No pics....just me.....

So here it is after 11pm and this little peanut is more active than ever! I swear every night around 11pm it's moving around like crazy! Nesting has DEFINITELY set in seeing that I have cleaned out the guest room/nursery closet, we redid the laundry room, I've organized the craft pantry, and cleaned the office- I still have TONS of filing but at least you can walk in the room:) Tomorrow is going to be a crazy day with dropping Cavan off at school, going to a doctor's appt., helping in K*'s classroom, and going to UPS. I am also hoping to get my eyebrows threaded before picking C* up from camp but we'll see what all I can get accomplished! I still can't get over how crazy life has been and I just keep thinking that there are not enough hours in the day to finish all of the little tasks I want to get done prior to this little one's arrival! Can you believe that I am already 33 1/2 weeks into this pregnancy? And just think....they are taking it at 39 weeks which leaves just over 5 weeks to get everything done!!!!! I keep looking at my list and as I have been productive it just seems to keep growing....kind of like my laundry piles:) I hope that someday I will be organized and on top of things without the constant stress of to much to do and not enough time! Thanks for letting me ramble....off to bed-

Playing with trains

So here it is after midnight and I can't sleep because my heartburn is so bad! Nevermind the fact that I have my holiday mini sessions tomorrow and must be up and out the door early early....but instead- here I am on the computer posting a couple of images of C* playing with Thomas:) He was in a funny mood this morning and "Thomas" wanted his picture taken!

Images from our summer vacation.....

Stopping at my friend's house in Atlanta on our way to Florida.....obviously the kids were NOT interested in having their picture taken:)






Magic Kingdom:

K* and Daddy after Big Thunder Mountain.......this ride was the first and last roller coaster that Miss K* would go on:)

C* and Daddy watching the parade.....



Cinderella's castle.....


Characters while at Hollywood Studios......





Meeting Mickey......

Animal Kingdom......

Dancing to the beat of his own drum:)


Playing in water to keep cool!

Digging for dinosaurs.....

Mmmmm.....the candy story in downtown disney!

My Third Grader

I can hardly believe that my little girl is in third grade! She actually started a week ago but I am just now posting the couple shots I snapped before she boarded the bus....which was arriving at the stop the same time we did as it was 5 minutes early and has been 5 minutes early every day since!!!! I guess her bus driver didn't get the memo that we are NOT morning people and every extra minute is priceless for us:)

At our cousins

The kids and I made a quick trip to Chicago last week to see Nan and Papa and the L*cousins while mommy had a photoshoot. We had a nice visit and C* and M* especially enjoyed their time together(I think they spent the entire time playing Planet Heroes- which is now one of C*'s favorite toys!). I think that S* was a little disappointed in his Aunt D* because I wouldn't let him have my phone....but hopefully he'll forgive me!

My little boy is FOUR!

So I have had my eye on the Hello, Cupcake cookbook for some time and my FABULOUS mother-in-law surprised me with it! I was so excited to let C* pick out a cupcake design wondering if he would choose the alligator, the sharks, the puppies......but no.....what does he choose?! The Slumber Party and he wanted the scared little boy reading the ghost book:) You can see that I (with my husband's help as I was having a hard time rolling out the airhead blankets) made one for each one of our family members.....C* and I both have red hair....well orange but you get the idea while B* and K* both have brown hair. These were really easy to make but a little time consuming!

We had a pretty lazy day of sleeping in, opening gifts, eating doughnuts, going to Toys-R-Us (to spend birthday money), and then heading to Chilis for dinner. With every gift C* opened he kept asking if it was going to be a Planet Heroes toy and unfortunately it wasn't.....he had a dress-up themed birthday which consisted of a fireman, swat team, star wars clone trooper, transformer bumblebee, and army guy costumes as well as a ds game; but lucky for him he had birthday money that he used to buy a few Planet Heroes toys as well as the Imaginext batman plane. If only my session in Chicago had been a little sooner I would have known that he wanted Planet Heroes toys....but we didn't go to his cousin's house until Friday and with his birthday being Saturday we had already finished shopping:) Anyway- we ended the day with cupcakes just before piling on the air mattresses on the family room floor for our sleepover. C* had had a nap so he was up late watching the Bee Movie but the rest of us started to doze mid-way through:)

Saying goodbye-

So today has been a trying day for my little girl. She had to say goodbye to her hamster Cookie Dough which is never an easy thing to do. This morning we noticed that something wasn't right so we took her to the vet to find that not only did she have a severe prolapsed rectum but she was also a he.....mild cases can be corrected with surgery but because his was severe the doctor felt it was best to put him to sleep. I know that I've always felt bad when my kids are sick or hurt but today was really hard for my little girl and therefore VERY hard for me! I hated seeing her in so much pain with the loss of her favorite little rodent especially there was little I could do to console her. I hope that she will find comfort through her other furry friends that are still here:)

So say a little prayer today for Miss K* and Cookie Dough!