ten on tuesday.

 

1. Sarah is with my mom this week and Ephraim has been reveling in the opportunity to be an only child. I anticipated having to entertain him more than I am.

2. If you Twitter, care to share who your favorites to follow are?

3. While Brent and I were out to dinner last weekend we stopped for a drink at Dolce and I decided to Tweet about Mike Boogie. Please raise your hand if you know what in the world I’m talking about.

4.  Thought this blog post might be helpful to some of you who wonder how to brand/watermark your photographs.

5. We’ve been making tons of smoothies in our house lately. In fact, that’s all Ephraim ate for lunch today. Our recipe isn’t actually a recipe and just goes loosely something like this: Add vanilla yogurt, banana, frozen blueberries, and OJ to a food processor or blender. Process until smooth and enjoy. You can mix up what frozen (or fresh) fruit you add and you can switch the juice or even use milk instead. In my opinion the sweetened yogurt and banana are non-negotiable. But feel free to make your own rules.;)

6. I had SO.MUCH.FUN speaking at one of Huntsville’s MOPs groups yesterday about taking better photographs of their children. Some of you had asked if I would record it but there just didn’t end up being enough time. Since the presentation is already prepared I’d love to do it again sometime so if I have the opportunity I’ll definitely try to video it next time.

7. During the presentation I may have made a comment about the importance of taking a photograph of your child chewing his/her toenails. I may never be invited back. But, like I said, I had fun.

8. I have three pork chops all ready to cook for dinner and no recipe in mind. Any favorites out there? I was thinking we could grill them but it’s starting to look a tad overcast here. Think the rain may be on it’s way.

9. Last night Brent and I finally watched The Office baby episode. While I love Jim and Pam and I adore baby Cecelia I’m sad to say the writers didn’t bring it like I thought they might. The wedding episode is still my fave by far.

10. Ephraim gave me the best present today. Ten uninterrupted minutes of photo-shooting. You could have knocked me over with a feather! Here’s just a little taste…

 

I mean, he wasn’t messing around – he was for real. I can’t wait to share more.

(This could be the most random ToT post ever. Sorry ’bout that.)

stamples.

This is a common sight in our house these days…

Sarah desperately wants to be the “stamples” lady at Costco.

Did I mention desperately?

mama knows best.

Child, when will you ever learn that when mama says “you’re tired” that means, you’re tired?

(Taken on Friday not ten minutes after an over-tired, highly annoying child of mine insisted she did not need to rest her body quietly in her room but was forced against her own will to do so.)

I’m retiring.

This morning as I was cleaning up the breakfast dishes Sarah ran in to announce ecstatically that she now knows how to carry her brother. That means one thing to me, people. Well, two.

First, it means I must take a picture.

And second, it means my work here is finished.  

Good bye aching back, hips and buff left arm. There’s a new mom in town.

And her name is Pi’bears.

meet my teenage boy.

 These pants were in the dirty clothes but I checked, so I smelled them and they smelled like the regular so I decided to wear them.

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