« July 2008 | Main | September 2008 »
chris and i survived our first double header weekend! we had 2 weddings, 8 hours each on saturday and sunday. we are exhausted but had an amazing time! ive been meaning to post some new pics of elsie with this adorable dress we won from leila & ben. its such a cute cut and pattern, i LOVE it! thanks you guys!! chris posted one of my favorites here and here are a few more :)
and after being a total rascal, she finally caved in :)
the kids and i are off for the day! it's the last week of summer!
|
i cannot tell you how different my boys are from my girls- or kira at least :) each year they hate going school shopping, and for the last few years, i haven't really had to.. they wear the same things, take pretty good care of them.. and our weather doesn't have any crazy extremes so they can wear shorts and tee shirts all year long :) so for the first time in about 4 or 5 years, cameron got jeans. :)
i dont want it to seem like we are witholding new clothes from him... it's just that he DOESNT care :) and he LIKES wearing shirts and tees ALL the time. it could be raining out and he will want nothing to do with the one track suit pants he owns. :) but anyways, yesterday while i dragged them out to get new clothes, cam voiced a desire to try jeans on.. so he did, he liked, i bought. chris came home later and noticed immediately. it's different to see his legs covered :)
caleb took this next pic. i love it so. :) he has a serious picture bug right now.. so we're going to let him use one of our old cameras for a bit-- can't wait to see what he gets!
oh and here's a layout for KI:
my good friend had a baby last night and i have serious baby fever. needing to journal about remembering little features and old habits.. this one for 2peas.
|
this morning, chris took kira to register for 8th grade. her last year of middle school. in a few days, i register the boys for school.. cam will be in 5th-- his last year of elementary school. NU-UH! the year after that i will have a preschooler, an elementary schooler, a middle schooler, and NOOOO WAY a high schooler. eeeek. im so not ready.
last week we had a few visitors.. crew of the crew :)
the 2 littlest rascals refused to be in the picture. :(
anyways, school will be starting in a few weeks.. which will mean that my life will once again be ruled by the clock...constantly checking which child i will have to pick up next. as much as i long for long summer days, i do crave my schedule.
|
the midmonth garden went up today.. and i got this one done:
it was one of those moments that needed to be recorded right then and there. :) i also scrapped another picture that i totally forgot i already scrapped--duh! tonight we have a wedding and then part 2 of it tomorrow. then r e s t on sunday, yay, im so excited :)
|
dry erase board drawing from caleb. :) it's me and chris in case you can't tell :)
the summer has been flying by. i want to say it's been a relaxing summer with nothing to do all week long.. but it hasn't. just been plain busy. tomorrow is 'operation-media-free' day though. will be interesting to see what we end up doing. i vote for bake-a-thon :) i will post again with something exciting. hopefully. :)
ps- cam just walked by and said ever so disapprovingly.. 'you haven't blogged in 5 days??'..walking away, shaking his head.
|
so tomorrow there are supposed to be thousands of couples getting married.. because of the date 8/8/8 :) the lucky day. chris and i will be shooting a wedding together-- my oasis friends might recognize our bride! :) she's a loyal customer and student there-- others who've taught there are also sure to recognize her loveliness!!
haaaaa-- these pics are from our yosemite trip (rachael, yes i am finally gonna go thru them myself :) ) minutes before we went in the water behind us for our anniversary white water rafting trip. excuse the 'yes we just woke up 10 minutes ago and it's ridiculously early and why isn't there a starbucks in yosemite?' appearances.
i like to think that in the midst of shooting weddings together... in the midst of the stress and chaos and trying to get the shots-- chris and i take a sec to renew our own vows--often i will look over at him during an especially touching moment of the ceremony and i get a wink back. sigh, love when we are on the same level!! :)
so on 8-8-8--- though we are not the superstitious type- i am happy, proud, overjoyed to be part of the chaos that comes along with all of this....with him.
|
as we were heading out of the house today- she stopped and said, 'wait, wait.. one green, one pink.' how could i not encourage her individuality?! :)
we can't believe how fast time has gone (i know i am a broken record). she has said and done some of the cutest things lately... last night we watched nim's island. (which btw, if you happen to watch the previews, there is one on there for angel wars-yay!) and she calls watermelon, nima-nima-nima. so she kept calling nim that. and when it came to a close up of someone clicking on their Mac mouse, she said, mommy has that clicker! :) she's also big on saying sorry. which i LOVE. she's also big on "doing it myself" which tests every ounce of my patience levels. ah, the wonderful age of two :)
|
i can't believe how fast the year is going by! as chris and i enter our busiest month with jac, i'm enjoying bits of time to scrapbook and read. here are my layouts for the first of the month at 2peas. the theme is finishing touches. i went a little crazy with the softies! and this is a new product that came to my doorstep the other day, im not sure i would have known what it was if i didn't get it in real life. loove that it's tape and ribbon in one. pretty.
digging through the stash of older pictures lately. sigh. 2 years has gone by so fast!
and some pics for my cousin, mihan, you'll be proud of us, getting together last week :)
that's it! :)
|
