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here we go skip to main skip to sidebar here we go monday march 28 2011 baby annie s blessing day annie is 2 1 2 months old now times flies she really doesn t look like a newborn anymore which is both a little bit sad and way exciting my baby is growing so fast it s a good thing though because her blessing dress is a size 3 6 mos so i needed her to have a bit of chub in order to fit into her dress on her big day for the big day we had lots of family from both sides attending church with us why didn t i take a picture of all them you ask i have no idea that would have been smart and memorable maybe i ll think of that next time sydney is the best big sister ever aren t my girls beautiful grandpa jon holding an infant you will only ever see that happen when he is required to hold one for photo ops he even pretends to enjoy it he s a good sport annie loves people and smiles and talks whenever she sees a face close enough to respond to she also performs for overhead light fixtures on occasion aunt natalie with annie both are so pretty we love you so much annie i m so happy to have you in our family already i can t imagine us without you posted by valerie at 12 53 pm 7 comments soccer finally tanner has been patiently waiting to be old enough to play soccer for three years that s a significant portion of an almost five year old s life okay so he wasn t exactly patient but he did wait three years this is his big chance to get out there and run and fidget and make silly faces for no reason and run and fidget and drink from a water bottle and eat half time snacks and fidget and get dirty i mean we are talking serious fun for him he hopped literally right out there for his first practice before his first game somehow kicking the ball was much more of an elusive skill than he was expecting i love that the most important skill that his coach taught the team was to only score in the correct goal his wisdom stayed with the players for the first half for the most part but by the second half none of the players on either team really had a concept of which goal they should be shooting on here is tanner after making the first goal of the season yay that s my boy should i mention that he also made the second goal of the season he tipped it in for the other team i m not sure how many goals tanner made in this game but i m pretty sure he made more for the other team than he did for his own i loved watching his game he s bound to be an energetic player and may even learn how the game is supposed to be played tanner because it s hard to say his name without an exclamation at the end posted by valerie at 11 27 am 2 comments i do it mom i have told many people that eli is the easiest two year old ever that s because he is happy all day he practically puts himself to bed for naps and bedtime he says okay mom every time i ask him to do something he never teases or hits his siblings he s a great not picky eater and he says the cutest things ever no really i m telling the truth easiest two year old ever except as of 2 1 2 months ago all that changed apparently he had to become a two and a half year old before he could turn on the real charm i won t go into the nitty gritty about how terrible his two s are because well you probably already know he still has his moments though when i just have to scoop him up and hug him because i love him so much and because he makes me smile and laugh and groan and pull my hair so the other day in all his grown upness what that s a word he helped himself to a snack i often hear the phrase i do it mom he s getting to be very independent he didn t make much of a mess in the kitchen either surprisingly yes that s because all the mess ended up on him he is great at cleaning up messes though he helps keep the napkin and paper towel companies in business i m not gonna complain if he s cleaning up his own messes this mess wasn t easy he really had to work hard i d say he worked at it for five or six minutes an eternity for a two year old and he s done looks much better now i love my eli posted by valerie at 11 07 am 1 comment getting ready for church last weekend cannon had to be away for reserves so i got the kids ready and took them to church all by my lonesome everything went exceptionally smoothly ha not people still ask me how i am feeling when they see me probably because i had a baby 2 1 2 months ago and i tell them i feel great i do but when they ask how i am doing i tell them my life is crazy depending on the day i may say it with reserve and it fits right into polite small talk or i may say it with a bit too much authenticity and the conversation suddenly stalls as the other person tries to find a quick way to move on and leave me to my insanity on this particular day the kids lined up as i did their hair one by one eli generally goes first because he is still enthusiastic about mom doing his hair and anyway all i do it pretend to fix his hair because 1 he hardly has any hair to do and 2 his adorable cowlick in front makes it impossible to do anything other than let it be so i pretended to do eli s hair and proceeded to help each of the other kids with their hair as i finished up with sydney i hear eli coming back down the hall towards me saying i girl mom i girl and he had put one of sydney s flowers in his hair darling and then he tugged on the door handle to go out to the car and off to church can i tell you how difficult it is to convince a two year old to change his mind about something once he has his mind made up what do you think doesn t he make a sweet little girl oh yes and when the camera came out every kid wanted