Mission accomplished. I wanted to get a photo of all 4 kids. We plopped them in the back of the car to contain the little ones. I didn't even do their hair! Oh well, makes for a more authentic picture. The reason: Pixel2Canvas is having a sale on their canvases. I purchased a 16x20 inch. I know exactly where this will hang, and can't wait to get my hands on it. Not the most perfect of shots, but perfectly imperfect, which is perfect for me.
In other news, the office is finally unpacked. We spent most of the day Saturday organizing that mess. We have 3 large garbage bags to prove it. Yes it is true there are still mounds of filing to be done, but you walk in and it is actually nice to spend time in there. We felt very productive. Good feeling!
It is not unusual for Kade to ask me the meaning of large words. He has been doing this quite frequently lately. The other day he says, "Mom, what does associate mean?" I am usually shocked to hear such big words come out of him. "Where did you hear that word dude?" His usual response, "I have NO IDEA!" It always takes me a minute to figure out a way to explain so that he will understand the meaning. I have a feeling he will have a very broad vocabulary by the time he gets to grade school.
While driving to Target a couple of days ago, he points out a balding man walking on the street with a striped polo. "Hey look at that man, he doesn't have any hair in the middle!" After a few moments he adds, "He kinda looks like Dad, except for the no hair in the middle, Dad has hair in the middle ." I had to laugh because he looked nothing like Dad, the only similarity was the striped shirt. Kids.....they keep life interesting!
My three sisters have etsy shops. Candace's Sparkle Power has been around for awhile. Amber and her friend Jen started Just Be Jewelry and my youngest sister Kimberly opened her shop All Stitched Up. Check em out.
Today he insisted on wearing his tennis shoes with socks. I tried to persuade him to wear the flip flops. He wasn't having it. At least he was wearing shorts. When he returned home from playgroup he stated, "It was so hot that it was burning me and my feet like toast in the toaster." Couldn't have said it better myself.
things off the list.
I always feel behind. I make little goals for myself in the evenings when I'm working on the computer. Sometimes I feel like I spend way too much time sitting here, but to me it's just like one of those daily things that have to be done. Editing pictures has become a part of my daily routine.
So tonight was productive on the computer end. I am more than halfway through my blog book. It looks so great on the screen. It has been fun to scroll through and see my life. My little pieces of joy...The pictures and words all in one place. I happen to be working on images and posts from exactly one year ago. This book is gonna be priceless, one of my most favorite treasures. Whoever thought up this blogging thing and compiling a book to preserve it is genius. I have never kept a better consistent journal.
One thing that stands out to me is vast improvement in my photography. I still have so far to go, but I can visually SEE a BIG difference and that makes me so happy! Something that I spend so much time trying to get better at and not really seeing a big change in the month to month....but oh my goodness what a difference a year can make. So last year at this time I started my photography class with Wendy. It has officially been one year since I took the plunge and started shooting manually.
Picture from a year ago....
And one I edited today....
unmotivated. I suppose the hot weather does that to me.
We have been vegging all day! I have had a mild case of the stomach flu and we are passing that bug right around. Lovely how that works.
Hoping tomorrow brings calmer stomachs and lots of checks on my to do list.
I did not take nearly as many pictures as I would have liked. I was too busy chasing after little boys.
I was most concerned about the flight. That my friends was the easiest part of our travels. When we arrived at the ticketing booth in LV, it was so backed up we feared we would miss our flight. Apparently the computer system was down. Thankfully they called passengers out of line according to the time of departure. The nice lady at the counter went ahead and assigned us seats for both flights. I was so relieved as I thought our children would be spread out all over the place. Brandon was overtired and the Benadryl had not quite kicked in yet. I had to hold his strong, fit throwing body down.
Once we got to the tinest airport I've ever seen, we had drama with the car rental company. I had a reservation with carseats and apparently they don't take debit cards, even if it acts as a credit card. Nice of them to tell us. After hopping around from counter to counter, others took debits, they just didn't have what we needed. Some had all their vans rented out others no car seats. I was HOT! So mad at the Hertz people. Finally Avis came through for us. Thank goodness!
Little tidbits:
When I am an 80 year old grandma, I want to be just like Grandma McClellan. She is so independent. She still drives, works at the temple, travels, reads, is in good shape, is gracious and kind and knows just the right things to say. She is a delight.
I attempted to report on our Washington trip, and got halfway through and Typepad ate it up! Gone.....Uggh! So I share this cute little find. I found this package in my mailbox today. The packaging made me even more excited to tear into the box. Go here if you are interested. There were so many styles that appealed to me, I may just order another.
I told myself that I would get to bed by 10. haha!
Glad I didn't because I am doing the biggest happy dance right now...my photo a day blog is finally fixed. I was so sick of looking at the same darn post. Because of the new uploading features, my smaller pics look oversharpened. For that blog layout, I can't make them any larger. So if you want a clear view click into the image. Anyways, it's all updated. Go have a looksie.
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