Trying again!

I have set a new goal for myself. I'm trying to take a photo a day to capture our lives. I think the boys will have a lot of fun when they go back and look someday - I know I will. As a bonus, I'll improve my photography skills. One of my friends successfully completed hers for 2009, so I'm kind of stealing the idea and HOPING to succeed this year! We have some great adventures and how fun will it be to document the MOVE! :) My hope is that I get used to it and it's an ongoing thing for many years to come...I'm going to start with one day. You can read more about the theory here .

I hope you enjoy it too! Picture taking will commence 1 January - hopefully posting pics commences then or shortly after we return home from our trip!

Happy New Year!

April 11 2009

Sweet Boys!!

Feb 27

(Yea, I gave up on 365 for this year…but I do intend to start taking more pics again!!!)

Nick, playing in the cabinets having a fab time! His grin is almost as infectious as that giggle!!

46/365 (15 Feb)

I did it – I whacked off all my hair…I wasn’t thrilled with how the stylist fixed it so we’ll see how long it lasts when I have to fix it!

45/365 (14 Feb)

Building a lego tower with Daddy

44/365 (13 Feb)

I was going to break with tradition and post a pic of my class at school but thought some of the parents might not like that – even if they weren’t named. So…here’s a pic of Jake playing on the playground at school. When the weather is nice, my class and Jake’s often has playtime outside together.

43/365 (12 Feb)

Cookies for Jake’s class Valentine Party

42/365 (11 Feb)

Play time together – after some Handy Manny, we have play time!

(For the record, Jake wears that Cookie Sweatshirt EVERY day – I’m really posting pics from different days!)

41/365 (10 Feb)

I had to start adding the date – I was getting confused!

This is how you will usually find Jake when we get home from school in the afternoon – Handy Manny had him totally captured and he didn’t even notice the camera!

40/365

Say Cheese Bear Bear…that’s what you get when you try to get Jake to pose at bedtime…

39/365

I’ve always loved the zoo – and I love the big cats. One of the tigers at the Little Rock Zoo seemed to turn around and pose for me on Sunday – I wish I had taken the big camera with me to get a better shot…

38/365

Jake made Valentine’s this weekend – for family. We have the old standby for his class – store bought. We were going to go to the zoo on Saturday, just Mommy and the boys, but decided a day in jammies was much better since we get up so early for school…and we had fun doing Valentines while Nick took his whole nap (Jake didn’t…).

37/365

A smiling Nick is hard to catch on film – I only wish you could hear his giggle…

36/365

Jake enjoying Maco Cheese – a rediscovered favorite

32/365

Another Two-fer

We finally had decent weather to go to the park! The boys had a blast!

30/365

Hair cuts! This is a two-fer Nick had his first haircut and Jake had a touch up!

25/365

Telling a story!

24/365

We were trying to be cute – it was tough that morning! I think that was the weekend we woke up with ear infections AGAIN!

Note

There will be some days missing. I’m going to stick with the dates to make it easier to track where I should be. But between the boys being sick and me being sick – we missed some picture days.

20/365

Just Nick

19/365

“The shirt from Uncle Joe” and that’s how Jake refers to it

18/365

My Jake

17/365

This from the child that will NOT walk…

16/365

Sharing Mommy’s new uniform

15/365

Missed opportunities – there are a lot of pictures that end up like this…they’re there and then they’re not

14/365

Goofy Jake

13/365

Nick’s evening power nap – he doesn’t usually like to nap at school since there is soo much going on for him to see!

12/365

All right – I’m suckin’ at posting…you’ll all be busy catching up, too! J

Morning brother bonding

11/365 - Sweet Baby Nick

Okay, so at least 50% of the time, he’s not exactly “sweet” (bonking his brother on the head, knocking the paci out of his mouth…) and he’s not really a baby anymore…but his name IS Nick!

10/365

This was so hard to capture. Jake emptied the toy box and hid in it and then played with Nick. After a while, Jake took some toys back in the toy box with him, closed the lid and did his thing. Perhaps he was looking for time away from Nick…I don’t really know… But when he’d pop out, Nick would giggle and they’d do it a couple more times. When Jake was hiding, Nick would continue playing with all the toys Jake pulled out of the toybox…

9/365

Uncle Sean sent us a bubble maker for the bathtub – and after Mommy made sure the batteries were facing the correct directions, it works! Thanks for making bathtime fun, again, Uncle Sean!!

8/365

We changed Jake over to his “Big Boy” Toddler bed – slightly under duress during our recent bed time battles – but it seems to be working.

A picture with no flash…

And a picture with the night shot on…you can kind of see his jammies in this one

I know, I know – ONE picture – but I used two different methods! J

7/365

Nick getting away from Jake with Jake’s “Pat” the Hammer from the Handy Manny tool set. He climbed up on his own with the help of the Elmo Sofa…

6/365

Both boys are sick with some version of something and Jake is potty training – so, this is a common occurrence here. A load in the washer, a load in the dryer and one either just finished or waiting to go in…and that’s just the boys’ clothes.

5/365

Poor Jake…he hadn’t had an ear infection (or antibiotics at all) until Christmas Weekend when he had a raging ear infection. So, we had no idea that his body breaks out into the rash when it’s breaking down the bacteria…he was COVERED – even the edges of his belly button. Poor little guy – didn’t bother him a bit and the doctor’s office says some kids just have that…

4/365

I’d call this our morning routine – but this was the day we all spent the ENTIRE day in our Jammies (Sunday). Nick slept like all day trying to get rid of his cold and Jake FINALLY didn’t wake up at 3 am (4:30 instead…)

With all the sleep after nap time – they could tolerate being in the same chair watching some Disney Channel flick, no doubt.

2/365

Checking out the new arrangement of toys. While the boys were at school on Friday, we stayed home and cleaned out some baby stuff and rearranged our living room to house all the toys in a better configuration. It is by no means perfect – but at least there is a small portion that is “organized”! J

3/365

It’s official! We’re going to Kansas this summer!! Woohooo! I know we’ve been telling everybody that since we moved here – but Matt received the first of the papertrail sending us there! Next up – Request For Orders (RFO) – look for us to be doing a jig about then! Maybe then, I’ll have to post a video for my photo of the day! J For now, we’ll settle for Matt’s look of relieved accomplishment (bet you didn’t think those words went together!)

Day 1

Where I’ll suck at this is chosing only ONE photo. Oh well. Of these, I only took one. I want to remember all of it though!

Jake & Daddy read a book while Jake wore his Mickey Ears (from August 2007).

Jake & Mommy made Spritz cookies today. Jake was gung ho about helping. He liked the cookie dough, but once he tasted one of the finished cookies, he was done – and wouldn’t even help me with the press anymore. Better luck next year, I guess…

Project 365

I have set a new goal for myself. I'm trying to take a photo a day to capture our lives. I think the boys will have a lot of fun when they go back and look someday - I know I will. As a bonus, I'll improve my photography skills. One of my friends just started hers, so I'm kind of stealing the idea. We have some great adventures and how fun will it be to document the MOVE! :) My hope is that I get used to it and it's an ongoing thing for many years to come...I'm going to start with one day. You can read more about the theory here .

I hope you enjoy it too!