Oh HAppy Day

I have gotten absolutely nothing accomplished in my life for the last 3 days besides the bare minimum of the 1st level of human need required by my children. Why you ask? I have been researching and testing new cameras and I am happy to say I have come to the final conclusion. This was the 1st sample shot I took with the camera. How I love this little girl's face. And how I love that she loves to pose for the camera. On our way home she said," Thanks for taking me to the camera store mama and thanks for taking so many pictures of me." What a little doll. I told myself that I could get a new camera if I could earn half the money it cost before I bought it and half after...Done and lets hope the 2nd half gets done!
Oh that smirk is so her! and so is the cold sore so I had to leave it unphotoshopped the poor little munchkin....

Thinking about my life lately...

Lately I have been swimming in the evenings in an effort to prepare for the itching. The last 10 or so weeks of my pregnancies, I have to swim everyday. It is the only for of exercise that doesn't send my into fits of torture, making the itching worse. When you swim, you can't be distracted by much. You can't read, you can't socially acceptably stare at everyone else in the gym, you can't watch T.V. So you have some real time to think. I admit, most of the time I think about how I am going to get off the unbelievable amount of weight I managed to put on and lame stuff like that. But then sometimes I find myself assessing the course of my life so far and I fear
I have sent myself into an early mid-life crisis. AS I am sitting here writing this my 18 month old keeps putting in and taking out the same two dominoes from my right hand making typing a bit difficult. But this is the path I have chosen. The domino path until further notice. Actually, it just became the poopie diaper path. The stinks this kid can create. YOu know how you don't think your own kids poop stinks, well I am under no dillusions- this kids could asphyxiate you. Pray I never ask you to babysit.








p.s. thought you might like some more pics from our beach vacation. I know I have already posted the one of Coco in the air but I think it deserves a second posting. Can you believe how high she is, and no I did not photoshop her her to be higher. I have reached my blogging quota for the day mostly because because my 18 month old is physically abusing my 3 year old and 5 year old. One more thought, isn't my husband buff. It's sick really...Also can you believe how good my mom looks for age 70?

Picture Wall

So this is a shoot I just did and I we are going to make a wall of photos on their wall with the shots from their shoot. She wants black and white ( I think, right? ). I love doing stuff like this and I am thinking about making this part of my services. What am I saying, I seriously have to think about even doing any of this photography business more than once every couple weeks....I would love to do it more but lets see, my husband is in grad school, I am about to get very sick with this pregnancy, I will soon have 4 children under 5, I have to teach a Relief Society Lesson On SUnday and last but not least I have a pile of laundry the size of the mountain outside my window. Now what you have to do Virginia, is choose the 9 you want to have printed....that means you have to pick half of what is posted...not fun I know, some have vingette around them, some not--I made them all with both- now you need to decide what you like better so they are all uniform. And for my readers out there- here's a poll for you- do you like vingetted pics- if you don't answer you are never invited back to my blog again....just kidding , no seriously what do you think....lately I have taken hardly and picks of my kids....I am turning over a new leaf-
I am going to take lots in the back yard this SUnday where I grew up. Also check back for the super awesome present I am going to give my Dad for his birthday., I'll post a pic of it come Monday--Amber I was thinking this would be a great idea for your mom too. And I did it all for 100 dollars---granted I took all the pictures for free but all the frmes and printing cast me less than 100....aren't you curious now? Check back here monday.....

David's first Soccer game....

Last night was tough. I took David to his first soccer game. Mind you they had not had any practices and he has never played before. But there were other kids on the field who had played in past years. Those of you who know David can imagine how the game went. Now I am going to record this so that hopefully at the end I can be laughing about it as yet another painfully funny thing I have to go through as a mother. Which there seems to be a lot of these days. Anyway, David was doing great, running after the ball like the rest of the kids for the first 10 minutes and then he started to realize that he wasn't ever touching ball while getting knocked down. And he sat down in the middle of the field, put his head in his knees and cried. So I though, great this is over- let's go. Nope he got up and tried again. This happened 4 times. Finally, he came over and sat by me, never to go in again. Yet he didn't want to go home. And he wants to go again next next time? This child is glutton for punishment. An suggestions anyone? I could really use some....

If you think I hire these people to model for me, I didn't. Nope this is my brother and his family. Aren't they gorgeous?

Stephanie's family slideshow

I cranked out all these in 2 days because I have wey too much going on the the next week to do them any other time. AS you can see Stephanie I did a few diffent effects for most of the pics so you can choose what you like best. Enjoy!

Engagement time...

Here's a little sample as promised..more to come in between diaper changes and kindergarten drop offs. Check my blog often...I'll post more as I can. Hope you guys like them. You both looked great!