Lovin' the heat

That was a sarcastic title in case anybody was wondering. This summer is going to be brutal, with this humidity and being pregnant. I didn't plan too well for this one. On the upside, everbody is already telling me how huge I am.(Sarcasm again). I've already been asked when I'm going to pop. I love to hear those things when I have FOUR months left to go. (Last time, I promise).

We had our ultrasound, and we are confirmed to have another boy. I couldn't help but be a little disappointed, but am still very excited. I'm not sure I would know how to handle a little girl. Plus I would feel obligated to try for another girl so she could have a sister. And I already have everything that I need for a boy. We may be done after this one, but still not positive. My husband may not be able to deal with a crazy, grumpy pregnant woman again.

I posted a previous high school senior whose pictures I had done, here is a few more that we did for her. She ended up very happy with them and they turned out great. Thanks for looking.

I love tulip time!

It's a very busy week but lots of fun activities and festivities downtown. I love when all those junk food vendors come to town and park themselves right on 8th street. We have found many excuses to go down there already and grab an elephant ear or Carmel apple- or pickles. I found a vendor that has yummy, huge dill pickles for only $1. Needless to say, I will be visiting them again.

The big parade is planned for Saturday along with a birthday party/cookout at my brother-in-law's(Brian & Kristen's) house afterwards. The weather looks promising- no rain! The boys are pretty excited and it should be a fun-filed weekend.

Happy Mother's day to all of you mothers out there.

My dog is now a mother. It was quite the surprise because we didn't expect the puppies until the beginning of June. But I awoke Saturday morning to some squeaking and found that Macy had already had two puppies and cleaned them both off. One was already dead, which was very sad. I tried rubbing it in a washcloth (like in 101 Dalmatians) but it did not produce any results. I woke the boys up (way too early for a Saturday morning) and they got to witness the birth of the 3rd puppy. So, she had two healthy puppies and they are doing great. We are anxiously awaiting the opening of their eyes. Macy is a surprisingly protective and attentive mother. A pleasant surprise :) I believe they are both spoken for already!

One more full week of school for the boys- they are ecstatic! After this week- two more weeks of coaching softball- I am ecstatic!

Here are some senior pictures of a friend from church. She is a beautiful girl. She needed some pictures right away to put into the graduation slide show and send out in her announcements. We will do more when we both have time. Thanks for checkin' in!

Well, I finally found some time to post a blog. I've been keeping pretty busy and it's only going to get busier. I'm coaching JV softball with my father-in-law and that has kept me pretty busy. Plus keeping up with the boys' schedules. Trying to finish up the homeschool year and Ethan has already started Little League. We've also had a string of some illness running through our home. Noah had a high temperature for about 3 days and now Ethan has it.

I've got lots of pictures coming up so hopefully I'll have lots to post about. We took a family vacation to Daytona Beach at the beginning of April. Another family that was going asked me to take pictures for them. These are their proofs. Hopefully I will posting again soon.

As a side note- I am feeling much better. No more nausea and I have a lot more energy. Our ultrasound is scheduled for May 27- CAN'T WAIT!!!

I am so very

lazy. That is the only excuse I can give to my lack of posts. February is almost done and I haven't posted once.

Well....that and half of my day is spent feeling very sick. Let me just say that evenings are not my friend. Mornings are great. Afternoons are okay except I start feeling a little tired. Evenings I do not feel well at all. So, most of my consuming of food is done prior to 5pm. Plus I feel totally exhausted. Almost like I have run a marathon. Although I have never run a marathon so I'm not sure how that feels, I guess.

One more month of this and hopefully it will get better. I don't remember being this affected by my previous pregnancies, but I'm not good at remembering those kinds of things anyways. You try to forget those things. Otherwise, every woman would have only one child and stop there.

Names. That's going to be tough. We have been through all the possible boys names. If it was a girl, it would be a little easier. But I'm sure it's a boy. At least that is what I'm telling myself so there is no disappointment. Not that I would be if it's a boy, but there is always that little bit of hope. We'll find out in May sometime......that is so long away!

