what a beautiful layout this is! my little baby made in to an angel!!! my most gracious and kind friend yvette (alohamama) created this for me! i cannot get enough of it!!!! so so precious!!!! THANK YOU GIRL!!

i feel like i havent blogged in so long. i really havent. about two weeks ago my power cord for my laptop died :( . so i have been w/o a computer and without an internet connection. oh i was seriously losing my mind!

SHE ROLLED OVER FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!

i know, i know this isnt a pick of it. i just couldnt catch it! i thought she was ready for a nap. but noooo, she wanted to play. so i think , lets go snap some pics. take her down to the studio and snap JUST a few. i look up from the camera to talk to her for a minute (she seems to think i dissappear when i go *behind* the camera). and i noticed that she is starting to roll. she goes from her stomach to her side. oooohhhh. keep going . keep going!! and what does she do? she goes all the way to her back!!!! yay!!! i start to clap and get a tad bit loud. to loud really because i scared the poor child! she starts to cry, i remember i have the camera in my hand and here we are!!! she rolled over for the first time!! just goes to show that i'm a mother first and a picture taking nut just slightly second!!

now this is the girl i want to remember FOREVER!! so happy and excited over little things! a fudge popsicle!! man, if we could all be like kids the world would be such a better place!!!

my baby turned 3 months yesterday! makes me happy and sad at the same time! i'm so excited to see her reaching and passing different milestones (see how she's pusing up on her elbows :) ). but, then again, it seems that time is flying so stinkin fast ! too stinkin fast . i just dont want to turn around and she's starting school, even though i know it will happen that way ! i just want to make sure i capture every moment of this, just in case i do happen to forget, i'll have it recorded.

here's takia trying out my new project , making tutus! it wasnt on my short list of things, but was on my long list! she was really in to it till it started itching her too much. she has such a complex with the ways feel on her!

this (the picture below) is what we get from za'kenzie every day. she so serious though she is starting to smile a bit more. sometimes i get so fustrated when i watch her cry ALL the time. i just want to know what is wrong with her and if its something that i can do anything about! today has been a decent enough day , she's been pretty content. we've switched over the the enfamil nutramigen formula and it does seem to have made a difference. she doesnt have as much of an issue with gas , though she is still VERY fussy. on an average day she cries about 80% of the time that she is awake and about 50% of that time she is screaming. i really just want to know if there is something "wrong" with her. i can deal with knowing that she has colic or that she is just fussy baby, if i knew thats what it was. but, i so love this picture of her. it is so zakenzie! so serious and attentive!

summer is here baby!!

we got a new board game to play with the kids. clue jr. we played for the first time last night and EIGHT YEAR OLD mikayla beat us!!!

this is just for ronalyn! (the fire hydrant) . she always has such lovely pics from the area where she lives. notices everything around her. as i sat in the car on the ride home tonight, i thought, man, i wish i had stuff like that around here to snap pics of. but, we live in the city and we just dont get that here! i turn around and theres this old cracked and peeling fire hydrant. the way it looks it must have been there for years. i had never noticed it though and i drive by that spot several times a week , sometimes several times in one day!

not a particularly great pic, just like how it shows the great depth of field you can get. their faces are almost touching in this pic. really you can even see how one eye is in focus and the other not. i guess sometimes its a good idea not to have your lens so wide open!

during the program at mikayla's school....takia paying more attention to what was under her chair!

this is the first pic i took with the lens. nothing fantanstic. i was in a big hurry. we were just jumping out of the car about to run in to mikayla's school. i just had to take at least one pic at that 1.8 aperture, lol. takia being her usually silly self.

oh i think i'm in love! my 50mm lens arrived today. well this evening as i was pulling out of my drive way. i already had my camera with me. so, during a traffic light stop , i whipped it on there. i only got to snap a few pics because we were already running late to where we were headed, but i can already tell that i am gonna love this! the depth of field is too cool! oh and if only for this reason i would have bought it in a sec, i can take a pic in my house without the flash! i have such pitiful lighting in my house! usually (especially in the evening) i HAVE to use the flash to get a decent pic in doors. so to not have to do that, just extra bonus points!!!! and if that didnt make my day...kenzie laughed today for the first time! it was just too too cute! on top of that she had a GREAT day. she spit up a bit more than she had been but she was in such a good mood all day. even laid on the floor several times and "played". great great great day.

