noise be gone

Like of the day: Neatimage.com

Dislike of the day: AK with a cough, runny nose and lots of sneezing

I just figured out a great program that illiminates noise in pictures. It's AWESOME!!!

AK's three week picture before edit

AK's three week picture after edit

Miracle huh?

Love it.

http://neatimage.com/download.html

family pics

Well, they are FINALLY done and I'm so happy to have that over with. I always look forward to taking family pics but then we get to the hours right before we are to be there and I start second guessing-wondering if I should cancel. Things just don't go right for us in "high intensity" situations. And by high intensity I mean running around the house like a mad woman getting EVERYONE ready, including the husband, child and self. It's nuts around here. Clothes are flying, hair bows being pulled out, arguments arising about what shoes to wear, AK getting her tights dirty. I mean, it's pure chaos and very stressful. THEN, we are already running a little behind when I forget THE shirts. THE shirts that are supposed to be worn for the pictures. I refused to let Sean wear it before we got there because I would not be happy about it getting wrinkled. And THEN guess what he did once he got his shirt one.....he ROLLED THE SLEEVES. Men.

With all the tempers flaring I must say the pictures turned out nicely. I like them. Here are a couple of my faves.

Yay, I love my little family.

head bumping

Like of the day: BABY goldfish...like the cheese crackers...the ones you eat

Dislike of the day: my daughter waking up soaked in peeeeeeeeee

Today we are venturing over to the coooouwntry (remember) to have our family pics taken by a good friend. I will then repay the favor by taking her family pics sometime this week. We were supposed to go this morning but the sun was not in our favor. We settled for afternoon pics and warm pizza to follow with those great friends. Can't get any better than that! Hopefully Anna-Kate doesn't remember her weekend of many meltdowns while we were there and decide to repeat the whole ordeal again. She is currently down for a nap in hopes of her being super happy during picture time.

At lunch she was having so much fun hitting her daddy in the head with her head and cracking up about it (I got it on video...and a picture-see above). See, this is why our kid has a bruise on the front of her head, things like this, things that she finds entertaining that I find painful looking. Silly girl. Yeah, um, the bruise on her forehead is from her sliding down a slide on her tummy and then bumping her head on the bottom of the slide. No worries though, she thought it was funny. We all gasp and hold our breath to wait for her to start waling away and she giggles. Love my girl. I couldn't ask for any more personality from her silly self. Now, to the bottom right is a picture of her and her friend "Bear" apparently having an important conversation (based on her look and posture). It's sooo funny and CUTE! I mean goodness gracious, look at that face! Hahaha! She cracks me up and most definitely keeps me on my toes...especially since she started walking. It's so weird to look over and see her walking up. My goodness, she's growing up too fast! Sometimes I wish I could stop the time and make her still so I can just sit and stare at her.

Welp, family pictures to come.

jibber jabber

Like of the day: corndogs

Dislike(s) of the day: dog hair and dirty floors

AK and I had a fun weekend at "Aunt Bri's" house. Like I've mentioned before, Sean works on the weekends, so this weekend (Saturday) we stayed out in the country with horses, three rambunctious dogs, two toddlers (including AK), lots of toys and the most comfortable bed EVER. I must say, I totally enjoyed myself...besides the fact that AK decided she wanted to have a breakdown and NOT sleep! That part was rough and NOT enjoyable. I just let her stay up as late as she wanted. I figured she'd fall asleep eventually. Well, eventually never came and I put her in bed at 11 pm and didn't hear a peep from her. Ha. Then Bri and I attempted to watch Get Smart (the filtered version and HILARIOUS may I add) and didn't make through half before we were ready to crawl into bed. We were up bright and early (for us anyways) to get ready for church. It's always interesting trying to get two different families out of one house (atleast I thought so). Bri got lots of fun pictures of the kids in which I can't wait to see! I didn't get too many. Just a couple.

^^^here she is Saturday morning in her pj's giving her bear and lovey a bus ride^^^

^^^her first time to wear gloves-the smallest I could find and still too big^^^

^^^Saturday night-refusing to sleep-see her little tear drop^^^

^^^Sunday morning-ready to go to church...don't mind the lip, it's donut (thanks Aunt Bri)^^^

We're moving next Monday!!! I can't believe it's a week away. Crazy.

Tomorrow we're going back out to the country (said cooouwntry) to do our fall pictures. I'm so excited and can't wait!!!

twinkies

I had to share this picture.

It's my little cousin, Abigayle, wearing some "dress up" glasses. Abigayle is 7 weeks younger than Anna-Kate and about 4 lbs heavier. Haha! Everyone is bigger than Anna-Kate, my poor little shrimpo. Anyways, Abbi is hilarious. She loves to wear glasses, and THESE glasses are her fave. Everytime I see it I crack up laughing because she's totally serious about wearing them. Obviously, the name Ms. Daisy comes to mind when I look at this pic. It's just hilarious! She's one silly girl.

Abigayle and Anna-Kate have lots of fun together. Abigayle has been walking for quite longer than AK but she's pretty much there now. It's so precious. My aunt and I always buy the girls matching outfits and take pictures of them. It's so fun but probably a bit on the ridiculous side. But we love it...they sometimes don't enjoy it as much as we do.

^^^the day Abbi was born^^

Aren't they just adorable! I love that they are only 7 weeks apart! Makes holidays fun and interesting. Not only is Abbi 7 weeks younger than AK, but my littlest niece Kylee is 7 weeks younger than Abigayle. Hahaha! Too much going on there.

Now, an update on the moving situation. It's still on. Only 10 days away to be exact. I'm getting more anxious because when I look at my house I freak out. It's nowhere near ready to be moved. I just can't bring myself to start putting a lot of little things in boxes with 10 days left. Isn't that ridiculous! Like, I don't want to take AK's stuff down in her room because I don't want her to be confused about where all of her nice girly things went. If I had it my way I'd leave her stuff as is until the day we move...but I know that's not practical. I just need to buckle down and get it all done.

Not only are we moving four days before Thanksgiving but we are then going to travel to Victoria for Thanksgiving with some of Sean's family. This is definitely not going to be my ideal week. I told Sean I didn't want to stay overnight because our life will be in boxes at one location and we'll have to go from boxes immediately to bags and them come home to boxes again. No bueno. Really don't have the capacity for it at this time. Sorry Charlie.

Gotta go now, AK is being too quiet.