A week, or two, in pictures

I've been away for awhile. Not from home, just the computer. Blogging doesn't excite me lately. But then I fall in love with a picture of my kid(s) and I get excited again.

The past couple weeks have been nice. Just hanging out, doing what we want, being with people we like.

I've taken a few pictures, just to document a few little moments.

I love this girl's eyes. Seriously, sometimes when the light hits them right they look unreal. So sparkly. Besides the basic color pop I use on the entire picture, I don't ever enhance her eyes. They are really that blue.


Cooper's eyes are beautiful, too. Just not as "blue" as Reese's. One of my favorite people, and cousin, stayed with us a couple weeks ago. It was so fun. Brette has an eye for photography. She takes amazing landscape pics and catches beautiful moments with ordinary objects. She took this picture of Cooper that melts my heart. Brette's site is brettegibbphotography.com


Melissa and Brad are always entertaining my kids. They love them so much.



I'm happy to have these guys back from New York. Reese is especially happy to have her hunky and chunky boyfriend back. They are two of a kind. The day after they got home, we went to the lake to send off the boys on kayaks. The babies were too young to go out, so we hung back at shore. I love this picture of her and Ford. So sweet.



Dreamy.



Some pictures from yesterday. Wowsas...her eyes look fake in this picture.


Cooper after his nap. He lays on the floor by the door after he wakes up and takes off the little door stopper. EVERY time he wakes up. It drives me crazy.


Banana popsicle



Cooper has been determined to ride his bike with no training wheels this past week. He would beg and beg for me to take him out. He's worked really hard and know he is rockin. I'm so proud of him. If only he could put that determination into potty training. My life would be a whole lot easier, and less disgusting.


Dave spending what little time he has with the kidlings. He is great with spending every moment he is home with them. This time of year he works a lot. Until October 15th, I don't see him much. I still hate his schedule. But I should be grateful he has a job, right? I just keep reminding myself of that.


Ugh. Sorry the pictures are so big.

Reese sitting on grass

Original title huh? When it takes me longer than 10 seconds to think of a title, I usually get irritated, then write the most obvious thing about my post. In this case, I have a few pictures of Reese...sitting on the grass.

I don't know why my posts are so boring. I do stuff, I just never write about it. I think about stuff, I just don't remember my thoughts when I'm blogging. Sometimes I think, 'I should write down this thought and blog about it', but of course I never do. Holy cow, am I actually writing about this?

I've got a one-track mind. And lately, my mind happens to be solely on track with painting. It's all I can think about. I am sick of the one color covering every square inch of our walls and ceilings. I want to paint so bad, but I hate painting more than I hate my boring wall color. So what to do? Well...I went to Lowes and got a bunch of paint samples last night. That was pretty ambitious for me...I'm sure that will be the extent of my painting.

Enough of this nonsense. I took some plain old pictures of Reese on the lawn the other day and they melted my heart. Just like she does every second of every day.





My own little ray of sunshine


It is 11:23 pm and I am currently watching Wizards of Waverly Place. Really?