she blogs?!

It's been pointed out to me by several people that I've been seriously slacking in the blogging department. I am so sorry. Sometimes life gets crazy and you really don't have much to say about it. :p I'll attempt a little bit of catch up for now, and promise to do better.

Okay, so...

Kirsten made it into her school play. They're doing Honk! Should be awesome. She also made it into the Shakespearean Festival competition. She gets to be in a scene, competing against schools across Utah. Go Kirsten go! Overall I think school's sucking a little less for her, though she'll still tell you it sucks. :p
I still have no job. :(
Brandon's been landscaping though. He's saving up to go to Toronto with Keith in January. I have to admit, I'm kind of jealous. I'd love to go to Toronto for 3 weeks!!
Maiah's growing up way too fast. She's so beautiful though! I love my princess monkey. She loves Caillou. :)
I got to take some pictures of Zoey the other day. She's a beautiful baby. :)

It was a good chance to see if I have my photoshop ready to go for bigger things. I was still missing one or 2 important actions, but re-wrote one & re-downloaded the other. Now I just have to replace all of my fonts, figure out how to organize files, create slideshows and batch process finishing touches without acdsee. (Unless I can remember the info for the software - it was a downloaded program purchase :p) It's funny how much I took for granted from all of my software that I've had forever. I found the disk to re-install ps7 and was like "Yay!" Then I opened it up and everything was at a default setting, I had no actions - no anything & I about cried. lol  I think I do have it almost to where it was (except the fonts, a few brushes & such) and now I'm just missing the workflow support programs like acdsee & nero. A big deal, but with ps7 running (almost) properly I can at least start working on Kori's wedding stuff again. Having to work without those other programs will just make me slower. At this point, when their stuff was on hold for sooooooo long, I'm not sure that me being slower is any sort of good news, but at least they'll know they have pictures coming to them. Soon-ish maybe. I'm sorry. :p

So yeah, I'm here. Just praying for a job and excited to finish a project that was put on hold for way too long. The kiddos are good.
I'll try to blog more.
Yeah.

Hugs!

the fair

Well really it's more like the kiddos ...at the fair.

The only camera I took with me when we went last week to the salt lake county fair was my phone & it's crappy little lens. I guess it really doesn't matter what you have in hand when capturing the likenesses of those you love, just that you do it. I can say that because these rare shots of 4 of my 5 monkeys in one frame are new favorites of mine. Coming straight from my little GalaxyS to this little blog.

Are they beautiful or what?! Even if they're making faces at mommy. :p

/squishes to all!

my girlies

Ooh, I have a couple of recent pics of my girlies to share. I actually have taken a bazillion as always, but I'm on day 4 of a migraine that has made me cry & pretty much immobilized me, so I haven't uploaded many.
But...

Like I said - I have a couple. Straight from the camera to the blog. First up, my stunning K. :)

 

 ...Maiah Joy. Love how the light shows off those cheekies here. Beautiful monkey. :)

And because Maiah loves looking at all the baby pictures in my slideshows & the pics of Zoey up there, here's a couple baby-Maiah-monkey pics just for the benefit of her pretty smile. :)

...less than a day old :)

 

...6 days old (took hundreds of shots of my babe that day)

above at 2 weeks, next at 3...

...then a month.

I love my beautiful girlies. Maiah's already diggin' her baby pics. Of course, she thought it was Zoey at first but now she's telling me about baby Maiah. :) She's always been a sweet little thing. Hope she gets feeling better. (Day one of a little cold - fun! we shall cuddle and watch tv.)

Happy Friday peoples! Have fun. :)

Zoey

She's beautiful, huh? :)

 
Congratulations Lauren & Ty. She's so sweet.

<---slacker

I'm sorry I haven't been posting of late. I keep meaning to, but yeah - I have failed. Apologies!


I do have plans to take pics of the new abode to share here, and of my refinishing project for Kirsten last weekend. (It turned out awesome!) And, and... Yeah there's stuff I've been meaning to blog about. I'll get on it - I promise. :)


But first, I have to get ready for the day, because it sounds like I will get to be part of a welcoming party before the day is over. Lauren's water broke this morning! I know Zoey's going to be beautiful like her mommy, but it'll be fun to go hold her & take a pic or 2. :)


Happy Friday!
/squishes! :)