embrace the camera

i haven't posted an "embrace the camera picture" in so very long and i really do love it - what a treasure all these pictures are.


i love this picture of me and lily. max took it with my iPhone! we went out for coffee, after dropping Miss G. off at school. we do this alot and they love going for coffee! i love just hanging out with them. i'm realizing how precious these moments are with them now that little miss sunshine is at kindergarten every day now.

some days i just want to be out of the house, hanging out with my friends, getting a break. but lately i want more time with my kids - life is going by too fast and soon enough they won't want to hang out with their mum.

Get organized...

It is a goal I have this new school year...MUST. GET. ORGANIZED. We will be starting a renovation soon and if I'm not organized well, there might be a divorce or a felony committed. Or, more likely, I will be committed to an insane asylum.

If you want to be organized, like I'm going to be... go to Rebecca Cooper's blog for your chance to win a class on how to get organized.

But I'm going to win...so don't bother.

hello? (hello, hello, hello.... say that in an echo sound)

Yeah. Blogging. It ain't happening. I have no time, energy or desire right now. If i could blog by transmitting my thoughts via brain waves, then I'd be an every day blogger. But that hasn't been invented yet, so until then...no blogging for me.

I am sooooo busy. Work comes first. SEVEN clients right now. Count 'em. SEVEN. They are all of varying degrees, and it won't be like this for long, but it sure is a lot to handle right now. My job is always feast or famine it seems. Right now it is feast. Very tight deadlines and quick turn arounds for a few of the projects. Which means its kind of stressful and that means my house suffers for it. Like it is a pig-sty. In every room. And even if I had energy to tidy, there would be none left over for the actual cleaning part. I think I need to get someone in here to clean otherwise I have no clue when that is going to occur.

I leave you with this...



You might see something similar around my house some day. Soon.

mmmmm....yummmy!

I'm seriously going to get into this blogging thing like crazy some day soon I swear.

But right now? I'm going to eat a DQ Blizzard..blogging can wait. (turtle pecan cluster...jealous mum? its for a good cause...proceeds go to the children's miracle network today so I TOTALLY had to do it). Bye.

We are going on a summer holiday....

Edit* This was written WHILE i was on summer holiday (forever ago it seems) but blogger wouldn't let me post it... so its a bit outdate but whatevs.


Well, we already are on a summer holiday and so far so good. It is lovely here and smoking hot. We had 9 days without our kids before meeting up with them in Sandpoint, Idaho. It was a treat and a break, but not relaxing like you might think.

That is because we tackled their playroom. As in purging, painting, organizing, re-decorating (pictures to be posted later). It looks fantastic - we both love it. It was a big job, but one that had to be done without children around, because they of course cannot let anything go and it was in dire need to some serious sorthing and tossing. I cannot wait to show them - I'm very pleased with it.

Nine days was a treat for sure but after about 3 or 4 days we both missed them terribly. The one who we thought would miss us the most, couldn't have cared less about his parents. The one who we thought couldn't have cared less, phoned on day 2 sobbing because she missed us (Miss G.). It was awesome to see them again and have them run up to us and hug us tighter than they ever have before. Max on the other hand barely glanced our way and was more interested in getting out of the truck and his shoes off. Then he wanted to check out the house we rented, and finally after 5 minutes when I forced him to hug me did he decided to not let go for the next 2 hours. He must have told me every 10 seconds after that that he loved me and missed me. Stinker!

Now, 2 days in, its is life as normal with tantrums and arguements and bedtime snacks and early wake ups.

Today we will do what we did yesterday - beach all day. Then through the week, we'll check out Silverwood Amusement Park and for sure my mom and I are going to have a shopping day (Target! Whoo hoo!)....and of course more of the beach. Love it.

Embrace the Camera

Me and my boys...

Max being carried of course...some days this drives me bananas but other days I fully embrace it because I know it won't last forever. And I'll actually miss carrying him. He is such a doll...and a monkey!



the mister and me...Gabrielle was taking this photo and saying "Daddy! You're not smiling!" (I had just said to him SMILE!!! Which he hates FYI!!)

linkin' up here y'all...

photos

i had a fun time playing around with some photoshop actions...this was last weekend when we took the kids to Elbow Falls. They loved it. We loved it. We'll do it again...for reals.
Packed a camping type lunch (hot dogs, chips and s'mores) and spent a better part of the day out there. Walked to the falls. Tried to skip stones on the very fast moving river (yikes). Even got to read my book a bit. Good times. Good times.

Here you go...a feast for your eyes.
oKAY...no feast of photos. Why? Be/c Blogger isn't allowing me to upload picture! Boo! Hiss! That is so lame. Yay! Blogger is letting me post pics today...





How about some cute things they kids have said? Alrighty then.

The other day Max said to us.."I want Jesus. I want Jesus come to our house!" Seriously cute!

I always tell Gabrielle to not get upset when we are looking for something (like a lost something) - I always tell her to pray about it be/c God knows where it is. So the other day she and Lily are playing and I see them walking around searching for something...Gabrielle says to Lily "You don't need to get upset about it Lily, you just need to pray about it. Jesus knows where it is." Sigh! Love that I witnessed her faith in that moment...and that SOME of the things I try to teach her actually get through.

A week or two ago, after leaving Safeway with Lily and Max, I thought I left my purse at Safeway and had a moment of panic. I found it quickly (in the car) and said "Phew!" and of course they asked what I was talking about so I told them I thought I left my purse at Safeway and that would have really scared me." Of course Max asks "Why?" (Because he asks why about a million times a day) and Lily says "Mommy, if you left it at Safeway you would have said Oh Shit!" My mouth dropped open and she started howling laughing! She thought this was hysterical! She laughed to the point of crying and then said "you gave me happy tears!" It was pretty dang funny.