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Learning to love my camera again…

January 30, 2010 – 1:25 pm

I have had a hate relationship with my camera for about a year. I wasn’t getting the photos I wanted. They were off, the color was blah the exposure was ick! I know it wasn’t me for I still got everything I wanted with the 20D. SOOOOO!! I started using it more in different light and started another 365 project(yes, i am crazy but so is Mr. Fun and others that are doing it again). I think I am starting to love it again. Do I still want the 5D Mark II? That would be a big neon light flashing YES!!! I am trying to save for it but life keeps getting in the way of that. I need another $1000 and it could be mine. And that is only if the money I have already saved doesn’t get used for something the kids need.
Back to me loving my camera…..

Yesterday was a half day for the kids. JJ went home with a friend. We picked the boys up and took them to lunch. G won the poetry contest at school and we wanted to celebrate. He also won $5 gift card so after lunch we went to target and he bought, you’ll never guess, ANOTHER star wars figure.
Then we headed to DC Market Place to take photos. I fell in love with my camera all over again.

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This and that….

January 26, 2010 – 12:18 pm

My life seems so uneventful lately. Nothing has been blog worthy. Kids,school,work,mass amounts of rain. Tornado touched down about 4 miles east of us during all that rain. The weather is cold, make your face hurt cold. That kind of makes me grumpy, maybe it’s better I haven’t blogged. I got some stomach bug that knocked me on my ass. I haven’t spent all day in bed since T was a baby.
I am helping with a beginner workshop and I feel like I am slacking…I am trying to figure it out what I need to do and where to put it!! It’s a very basic workshop and I am excited to see the ladies that signed up grow from it. I wish I would of had something like this to help me grow faster when I first got my DSLR.
My cousin’s daughter turns 14 today….it seems like yesterday we were sitting in the waiting room waiting on news of her birth.

Gosh, I wish we lived closer…sure do miss her and her silliness!!! Her laugh and her smile!!!

Hopefully summer will bring another week spent with you.

I am still loving everything about my itouch…makes me want an iphone….(did i just say that out loud?) If I could have everything on the itouch in a phone in would be heaven. My calorie tracker is rocking my world!!

Conferences are this week. I lost G’s sheet to sign, no big surprise. We get so much paper home each week, it’s ridiculous. No wonder the school runs out of paper in March. Stop using so much.
My name was brought up at the PTO meeting, REALLY? that bugs me!!! If they didn’t have the meetings right after school I could attend. Then I was bombarded with “oh i have the craziest schedule and if i can make it you can, trust me” TRUST YOU? you don’t even know my name….I can’t make it unless someone else wants to go get my daughter from school…so take that! I can’t make it work. I wouldn’t be good for the PTO anyways, I am so not a people person. Now if I could attend meetings with cocktail in hand then maybe??? But I am still thinking not. Just not my thing.

Signed the boys up for baseball, G had try outs last night. He went to put on his baseball gear and NOTHING fit!! It doesn’t seem as if he has grown that much but obviously he has grown a lot. I feel a little guilty not signing T up because the other boys were playing at age 3 and he’s now 5 and never played any organized sport. Sucks being the baby of 4….

Signing off to argue with the 5 year old that you can’t eat cupcakes for lunch. Convinced him earlier it didn’t make a good breakfast(though i really think cupcakes would make an excellent breakfast) and I am sure I’ll be doing the same at dinner.

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Dear T

January 21, 2010 – 12:57 pm

It’s been a ~~pleasure~~ blast watching you grow these past years. They are going by way too fast. I remember when we brought you home. Your siblings were so excited to see you, they all wanted to hold you and kiss you. I can see it in my head like it was yesterday.You completed this family, you are the bow of the package. We didn’t know how you were going to impact our lives then. We knew we were delighted to have you and excited to watch you grow.

What I didn’t know is that you would have your days and nights mixed up the first couple weeks of your life or that you would refuse to take a paci or bottle of any kind. I also didn’t know you wouldn’t sleep through the night or in your own bed until you were almost three years old. However, I wouldn’t of changed a thing about those years.

They have made you who you are today… a sweet, cuddly, funny, excitable, handsome FIVE year old.
You make my heart sing, you make my days brighter. You keep me laughing!! I treasure every day we spend together.

I hope that you find being five years old is all that and a bag of chips!!!

Happy Birthday!!!!!

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The youngest Fun turns FIVE!!!

January 21, 2010 – 11:37 am

and he’s thinking of all the fun things he will discover while being five!!!

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Past time..

January 20, 2010 – 4:17 pm

or hobby….whatever you call it. Photography has always been a big part of our lives. It seems running is starting to catch on as well. We bought some new running shoes and plan to at least do 5K in the spring. I hope I survive!! I wasn’t born a runner but have always wanted to be.I run but never run for miles at a time. I guess you could say it’s on my bucket list. Maybe I’ll create a real bucket list and share.

The shot I was setting up from the photo above.

