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Home Sick....

Poor Tate--he's home for another day of missed school.  I will post more later in the week...lots of exciting things happening! 

Yes, he still sleeps with a satin blankie...BB.

Just a few more.

Here are a few more from the shoot this weekend.  Molly and Abby the perfect little models!   Enjoy!

Eskimos!

Baby it's cold outside!  Here are two adorable "Eskimos"  who played with me a bit today.  Molly and Abby--talk about two easy girls to shoot!  We had a lot of fun---how can you go wrong with a starbucks in hand?  Thank you Chris, Molly and Abby for spending some time with me.  Girls rule...boys drool!  Don't let my boys know I typed that...

Katie.lady.bug!

Here's my favorite girl ever...the closest thing that I'll ever get to a daughter...Katie!  It was so cold out we could only stand it for about 5 minutes...I learned a lot about High School Musical in that 5 minutes!  Here are some shots we got while we were goofing around. 

Remember the days of being excited about sucking on an icicle!

   

Just me and a dog named Blue....

OK, so I work out of my home office a lot...especially in the winter.  I love the flexibility, but I find that I get stir crazy some days.  Here's my wonderful officemate.  She's lazy, she's smelly, she's demanding, she's neurotic and I love her!

Notice how her top lip gets stuck on her teeth..she always has a crooked look about her.

Look at James!!

I have to brag on my good friend James Bates--check him out on the cover of 435 SOUTH!  This is one of my favorite publications in the KC area.  Kathy Boos, the publisher is a great friend and an amazing woman.  What are you waiting for, go get yourself a copy! 435 SOUTH

On your mark. Get set. Go!

My friend and I have gotten ourselves in a tizzy with the notion that we're going to run in the Chicago marathon together.  We're very excited and when we watched this trailer, we both knew we HAD to do it.  If you knew us, you would know that the word "athlete" is not a word used to describe us....far from it!  Training is on and I can't wait to go see this movie with H2 on January 24th!  Heather, get you're running shoes on!  We have approximately 10 months and 4 days until it's "go time"!

Why this blog?

Confession:  I'm a blog-stalker.  For two years I've enjoyed lurking and admiring other people’s lives, creativity, aspirations, ideas and so on. 

After a little self diagnosis concerning this addiction, I came to this conclusion--people amaze me and there is so much phenomenal talent out there, however, sometimes I get overwhelmed by it all and feel as if I’m not being creative in my own life.

Kind of like when I go to those scrap booking parties. I really admire and appreciate all the work that goes into making the incredible pages…documenting beautiful moments and creating keepsakes.  Needless to say I drop some moo-lah and go home thinking I too will create fabulous and amazing scrapbook pages that will capture my family’s essence so perfectly.  All that comes out of this scenario is wasted money and a pile of crafting supplies that might as well be called a pile of “guilt”.  I’m not a scrap-booker.  I know this and I’m comfortable with it. 

AAAHHHH, I digress…back to the amazing blogs making me feel overwhelmed…I think I figured out what I most admired about all these individual blogs that I stalked regularly and why it was overwhelming to me.  Most of the blogs were similar in the fact that they highlighted moments and celebrated their lives in some way.  Very simple.  Very inspirational.  Then I got to thinking about it…I have a life too.  Why not slow down and celebrate my moments.  Maybe chew on the daily “stuff” that makes each day special from my perspective?  Voila!  I’m now going to experiment with 2008 and see what kinds of things I will see in my own experiences..friends, family, faith, passions, aspirations, the whole enchilada!  If it bores you, feel free to move on….no harm, no foul.  If you're curious, feel free to look around and explore.  This year is going to be an interesting one..that, I am certain of!

So, here are my reasons for this blog:

Begin slowing down and focusing on my own life’s “sweet spots”.

Document my progress on my goals and hold myself accountable.

I’m not a scrap-booker!

My goals:

12 step program for improving my photography so that I might be able to do something with this passion.

Run in the Chicago marathon—October 18^th.  Crap!

Slow down and enjoy the little things that make life so sweet.

Focus on giving more of myself to others.

Learning

This is a slow process, but I'm taking baby steps!  The month of January is getting "the plan" together and learning about this blog business.  Exciting times!  Here's a picture...just so I can practice.  Tate and Brody with their glow-sticks.  Good night!