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okay, guys, for the month of october, i will probably be neglecting this blog in order to meet a challenge on my other blog. the challenge (extended by a photography “club” i’m a part of) is to put up a photo every day for a month. whichever sofly member gets the most total comments gets a prize!! help me out!! bookmark (or google reader) my other blog and leave me comments, please!!
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head over to the business blog for my newest posts…
yes, it’s been a full week since my last post, but i haven’t been sitting around.
here’s a list of 10 things that have kept me away from wordpress over the past week:
- drove from tallahassee to orlando with harper (layne stayed in tallahassee)
- flew from orlando to springfield, MO
- took harper to her first hibachi dinner (courtesy of my generous brother and sister-in-law)
- took harper (and my nephew owen) to barnes & noble to meet maisy the mouse
- photographed a 90 year old’s birthday party
- photographed a wedding reception for a couple who got married at the top of the Sears tower in April
- photographed a couple and their sweet baby boy
- atteneded/photographed an awesome hyms concert (i took 1131 pictures in 2 days!)
- flew back to orlando (where we were reunited with layne)
- drove home.
WHEW!!
some random snippets from my day:
- a few weeks ago i found an ariel jigsaw puzzle at world thrift. harper’s finished it, with my help, about 6 times. every time we do it she gets faster. the other night i decided to just take random pieces out of the completed puzzle and have her put them back in. it was ridiculous how fast she could get 10 or 15 pieces back into the 70 piece puzzle. so, i decided she needed a new one. got a 24 piece at target today. it said 3+ on the side, so when i opened the box, i decided to give her no help at all and just see how far she could get. she had the thing totally finished in about 10 minutes. i was so proud. i’m gonna let her do it a few more times and then video it and see how fast she can do it. it is SO much fun watching her figure new things out and to see the sense of accomplishment she enjoys afterward.
- we visited harper’s school for about 15 minutes this morning. just picked up a calendar and her supply list and talked with the director about drop-off procedure and what-not. harper is SO excited….wait, i’m pretty excited, too, actually! hopefully when tuesday comes around she’ll be pushing me out of the way at the door to get in like she was today.
- layne climbed up into the chick-fil-a playground again today, but this time around there were A TON of kids in there. i heard a blood-curdling scream and had to climb up into the stinking thing. some brat had pushed her down (at least that’s what another little girl told me). we did not hang around much longer…had to get to target to buy school supplies! (us, and every other family within a 10 mile radius)
- i had sweet tea at lunch today and i just LOVE how much energy that caffeine gives me at the gym. i’m not normally a caffeine person, but i ran 3 miles pretty easily today and i haven’t done that in a few months. (plus the tea just tastes SO darn good.)
- keep forgetting to report this: my excema is back in full force. i’m a little relieved that i’m not allergic to sonic, but super annoyed because i really thought i had figured out what was causing it (although i have eaten other fast food and am wondering if maybe it’s just that in general…maybe i need to nix fast food for 6 months…hmmm….i don’t know if i could do that!).
- layne was walking around today the most i’ve ever seen her. she still just takes about 10 steps at a time, but she’s doing it totally on her own more now than i’ve ever seen….confidence is growing, i guess. won’t be long until she’s keeping up with harper! (scary!!!)
- got a call tonight from my sweet sister-in-law julie yesterday and a confirmation call tonight. they are flying me (and harper) out to springfield (MO) at the end of september to take pictures at her brother’s wedding reception (he got married a few months ago). i’m so excited! i’ll make a little money and get to hang out with family that we hardly ever see…and have some fun time with harper! thanks again for thinking of me, julie!
- i’ve been plugging away on the website for about a week now. it is so frustrating that i don’t ever get more than 2 hours or so in a day to work on it. still, it’s slowly coming together and i’m really pleased with it so far….feels very much a few steps above the old one.
ryan left for the keys this morning.
i’m up late trying to work on my website. it is seriously tedious. it’s sort-of fun and kinda NOT. i am a horrible decision-maker and these are really important decisions. i’m very thankful for the new site and VERY excited for people to see it, but it’s taking me alot longer to get everything organized than i thought it would.
anyway, we had a nice day. hung out here all morning (did i mention the website?) and then hit the pool around noon for an hour or so. i started a new thing with harper a few days ago where instead of “naptime”, she gets “rest time” and she can choose whether or not she wants to take a nap. every day she’s had “rest time”, she’s chosen to take a nap. awesome. if only i’d known this reverse psychology would work so well, i’d have started it 6 months ago. the only drawback to the new philosophy is that layne naps in our room every day, so i can’t do anything on the computer (I NEED A NEW LAPTOP!!!). it’s stinks, but it’s totally worth it if it means not battling it out with harper every day at 1:30 and not running in there every 4 minutes whisper-yelling at her not to wake up layne.
after naptime we played around here for a little while and then headed to CRchicks. i didn’t feel like rustling up anything for dinner or cleaning up afterwards, so it was nice. the reason we went there is because every time we eat there, both kids absolutely CHOW down. it’s one of the only times harper ever cleans her plate.
went straight to the gym when we got back from dinner, and then straight to the bathtub after the gym.
after layne went to bed, harper and i watched some jon&kate plus 8 (which i think i’m going to start boycotting) and then a dramatic episode of little house on the prairie (good ol DVR…it only took us 45 minutes to watch 1 1/2 hours of tv).
harper finally was in bed around 9:00 and then fireworks started up after the baseball game ended around 9:45…i’m pretty sure that’s when harper had just fallen asleep because she came running out. of course i let her watch through the window. i’d planned to work on the website from like 8:30 until now, but that didn’t really happen. oh well. i just have to remember that it’s getting somewhere, it’s just happening in stages.
heading to natalie’s tomorrow for the afternoon. we’ll spend the night there and then head down to clearwater on sunday morning, stay for 4 or 5 hours and then head home. ryan should be here to meet us when we get back. hopefully with alot of lobster and a tan.
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LOADS to do, but for some reason i chose to upload pictures tonight. posted some over on the photography blog.
alright, so i’m back. briefly. i need to go cook the girls dinner so we can get to the gym before layne gets crazy.
i’ve been busy to say the least, but it’s been the fun kind of busy. i’m tempted to just start fresh and not try to catch up on what i missed, but we’ll see what kind of mood i’m in when i write my first real post…it’s been a week!
in the meantime, check out the latest photography post. got to shoot my great friend shanel and her family on saturday night in downtown tampa. so fun!!!
