there was this one time…
these are from the other day. E has decided she likes ribbons. in her hair, around her waist, whatever. good thing because i have every ribbon imaginable 🙂
and sunglasses.
right after i saw these pics- i made chris cut her bangs. she's gonna be dora for halloween, so her hair is perfect for that- but the bangs were killing me.
for our lives to go upside down for a few weeks. he's getting ready for a big trip and it's just not the same without him. i will be blogging for him hopefully daily, and he is supposed to be blogging at our jacshoot blog for us. we shall see how that goes! 🙂 on my mission to take more than 27 pictures this month, i noticed that i hadn't taken any since this dance day. gonna have to get better at that if im gonna blog daily!
look here 🙂
chris and i trekked down south today to help out at a shootshop. we are rarely, okay, neverrrrrrr–in front of the camera unless it's chris extending his arm out– you've seen all our london and italy pictures 🙂
i have no words, just lots of squealing and giggling like a little girl. these are like the engagement session pictures we never got. we are ever so thankful nate. for the photos… the constant inspiration, and the day full of SO many laughs.
we thank you.
mom i dont want to go to dance class, i want to go to dancing class. 🙂
she got all dressed up, even let me put a ribbon in her hair. she posed for pictures- this time with me AND chris in them, LOL. chris took these ones of her before class 🙂
outside of class- what a little ham!
in class she was a total riot. totally excited and participated. she flipped out when cinderella's bippity boppity boo came on.
i think after class was just as much as a hit as the actual class. there is grass and trees all around and she'd much rather play hide and seek than go home!
so much that a tantrum was brewing… here she's ignoring me…
and my fave from the day!
im pretty proud of myself for breaking out the camera today! another mom even called me out on our first dance class session– noting i brought along the big daddy camera. sheesh!
and then finally home. we love dance class 🙂
that's 1994! 🙂
chris' graduation. that little frame has been with me since 1994. i had one in a similar frame with our prom picture but i seem to have misplaced it along the years. (what kind of scrapbooker am i?!) im gonna have to go to my mother in laws house and take some pictures of it. chris and i were at a wedding yesterday where during the father/daughter dance they were also playing a slideshow of the father and daughter. chris and BOTH thought at that instant that A- we are SO copying that, B- again– SO few pics of us WITH our kids.
and holy heck- in the month of september, i took a shocking 27 personal photos. that's just not right! just today i took e to the park, complete with her ariel sunglasses and pink scooter (thanks, J! :)) and i almost ran back inside to grab the camera, but didn't.
anyways, the reason i felt compelled to post this was because the other day i was driving by chris' high school (that's something i do daily) but this time, i went down this street to where i used to pick him up and eeeeeek, we'd ditch. back when our biggest concern of the day was hmmmm where are we going to have lunch today??? lol- isn't it funny that our concern wasn't- i hope we dont get caught ditching! — what can you say- last few months of senior year- total joke.
there you go. me and him. total random and blabbering post about us. and pictures.
and omg! it just happens to be my cousin's birthday today (just looked at the calendar!) and she's the one who set me and chris up! crazy! happy birthday, chan!
i saw a photo of my friend with her son the other day and it brought to mind how little pictures i have WITH my kids. i had to dig this one out from our june yosemite trip. some of my favorite childhood pictures are seeing how different my mom was.. how young she was. i want to read into the picture and see if she's happy, what she's wearing, how she kept the house in the background, little details of how we lived back then… all that. my new mission: to be in the pictures too.
thanks for all the comments on the purging post. i wasn't officially ready to start giving away but since i didn't really make myself clear- im gonna go ahead and contact a few of you via email, if they change their mind, i'll repost what i have.
i've had other little thoughts about posting lately so im hoping to get better about it again. i miss the rush. it used to be such a rush.
speaking of being in the picture– chris and i were just talking about seeing elsie for the first time in the delivery room. probably one of my all time favorite pictures. and all time favorite layouts. gee im glad i was in it 🙂 LOL
where my 2 year old just did the typical 2 year old things that drive me batty. where half way thru the day, i threw in the towel and just plain gave up on trying to get things done. you won, elsie. productivity was non existent yesterday. today is a new day! i shall divide my time up and conquer!
in other news- i am purging nicely over here. i have a huge pile of stuff that isn't even opened yet. waiting to be sent to somebody in blog land. some of it is older, but if you are a true scrapbooker, you won't care 🙂 i want to get it out by the end of the week. i will be back!
in her eye that is full of sugar and mischief"
that's what daddy says about her, and i totally agree!! 🙂 these cute romance papers are on sale today at 2peas. i got most of this stuff new the other day. i love ripping my boxes open and making something from just that new stuff 🙂 i could technically dump all my old stuff and just keep scrapping this way and be a happy girl. i know my husband would agree 🙂 i've got to get rid of stuff. next week, i think i will do some giveaways 🙂 have a great weekend!
—-after i posted this, i realized, it's NOT friday! ha, i don't know why i thought it was! happy GREY's day today, people! 🙂
last week we attended the boy's back to school night, where we learned about cam's classroom's social contract– basically the kids in the class came up with the rules that they thought were fair and posted them in the class. chris and i were pretty impressed with the things they chose! so tonight we decided to see what OUR kids would come up with on their own at home. i will have to post the boys later but kira's cracked us up SO much. she basically rolled her eyes at having to do this, we thought it was so cute of her to participate, LOL
"i promise… to be nice to my brothers, not to fight, to be responsible and helpful, to babysit when needed (unless something really fun is happening), to entertain elsie, to make my bed in the morning."
we were dying. the babysitting part was a riot. 🙂
i was going thru yosemite pics from freaking JUNE tonight and found these of her. A) i can't believe how much i lagged on editing them B) i can't believe how much she's grown since here C) i can't believe how fast from June till now has gone D) i want to go on vacation.
the other day she wanted to borrow my flats to school (im a 7) she couldnt get her foot in. she's an 8 now. i cant believe it!
and i dont really know why! 🙂 i hurt my back so i dont want to sit at the computer long… yesterday i did, got lots of JACstuff done.
here’s a layout i got done for midmonth:
whoopee! a boy layout too! these pics are from last summer. i hold on to pictures that i can’t bear to scrap… worried i won’t do them justice or something. 🙂
cam is starting band this year. we rented a trumpet today. whoa mama. once he makes some progress maybe i will film him and put it on the blog 🙂 a waters concert! 🙂
watersix 