his picture taken too tanner wins the most kissable cheeks contest posted by valerie at 10 22 am 1 comment star of the week in jackson and jordan s fourth grade class this year they each get a turn to be star of the week last week was jordan s turn so fun to put together a poster with pictures and see which things are important enough to jordan to present to his friends at school cannon and i were both able to be there and we brought along the little kids too hmm check out tanner s face he is great in pictures this is jackson and jordan with their teacher miss t it was also crazy hat day jackson is on the left jordan is on the right posted by valerie at 10 03 am no comments monday february 7 2011 february 3 hmm well i have obviously fallen off the post a picture every day wagon it is already february 7 and i have yet to post my photos from feb 3 4 5 or 6 i m not going to give up though i will try to make up lost days but no promises i have my sanity still but only barely and i have an idea of why this particular assignment tripped me up a bit the prompt is then and now so since everyone is asking and the time seems right i wanted to post pictures of my darling little annie on the day she was born just over three weeks ago and pictures of her now the thing is i sort of have this block when it comes to taking pictures of adorable babies let s face it i m not that great of a photographer i m only moderately better than my 4 year old when it comes to photography annie is adorable i mean really darling my pictures don t even begin to do her justice i feel like i m being kind of mean to her if i post her pictures because you will never know just how amazing she is by looking at my photos so i m going to swallow my pride a bit and hope that annie forgives me for posting less than amazing photos of her because i want to avoid falling into the trap of not taking any pictures at all which i may or may not have done with my other kids so here is annie only minutes after her birth 8 pounds 7 ounces big girl and here she is today almost 4 weeks old she and i had some fun taking pictures this morning and i even got a few smiles and now i will show some more photos from this morning because i think she is the cutest thing ever and because i am a glutton for punishment i will post professional pics too i love these shots bella baby photography showed up in my hospital room and spent a few minutes taking pictures of annie a couple of days after she was born easiest photo sitting ever for me i just sat in my bed and watched and i didn t have to agonize for weeks about what annie would wear or how i wanted the pictures to look there is definitely something to be said about spontaneity my favorite is last posted by valerie at 1 07 pm 10 comments wednesday february 2 2011 february 2 day 2 of my photo sharing since i don t have an infant in my arms tonight i can type with two hands so i will mention that i am taking a photo class well is that really what it s called not sure it s online it s called the joy of love and it looked like a good excuse to dust off the camera and start shooting again i admit that i am feeling a little overwhelmed with mommyhood right now a three week old baby is the sweetest thing ever but juggling the complexities of bringing a newborn into the house with the day to day of running a household and caring for 5 other kids and a husband has me on the brink i have no room in my life for any projects so seriously a photography class no i can t even be sure that i will have ten minutes together to work on it but i think i can commit to one photo a day as long as i don t promise high quality today s prompt for a photo is how they look i caught jackson eating a yummy muffin told him to wipe off the crumbs he missed one heehee and snapped a shot for some reason it is so difficult to get a picture of him looking natural but i think the yummy muffin helped him to relax or something yeah i know that makes no sense but we re talking about a nine year old here and it s a sleep deprived mommy talking about him this picture is certainly how he looks and i couldn t resist adding this second picture those two i love em jordan made the muffins and he was very satisfied that jackson enjoyed his so much uh huh i know i should have gotten their hair cut days weeks ago but don t forget that overwhelmed mommy comment now who can tell me which twin is jordan and which is jackson posted by valerie at 8 03 pm 6 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me valerie hey we have to laugh about life at least as much as we cry about it right that s what i want balance fun and work it all evens out view my complete profile blog archive 2011 8 march 5 baby annie s blessing day soccer finally i do it mom getting ready for church star of the week february 3 2010 2 may 1 april 1 2009 19 december 1 november 1 october 3 july 2 may 5 march 2 february 1 january 4 2008 39 november 3 october 3 september 7 august 4 july 3 june 2 may 4 april 3 march 6 february 4 my honey and i the bunch twin a twin b our girl the hurricane angel baby quote of the day jackson mom i thought of ways you can tell if someone is alive first see if they re breathing second kick their feet hard and see if it surprises them i just tried that on jordan and it worked if none of those work then they re dead jordan at dinner with a straight face mom if i took ballet lessons and i went to the zoo by the crocodiles and there was a little infant on a teeter totter and a big kid sat on the other side and shot the baby waaay up and into the crocodiles i would save him what would you do today s visitors create your own visitor map followers free counter