Jeans make me weepy

Yesterday, as the kids and I were getting ready to go to the playground, I thought I would poke my head outside to see how hot it was. I was shocked to feel a COOL breeze. Almost NIPPY, I tell ya. (Durham, we can be friends again. Humidity is doable when it's only 70 degrees outside. Hallelujah!)

Park was stoked because he got to wear his new super cool jeans. My heart dropped when I saw him wearing them. How can he look two years older just by putting on a pair of jeans!?

Last night I held him in bed and asked him to stop growing. He told me he had to grow up so that he can be a cowboy, but not a cowboy that marries girls. Just a cowboy that doesn't marry girls.

Tomorrow he will be wearing shorts.

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Our Little Familia

Aaron and I (okay.. maybe not Aaron) decided it was time to take some updated family pictures. I decided I would shoot a mini session of my friend's family in exchange for setting up my own shots and having her click the shutter. (Holy cow. I underestimated how hard this is!)

Here are a couple of my favorites from their session.



Our first round of pictures was not good. Luke was tired and grumpy, and it turns out Park had to pee the whole time. No WONDER he was so wiggly. After 10 minutes of whining, yanking and threats we bagged it. My sessions are usually pretty fun and I was so bummed that ours was an ornery nightmare.

We ended up with 2 decent shots.

#1.

#2
Round 2 (two days later) was a million times better. We took 10 minutes to get ready and had happy kids, happy hubby and a relaxed momma. I never thought my first re-takes would have to be my own!

#3

#4
#5
Thanks for taking these, Leanna! You rocked the focus and were shooting almost wide open. I knew you were a closet photog!

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(The only downside was that my hair was a little bit orphan Annieish on day two. It was humid, okay? Ah, well!)

Vote for your favorite and I'll give you a cookie!

Have a good day!

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Park's "Just Be"

This is a continuation from yesterday's "Just Be" post. Park was his usually spazzy self. This kid knows how to pull some crazy looking faces when I pull the camera out. My biggest challenge is distracting him from posing weird and getting him to be normal!

Look at this. I didn't even know he knew how to make this face! Freaky.

On to the goods...

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Aaron woke up late this morning.

Which means one of two things. I pack up the kids and drive him to work, or commit myself to a car-less day. I took one look at the TWO INCHES of snow outside and told him he could take the car. Who wants to run errands in the snow?

We have a problem though. I left my phone in the car! My phone (which was used as a last resort form of entertainment for a crying baby on the way home from Moab) is probably lodged underneath the passenger front seat after being thrown by the tired baby.

A phone-less day leads to a myriad of problems. I thought about calling Aaron to tell him to bring the phone home during lunch. (duh). I can't call Park's friends to come over. I can't return client calls, or call my sisters to rant about politics (you're missing out on an earful!)

All I am left to do is work on an unusually prompt blog post about our weekend in Moab. Oh, and I have a little more time to play with my new SHORT hair. (which look in a little butch. Let's be honest).

Sooo... weekend recap. Aaron's half marathon! Let me tell the tale with pictures. (and I am not any of them.. as per usual.)

Here are the spectators/cheerers. (minus A's parents)

We passed the time with a little hula hoop action (I've still got it) and snow cone slurpage.Aaron ran 13 miles in under two hours (with no nipple bleeding!) and I got a sweet tan. It was a win/win/win.
Parker LOVED playing with his cousins. Especially little Chase. Here they are "fishing."

His brown eyes kill me!
How cool are these instruments? This park is the best.
This hug lasted for .04 of a second. It's a good thing I am speedy!

umm.. I think Luke needs a haircut.

We had a great time and were bummed to come home to snow. Are you kidding me!?

Have a happy week, everyone. Let's hope your temps are warmer than ours!

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Today..

We enjoyed 75* temps.
We played in the leaves
We, at one point, had 6 kids here.
I made chocolate chip pumpkin shaped pancakes
They weren't very good
Though according to Parker they were "deeyicious"
Parker read his first word
I kid you not. He sounded out mom and dad. Go Park!


Then he decided it would be fun to lick the mirror and write letters with his spit.
This is the same kid who refuses to touch a crayon
Hmmm. maybe spit is his medium of choice

Tonight we went on our traditional Halloween ice cream run

2 years ago Aaron's pirate "Arg.. mateme" joke was born.

He still thinks it's funny
And so do I, even though I roll my eyes
(I'll tell it to you if you give me $1)

Happy Halloween, everyone!

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