Ai Ai Ai

No other words quite describe my mood today. Tired with a splash of irritation? Maybe...tired with a hint of annoyance? Maybe its the weather.

I hate cold dreary days where I feel trapped in my house.

I can't wait for the summer.

I can't wait for the days where I can just take the kids outside in the yard.

I can't wait for the soggy dog poop to be picked up.

Sorry, I had a side thought :)

I can't wait for warmer weather

And some sleep. I'm feeling kind of tired.

Sisters or what?

A few weeks ago I didn't really think Abby and Chelsea looked anything alike.

I thought that Abby looked more like her old man *no offense Kevin, I don't think you're an old man at all*

I thought Chelsea was looking more like her mom.

I'm clearly WAYYY off.

As soon as Miss Abby *oldest* cut her hair off, all of a sudden they look like sisters. And you know what??? I don't think either of them look like Nikki *sorry Nikki*

I think they both look like Kevin now.

Well maybe...just maybe they don't look like either of you.

How can that be?

I mean, I think Abby looks like Kevin still. But Chelsea and Abby look SO alike now......

I'm just confused.

Very confused.

But one thing is for certain.....they really DO look like sisters.

See, I just didn't see it before.

Michelle

Young Love.....

This is Luke and Chelsea......

They're so sweet together.

They've been together now for almost two years. Well, a year and a half. Which if you think about it, is half their lives.

MORE than half of Chelseas.

Thats a lot of life. And a lotta love.

Today was the first time in a while that Chelsea came over to play. Luke had missed her.

This picture makes me a little sad.

These two aren't so little anymore.

They use to be smaller. When they first met.

Luke is trying to grope chelsea here. Its why his smile is all goofy.

Bugger.

Twas Quite the Week

Well we're still not free of this nasty bug. WE sort of are I guess but not as 'free' as I'd like to be.

This picture was taken on Tuesday. Lukes official Birthday. I'm sure there were many people who looked like this on St.Patricks Day so really, what difference does it make that MY two examples are children?

Oh yes, my two weren't drinking. :)

You will notice little Luke clutching to his new bday hockey stick and sporting his new bday ballcap. *Thank you Gauthier Family*

The bucket had been passed to Justin by this point. Luke must have been on the mend because he had attempted a piece of toast.

Didn't get far but he still tried or at least THOUGHT he was hungry.

The day AFTER this picture was taken , the bucket was passed to another family member. DAD.

OH boy. Big men fall hard. Honestly. Yes this bug wiped my kids off the map for about 24 hours but that is NOTHING compared to what it did to my 6'4" 220 lb husband police officer.

Nope.

Nothing could have prepared me for that.

Poor guy. It wasn't fun. Or pretty. It still lingers.......

Its looking for me.

I'm running. I'm hiding. I'm washing and sanitizing.

My kids are still waking up with belly aches. My husband can't laugh without feeling like his ribs are breaking.

...help...

Happy Third Birthday Little Man

I'm so bummed out. Its my little itty bitty baby boys third birthday tomorrow and do you know how he is going to spend it?
Sick as a dog.

Sick sick sick.

Poor little gaffer.

We had such BIG plans, you know? We were going to take him bowling. We were going to get him a birthday cake.

We were going to yell SURPRISE!!!!!! and let him be excited about turning three!

He's talked about it ever since his big brother turned six two weeks ago.

Luke thinks he's turning five but it doesn't matter. Tomorrow is HIS birthday and he's SO excited.

He was anyways.....

Probably not so much now....

Probably isn't thinking much about it at all right now.......

Poor baby boy is sooo sick. I think he's puking about once every 35 minutes. Now that its nighttime its about once per hour. He's pukey and fevered. Now, I'm hoping its a 24 hr thing in which case he would be find by about 4pm tomorrow. Still lots of time for cake and bowling!

Time will tell.

I'm still excited its his birthday....

But a little sad too.

On the bright side.....

He is a St. Patty's Day baby. He's going to spend MANY a birthday...Puking.

Michelle

Why Must I Get So Nervous!

Honestly, I seriously fret and fret over photo sessions. I didn't think much at first until I woke up this morning and then it was like "Holy crap....I'm doing a 4 month old today".

What do 4 month olds do?

Go on! Ask yourself.

Well, other than look incredibly darn cute...they wiggle, they smile, the cry, they eat ... they resist happiness once they become tired and then...... just when you think there is NOTHING else for little baby to do....

He pees on his mother! Completely hilarious.

Moments to be captured forever.

Oh how exciting! Let me tell you though, Matthew gave me a run for my money. He had his mom sweating *dad seemed to keep his cool* and about an hour into our adventure he had me sweating buckets!

It was so much fun and I just love the sweet expressions I got of this little guy.

Just sharing. Its what I do ;)

My mudder

This is the lady I call mom. I call her mudder, mother, mom and a few other things too when I'm mad at her.

But thats not important.

Because TODAY, as luck would have it, I am NOT mad at her.

She's not happy with this picture and I have NO idea why. Last night I dragged her out of her comfy cozy warm heated house so that I could do a quick test with my reflector.

See, I have a reflector but have never used it. Didn't quite believe they did much. Boy was I wrong.

I had the sun behind her which would usually result in a very cool picture. Her face would be shadowed and I'd have issues with exposure and cool color casts. So I tipped the reflector until this very beautiful golden sun was on her face.

It was fun. She wasn't ready for the picture and not happy that its on here I'm sure.

She asked me to do some touch up work and I did but she wasn't happy with that either.

So I sent her one WAYY over done *not posted here* where she looks about ten and when she got it, I thought she'd say "HA HA, very funny" but instead she LOVED it.

I had to remind her that the face of a ten year old is NOT natural on a grandmother.

She told me to "shut up and let her have her moment".

So I did.

I think she looks real pretty in this picture, even though she thinks she doesn't.

Michelle