So my eldest, Ethan, is doing great in school. Homeschooling, that is. He colored a picture out of a coloring book today. It had some words typed along the bottom. Words that we haven't even gone over at all. Just to give you an idea where we are at, we just introduced the long vowel A today. So far they've only learned short vowel sounds. So I asked Ethan to read what was written on the bottom of his paper. I gave him one help when he first started and then he proceeded to read the entire thing. Now, I know I'm pregnant and very hormonal, but I couldn't help but tear up and cry just a little. Ethan, of course, looked at me like 'Why in the world are you crying?'. But I didn't care. That is definitely one of the best feelings EVER! To teach them day in and day out and wonder how you are doing and then to see them apply it on their own. Wow.

We have Ethan and Noah's birthday parties this weekend. And I still have a lot of work to do on the house. Cleaning. I love having everyone over, though, because it actually forces me to do my house work :)

A 7 and 2 year old. Next year in 2009, we will have Cole and the next one's birthday together. They will be 6 and 1 years old. Time goes by in a flash, doesn't it?

No pictures as of yet. Although I am working on a session from a couple of weeks ago.
Thanks for checkin' in.

Blurb

Well, hellooooooo! Sorry I haven't updated in quite some time. I know I have kept you hundreds of desperate readers hanging in the lurch.(ha ha) It was pretty busy with Christmas and being around family. I should post some of those pictures, but I don't even have them on my computer yet (shocking confession #1). But at least I got last year's Christmas pictures on my computer. I just haven't done anything with them yet (shocking confession #2). I'm much better with other peoples' pictures than my own.
I want to give a plug to a great website I found. If you are looking to make a book- photo, poem, or cookbook, blurb.com is the place to go. They have great prices and better choice of layouts and options. Just a little FYI.
These are pictures of a senior I did a while back but never posted. He has quite the personality and was a little difficult to shoot, but very fun. Thanks for checkin' in.

Done with a Senior

Well, I planned on being done with all my work before traveling to Iowa for Thanksgiving, but that didn't happen. I have been hard at work, especially today. And I have finally finished one Senior of the two I have left. She is a good friend of mine and it was awesome to work with her. She has quite the creative side and we had a lot of fun experimenting. It was hard narrowing down which ones to edit and include.
Iowa was a fun and relaxing trip. We stay at a Girl Scout lodge out in the woods (the ideal scary movie setting). My husbands parents and siblings all stay too. We get to see a lot of family that we usually only see 1-2 times a year. We stay up too late, play games, watch movies, and eat a lot of food. We actually have to come back from vacation and recuperate from all the late nights and activities.
This year we decided to try our hand at the day after Thanksgiving day sales. WHAT A MISTAKE! Well, not really, but I don't plan on doing it again anytime soon (unless there is a really really good deal ;))
We didn't even go to bed because we had to drive an hour to get to a big city that had the stores we wanted to shop at. We went extra early because my brother-in-law wanted to try for a laptop at Best Buy. YEAH RIGHT! We got there about 3 hours before they opened (5am), and the line went around the side of the building and into the parking lot. We asked the people in front what time they got in line- 10am on Thanksgiving Day!!!!!! Sorry, but not worth it to miss out on Thanksgiving all together!
We had a ton of fun, though. We made up a lovely song on our way to the stores and we all got some really good deals. The slap-happy levels were very high. Everything was funny! Quite an experience!
Hopefully will be posting more often, I'll try anyways!

Delayed Halloween debut

I know, it's a little late. But here is our Halloween pictures. We shopped for pumpkins at a cute little place on our way home from visiting Shelly and Rob (in Auburn Hills). Even though the lights were on, no one was manning the register. So we just left our money in an envelope on the table.

The boys wore the same costumes as last year, with the exception of Noah. He grew too much to wear the froggy costume again. He absolutely loved the tiger costume, and was making roaring sounds.

I have two Senior photo sessions left to edit. I am on a mission to get them both done this week. We'll see!