What a frustrating few days......

Sunday night I wake up puking.  Feel like crap all day Monday.  Start feeling better Monday night. Kai pukes everywhere... then he does it again... and all night.  Then Kaeden throws up off and on all night Mon night.  Tuesday I feel great! I'm home with all 3 kids who seem to be doing well. The boys are acting 100% normal after their puke-a-thon night.  I thought Kinleigh was feeling icky Tues afternoon but no puke HOORAY~! Figured we were out of the woods.  Steven had the poo's and a little icky tummy Mon night and Tues morning... Out of the woods right????? Noooooooooooooooooooooope!  It's 1:30am and I am awake blogging because my little man Kai comes out to tell me his lip hurts.  I tell him to go pee and go back to bed. He looks at me and proceeds to waterfall chunks allover my floor. We have hardwood throughout the house .. Lucky right? Nooooooooooooooooooooooope! He nailed the throw rug in the living room. He goes back to bed. I bust out the shampoo'er at 1am and start shampooing while trying to shoo dogs away who think it's midnight snack time. GROSS!  Next thing I know the damn shampoo'er stops spraying water. Oh well. I think I got most of it before the water quit working.  Looks like I'm home with sick kids AGAIN tomorrow.  Please please please let this be the end of it!

Onto other things. Kinleigh is expanding her vocabulary!  She FINALLY said UP tonight :D  We've been trying to get her to say that for months now rather than AAAAUUUUUGGGGHHH to get picked up.  She's also saying MOM... Hat. Bubba (comes out Buh Buh) and her favorite is Whooooaaaahhhh While rocking or falling... Toddlerhood is upon us!

Kaeden had awesome news when he came home from school Monday! He was voted for the Honesty Award :)   He'll be in the paper and all.  I am so proud of him! He's such a great kid and I love him to pieces!  Nothing makes a Mom feel like she's doing something right then things like this :)

Kai was a great helper when I was sick on Monday with Kinleigh. Made himself breakfast (cheese and mayo sandwich) and fed Kinleigh. When did he grow up????  He was super proud of himself and I was proud of him too :)  I love it when Kai has good days. Sometimes I worry he has ADD or ADHD.  Others I just think he could be a lively spirited 5yr old boy.  I suppose we'll see as he heads into full time school!

Daisy Rain Photography continues to move forward.  I've been doing lots of Portfolio Building sessions and I think I see improvement already!  I made the big leap and bought a Canon 5D off of Ebay. Ok so I bought 2 but that was an accident and I'll be selling one of them ;)  I am supposed to receive it tomorrow and am super excited!  My boss is going to be buying my rebel for her husband to get into photography.  I had considered keeping it for back-up but could really use the money to offset the large chunk I just spent on the 5D.  My 2nd 5D should arrive next Tuesday along with a 50mm 1.4 lens. I am dying to get my hands on that combo and shoot some pics!

Next week is Spring Break. Lord please let us all be well by then!  No big plans. We do have plans the weekend of the 9-10 to head to Uncle Joel's house to celebrate Easter early with Steven's family. I am excited to go see everyone and to enjoy some traditions that Steven had growing up. Steven is excited too!

Feeling a touch depressed.  Started a biggest loser challenge with Lindsay and Steven and I am losing miserably! Steven's at 4+% weightloss... Lindsay's at 5+% weightloss...I had .37% weightloss. SERIOUSLY?!?!?!?!? Argh. And now I sit here at 1:45am HUNGRY when I should be sleeping. I am wide awake now as well just waiting for the next round of pukes.

Suppose I'll go read up on some photography stuff and then try to get back to sleep............... Night!

Some pics taken at Connor's birthday party this weekend :)

Kinda freaking out!

So tonight I took the leap and bought a Canon 5D on Ebay.  I think I'm going to feel like vomiting until I have it in my hands and can fall in love....................... Next on list? Purchase a 50mm 1.4 lens... Sell my rebel and sell my lenses to ease the pain of my purchase....... LOL  I am real excited to go do some portfolio building shots this weekend of a 3mo old and a 1yr old though :)  Too bad my new camera won't be here beforehand :p

Quick update on the last month..... Spent a weekend at Jared and Tammy's. We went down for Paxtin's welcome baby shower.  Chunking right up like big bro Q!  So adorable he is though :) I love baby snuggles.  Lindsay and her girls came down as well.  We ended up having an absolute blast!  Hide and Seek at midnight anyone? Garden Gnome's? Pee flowing from trees? Holes jumping out of nowhere?  yup it was a great night.  Also did a little shopping and purchased my first pair of new pants since Kai was about 4mo old!  I actually bought 2 pairs... Rue21 baby!! Affordable cute and fit great! Can't say enough good about that place.

Last weekend Misty and Bill came down. Misty and Lindsay got themselves some nifty new tattoos. BIG tattoos! Crazy women!  We did Sydney's 7th birthday party at the Kangaroo bounce house in Moses which was super cool. Too bad if we did a party like that for our boys our kids alone would be 1/2 of the allowed party size LOL  The kids loved it and all parents were super amazed at how smooth it went.  Sat night we had a grown up party just because and it was a great time, puke rally and all.  I did some trampoline jumping and danced the night away. My house was majorly trashed on Sunday but it was worth a good time relaxing and enjoying the company of amazing friends.  Chris and Tim came over to hang with us as well. Chris was afraid to try to keep up with me though :p  Not sure why that might be???? Saturday we also did some picture practice and portfolio building with Charysma and Keegan.  I was pleasantly surprised at how some turned out!   Did I mention that Misty and I got some things straight? I come with the wallpaper... My name is now wallpaper :) Love ya Garage and House!

Back to work after having the week off due to sick kids and sick babysitter. SO NICE to work this week! After tonights purchase I should probably consider another job LOL  Tax season is ticking down and it's been pretty boring at work. But it's great to be able to see adults and talk with adults :)  I also did some photo organizing starting with jan 2010 ... I was looking at a "photoshoot" I did with Kinleigh last April and WOW I sucked LOL I am so proud to say that I am making steps in the right direction to get better at what I do!  I can't wait for DaisyRain Photography to be well known and for me to rock every session!