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I'm a stay at home mom who's found blogging to be the best way to vent rationally. I love spending time with my family. This blog is my journal, since I find journaling to be somewhat tedious, so if you visit often, just know that things will be "real."

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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Wait!!

I forgot to post my other favorite photo of Zak!! I can't believe I didn't get this one in the last post. He was being so silly and running around with his arms in the air while I was trying to take his picture, so I was happily surprised when I got one that worked. So I am going to share this one as well cause I absolutely love it. :) This one and another one will probably be the ones I will put on the wall.

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

FINALLY!! School Pictures- at least for Zak

Yes, I realize it is November and I am just barely getting around to school photos. I don't have my kids pictures taken at school cause there's just something hideous about picking a red or blue background. And not only that, but you get one take, so you better hope that someone combed that stray piece of hair down. Plus, and this is the real reason I take my own photos, the photographer can't possibly catch my child's personality in one shot, on a stool, with a blue or red background. If I'm going to pay 50 buckaroonies I may as well put it towards other photos by a photographer in a session. Make sense? But since taking my own kids' photos was what prompted Doug to get me a nicer camera in the first place, three, or is it four years ago, (really??? has it been that long???) then I better start taking some:)

I had a few minutes to kill in between taking Britt and Andon to school, and the time Zak needed to be there, so I dressed him in some jeans, (cause I like my kids in stuff they'd normally wear), drove out to the Rancho Parkway behind my house, and took some pictures of my awesome 5 year old. He really is awesome. A lot of energy, but a lot of soul:)

He was such a ham! It was easy and hard at the same time to get photos of him. Easy in that he was goofing off, which is SOOOO what Zak does best so we got REAL photos of him, but hard in that I couldn't get him to go where I wanted him to. Just to get him to stick his hands in his pockets was sheer torture. For him and me!

Oh, and the kid did all his own poses! I didn't have to prompt him other than tell him to sit or stand in a particular spot. Except for the last shot. He didn't want to put his hands in his pockets.:)

















Do you see the mischief in those eyes?? Do ya? Cause there's a LOT OF IT! :)



And next, my favorite.



Gosh he's dang cute!! :)

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Funny Things The Kids Say

One day Andon and I were talking about our hearts. He asked me how they worked, I gave him an explanation a 4 y r old could understand, (the only one I understand.) The very next day, I said something to Zak. Something that went along the lines of, "quit that!" or some such demand. Andon then says to me: "Mommy, listen to your heart. That's not very nice." Needless to say I felt like a complete and total toad. Just goes to show that you can always learn more from your children than you could ever teach them yourself.

While we were camping, Andon and our friend's son were sitting next to one another. Brayden who is 15 says to Andon, "I've known you since you were a baby." Andon replies, "I've known me since I was a baby too!"


Brittnee is our funny bone. The things she says sometimes are so dang funny! One day, as she was walking by Doug she says, "Hello, my good man." We both looked at her and we both began cracking up. This is how she's referred to him lately.


I was sitting on the couch taking a breather after dinner and Andon walks past me into the kitchen. He had a car in his hand and as he walked by the fridge he must have dropped it because I heard him say, "tartar sauce!" I suppose I should limit his sponge bob watching.


I was in the car with the kids coming home from Britt's tap class and she was telling me about the school BBQ that day. She mentioned that her friend got sick. I asked her what happened and she said, "Layla has lots of diseases so she had to go home." I didn't think I heard her clearly, so I repeated back, "diseases?" Britt said, "Yes, Diseases." By this time I was truly perplexed because I knew she didn't really mean disease, but I couldn't figure out what she DID mean. Then Teaghan pipes up and says, "You mean ALLERGIES?" Brittnee says, "Oh yeah, that's what it is. ALLERGIES!" I laughed heartily, the kind where your shoulders shake and your stomach hurts.


We were at the school today, and on one of the playgrounds is these cubes that turn. On them are the states and their capitols. There's quite a few of them, and they're all blue. Zakry starts playing with them and turning them all, and then I hear, "mommy, look, a car wash." I suppose the large blue cubes reminded him of the car wash we went on last week. So funny!!