Tuesday, October 17, 2017

OCTOBER 16TH 2017

Today was pretty fun. And it was beautiful today. 

After I got the kids to school Kinley and I went to the gym. I did an awesome leg workout which left me energized (not tired like usual). I felt good all day. I only started back at the gym last week. It had been since May but I had forgotten how much I love working out. I already see a huge difference from last week. 

We rushed home from the gym to hurry and shower before Anne Spencer dropped off Isaac. He played here while they went to parent teacher conference. Then she watched Sadie and Kinley while I went to Tyson's parent teacher conference. 

The kids have half days all week. Tyson's teacher is Ms. Radtke. She said he's doing great! He knows all of his colors, shapes, letters, and letter sounds. I'm so proud of him! I'm so glad we decided to hold him back for one more year of Kindergarten. I had Ben bring him home Raspberry sherbet ice cream as a reward for doing so well.





 Before soccer practice we hid our painted rocks as kind of a 
FHE activity. Someone already found them! The kids had a lot of fun with this. 



We went to soccer practice early so the kids could have a chance to play a little. We had fun! I brought Missy. She was a pain in the butt but she had fun playing with all the other dogs and she attracted a lot of kids over to pet her. She's very popular. She was a happy girl! 





 We love the Fort Steilacoom park. It's HUGE! A lot of the parks around here are very impressive. It's a nice change from North Carolina where you have like 1 park full of fire ants. There's a chestnut tree (I was super disappointed to find out it's the poisonous kind not the yummy kind) but we played a game where we threw the chestnuts into a trash can. Sadie and Ty loved it! We couldn't get Kinny into though so we had to stop. She just wanted to play. 
Towards the end of soccer practice I ran into Mandy Dustin and she let me know that her daughter Claire (she's in his class) wants to marry Tyson. I told him about it and he tried to play it cool but he was super excited. He was very disappointed last week when a boy in the class (Brady?) kissed her on the mouth. He didn't say that but I could tell. 

















Sunday, June 14, 2015

365 Project comes to an END!

         Some of you may be confused as to why my 365 photography project is coming to an end in the middle of the month. Seems weird right? Well I started this project on the day my baby girl Kinley was born. As a way to challenge myself to take a picture everyday so that I would have the camera close at all times as to not miss any important moments. I had Sadie and Tyson so close together that I missed a lot of Tyson's first year due to stress and exhaustion. This is my last baby so I have to enjoy every moment!

         I'm so grateful that I did this because I grew as a photographer and I have all of those precious moments throughout the year documented. So now that it's over I'm not going to be able to stop (Sorry if you're sick of seeing us around!) but I'm taking it to the NEXT LEVEL and doing a video a day! Some days may only be a minute of footage and some may be 10 (I don't think I'm going to do over 10 unless I feel it needs it). We've chosen YouTube as our platform to share these videos. Our channel name is Our Army Life. Please subscribe! It's no fun doing all the work of making a video and having NO ONE watch. Sure we'll be awkward at first as we learn to talk to a camera (especially is PUBLIC, YIKES!!!) but it'll be a learning experience for all of us. Also, did you know you can make money off of your YouTube videos? Win win I say! We don't think we are going to get rich or famous by any means BUT if we can make enough to pay for the cameras we bought to make the videos then I'll be elated!

     If you've read this far then give yourself a pat on the back from me because I know I wouldn't have made it through! That's the good thing about video. Listening is easy! OK I'm done now! Sorry!



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Birthday party for Ty! 6-357-365

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Happy 4th Birthday Tyson! Love you! 9-360-365

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NEPHEWS! Wyllim and Owen! 13-364-365

Happy 1ST Birthday beautiful Kinley! 14-365-365!


THE END!


Sunday, May 31, 2015

MAY 365 Project!

Almost done! It's been fun but I'm ready for the new project (videos) to start. Check out our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvuy1eZeOtU9hLjoaVIK8Bg and be sure to subscribe to get all the updates on new videos! It has been a TON of fun learning how to edit videos (something I've never ever done before). I haven't been as good about taking pictures this month as I've been trying to figure out this whole video thing. Oh WELL!

The Walking Dead is my favorite :) 1-321-365

Waterfall Canyon! We made it to the top!  2-322-365

My little flower. 3-323-365

Tree climbing is a childhood must. 4-324-365

Monkey bars! 5-325-365

Good friends! 6-326-365

More good friends! 7-327-365

Funny baby! 8-328-365

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Red neck swimming pool. 10-330-365

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Help! I'm stuck! 12-332-365

Wiggle butt. 13-333-365

Cute...14-334-365

Ice cream man 15-335-365

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 Enjoying last moments with school friends! 20-340-365

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Tyson and Ms Faith. He loves her! 22-342-365

Beach bum 23-343-365

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Raven Rock 25-345-365

These kids are a hot mess LOL! 26-346-365 Photo Credit goes to Rebecca :)

Sams club is one of our favs! 27-347-365

So creepy! 28-348-365

Graduation time! 29-349-365

PiƱata haul! 30-350-365

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