The nursing photo!

Yesterday I took pictures of my friend & her baby. They are so pretty.

Her eyes are just so beautiful!

Last night I talked with my childhood friend I spoke about in my last post, It was so good to hear from her. It still breaks my heart, the pain she must be feeling. I sent all three of my brothers a text yesterday. telling them how much I appreciated them and loved them. <3

we have a baby shower today at 4 PM of the wonderful mommy-to-be that I took pictures of th other day!

Tomorrow I have my first newborn session. I'm excited! Wish me luck!

I have a busy day ahead of me, I just wanted to pop in and say hello!

<3

I haven't posted in awhile

I feel like my days are so long. Monday I took the kids to the children's museum and it was so hard for me to pay attention to both kids. Aiden wanted to rub buck wild and bre actually wanted to do stuff :/ I can't let aiden run off and I can't ignore bre. Tuesday and Wednesday I watched my friends baby. It was pretty easy the first day. By the second day I was mentally and physically exhausted. I think I just need more sleep. Today we had a play date at my house in the mining and after I took a nap. My husband watched the kids while I slept. I found out some terrible news today. My childhood best friends brother died yesterday. He use to play house with us and be the dad. I remember as we got older he would be mean to us as normal brothers are... To think of the pain my friend must be feeling is heartbreaking. I love my brothers and sister to the moon and back and would completely lose it if I lost them. I really really would. Please say a prayer for her and anyone else that cared about him. Tonight I had a maternity session and we did it completely indoors bc of the rain. I think I got a few really good ones. We will see! Tomorrow I am photographing a friend and her daughter and then Saturday a little baby boy! Sunday is a newborn!! :) my schedule is filling ip fast and I will not complain! :) goodnight my loves!!

Bringing sexy back :D

Hello :)
I have been making an effort to visit the gym every other day. My body is starting to ache, but that's good. That means that it is working. I stopped by a personal training headquarters today & learned that my body fat percentage is 18. Apparently the normal range is 16-20 for women. That makes me feel better that I did. The trainer also said that I am in pretty good shape, I just need to lose about 2-3 pounds of fat, and turn it into muscle. My goal is to do that on my own. That doesn't sound that hard. I just wonder why I haven't yet, I know I don't go to the gym regularly. I should. I am going to make a committment to go every other day until I can see some results. On my off days, I will jump rope. I learned that jump roping for ten minutes burns about 100 calories. That is amazing! :)
Wish me luck!
I have a photo shoot on thursday, friday, and monday! :D yay!

I know this is short, but its bed time! :D

<3 night night!

Letter To Aiden! 17 months & 3 weeks

Boogie,
Gosh You are so beautiful. Sometimes I still stare at you while you are being silly, and think OH MY GOSH, is he really mine? I don't know what I ever did to deserve such a wonderful child. With you, I will never have to worry about not seeing you everyday, like I do with Bre. Atleast until you are married :]
You make me SO proud. You are such a blessing son.

we are teaching you sign language more and more almost everyday. You can now say Thank you, please, eat, drink, milk, all done, night night, and hug & kiss.
Thank you was one of the harder ones because you already received what you wanted. With please, I would require you to say it before giving it to you, but now once you have it- you're good to go!

Your dad calls you a "con artist" :]
When I rock you to bed you sit in my lap and look at me & sign "Eat" even though you had so much food at dinner time. It seriously breaks my heart to ignore when you do that, I put you back in the crib and as I slowly close it,listening to you cry and pretending to be hungry to spend more time with us :(

I love you so much. I can't say it enough.

You will always be my little boy!

Love Mommy!
July 5, 2012

Letter to Bre 5 Years & 7 months (letter # 2)

My beautiful girl,

Today completes the first week that you have been with us for your July stay. I always have fun when you stay for the whole month. So far, we have gone shopping, gone to the beach, the bookstore, the zoo, a few parks, everyday I have taught you so much. Just this week I have taught you the "oo","ar", "th" ,"ell","at","sh","ap", and "ing" sounds. You can spell book, look, took, hook, tooth, car, far, bar, tar, mars, three, that, thank, think, this, yell, tell, bell, sell, bat, mat, hat, sat, shush, hush, cash, cap, tap, map, all so quickly.
I have tried to make learning fun so you don't get bored. The first day we made a tent & put the chalk board in it, and used your tinkerbell lantern & you caught on to spelling so well. The second day, we moved the chalkboard downstairs into the front room & I gave you a second chalkboard & you would spell the words I asked you too. Then we went to the library a few days later, and got books that help you read, and dvds and cds with books for phonics, then today we used sidewalk chalk and spelled more words :)

You are so smart. You amaze me. This is my second letter to you. I started June 5, 2012 & I will continue this for a long, long time!

