A Day in the Life of Me

So here are some of the pictures that I have taken lately for my class. I have had fun taking them and Karleigh has really enjoyed being a model. She asks me when I am going to take a picture of her. But now ever since the lolly pop shoot she has asked me if she can eat her lolly pop in the pictures. I still have the lolly pops and I will probably do another photo shoot with her and the lolly pop, maybe try some different angles and views. I LOVE the one with Shea lifting the lolly pop, I know it totally focuses on the lolly, but that is what they were doing, focusing on the lolly pops! lol So here are the pics, enjoy!

Yesterday the girls did not have a nap because they were having way too much fun with Katherine and Allison. When we got home (around 530) Karleigh went to bed and Shea fell back asleep, but on the floor. It was so cute. I just had to take a picture. What a beautiful baby girl, I can't believe how big she is getting. She is talking SO much. Here is the picture of my sweet angel.

We had a great day today. We went to the air show again. We got there around 1130 and stayed until about 4. My cousin Renea, her husband Erich, and their three kids came with us as well. We saw men jump from airplanes/helicopters, we saw a couple really awesome little planes do crazy tricks like spinning, flying upside down, flying feet away from the ground, landing on one wheel and then the other. We saw jets take off and make A LOT of noise. And we saw the Blue Angels fly! It was awesome! I never thought I would enjoy it so much (I went to one when I was much younger and didn't enjoy myself). But I think I enjoyed it so much because I was with my beautiful family and they were enjoying it so much too. I know Karleigh is going to talk about it for weeks. I took lots of pictures. I haven't gotten them uploaded to my hard drive yet because I have a lot of other pics to take care of, but I will upload them soon. Then once I do I will pick my favorites from the day and post them. I am hoping I got some really cool ones of the Blue Angels, we will see. I know I got a couple cute shots of the kids and Renea and her family. I am having so much fun taking pictures, I just hope I keep getting better and better. I always see so many things I could have done different or better with my work, I see it slowly getting better and I hope that continues. Off to bed now for some hubby loving. ;)

Love to my readers.

So today I took a bunch of photos of Karleigh with my new flash in front of a white wall in the house. I have a portfolio due on wednesday and I need different shots with my flash at different angles. My favorite lighting is coming from the left side or the right side. She was being so cute and such a little ham today for me and I am SO glad. My teacher is going to like these. I haven't decided which pics I am going to use yet because I want his opinion on monday. Tonight at the grocery store I found those big lolly pops that are really colorful so either tomorrow or monday I am going to give them to the girls and snap away. That should be exciting, I am looking forward to the bright pictures. I love bright colors! Here are just a couple pics that I edited real quick to see how the finished product would look like. Doesn't it look like they were shot in a studio? I am so excited to learn how to make studio and fake lights look like natural lighting. I have a photo shoot tomorrow evening (hopefully, if she still isn't feeling well it is postponed til next Sunday). I also have a photo shoot next Sunday morning with Barbara Sgueglia's family. I think (MAYBE, if I'm not too busy) I will try to start to post my favorite photos from my photo shoots. I keep getting more and more. :) It is very exciting. Oh yeah, back to the pics I took today. Here they are!

We went to the air show last night. My mom works for subway and got us VIP parking and a ton of perks. Free food, beer, a tent and a place to sit down to watch the show. Subway was one of the sponsors so subway employee's and their families get those perks. Karleigh had such a blast! Shealyn, not so much. Shea didn't like the loud noise, but Karleigh loved to see the planes. We had some food and then watched the planes. Once it was dark they did a light show with lights flying off of the back of a couple of planes as well as some fireworks. It was really cool and Karleigh couldn't get enough. My mom got us more tickets for tomorrow so we are going back tomorrow. Karleigh keeps asking me when we are going to see the planes. Hopefully tomorrow will be nicer out than it was today. I am looking forward to it. Here are some pics from the show last night. Enjoy!

I am so tired. I started school a couple weeks ago and things are getting so much harder to keep up with. I wish it were still summer. I am enjoying getting to learn things, but I hate my History class. I love my glassblowing and studio lighting class. Not so sure what I think about drawing though, we will see. I still have about 40 pics to finish from the Lacy's photo shoot. It is so hard to sit through pictures I have seen for the past two weeks. I think I need to start editing less, it is killing me. I also have to get the pics from the Portrait party out to everyone. I have a maternity shoot on Sunday. I have pics to do for a portfolio for class due on Wednesday and I am really hoping the sun pops out so I can get the shots (it's natural light). I have a paper due on Sunday and still a half a chapter to read. I have a drawing to finish shading for class. A crap load of dishes, a ton of laundry, still more pics to edit. Bathrooms to clean, things to organize, crocheting to do, packages to ship, pictures to edit. AH! So much!! My mind gets lost in it all. And being so tired just does not help. My mommy group is running me down some. I try to keep up, but it is getting to be too much. I think I need to stop reading the message board, well for now until I get somewhat caught up. So if you are one of my friends and you don't see me on the MN, that is why I am getting so lost in it all. I will still come to playdates when I can, but I need to take a break from the big ol group. Everyone's threads/opinions matters but I do not have time to keep up with them all. My regular friends will still see me and I will still talk with them, but sheesh I'm taking a break. So if you see me on there, tell me to get off of it. lol

I am rambling. I think that is all that this thing (my so called blog) is good for. I am not a quirky writer, I suck at writing. Which reminds me I have a paper to write. I was asked two questions about crap I don't even know yet and I need to write a two to three page paper by Sunday about stuff I don't even care about.

