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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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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Teaghan Best Friend Pictures

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

This morning I brought in the new year sitting at my computer editing photos.  Teaghan wanted some pictures done of her best friends before one of them moved back to Arizona, so yesterday the girls and I spent taking pictures. I have yet to meet a teenager that doesn't like to take photos :)  So this morning the two of us sat.  I edited, she chose which ones she liked.  Post processing is one of my favorite things to do cause you can really give the picture the feeling you want by just tweaking here and there.  I glanced at the clock and was startled to find that it was noon already!  What felt like 30 minutes was in actuality an hour and a half!!

Time flies when you're having a good time.

There is a reason why hanging out with teenagers is so much fun.  They make you feel young again, make you remember when you were that age and everything had an inside joke.  Everything was "belly laugh" funny, the energy level never seemed to deplete, and your potential was the moon and back. 

I sometimes long for those days.

But yesterday, being behind the camera like I love to do, gave me a glimpse into how much these girls love each other.  I got to see and remember what it was like to be a kid again.  My daughter is growing up so darn fast and is turning into such an amazing and beautiful young woman with friends who are just as amazing and beautiful as well.  I am so grateful for the kids that she is friends with!  

As I was editing, I kept thinking how photogenic Teag is.  How she became so photogenic is beyond me since I SOOO am not, but the girl takes a good photo :) It's so not fair really.

There were so many that turned out really cute and so I want to share, but I'll only share my favorites or you'll be looking through a REALLY long blog post :) 

Just click on the picture and scroll through them using the tool bar at the bottom.  They look better bigger :)

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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!!