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Summer rules

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Jul 032011

Our love is overflowing…. Gotta love Pete’s Dragon.

I can’t believe I’m actually taking a minute away from our other website to write on this website. Brandon and I have put a lot of our time over the last few days into the website for the daycare Erik attends. Brandon and I are on the board to said daycare so we have been devoting some time to make it right. I have been ridiculously excited about it, as it looks amazing already. We have lots more work to do, but…we are awesome at making websites. Just saying…. The address is: www.preblechildrenscenter.org. Go look at our amazing work.

Since I have lacked in sharing any pictures as of late, even on FaceBook really, we will post some today. Yes yes, good idea.

We took Erik to the zoo for the first time recently. Since we are such wonderful parents, and the very first time he went was when he was four….ahem….. He really liked it, anyway. Of course.

I actually have kind of sucked during the month of June at taking pictures. But during the month of May, I was rocking.

That last one there Erik was trying to jump for a rope that is about 6 feet in the air. He really believes he is almost able to grab it.

I know I’ve gone on before about Erik playing soccer, and he did again, but it’s done already. But then again, he starts up again in a couple of weeks, so, eh. There was a lot of agains in those last sentences. Ha. Anyway, he’s gotten much better actually. Still not quite there, and when they’re scrimmaging he runs away from the ball. He will learn.

So we live on a lake, right? Well, Erik doesn’t like the water. He is refusing to learn how to swim. It’s quite frustrating, but at the same time we are hesitant to try and make him because we are afraid he will then hate it. Hopefully soon he will start to like it again.

Drake on the other hand, loves it. He has really come into his own being the only dog. He is such a sweet boy, and we pretty much take him everywhere since he is smallish. He got much bigger than he was supposed to, and he definitely thinks he is a big dog. He is tennis ball obsessed, loves to swim, and is lately trying to play frisbee. He is ultra spoiled, but we love him so.

Have a wonderful day everyone. I’m off to work on the other website (which I should be doing! sheesh), and…we have 3 places we are supposed to be today. I should probably…shower…maybe?

Don’t let it go away

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Jul 192010

My confession for the day is that, honestly, I’m exhausted. I’ve been up since 6 a.m. my dear friends, and this old gal doesn’t function as well on little sleep as I used to. Granted I regularly don’t get a whole lot of sleep, but this morning I was required to get up and actually do something. So alas, I am a tired girl.

I do have some more pictures to share, but I must point out that I have a very hard time editing pictures on Brandon’s iMac. I have been putting the pictures on here to give my MacBook’s harddrive a bit of a break (heck it’s about to break), but the screen on here is so different that I don’t really know if I’m editing right. I promise you, my screen looks 1000 times different than most everyone else’s. This Mac has the ability to make everything look…prettier (which is good for my crappy ego). So here is my apology to anyone whose picture may be up on here and the colors or off or whatnot. I try not to edit them too much – especially the pictures that are taken outside. I’m all about the natural light, the more the better, so those pictures usually don’t get touched much.

I have been giving my girl a break (my girl = my camera). I haven’t been taking pictures everyday like I was for awhile. Partly because as I pointed out in my last post, we are mad busy, and partly because as I pointed out in the previous paragraph, harddrives are getting full. I have been taking about 300 shots a month. Ouch. We all know I won’t give it up though.

Without further ado, here are some shots from Kristin and Dave’s wedding that was on Saturday.

This first set are pictures that Brandon and I took ourselves before the wedding. Hence why the hair still looks pristine (it succumbs to flatness in subsequent pictures).

I suppose I could have played with the colors and made some black and white, but sorry, our colors are too fab (thanks Adri) to do something like that. And we totally match.

Okay here are some from the actual wedding.

It was a beautiful wedding. Brandon definitely does have a beautiful family (my in-laws) as well, which helps.

And speaking of beautiful, my husband tops ‘em all.

Enjoy your Monday. I know I am.

Erik and his dad

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Jul 012010

When I was working I was pretty much heartbroken everyday. I would come home and Erik didn’t want me if he got hurt or upset. He only wanted his daddy. It was a lot of my motivation to stay home and go back to school. Now, it’s pretty much just Erik and me, everyday. Except for the fact now that we got blessed with Brandon’s job, and he gets to work from home two days a week. So after works days, like last Tuesday, this is what happens.