kenzie got her first pony pony! her first pony tail! she'll be 12 weeks tomorrow. her hair is really growing. i think its so cute. that little twig on top with one little red barette. its hard to see here, but its there! lol! i like it but a part of me wants to not put it up again for now, becasue that just means that she's growing up!!!!

this is a few minutes before she started cheesing! and thats not even the full lip pout lol!

with all miss kenzie's fussines i cant believe i even got the oppurtunity to snap this shot. man, that face really makes it all worthwhile!

times seems to just fly so fast. i cant believe that another summer is here already. sometimes it just feels like life goes by much too quickly. every now and then i just want to pause it, or at least make it go in slow motion. but ... since that's really not a possibility i just have to remind myself to live up every day. i really need to do that.
today was nice. the weather wasnt too hot. we had some catfish that was off the hook. ooohhh, i could have eaten that all day long! the kids loved doing their fireworks, though takia was a bit scared at first. she is growing up so fast. its almost sad. she went from needing help with a sparkler to shooting off a roman candle by her self! so brave! she was! i wish i had gotten some better pics! the mosquitoes are so bad out here though that me and kenzie spent most of our time hanging out in the fan.
a strange thing happened though somewhere between leaving mil's house and the ride home. takia cried all the way home that her bottom hurt. really i just chalked it up to her being extra extra tired and need a good night's rest. when we got home, come to find out, the girl had to splinters in her butt cheek! what the heck? i have no clue how they got there. we ended up getting one out but she was not at all happy. it took a good little while. we even tried using the tweezers out of our memory makers scrapbooking tool kit! lol. she took a nice warm bath and seems to be fine now.
kenzie mama has been so fussy today. though she slept all night, she wouldnt nap today. and she wanted to eat about every two hours (compared to every 4 to 5). she had about 6 dirty diapers all day. dont know if she has a touch of something, if she's just going through a phase, is just a bit fussy and being a baby (lol) or what. still not sure what i will do about switching her formula once this week is up. we have one more that we can try. i have def. noticed a change since we have started the soy formula. she def. is not as gassy and does not have much of a problem passing it. so she's not fussy over that. but now a different type of fussiness has started, if that makes any since. and today was just strange with the eating so often and having so many dirty diapers. i'll have to see if that keeps up. we shall see. the girl is a dr jekyll mr hyde though.
i took a few pics of her once we got home this evening. first she has a content look on her face. then the bottom lip starts to poke and quiver. then she's very upset. calmed down. cheesing sooooo big (got a pic of that!!) . then back to pokey lip and crying. the girl is too cute though, even when she cries. i really cannot get enough of her. fri. evening she spent the night with my sister and i missed her before i even dropped her off!! her touch , her smell, her cute little faces, even that crying! i missed it all! i probally drove ziven crazy talking about her! its crazy the hold that your children have on you. i can fuss at mikayla all day long (and believe me she needs some fussing) but still miss her in a sec when she's gone. crazy but such is the life of a parent.

i scrapped!

paper scrapped that is. yes , i still do that. not quite as often as a scrap on the computer , but i do still do it and i do enjoy it. but goodness gracious, just putting everything back up when we were done wore me out! i am so stinkin tired! why do i blog when i'm feeling like this. i didnt get in to be till well after four this morning. right before i was about to go to bed, about 2ish, i found out i might have a virus on my computer. so i had to panic, then calm down, lol, then scan and destroy!! i'm not sure how kenzie mama is doing as far as her new formula. her schedule has been really off the past few days so not sure if her fussiness is due to being upset and lack of sleep or what. so we'll give it another few days and see how it goes. my lens is scheduled to arrive on thursday. just cannot wait to play! i havent shot any pics in sooooo long. i dont think i've actually taken a pic within the past two weeks! gotta get my booty in gear! after i get my booty in bed! lol!

crossing off list

i can now cross #9 off my list. ordered my 50mm lens tonight from b&h! yes! i cant wait to get and play with that thing! i have the worst light in my house, and i'm hoping this will help out some. let me open up just a bit more. i have one spot that i think i can shoot in my house and use natural light. cant wait to use this lens there. ok, next to work on a new logo so that i can work on the bus. cards. oh yeah, whcc emailed me today with my ftp info and to let me know that my test prints had been sent. too excited about that. been telling myself to set up an account with them for a year. i'm such a procrastinator! so sleepy. dont know why i always choose to come here when i'm tired.