Arg, arg, arg. I love my life, but right now I am so very overwhelmed.

Wow! It has been two weeks since I last posted!! Things have been good around here, busy but good. We have been taking every chance we get to go to the beach. We (me and the girls, because Nathan was at work) went to Ocean Breeze Water Park with my mom Friday night. It was a lot of fun (and cheap too!) for the girls. When Karleigh saw Nathan she said "daddy, come to the water park with me next week", it was so cute.

My week is packed full next week of fun for me and the kids. I have class this upcoming weekend. It is on Friday and Saturday. I am taking a CPR class. Then I start my full time school schedule August 21st, I am really looking forward to it. At the same time though, I am also dreading it. I just want a bit of a longer break. I'm hardly getting a break at all though because I am organizing a bunch of stuff around the house. Hopefully that will be done before I start school.

My cousin just had a baby about a week ago, and I am going to take some pictures of him and her and her husband. I am excited about it. I hope it goes well. I have been thinking of all the different things I can do. It is so much fun taking pictures!

Also I have a friend who is due in October with a baby boy, I am going to take some pics of her too. I am really looking forward to that because she is an artsy fartsy kind of girl like me, she is up for anything. We may do some nude pregnancy pics too. She is a great model and a fun person to be around, so I am really looking forward to playing with angles and positions in the pregnancy pictures. She is going to be a great guinea pig. And she has the best pregnant body! So beautiful.

We went to church this morning. It was the first time Nathan and I have gone to church together. I haven't been to church since I was about 16 or 17 (I'm 23 now), so it has been quite a while. It was a great sermon. I really look forward to going next Sunday. Today we studied Romans 8: 32-39. There is so much to take in with such a small passage. It was really touching and wonderful.

The Olympics are on. It is very exciting! I need to find out when all the swimming and gymnastic events are taking place because I want to DVR them so I can watch them all.

Well, that is all of my random thoughts for now. Nathan and the girls are sleeping. I hope it clears up so we can go to the beach today. Well off to do some more house organizing!

Sorry, it has been a few days since the last update. Life gets busy. Here are some of my favorite pictures from last weekend at the beach. I couldn't get any of Karleigh except for when she was swimming, that girl is a little fish. Shealyn is trying to swim too! It is so cute. We need to get her a floaty like Karleigh has because she would do really well with it. The beach that we go to has a sand bar that comes out most days. So the rocks behind Shealyn is where the sand bar stops. The sand bar goes out really far. I'm not sure if you will be able to see it in the pictures though. I hope you enjoy them, I know I do!! lol


Swim Baby!!

Beautiful Pose



Woah!
Shealyn the bird is behind you. :)





Karleigh laying on her back.






Smile!!

So I had to hop on here real quick and tell this cute little story.

Karleigh is always telling on her sister. I was putting a load in the wash and walked in the girls room to put away their clothes that just came out of the driver. When Karleigh approaches me, very upset. She said "Mommy, sis spanked the baby's butt!". I said "really?" I walk into the living room and asked Shea if she did. She looked at me (baby in hand) and said "Spank bad baby" and spanked it and ran over to the corner (where they go when they are bad) and slams that poor little baby doll into the corner. She stood there holding her in the corner and proceeds to do this about three more times all the while Karleigh is tattling "Mommy, sis spanked the baby's butt!!". Shealyn is now disciplining her baby dolls, so funny and so cute.

I have things to work on as a person. Everyone does.

Please, if you are my friend and there is something that I say or do that bothers you, tell me. If I do something I would much rather know at the time so I can address the issue and work on it and try harder to not be that way or do it again. I won't know there is something wrong unless I am told.

What I expect from friends is a completely open and honest relationship. That is how Nathan and my relationship is and I expect it to be the same way with my true friends. I will tell a friend if something that they did bothered me, so I expect the same.

So if you are a friend or a future friend, keep this in mind. Let me know what is on your mind, if we are true friends we will be able to work through it together.

Yay! The big day is here. Shealyn is now officially two (well at 8:19 pm tonight). Karleigh will be 3 on Monday at 9:18 am (isn't that cool how the time is switched??!). The girls are super excited for their birthday party that is at 4 today. I have someone coming to take pictures for me, she is a wonderful woman who I have known since I first started going to school. We actually just bought a car from her as well. Thanks Anne Marie!

Karleigh all day yesterday and today has been talking about her birthday party. She wants to break open the pinata and eat lots of cake and play with her friends. Shealyn isn't quite there yet with understanding fully what is going on, but she sees that Karleigh is very excited so she is excited too because of that. I wish that some of my friends could come to the party but they are out of town (miss ya Lori!). Gosh, I keep getting more excited for my girls birthday party. I hope things go well. Nathan is shopping for the food now. He is excited to make sandwitches and what not for the party.