I can tell that you are so sensitive. You worry so much about hurting everyone's feelings. I wish you would just be you. I love that you care about people so much, I just want to protect you & for you to be happy.

I know your mom & dad not being together is so confusing for you. I hate that you feel torn between both of them. I know it is confusing & I can't wait until you can understand everything.

There is a song that you love right now. It is about families, it is played on Barney.

Here is how it goes:
Oh, a family is people and a familiy i love
that's a family
they come in all different sizes and different kinds,
but mines just right for me
Ive got a friend who lives with his mom and dad
with his brother and his sister too
theyve got a cat and a dog and a pet bullfrog
and im really glad they do
There is a girl I know who lives with her mom
her dad lives far away
although she sees her parents just one at a time
they both love her everyday
I know a boy who's new, he just moved in
he moved from alabama
and the person who's the head of his famly
is his loving dear old grandma!

I hope you always feel this way.
I love you to the moon & back sweet girl.
July 5, 2012

Beach!

My hubs left for work before six AM, so that means I got to sleep in :D
I slept til 7:30, got bags packed for the beach & a picnic for us! My husband works from home tuesday-friday & in the office on Mondays, since he left so early he did not eat breakfast & I know him- he wont spnd money to eat lunch. So I told the kids we were going for a surprise!
We dropped daddy's lunch off to him & headed to the beach, It takes about an hour & fifteen minutes to get there. Aiden took a nap the whole way there!
Bre wached "Little Robots" in the backseat & I listened to pandora :D!
We had a picnic & bought new sand toys bcause I accidentally left ours at home!

We played in the sand & a tiny bit in the water, because its nasty :-/ They had a blast & that is all that matters.

After several hours we decided to leave. Our plan was to go to the strand & eat at the ice cream parlor, BUT I think I was seriously dehydrated by the time we got to the car. I let the kids drink all our water & put sun scream all over them, but forgot about me.

So, rushing back to the car to the AC we just drove through MCdonalds. Got the biggest powerade & two ice cream cones for the kids.

Got home & let the kids have a bath (first time I ever did that).
We were in  rush because we were suppose to meet my mom for dinner within an hour, so I had them bathe together, well Bre says, "Um what is that?" Actually pointing to poop- & i was like "um get out" lol
I drained the tub & had them go to my bath tub bc all the toys needed to be "sanitized?"

:D Bre was toally cool with it though, she had this "oh okay" attitude. I love her

We went to dinner & the kids were on their best behavior!

Now they're in bed & so is Izzy, Now its my turn. YAY.

Tomorrow we have plans to go to the musueum. :) Bre is so excited she probably can't sleep! :)

I ACED THAT BADBOY!

WHAT AN AWESOME DAY!
I woke up & edited my moms picture that I took of her yesterday. I posted it to facebook BUT she's so beautiful that You need to see it twice!

I know Bre gets bored of "studying" sometimes, so this morning I decided to make it fun. A few weeks back I gt her an easle thing- dry erase on one side, chalk board on the other & rolling pin thing for paper on top. She has this bunk bed (scroll down to painted room post) & i pulled her bottom bed out & made a tent under there. I put the easle in the tent. She is so smart, seriously. I wrote the words cat, dog, hat, bat, rat, mat, star, and all the same words with "s" on the end and she learned what adding "s" to a word means. Then we went to learn some adding & subtracting. She can now add & subtract any number that equals less than 11 :)
Then we had story time in Aidens room & danced to fun music like a bunch of monkeys!
Then we went to the bookstore & she picked out a book & candy & I picked out a english/spanish book for the baby. (He was at home with daddy, napping)
Then we went to Target to buy Aiden some new shirts, He is growing like a weed! BIG BOY!

After dinner we read a story in Aidens room & then played Barbies in the tent. The way Aiden is wih the barbies so sooooooooo stinking cute! The moment he picked one up, he kissed it! Then he hugged it. He kept doing it. It was the sweetest thing ever.

After they went to bed, I took my test, that I have been dreading all week because I haven't really studied- BRAGGING MOMENT..... I MADE A FREAKING 90! Gosh that felt good. I will sleep like a little baby tonight. :)

goodnight <3