Fun recent pics

Emma fell asleep like this

We painted the girls toes while they were taking a nap

Shopping Sophie

Emma the dare devil

Jessica took Ethan on a date to the Jazz game

The girls reading 

Smiley girls :)

Mothers Day

Mothers day this year was way busy. Started off by heading to my aunt Kelly's house for brunch. It was so YUMMY! It is always great to go up North and visit all of my family on my dads side. It was a great day so we all were able to play out in the sunshine.

Then we went over to Mikes parents house to have a little bbq. Sadly I didnt take any pictures there but it was very yummy....Thanks for cooking MIKE!!

Next we went over to Grandma Yoshis house like we do every week and had another yummy bbq there. Good job cooking men...and Jess and Ash! We played a little outside but it was starting to get a little chilly.

I had a great MOTHERS DAY this year! Thanks to everyone who made it so wonderful! Ohh and I got my necklace that I have been wanting!!!

I LOVE IT!! Thanks MIKE!

2010 Race for the CURE

I don't even know how many years we have been walking in this even but it has been a while. I actually think the first post of my blog was about one of the years we walked. I really love it. It always makes me really emotional. I just get so overwhelmed with all the people that come out to support a great cause.

This year was a bit more stressful than I had hoped for. The girls are just at that age that they really want to be walking around and if they are doing something that is not as they planned then they throw a fit! Ethan also has been on one lately. He just freaks out if he doesn't get what he wants and he gets really discouraged when he cant do something he is trying to do. I really don't know what is up with him lately.

We started out the morning a little behind schedule...Surprise surprise. So we just barley made it there to find our family and walk. We had many ... MANY breakdowns during the race. The girls wanted to walk the whole time and when we tried to pick them up the screamed bloody murder. Ethan randomly broke out into a frantic cry at least twice during the walk.

BUT hey lets look at the positive. We made it up there, we found our family, we walked the whole way and most importantly we supported an awesome cause.

Here is to you Grandma Yoshi and Bonnie!! You are both such an inspiration to me! Congrats on all the years that you have been a survivor of Breast Cancer. We love you so much!

Potty training

First off I want to tell you a story......Once upon a time I was a babysitter. I sat for a family right around the corner from my parents house. There was a 3 year old boy and a one year old girl. They were so much fun! The only thing that drove me crazy was that the 3 year old was not potty trained. From that day on I always thought to my self I will NEVER be one of those moms that has a 3 year old that is not potty trained.

Grrrrrrr! Let me just say that. I was sitting there today, looking at my son thinking I wonder if im alone? I wonder if im the only mom that doesn't care if my kid is potty trained? DON'T get me wrong I want him to eventually use the potty like a normal big boy but as of this very minute I really could care less. Does that make me a bad mom? Who knew it was so DANG hard to make a toddler first off want to learn this weird new talent and second constantly do it for the rest of his life. I think part of it is that I have twin 1 year old girls. I just don't have TIME to do it. I know I need to devote my attention to him so that he really wants to do it.

I don't know what I am doing wrong. I have read how to potty train a kid in a day, I have bribed him, I have scolded him and lo and behold none of it works. I know that he gets the concept and he HAS done it before. I just think he doesn't WANT to, and when he doesn't want to do something he WON'T. I have tried putting him in big boy underpants but then I end up just cleaning up after him all day long!

Just for everyone's information Ethan  is 3 years and 5 months old. I don't know if that is a normal potty training age or if I am just mega paranoid.

I guess I am hoping that one day Ethan will just come up to me and say " Mommy I don't want to wear diapers anymore" Well lets keep our fingers crossed for that day to come.

Means A Lot Photos!!

I have a secret.....well not so much a secret but a passion. I LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY! Everything about it just gets me excited. First off I love taking pictures as most of you know already.

I love capturing those moments in life that without a photo might be lost. I love capturing smiles and laughs of my kids. It is so precious to look back on life and remember those funny moments.

I love LOVE.....did I say LOVE to look at , maybe stalk, photography blogs. I love to see what they will do next. I love to see all of the cute babies and beautiful families that are photographed. I love to see the props that different photographers will use in their photos. It makes me want to try out new things when i photography my kids.

I take about a thousand or more photos and sadly don't print many out anymore because of the digital age we live in. I have an AWESOME camera that my loving hubby gave me. I still don't quite know how to use it on the manual setting. I really hope that one day I can really learn how to use it and maybe even learn to use photoshop.

I love getting the kids pictures taken, although it usually is stressful at the time of pictures. I always have the hardest time waiting for the photos to be done!!

The only thing i DON'T like about photography is price. I is expensive to buy prints after the photo shoot. It is pricy to even print pictures out that you have taken yourself (probably because I take a gazillion!!)

Anyways I got the pictures back that Means A Lot photography did for the kids. If you want to check them out go to http://www.meansalot.com
- click on "SITE"
- click on "PROOFING"
and the password is jinks (all lower case)
   
Take a look because I probably wont be able to purchase too many.  

Enjoy!!