slightly got over that fear

The good news: I went to the dentist for the first time in 10 years.
The bad news: My teeth are a mess. :(

I use every excuse to take photos, so when I found out a My Little Pony collectors message board was doing a photohunt, I jumped and started snapping away. A photohunt, for those don't know, is a photo scavengar hunt, where a moderator posts a specific step that you have to complete (an example: "Take a photo with of a statue around town. Bonus points if you are on the statue. More bonus if you are completely off of the ground.) I took photos at a park today, and there was a really cool horse rocker thing... love it!

be the mom, or be the photographer? That is the question

I know I could easily put these last three blogs into one... but I don't want to *sticks out tongue* So there!

So, the pet adoption thingie... went well I think. One of my three aunts does the whole fostering puppies thing for one of the humane societies here. It's neat because she has different dogs all the time, without having the commitment of having them forever. I thought about it all week on whether to go or not... and finally decided getting the girls out of the house would be a good thing.

I also thought it would be a great opportunity to take random photos of random puppies and kitties. Ahh how I always forget that I'm a mom LOL! Of course the girls were all over the place (Aunt Sue described Claire at one point as 'bussing around like a bee') and I had to focus more attention on them then anything else. Plus, my autofocus kept wanting to focus on all the cages, rather then on the actual animals in the cages. So I didn't take many photos. But it was fun, non-the-less. And green. Very very green

The best naps are with Dad

Olivia, at the ripe old age of two and a half, has decided naps are no longer necessary. It's painful, really, for everyone in the house. Because she truly still needs the nap. I had planned on this day to take Olivia to a pet adoption party thingie that one of my aunts was taking part of, and knew she'd need a nap before we went. I tried all morning to get convince her that laying in her crib would be a good idea. Out of nowhere, she climbed onto Tims lap, and fell asleep. She slept there for over an hour. So cute!

Daddy dressed me

Thank goodness the ice finally melted! Our street was covered in about 3 inches of it! I swear, the city didn't bother plowing any of the side-roads, and that really hurt in the long run! If I spun out one more time on my own street, there were going to be some pretty angry phone calls going on I tell you!

Our street

I don't dress my kids. Just a product of working in the middle of the night... I'm just not home when the girls get up, and therefore am not the person getting them dressed five days of the week. It's sad, because a lot of their clothes end up not getting worn as much as I'd like, just because they make it to the bottom of the drawer. It's also sad, because my husband is apparently colorblind. Or just plain blind... its hard telling. If you can't tell in the picture, Claire is modeling a lovely pink butterfly top with a gorgeous lavendar flower pant. The photos just don't do the bad matching justice, I say!

Daddy dressed me

Reasons why video games (even the healthy ones) and myself don't mix

My parents got a Wii Fit. When the Wii Fit first came out, I knew I'd want one... but I couldn't justify spending the $90 to get one. No big deal though... out of sight out of mind.

Until my parents got one last weekend. And I played it. And then I begged Tim for one. And then he got me one. And then I played. And played. And played.

The upside - I've lost 2.2 pounds according to the cynical little pad
The downside - I've completely ignored life for 3 days... hadn't talked to Holly, hadn't really been online, and I have about 8 hours of TiVo to attempt to watch at some point. So here's an attempt to catch up on something (because I have taken photos every day)

the newest project

Since there's so many babies I want to photograph right now, I'm knitting a cocoon to place them in. It'll be adorable whenever it happens.

Yo!

She never wears a hat... and that day she kept it on... and kept looking up at me since it was so pulled down over her eyes. So cute!

I'm GOING TO BE LATE!!!!

I need to leave exactly one half hour before I need to arrive at work. And even then, I'll still be 5 minutes late (which is on time in my world.) I should have left at 11pm.

stay awake Olivia
she always wants to fall asleep on the car ride home from Aunt Wendy's house. I tried taking her photo at a stoplight to get her attention. Obviously it worked *rolls eyes*

oh how you suck away my time
Yep, there it is. The Fit. I love it. More then I really should. I'm a hoola-hooping machiene I tell you!!!

the eyes are the windows to our souls

I want desperately to take photos of all these newborns who've just made appearances into the world... but so far their parents have been busy, and not been contacting me. So to pass time, I editted an old (as in January) photo I took of Claires eyes. I love her eyes.

Olivia likes to bowl??

I'll admit, when we found out that a cousin of Tims birthday party was at a bowling alley, we were not excited. Don't get me wrong, I love to bowl... but I have toddlers, and toddlers don't typically enjoy the atmosphere of a bowling alley. I pretty much figured we'd make a brief appearance, drop off the card, and then have to run out. Little did I know that Olivia would actually enjoy herself, and cry when it was time to leave.

I took a whopping two photos of the event, even though it was cute as heck. Mostly because the bowling alley is incredibly dark, and I had to use my big flash... which is really really bright. I didn't think the actual real bowlers who take their games seriously would appreciate me blowing a giant flash their way.

Olivia spent most of the time on the linoleum right behind where you go to actually bowl. Every time the pins would drop, she'd scream "YAY!!!!!!," clap, and then yell "GOOD JOB!!! MY TURN!" Brenton and I eventually let her try to bowl. She had a six pound ball that she'd start rolling, and then I or Brenton would shove it harder so that it might make it to the end. One time when we weren't looking, Olivia picked up an 11 pound ball, and threw it down someone elses lane. And then tried to chase it. >.<

I think I need to take Olivia some time when we can bumper bowl. I'll have to bring Haley, and maybe some of Haleys friends. Make it an Aunt/Niece day. :)