Now I know I’ve gone on about my two boys, but, their beauty is unsurpassable. You always hear that cheesy line that you never knew what love really meant – but it’s true. Whole heartedly and completely true. Our marriage isn’t always perfect, neither are our parenting styles, but we have all grown. As a family. And we find ourselves becoming happier and more comfortable in our lives everyday. And man, you can’t beat that.

Now Erik loves his baths. Like I’m going to stay in there for 3 hours and you’re still going to have to pull me out since I’ve asked for more hot water 30 times. Tonight, during his bath, he started yelling to Brandon that he wanted to get out of the tubby now. Brandon was diligently reading a history book for class (you know, that one I get a synopsis for every paragraph), so he got up after he finished reading his page. Apparently, that was too long for Erik.

Is he sleeping? I do not know.

We see flashes of him hurtling towards the floor after slipping when getting out of the bathtub, so we generally always make him wait until someone can get him out.

Then he runs around like a banshee, naked, but with a towel.

Erik very stealthy tricked Brandon into coloring with him tonight while he avoided bed time. A good 20 minutes after this I reminded Brandon that Erik might need to go to bed now.

Moms always ruin the fun.

I’m off to go live on the greener side of life. I like looking through my rose colored glasses every now and then. Because you know what? Happy is fun. Happy is life. And happy is a hell of a lot better than feeling bad for yourself when you are surrounded by this much love.

And times when Brandon and I share that glance, and wonder how we got to lucky to have such an amazing boy, I know my life is complete. I hope Erik grows up to love his own family the way our family loves each other. If that is true, baby I can promise you, he will never feel alone.

Oh My God – I love it here

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May 312010

So, well, it has been amazing here. We have had such a wonderful time with everyone… We had to say goodbye to Sonny and Angel tonight because they had to go to their dad’s tomorrow until after we leave. It was pretty horrible. Angel was so upset she couldn’t stop crying. In fact she is still awake right now crying …it breaks my heart. : (

Okay, we will be happy for the moment. For it has been some of the happiest days in the history of happy days.

We had a pretty good flight down – we ended up flying from Rochester to Orlando because it was so much cheaper. We were able to get a rental car because of the money saved on the flight.

On the tram at the airport in Orlando.

So we drove the two hours from Orlando to get here. We ended up finally getting to my mom’s house around 9 p.m. So we just unpacked and were lazy for a little while before bed.

Saturday was wonderful – of course. After getting up in the a.m. we got ready and headed over to my sister Chris’s house. After some heartfelt reunions we finally got around to getting to the beach. We ended up going to Howard Beach in Tarpon Springs. A smaller beach but still great. Erik and Brandon’s first time swimming in the Gulf of Mexico. Very cool for them.

Simone had a pretty good time too. The water was a little seaweed filled – but we survived anyway.

After our beach excursion we decided to wash off not in the shower like normal people – but in another body of water! This time in Chris’s mother-in-laws pool.

After spending most of the day in some type of water, and in the sun, we decided to go back home and be completely lazy and get already made dinner from the grocery store. We were all way too tired. Hey, it was still great. : )

Since I am camera obsessed, I already have over 200 shots. My lovely niece Simone is almost as camera obsessed as me, so when we were going crazy Saturday night taking pictures, there are amazingly enough some pictures of myself. Woohoo!

Caitlyn’s shirt says love. Sums up my feelings perfectly.

Beautiful girls – God I’m so proud to be their aunt.

We get a little silly sometimes. It’s a sister thing.

Sunday was….well guess what…amazing. It was the day of our family/friends BBQ. It was the first time since Erik’s baptism that ALL of the kids were together. And of course I took advantage of that….

Haha love the last picture – Marijane has her fingers in her nose. GREAT!

So I had this amazing idea of getting the kids to stand in height order.

Okay yea, it actually turned out to be one of the hardest thing in the history of photography – but well, they’re cute anyway. Even if not in a single one are they all looking.

I’m sure the ultra mega cool huge slide they were standing in doesn’t help with the attention span thing.

Okay there were a few more but they weren’t any better. : ( I still love them – and they will be printed. I can oh so fully promise you that.