Take the sheets off...

and this is what you'll get:

Human bridges
Spanking bums (for fun that is...)
Tackle time

This is what these two thought would be fun to occupy there time while I was washing sheets the other morning. It's crazy how long a crib or bed can entertain a child when the sheets are off. They love it whenever sheet washing day comes around.




Beau sat here until I took a picture saying, "Mom, wash! wash! (watch)Here's Bailey's famous head tilt that she does for any picture, anytime, anywhere. I got lucky that her eyes were actually looking at me, usually she's looking down with a huge grin. I love it!

I love these two so much! As hard as two kids 16 months apart are, the fun times that they have together, like this particular morning, definitely outweigh all of the fighting that takes place the other half of the day.

do, re, mi...

I saw this on a friends blog and just had to share it!
It made me smile and to be honest I even got a little bit emotional and I'm not even sure why.
I guess because it's great to see people interacting when they are out in public.
I so wish that more people would say Hi, give you a smile, hold the door for a stranger, you know, really just be friendly to everyone who crosses your path.
Anyway, take a minute and watch this, it's worth it.
It makes me want to go watch the Sound of Music again,
I loved that show!
(located at a train station in Belgium)

Blog,.. What blog?

Oh ya I have a family blog, that I'm supposed to keep my families history, memories, special moments, special occasions, all that stuff that I will want to remember and my kids will want to read. What the heck, I'm horrible...

I've done pretty good keeping my photo blog updated with current sessions but as far as this blog goes, I guess you could say I kinda took a hiatus!

Anyway, I have a lot I want to catch up on. WANT TO, not saying I will but I really, really do want to. Beau was sick for a week (threw up for 6 days straight), then healthy for a week, now he's sick again with a horrible cough/cold. And, Bailey started up yesterday with the cough. Aaaaggghhhh!!!! I hate when my kids are sick, one it's so sad to see them sick, two it messes up your LIFE, and three you get nothing accomplished. The only plus is it makes you sit down and hold them and read a 500 page book in one week instead of being on the computer or cleaning your house.

Well, here is my first post since, WHAT???!!!!, December 27th, 2008... I really do suck! But at least I'm including a picture of my kiddos. This is what I get when they are home during a photo shoot. They have to get in on a few. Bailey's talking on one of her MANY toy phones. She has the funniest conversations. I have to make a comment on Beau's shirt. I was so excited when I found it at TARGET (the store I would pick if I had to pick only one store to shop at for the rest of my life, if I HAD to that is.) I call Beau my little small fry, and when I saw this I had to get it!

Well I hope to see more on here sooner than later. Drop me a line to let me know that I still have friends out there.

Happy Holidays

A few more days of straight family time and I will get caught up on my posts and also my editing, but for now it's all about my husband and kids. In the meantime here is our Christmas card from this year.

I hope everyone had a good Christmas and I hope you have a good New Years! Lets start out the New Year a little bit more organized in every aspect of our lives. (Spiritual, Physical, Quality family time, Quality husband time, and Quality Me time, I could go on and on.)

Happy Holidays!!!

visit with santa

So Bailey was super excited to tell Santa everything she wanted for Christmas this year. A kitchen set, a princess (any thing princess of any princess will do), and a dolly.



Beau didn't want anything to do with him. He was holding on to Jeremy for dear life. Bailey's face looking at Beau cracks me up.

Thanks for all of the opinions on my Christmas cards. It will either be the first of the 4 or the last. Or, knowing me I'll come up with something totally different again.

Whatever...

Ok, so far the votes are going towards the second Christmas card on the last post. I'm getting the feeling that people like the red in the other card. To be honest with you I liked this layout the best. So, this is what I did, I added red and a few other patterns so one more time I need your opinions.

I think my issue with the first card is I've had those paper designs since last year so I'm kinda sick of them. I'm sure you understand when you've had something for a while you don't like it as much anymore. I'm a green person more than a red so I have to have green in the card. Anyway, I'm sure that this will go back to my high school days when I would ask my mom's opinion and then go with the opposite of what she told me.

But, I still want your opinions and you can still include the first two designs as options. thanks, you're all great! I know I'm making this more complicated than it really needs to be, but that's just me.

Help!

Who really knows if anyone even checks my blog anymore since it's been so long since I've posted. I have so many things that I want to catch up on, but it's just not happening right now. I have been so crazy busy with editing and christmas cards for all my clients, Christmas shopping (I still have a ton to do), Christmas decorating (I just barely finally threw the pumpkin away off my front porch 2 days ago, it hadn't been carved so it wasn't nasty, and the lights still aren't on our Christmas tree yet.) Does life ever slow down, holy cow all I want is a night to sit and watch some good TV. Since last year I was so busy I didn't even send out a Christmas card. Well, I'm trying to do one this year since I have the cutest kids ever and I have to share.

Anyway, I need your help... I don't know which Christmas card design I like best. I have an idea of which one I'm leaning towards but I need some more opinions. We'll see if anyone responds. (Chante I'm counting on you to be #1) They have not been placed on here in any particular order. So let me know...

news clip

Here is the link for the news story about Payton's heart donation for those of you who might've missed it. Touching, emotional, and full of two little miracles...

http://www.kutv.com/content/news/specialreport/story.aspx?content_id=2ff01517-f3b0-480a-941e-2760c7592236


Here are the two Bailey's in my life! (one Bailey with an "i" and the other Baeley with an "e")

One my daughter and one with the heart of an angel! Love them both to pieces and I am so thankful for both of them and the roles they play in my life.

Trent...

My niece is over at my house and saw this picture of my nephew (her little bro) on my computer and I had to share it. It is so him, the hunter's hat, the missing tooth (the first of many), his adorable freckles and red hair, and he's wearing a girls shirt but he loves it and doesn't know it's a girls shirt and his mom doesn't have the heart to tell him.

Gotta love him!

follow up...

Some of you out there saw the Channel 2 news a few months ago about our story about Payton and Spot the Tot. Well, they came back and did a follow up interview to do another story all about the organ donation. There's some coverage with us and some with the family and the little girl that has P.J.'s heart. So if you want to see it watch the Channel 2 news at 10:00 pm on Monday November 24th. I hope it's good, you never know how they will pull it all together, but if it's anything like the last one it'll be great and very touching.

I know it's been way too long since I posted anything on here. I'm hoping in December when my business slows down a bit that I'll be able to catch up on the last 3 months of our life. Just for me, so that I'll have it all to put in a book at the end of the year. We'll see!

But for now...

here's a few pictures of the kiddos a few Sunday's ago when they were being really sweet to each other. These moments are hard to come by these days. They are not the nicest to each other anymore, except for a few short minutes each day. Hopefully they'll grow out of it sooner than later and learn to love each other again, cuz it's hard to be a referee all day.


I'm not really sure what Beau's doing here, I guess he thought it was cool to stick "both" of his fingers up his nose.