the writing center as an English tutor (yeah... I was not good at that job....haha) and Dustin worked the night shift at the local Comfort Inn on the weekends.

Now...

we are still happily married!
We have a beautiful little girl, and are hoping to add on to our family sometime soon!
We purchased our first home (no scorpions yet...knock on wood) and live in Queen Creek.
We have a queen bed. You were worried weren't you?
Our 64 has been replaced with a Wii and many hours of time are wasted playing it.
I am a full-time mom, part-time hairstylist, and apspiring photographer and chef.
Dustin works at US Airways as a graphic designer, and does freelance work as well.

We can't believe that 6 years have already flown by. We look forward to many many more. I LOVE YOU DUSTIN!

Testing...

I'm just trying to figure out how to make my pictures bigger in blogger without hosting them on a website like photobucket.

It turns out it's actually a lot easier now. You just need to go to settings-scroll down to global settings- and select the "updated editor". Now when you upload pictures you can mouse over them and choose the size you want. X large fits this blog really well. For my photo blog, it's little more tricky.