Well I should go and finish up the dishes. 4 1/2 hours to go!

I had a long day today. I went to open lab for glassblowing from about 1:30 until 5:30. It was really hot in there. I got 3 pieces made, but only 1 of them I can use for my final. So far I have 2 pieces made that I am pleased with, now I have 3 more to go for my final. I need to get an A in this class. I am an A student! I can't get a B. grrrr We get to work with some color tommorow, I am excited. :)

Angie watched the girls for me today. They had a lot of fun and told me all about it when we got home. They were worn out. That is a good sign of things to come because Angie is going to watch them on Thursdays for me! Whoo hoo! I have all the sitters I need for my fall semester. Things are almost all lined up and ready to go.

We are going to the beach tomorrow if it is a nice day. I hope it is nice and not to exhausting.

I miss Nathan. He is working so hard for this family. I can't wait until he doesn't have to work two jobs anymore. We need to get bills paid off so we can get into a house! That is our goal. We hope the housing market is going to be good for us when we can finally afford to buy a home. That is going to be so wonderful, to actually own a home and know it is ours and we can do what we want with it. It will really feel like home. I don't feel like home where we are living. I just won't be able to feel at home until we have a home of our own.

The girls birthday is this weekend. Oh crap, I just remembered I need to order a cake! Anywho, they are excited and I am excited for them. I can't wait for the party because they always have so much fun at birthday parties, especially their own. They have been playing so well together lately. Their imaginations are growing so much. They love to pretend things. They look out for each other too which is so wonderful. I love to see my girls interact, I can just sit there on the floor watching them all day if I could. Just seeing the wheels turning in both of their heads is just so amazing to me. They talk so much in general and to each other. I just love little voices. So sweet.

Well, Nathan should be home soon (I hope). Love and hugs!

This video was taken Sunday when we were at the beach. Karleigh had so much fun swimming. She does such a great job!!

This is Karleigh swimming at the beach for the very first time. She LOVES it!



I've got more videos that I will post later. :)

My dear daughter Shealyn is always taking her diaper off now. She is very interested in the potty and tells me sometimes when she needs to poop or pee. She just needs to learn how to control her potty urges. It is so funny how interested she is already. She will be two on saturday! (holy cow) She loves to flush the potty. Anytime Karleigh goes poopy Karleigh runs to me or yells for me to come look at it (Karleigh is very proud of her movements!) but about 95% of the time I cannot get there fast enough because Shealyn flushes it down. Poor Karleigh, she gets sad everytime. Last time she went "Auwww" with this little pouty look on her face. I wish that was the only thing that I had to be sad about, someone else flushing for me. lol

I am about to attempt to upload some videos for the blog. I have a couple really cute ones. You will just have to wait to see what they are. Wish me luck!

I love my family. I love Nathan. We all went to the beach today. The girls made a little friend. Her name was Olivia and she was a month younger than Karleigh, and boy is she a little talker. Kids voices are so cute. We had a ton of fun swiming in the water and digging holes. My knees are still really red from sitting on them in the sand.

We are still dog sitting. I haven't heard anything from the owner and she was supposed to pick him up today. hhhmmm The girls really like him.

The girls birthdays are next week. It is really hard to belive that they are turning 2 and 3. Holy smokes my youngins are growing up fast. School is almost over. I hardly feel like I have been in the class for 3 weeks. But only 3 more classes to go. I start up again towards the end of August. I have been very lucky to find two great ladies who will watch the girls for me on tuesdays and thursdays. Geez, summer is going to be over before we know it. It hardly feels like it has started. Life goes by too fast. Way too fast.

I miss my friends. It seems everyone went out of town at the same exact time. Poo poo heads.

Not much else to say. I have so much in my head that it is all coming out in a jumble of confusion anyway. I think I'm going to go have a drink.

peace

So I got my schedule book in the mail for the fall semester and I have all my classes figured out. Priority registration is the 6th of July, so I will be up at 11:59 pm on the 5th of July to register! 2 of the classes there is only ONE class TOTAL, no options whatsoever, so I have to get into them!! My schedule will be this

M/W
5-730 Studio Lighting 1

T/R
930-12 Drawing 1
1-4 Glassblowing 2

Online
History of World Civilization 1

One weekend class (only one weekend out of the semester)
CPR
F 5-10 pm
S 8-6 pm

I am really excited about my class schedule (well except for history because I really don't like history). But I have managed to knock out an A in all three of my other history classes, so hopefully I will be able to knock out an A on my last two history classes.
That is 14 credits. I am so stoked that I now know my school schedule because that has really been weighing on me. Now I know I will only have to have the girls at a daycare/babysitters two days a week. I am also really excited because now every T/R I can have lunch with my husband (his work is 2 mins from my school and I get out of class at his lunch time)! Yippie!

Now I just have to figure out what I am going to do with the girls on T/R. I may take Lori up on her offer to watch the girls for me one day a week (thanks again for that Lori!). But first we are going to apply for the YMCA and see how much daycare will be there. :) I am hoping it won't be anymore than $60-80. Cross your fingers for me!!