Luckily Wy has bird bones and is still light enough to swing around.

stay tuned for tomorrow a special someone is turning five.

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January 15, 2010 – 11:15 pm

T is an only child 5 days a week. It’s so fun to go places and do things with him. I didn’t really have this with the other kids because there was always a baby. I have to say having a last baby is really fun.
(can you guess what color of paint he used at school today?)

Today we went to Salty Senorita’s for lunch while we were out and about. We headed in that direction because I had to go to Trader Joe’s….we never made it to Trader Joe’s…why you ask? We decided to eat first and then we took a different route home forgetting all about Trader Joe and his cereal bars.
We had a good lunch which included margaritas… yum!
On our way out we stopped to putt some balls. The lefty needed a little help.

Can a right help a left? I know a right handed person can’t teach a left handed person how to tie his shoes. G still doesn’t tie his own shoes. I would try to teach him and it always ended in frustration. So he started tucking his laces in his shoes. This year , he got slip on shoes. If he goes to college not knowing how to tie his shoes I will ~~take full responsibility~~ stick to my theory that a righty can’t teach a lefty to tie his shoes.

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Facts…

January 14, 2010 – 11:26 pm

When you are seven and hungry you can’t cope with life…at all. You melt right there at your mom’s feet.
When you turn nine you think you are all that with whipped cream. You learn the art of pouting and talking back.
Turning thirteen is hard…you need to test your limits.
When you are a week away from from turning five you are an angel with nothing but pleases and thank you’s and kisses and hugs and giggles.
Laundry reproduces like bunnies!! I can’t keep up anymore.
You can clog a Dyson, more than once.
The Couch to 5K app is rocking my world!
I am in love with my Itouch, really I am.
Selling me on mineral powder make-up is in the works. I’ll let you know my feelings at a later date.
I could never live where the sun doesn’t shine bright at least 300 days a year.
I can’t give up adult beverages 100%..I can cut back but on days like today I need a stiff one or two.
The wii fit plus is worth the $20…it makes working out go so much more smoothly.
My burb needs a bath…desperately.
My hair needs a makeover..the color is so blah and drab.
A handful of great friends is better than an armful of okay friends.
I need to update to to 2.9.1 and have NO idea how to do that.
I LOVE listening to Mr. Fun read to the boys.
I miss having babies around…

I don’t want another baby just want to borrow them for a few hours here and there.

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So tired!!!

January 9, 2010 – 12:59 am

Tired of being politically correct.
Tired of worrying if what I say offends anyone. I have my opinions and they are just that…MY opinions. I never asked anyone to agree with me. I also never asked to debate…you can’t debate opinions…only facts! My opinions are not facts. I personally like the F word. I yell at my kids when I need to. I cuss in front of my kids…..I really don’t care if you think that makes me a bad parent. I never claimed to have a halo over my head.

The Hangover is HaLARRYus! We let our 13 year old watch it while the in laws visited!! Good times!!! I thought maybe I was going to hell but she came home Monday saying all her friends were talking about it. I may not be the only parent going to hell.

Report cards came home today…. That Wy is something else…I am going to quote his teacher’s comments now.

Wy had a great quarter. He is reading approximately 100 words per minute which is a big improvement since the beginning of the year. He exceeded his AR goal by 155% while earning an average of 91% accuracy on comprehension. Way to go Wy! Keep working hard Wy! You are a joy to have in class.

SERIOUSLY? ONE HUNDRED and FIFTY FIVE percent??? That is so impressive! I know he loves to read and is above average but geez louise!!! That boy can read!

G also impressed! He made Honor Roll once again and improved slightly in every subject. He is a lot like me when it comes to brains….he’s gotta work hard for those good grades. I am so very proud of him.

JJ got all A’s and one C…give you one guess what subject the C belongs to? YEP! Honors English!!! NOBODY got an A and few got a B in this punk’s(yes, he’s a young punk that thinks way too highly of himself and lives with his mother) class. 3 more students were moved out of his class over the break. There are 19 students left in his class….I’m not worried about that C…he assigns the most ridiculous assignments and expects them back in an even more ridiculous time frame.
I still believe that she will benefit from this class and that C will only make her stronger.

Now back to me……

I started the Couch 2 5K program and I love it. I got an Itouch (thanks mr. fun) and that was the first and only app I have downloaded…it rocks. I can’t wait to get out there and hit the pavement with it. The first days kicked my ass, hoping it gets easier and yet more challenging with each week.
JJ wants an Itouch….she’s already hinting at it. Part of me wants to give it to her because she’s such a great kid and deserves it BUT I LOVE it too much.
I started watching WEEDS!! What a freaking awesome show!!! I love it!! No matter how badly I parented that day, that show makes me look GOOOOOD!!! Dang!!!
I have had to walk away from the computer and the message boards I frequent a lot lately. They are just on my nerves….some people need a REALITY check!!! So instead of voicing my opinion and hearing all kinds of whining about it I walk away…..

Now I leave you with some photos!! Just a few though..