where has the time gone??

The past few months have contained these:

a son moving on to jr high.

A whole season of soccer

a stampin up party

My friend's father's funeral (that one was tough)

a trip to visit my mother in law

2 scrapbook pages

part of a two up album

LOTS OF WORKING

lots of on line Farmers training ( i guess 11 years of on the job training is not enough)

the planning of one birthday party

band concerts

scout camps

my dad's headstone being placed

thunderstorms (bad enough to scare us into a closet- we used to live in Nebraska remember?)

rain

yard work (out the wazoo)

gardening (the hail in the aforementioned storm might have ruined it)

a new cell phone plan including blackberry (love my little fruit of joy)

and much much more.

INCLUDING working out. I work out every day....well maybe not sundays.

I always wonderful intentions. Really. I think about what I want to write about, what wants to come out of my brain and out into the world of blogging. I think about it when i drive in the car, while I am singing in the shower, sitting at my desk at work. My problem is just taking the time to actually sit down and do it. At work it seems like I am either doing on line classes or helping clients, and when i do have time it just want five minutes not to have to think about ANYTHING much less something witty and charming for the ol' blog. My home computer is crap. Takes five minutes for the screens to change. I am going to get a new one. I still haven't decided what direction to take with that though. At first I wanted one that was a real power house to handle all my photo shoots. Now that I took over the business though photos are really on the back burner. I turned DOWN shoots this spring because i just didn't have the time, or the inspiration. So now I am thinking I would just like a laptop with a mega external hard drive so I can still do my normal surfing but be able to work on the photos I do take and save them on the external. That's what I want. I think......

My baby just keeps growing.

None of the coffee I am shoving down his throat is working. Hmmm

He turned nine the . Since his birthday was so close to Easter we did a friend bowling party (one friend, not a big party) on Friday then he and I went to see Hannah Montana Saturday. Shhhhh don't tell anyone about the movie. He doesn't want anyone he knows to know he went to see it. We actually really enjoyed it.

Then on Easter we have a family picnic anyway so we just included his birthday then! We had lovely weather and so much fun!

We played a little baseball.

 

that is until Chris got hit in the sugar cubes (that's what Taylor calls them)

That's my uncle Jon. He is such a great uncle. Literally. He's my kids great uncle.

Then we headed to the zoo.

 

Where I took pictures of the wild animals.

  

These truly were the wildest. My kids are on the bottom, the wildest of all.....

update

We are all fine. Just really busy. Taylor has started soccer, Chris is doing band festivals and I am just trying to keep my head in the game. My brain is set on air most of the time. I will give you a great example. My son Taylor just went out to the car to get his soccer stuff (we are at work) and he told me that when we came back from picking up Chris from school I left the car running. Its in the parking lot, running, has been for an hour. That is just so not like me.

Over the past several weeks I have thought of several funny, unique, interesting things that I would love to blog about, but then every time I sat down to do it nothing came. Really. Like the nothing that's spouting out right now.

I have been missing my dad terribly. I actually feel worse now than I did right after the funeral. I could't wait for my life to get back to normal but now my normal feels like hell.

I love the fact that I can open my car sun roof and spray my kids in the back seat when I wash the windshield.

I made a flower bed around my flowering plum in my front yard and planted lavender and and some other bush in it. My front yard no long looks so naked. I have plans for one more flower bed that is actually UNDER my neighbors huge pine tree. Anyone have any suggestions for easy maintenance shady bushes with color?

 

I finished this young mans photos. I took his pictures a while ago. It was during this shoot I broke my old camera. I feel bad it took me this long to proof his photos. I really honestly have had NO photo inspiration for a while. Guess its a good thing his mom is my good friend. Love ya Darla! I hope he likes them!

hiding

thats what I have been doing....just hiding.

I apologize in advance for the gross picture...hope this dosn't turn anyone off their foot fettishes.....

Did I ever tell you I was a klutz? Well not so much a fall down klutz but just the type a person that if something were to happen its gonna happen to me? Like dropping ketchup down the front of a new white shirt, setting my right boob into my salad with thousand island dressing on it, running over a dead skunk. That's me. Well a few Saturdays ago I broke my toe. Wanna know how I KNOW i broke my toe. Because it freaking HURT LIKE HELL!! I stubbed my whole foot into the back of my couch in my living room. I heard cracks and pops and sat on the floor for about 15 minutes wailing. Guess who came to my aid? The DOG. Not my kids. They were still sleeping, so asleep in fact that they say they never heard me. WHAT? They say since they didn't hear me blubber that it didn't really happen. RIGHT! Wanna see the proof?

see the second to last toe the one that's all PURPLE?? This photo was actually taken about 4 days after the attack of the killer couch. the swelling had gone down considerably. It bent my nails back on THREE toes. I am shuddering it just remembering. Well it feels MUCH better now and even walking is much less painless. If I would quit bumping it into other things I know it would heal even faster.

just call me techno junkie

Amazing isn't it? I am posting from my new phone! Ican text, email, facebook and surf the web! Love it!