Spontaneous family playtime

I was there, just behind the camera :)














































































































































































My molars are coming in and it hurts!

Abby + Cai

Abby singing her heart out!

Motherly instincts

All day today I had the feeling that Abby wasn't herself. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but I knew something wasn't right. As we were driving to our friend's house this evening, I was looking back at her in her car seat, making silly faces to see her laugh. She seemed really mellow and I got that feeling again. Right then, I prayed that she would be ok and didn't swallow something harmful. We got to our friend's, I was in the kitchen chatting while Brian and Abby were in the living room hanging out and playing. Brian came in and told me Abby had coughed up something strange. I walked into the living room and Abby was throwing up all over. Breakfast, lunch and goldfish all over the chair, carpet, herself and soon to be us. It was projectile, poor thing. Our friends were so gracious and understanding. Brian and I scrubbed away. This is what parenting is all about. She seemed to feel a lot better after that. Didn't eat much dinner, but played the rest of the evening. Praise God she is ok and now I know not to dismiss feelings I have about her well being cause you never know.

Saturday night

I guess since we've been so busy with the photo business our family blog has gotten the shaft. So tonight at 9:22pm, with baseball on tv, Brian and Joey sawing logs on the couch, Abby in bed and me catching up on random e-mails and facebook messages... I've decided to blow the dust off the little cam and see what I have to update you as far as personal life goes.
Today, I had a serious talk with God (not that any of my prayers aren't serious) about me getting some much needed sleep. I felt guilty for taking a nap at 1:30 in the afternoon while the most gorgeous, perfect weather was gleaming outside. The trees are almost at peak and it's absolutely breathtaking. Then I woke up at 5:00pm, Abby was STILL sleeping and Brian was out cleaning the cars. You couldn't evening imagine what was growing in both of our cars, they were sooooooo dirty. What an amazing husband I have for doing that! Anyway, I woke up and realized how desperate my body was for sleep, the only time I woke up was when I heard Brian rummaging though his change can for quarters for the vacuum machine at the car wash. I praised God over and over and over for the sleep. Oh it's was so nice!
Now that I'm seeing the pictures I have taken of our family this past week, it's not too exciting. But if you are reading this still you must love us enough to be curious...

Lately, we have been skimming the fat off our budget and so I have broken down and let Brian buy Hamburger Helper for himself because it's only $2.00. I'm absolutely grossed out by it and make him promise he will never feed it to Abby, even though he has already cheated. The other night it was bubbling and I felt the need to get a picture. Even Brian thought it looked gross.






















We laughed at what the box said, "one pound. one pan. one happy family." Sounds like a recipe for a night in the bathroom. Looks like one too!

















Something a little more interesting. Last weekend Abby had her first ride on a merry-go-round with Uncle Tim. She liked it at first.






















But because it was nap time and I was even getting a headache just watching it go round and round forever, she had enough. Screaming - mommy!

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sooooo tired.

I am completely wiped out. Abby has kept me up the past two nights. Every hour she wakes up crying because her molars are coming in. I feel like I have a newborn again. I'm praying hard for a good night sleep tonight, cause I'm just fried.