Merry Christmas

Life is certainly busy around here. Tim is full blown in the police academy and I am working full time, along with my etsy shop, church involvements and my kidlets. It's busy.

Merry Christmas from us!

Carson is 4

Time surely does fly. I look forward to my kids milestones, to see them grow and flourish.  He didn't really want to take a lot of pictures, he just wanted to play.

We had an impromptu/last minute birthday dinner for him. :) We went with a fun black and white (not formal) theme. Super easy.

5 minutes in my head

Remember how I wrote about keeping a notepad with me at all times? It's overrated. Nobody has time for that.

I bet whoever read that blog knew right away I wouldn't keep one on me. *I* tried, tried really hard to remember to take a pad of paper upstairs and keep it on the dresser. Then that got stressful and I'm not going to walk all the way downstairs when I've already laid down in my sweet bliss of cooled down stiff but super smooth sheets. So, I started writing little notes on my phone. Well, the light doesn't dim enough and it hurts my eyes. I also watched something (when I was so bored that I had a 5+ hour long t.v. ritual)  on "The Doctors" or "Dr. Oz" about melatonin secretion and how the blue lights from electronics prohibit that chemical reaction and that's why you should buy the amber lens glasses. So you can go to sleep and be rested. Plus, I'd get sidetracked and drool over cool shirts and elastics on etsy. Life.

All that to say I had the most beautiful snippet of a facebook status update in my head and then I was going to turn it into a blog post because it was too long and I thought about whipping out my phone at the splash pad and writing it and posting it but the phone screen light doesn't get bright enough in the sunlight and I didn't want to squint (and not watch the kids, of course) for 5 minutes. I already have this tan line on my forehead because I squint so much and have weird skin above my nose & between my eyes. I don't know if it's extra skin or just REALLY thick, but it's plain annoying. Reminds me of a butt crack. It's caused me to have a permanent crease too. Sometimes I point out that I have a scar on my forehead and everyone assumes I'm talking about my crease. Well, I'm not. I have a scar and it isn't in that tan line. It's further up. When did this paragraph get so serious???


So this is where I'm left, opening a new post hoping that I'd remember if I started typing, but I just don't. What a bummer.


XOXO- Butt Face

Happy Father's Day Tim

Gosh Honey, you're the bees knees! Happy Father's Day.

 

Just a few quick pictures!

Spring Family Photos {Anniversary Inspired}

I love photos, anyone who really knows me knows that. I find a way to get photos taken however I can.

Mother's Day Pictures

Easter Photos

And I just realized I never posted about our Fall photos, our Valentine's Day photos, and a few more.


These photos were originally intended to be Anniversary pictures but the snow really got in our way. Every time! Ha! But we finally got them and I'm so pleased with them.

My Boy

Not with my body though. :/ AND the mint tulle skirt I wore was completely wrong for my body, it literally made me look 14 months pregnant. It's a fabulous skirt though. I got it from Lulu and Lavender.  My next purchase from her is that deer sweater... obviously not in any hurry as it's 83 degrees here.

 The photographer, Natalie found some cute buildings in Dayton, purple buildings and blue buildings, gorgeous urban setting.

They were to match our wedding photos. Have you seen them?


I may get around to posting those, too.

Our anniversary is one of my favorite days of the year: Valentine's Day. The best part: Tim can't forget it.

Handsome Carson

The kids were not cooperative. They usually aren't for photos but we do it anyway.

These pictures make it worth it. This Carson. He's contemplative, caring, thinks about things, associates events with other events and puts everything together.

He can be aggressive, though. We have to let him be physically active and "wear him out". He's Tim's clone.

 Madeline likes the chase. I may not give her enough credit, to be honest. I haven't sat and observed her for hours like I have done with Carson.
I have held her for hours(mostly to protect her from Carson's grabbing hands). I still breastfeed her. It's nice. She's a sweetie.

She has a big kind of an attitude and can give the stink-eye like no one else, but I don't think she understands what she's doing.

 Sehara Is nurturing, she craves to be a part of things. Always wants to know what's going on and wants to be active. We are working on her self-esteem, it fluctuates. She loves to help, except if it interferes with anything she is doing.

My Favorite. 

My Girls!

Sunday Funday

 

 

We went to Community Park East and let the kids play before church.We had 2 more kids with us. I was hoping that Tim would see what it was like to have 5 kids so many he would change his mind about wanting 2 more, but he loved it. 

We found a Wildflower Trail. It was only 3 minutes long, my kind of trail.

The kids loved to play. There are three playsets at this park. They are scattered around to property with trails, tracks, gazebos, Frisbee golf plots and other treasures I haven't discovered yet.

Best part, I can easily walk from our house to there in maybe 15 minutes! I wish my other photos had loaded to this post from my phone.

Just Another Saturday

I had a ThirtyOne party last night. It went pretty well. I hosted it on a Friday night so people could come, specifically ladies with kids that are schooled.

I didn't have a large turnout. I don't think some invitations made it through the mail. That upsets me. Already, I know of 2 ladies who didn't get theirs.

I'll tell you why it upsets me: the mailman. We had this battle when we first moved here, for over 2 months, he would barely pick up my mail. I called and called and now he finally makes sure to get it. And even if it wasn't him, I blame the post office. I worked hard on those invitations, my hand cramped up.

I am so happy that some of my friends got to see our home. I got a lot of compliments! Thanks, girls!

I wanted Kayt to have a Thirty-one Inspired Banner for her parties (or whatever she wants to use it for!), so I made one courtesy of my shop.

I served a tray of deserts, some fruits, and then some chips and dips along with tea and lemonade. Yum!

This morning, Sehara had a soccer game, actually, 2 of them. A double header.

The first game wasn't that great, and the second game started just as badly but they pulled it together for the second half. It rained, drizzled, spluttered, the sun came out, then it started raining again. It was cold, too. I was drenched, and so was Sehara, plus some mud.

Turns out that Sehara is a really good goalie. She is kind of awesome at it, and another position I can't remember the name of.

I had to go into the YMCA a few times. Plus, I wanted to get some steps in on the treadmill. Truth is, I don't do enough physical activity. There, I said it.

We proceeded to a 5 p.m. frozen birthday party where we froze!

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