29+1

So it happened.........................................my birthday did come, and leap year didn't happen  like I wanted it to. I was hoping to just jump over February 17th, and I even celebrated being 29 last night with brownies, IceCream and staying up late. I woke up and well......my birthday still came. I figure I am going to turn 30 four times though, so this should be old school. How you ask?

When my spirit was created, 30 years later I turned 30..................

Then the day my body was actually created, was about 9 months before I was born, so technically I turned 30 about 9 months ago.............

Then of course today, my birth-day, and when my body is resurrected, I will turn 30 again. :) See, so today should really not be that bad. The hard thing, is this is the life where our bodies age, we get wrinkles (I found my first one next to an old dimple in my cheek, it can pass as a dimple for now), we loose important enzymes in our bodies that kept us vivacious before, my kids will start to go to school, and I will become a "soccor mom" I am sure of it. I already have the minivan for it. And it also means I am only 10 years from turning 40. Ugh. So I need to think about things that only 30 year old people get to do, and change it into a positive  experience.............hmmmmmmmmm.................Help......................haha!

Well, o.k., I will be taken more seriously maybe... I like that.
ummmm
I actually blew out all my candles this year! I used to get so frustrated and I would even practice. So this time I focused real well, and it was even my wish, and I did it! That's a positive thing for a 30 year old birthday......
Oh, and my sweet husband surprised me with a big giant balloon. It has been my dream for a loooooong time to just see a dealership balloon up close. I have been telling him for years that I have to have one sometime, and if I don't get one before I die, he needs to make sure to have some at my funeral, so I can sit on top of it and look down at my family, and they will know I am there. hehe
So he went and bought the biggest balloon he could get for me this year. Its way cool! (I still want a big red one at my funeral though, hehe).


I also got awesome couch covers and an awesome Elephant picture on a canvas wrap, and an awesome Zebra stripe dishes set from some wonderful ladies, and some money to spoil myself! :)
O.k., I feel better now :) Yay 30!             


eh hem. The End

New Songs on the Blog :)

So I added a playlist to my blog again. I love the song "Daughters" by John Mayer, I can't help it, I have 3 of them! I actually dedicated that song to Thing 1 before she was even born, so ya......its special to me. For kicks I wanted to see if there were any songs that had the words "Touch of Love" in them. I found 2, and they are fun, so ya I had to have them on here too. :)

I was going back through my old posts from when I started this blog, its was fun. Its crazy to see how much my pictures have changed in the last 2-3 years too. Partly because I used to use a "point and shoot", lol. Nothing against point and shoot cameras, but I Love My DSLR. I am so grateful I was able to get it too, its been lots of fun!

Anyway, I just thought I would write! Here are some pictures from when I first started to really get into this stuff. The pixel quality makes me cringe, haha

"Things" Birthdays :)

Thing 1 has hit the big 5, Thing 2, is almost the big 3, and thing 3 will be the big 8 months soon :) So I was of course excited for an excuse to do some new wall portraits :) Now I get to decide on which different process I want to print. ugh, how do you choose? Should I go with the original colored ones? Or go with the all black and white or all sepia, or the sepia with color and black and white with color? hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

My big ol' 5 year old kid now :) I can remember trying to imagine her as a 3 year old when she was just a baby....... and now she's 5, how'd that happed?! She is such a sunny little girl, her "Carol Tuttle" Type 1 energy is evident in her smile, and her personality and sense of humor is just as big :) I love her like crazy and I am so glad she chose our family, so we could have her bright spirit among us each day. :)

My big 2 year old, will be 3 in two days.............wow      She catches me off guard sometimes with the big things that she says. I can't wait to give her, her birthday present. Last year she got a ton of baby stuff.....This year? She is getting a changing table, with a highchair hooked on it, and places to put all her baby stuff. :) She loooooves her dolls, that is pretty much all she ever plays with. Every once in a while she will play with a pony or something, but it doesn't last very long and its right back to her baby. I remember seeing her in the N.I.C.U. all hooked up to hoses and monitors, with the nurses poking her hands, feet and head trying to get an I.V. in her chubby little skin. So sad, boy was I happy to get that little kid home with us, I am so grateful to have her in our family :)

"She will be my Tootsie, Wootsie!"    Yep that's what she is, and of course our "Guchi Gu", and "Wushy Gu",

 (both names invented by Thing 1), man is she sweet :) It's not her birthday yet, but I still had to do a picture of her too for the wall :) I just want to kiss those toesies :)


  Well, if you have any preferences, let me know, lol, I need help in deciding which ones to print.  :) Which ones would you do?

Christmas and Thing 3's 6 month picsI

It's been a while I know, I have been going crazy with Client sessions the last couple months, and had to buy more storage space too, so I have just been behind on a lot. I am catching up though! Here is our Christmas Eve Picture for this year. I love these, they always turn out interesting........The first year we started doing this, Thing one had pink eye, and Thing 2 was crying from being so tired, husband and I were smiling despite the crazy night, lol. It was great! I will have to see if I can find the picture. This one is perfect, but it would have been a lot cuter if we could see Thing 1's whole face, hehe. Thing 3 thought tossing wrapping paper around was more important. :) It was a very fun Christmas Eve and Day, everyone was happy and healthy too! I love it!

She really does think Dad's Awesome

and apparently she thinks the camerawoman is too, hehe

These are a couple of her 6 month pictures, I have a lot more, but haven't gotten to them yet. She had a great first Christmas!

I love her tootsies!

her fluffiness,

and she loved playing with the ornaments too :)

Hope you all had wonderful holidays!! Next up, lots of birthday's for us! yay!

The "B" Family :)

This adorable family chose to have their pictures done at Murray Park
also. This place changed fast in a couple of weeks! With the 'R"
family it was still pretty green, but this time all the leaves were
falling and were everywhere!
They wanted more candid family shots than posed ones, which I am all
for! They are a fun little family, and are soooo adorable!
Here are just a few of the many fun shots we were able to get! :)



P.s. I am having a terrible time getting photos uploaded to this site! I had to e-mail them from my Picasa account and that results in the pictures not showing up so good when they are bigger. So, I promise the real quality of these photos is a lot better than what they are showing! 

The R family :)

I love this family :)
We took these pictures at Murray Park,
isn't this the cutest pose?
This was Dad's idea and I love it! I will definately keep this creativity in mind for future picture sessions :)

This big Fur tree was........awesome :)

Food 4.

Finally..............stick in the toaster oven, and toast it.............

Serve.................

Smile..............

Makes mouth happy :)

Then End.

Food 3.

Next put sauce and cheese on the top too................

I bet it would taste good just like that......, but it gets better

Lick the spoon.............

Finish off the extra cheese.................hehe, these pictures make me giggle.............

Food 2.

Grate your cheese.............

Then spread it on your sauced bun :)

and close the bun.

Food part 1.

First off, is anyone else having issues with bloggers new features? Its driving me nuts! I used to love being able to upload 20 pictures from Picasa, but now it only allows 4 at a time, I will have to do this post in many parts now, because trying to upload with the regular uploader here in blogger is just not working out very well, I know how to do it, but the server is rejecting them. hmmm.......

I love taking pictures of food, this is just a snack I invented:)

You need Mozzerella, pizza squeeze sauce, and flat hamburger buns. (I can't remember what they are called, I just know I got them in the hamburger bun section, and they are supposed to be the healthy kind. ).........

Open up the bun, and put some sauce on..........

then spread it with a spoon. Thats how they do it at Papa Murphey's (o.k. actually theirs is a big ladel)..........I worked their for a year ya know......