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Friday, October 1, 2010

Bed Golf

Posted on 11:45 AM by Unknown

These pictures are actually a few months old at this point, Jayce's hair is a good indication of that, but this afternoon was still worth posting about.  The day that I walked into our bedroom and found Jayce like this, my first words were, "Jayce, no.  We do not golf on Mom and Dad's bed."  Chris had just gotten home, and he turned to me guiltily and said, "Actually...I kind of let him...do this."  Since he was using these really light weight balls, I decided to just let it ride and snap a few pictures since he was having such a hilarious time.


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Jayce started off with just a big pile of balls in the middle of the bed and was just kind of hitting them randomly.


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But then, Chris started lining them up in a straight line, and having Jayce hit them one at a time.


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He then started lining them up and calling off which colors Jayce should hit.  He obeyed, and would pick off the specific colors, even if they were buried deeper in the line up.  It was pretty funny, and I was actually kind of impressed.


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Chris and I started off sitting on the floor on opposite sides of the room, with him shagging the balls and me snapping pictures.  When Jayce hit a ball towards me, I caught it and threw it at Chris instead of back onto the bed.  Chris reciprocated, so I threw a few more his way.  Eventually, Chris and I were ducking behind furniture and launching all of the balls at one another instead of refilling Jayce's little bed driving range.  We had to stop once he started crying.  And Jayce was sad too.  :)


 


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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Potato Stampin

Posted on 11:17 AM by Unknown

I made these last week, which you can see here if interested,


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with this.


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When Jayce woke up, I knew he'd want to try it, so I set him up with a little potato stamping project too.


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Which went pretty well...


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until he realized that he had paint all over his boobies, which is what he told me.


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My arms are getting better, so I'll be catching up soon, and trying to right my blog negligence.


 


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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

More Wedding, Less Running

Posted on 12:50 PM by Unknown

Sorry I have been absent on here for about a week, it is pushing back the "catching up" that I was planning to do on the blog.  The short of it, and this will all have to be very short for now, is that I have really aggravated the muscles in my forearms and doing anything on the computer is kind of excruciating at the moment.  Really anything that requires me to lift my fingers up, like holding a pen, cutting with scissors...and, uh...cooking dinner, doing laundry, cleaning bathrooms...okay, really just the first things.  Anyway, at the moment I am full of ibuprofen and have spent the better part of today's nap time with ice bags on my arms, so I'm going to have to make this quick.


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I did find a few photos from the wedding last week that weren't of Jayce running away.  Mel and I grabbed the cousins and tried to get a quick cooperative picture of them together, and tried to get Jayce to give Hadley a kiss.  It seemed like he was going to cooperate, and at the last second, he backed out.


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What a boy!  Hadley is 5 months old now and such a big sweetie!  She is at that drooly stage and I think it scared Jayce off a little bit, but he wasn't exactly cooperating that evening in the first place.  We did manage to get the whole Keith family together for a family picture as well.


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That's all for today, but this will at least get me off the hook a little bit about not posting any new pictures in a week.


 


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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Pittard Wedding

Posted on 12:13 PM by Unknown

We went to Louisville last weekend for Chris to do the wedding of some good family friends. This would be the part where I would normally have a picture of Chris marrying our friends, but I do not have a picture like that. A tiny glimpse of why could be revealed in this picture. A blur of Jayce.

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Or maybe this one, which we'll call, "See ya Mom!"

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Jayce is normally a pretty well-behaved kid. He typically has a good sense of boundaries and minds us pretty well, but it was all out the door on this ocassion. Now I'm obviously aware that he is only 2 years old, and at the beginning of 2, not close to turning 3. But he was like a wild hellion of a 2 year old at this wedding and reception.


He was constantly running. I took him outside and he ran towards the street. I took him inside and he ran into people, all over the room, away from us. I picked him up and he did that "sideways fling out of your arms while screaming" thing. He wiped out big time, twice, but as soon as he stopped crying he started running again.

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He got marched out of the room a few times by Chris and I both. He got spanked, he got "talked to," he "Yes, ma'am" and "Yes, sir'd," and then went right back at it as soon as we unleashed him again. We left early and exhausted.


When we drove home the next day, he was fine. He sat happily in his seat, reading his books, playing with his cars, and watching a movie. He played well in the play area at Chick Fil A, and didn't fuss when it was time to leave. He was happy to be home and ran around pulling out his favorite toys, but playing with them sweetly. Chris and I talked about how we were so glad that we brought home Dr Jekyll instead of Mr Hyde.


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Friday, September 10, 2010

I Won!

Posted on 7:00 AM by Unknown

I was so excited to discover last week that I won a great prize! My friend has recently moved to Evansville with her family, and is working with a really great local photographer there. Sarah of Sarah Wellmeier Photography.


And I won a free photo session with Sarah! Yay!!!


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I have enjoyed getting into photography SO MUCH, because sometimes I'm able to capture some great shots of 2 of the most important people in my world.


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But sometimes I get a bit jealous and grumpy over the fact that I am never in any pictures. I feel like Chris and Jayce's relationship is readily photo-documented, but I am a bit non-existant. I will periodically hand the camera over to Chris and say, "Take a picture of me and Jayce," and he does, but he doesn't care about it necessarily being a good picture and is overall annoyed by the camera. You know what I mean, he just doesn't care. And I do care.


It turns out that, due to Chris' crazy fall schedule and the timeframe that I was allotted for the photo shoot, Chris won't be able to come with us to Evansville. I'm disappointed that we won't be able to do a family photo shoot, which is what I really would like. But a part of me is sooo excited to get some beautiful professional pictures of just me and my little boy. It will be an hour or so documenting a little bit of our relationship: the smiles, kisses and snuggles between me and my 2 year old baby. I can't wait.


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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Any Christian Standard Readers?

Posted on 6:00 AM by Unknown

Still playing catch up here a bit, but has anybody been reading the Christian Standard this past August?

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If so, I hope you caught 2 different articles penned by Chris and his father Andy. There was The Pastoral Call of Corporate Leaders in the August 15 issue, and Why Some Corporate Practices Should Have A Home in the Church in the August 29 issue. I was so proud to be sitting in church by my husband, and reading his writing in a magazine that I had grabbed off of the church's magazine rack! :)


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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

A Sweet Shot: Dreamy Sunflare

Posted on 5:00 AM by Unknown

I took this picture a few weeks ago as we were leaving a fall festival at our church. It was a really hot day, there were inflatables, and Jayce was a crazy jumping boy for the few hours that we were there. He obviously didn't want to leave the fun, but as soon as Chris picked him up to take him out to the car, his head hit Chris' shoulder and stayed there the rest of the way.


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I love the dreaminess that the light spilling across the middle of the frame brings, and I can't believe that I lucked into some rare 2 year old eye contact with the camera. I just want to reach in and grab that little snuggle bug.


I'm linking to a Sweet Shot Tuesday at Life with My 3 Boybarians.




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