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Monthly Archives: April 2009

family night info :)

This morning I braved my nerves and spoke at MOPS… thankfully my fear of public speaking didn’t send me into labor But I shared with all the ladies how we do monthly FAMILY FUN NIGHTS.  Each table was assigned a theme and created a family fun night event… so many great ideas!  I mentioned that…

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happy easter

 Jude had a BLAST hunting eggs this year! Noah not so much… he managed to grab a few Easter eggs before he got sidetracked playing soccer . All the more eggs for Jude. He picked up Noah’s basket and carried both baskets around… filling them with eggs galore. 

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texas bluebonnets – TAKE 2

Decided to torture myself and my children again with another attempt at bluebonnet pictures… not much better. The only thing that slowed Noah down long enough for me to get a picture of him was his new sunglasses… he thought he was such hot stuff. Jude again cried the whole time but did manage to…

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texas bluebonnets – TAKE 1

Ok… it’s a Texas thing. But I HAVE to get pictures of the kids in the bluebonnets every year. Alot of blood, sweat, and tears goes into it because MY children are bent on making sure that every year I DON’T get pictures of them in the bluebonnets. I don’t know what it is. There…

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hair raising!

We all know my Noah’s hair is huge. There’s not much you can do with it… it’s got a mind of it’s own. Especially when playing on the trampoline. It gets a little, ummmmm, static-y. Is that a word? There really isn’t a word to describe this:

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hired help

My massive state of 36 weeks pregnant means not much is getting done around the house lately.  So I hired a little helper to help me out… 

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for the pastor wives…

Beth Moore shared this video at a recent Pastor Wives Conference and I thought it was hilarious… hilarious because it is soooooo true! What would my husband do if he didn’t have me and the kids to use for sermon material??? 

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GQ boys!

I’ve been so busy photographing other kids that I decided to turn the camera to my own for a change. It is sooooooo much harder to photograph my own kids because they are used to having a camera shoved in their face and mommy bribing them to give me just one smile. Never works though….

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