I have this friend. She is amazing! She takes amazing pictures, she has a great eye for soft, natural pictures. She took our family pictures at the beginning of December and I somehow never linked up to them! See them here: Family pictures pre Wyatt.
She also came over (after a serious last minute call from me) to take some newborn pictures of Wyatt. She even came the day before she jetted off to Utah. I am ever so grateful for her coming then. We captured such a sweet age! See Wyatt's newborn pictures here.
And just in case I didn't link to them, you can also see the amazing shots she got of Wyatt in the NICU. I tell ya, she is a great friend (for more reasons that just the pictures, obviously), but these are memories I will cherish forever! NICU pics here.
If you are in the DFW area, I suggest you stop by her blog and check it out. Then schedule your photo session post haste!
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Easter pics
We had such a fun Easter weekend! It was supposed to be the weekend Wyatt arrived, but he was already a month old. Grandma Lori was sick when Wy was born so we planned on her still coming (and spoiling us) for Easter weekend (but that is a whole nother post). I tried somewhat to get our clothes to match. These are the best of the pictures. Brady is in his new, serious. crazy. face. stage. And as you will see below, they are pretty funny, but not so much good for family photos!
His face in the below picture? Priceless. Funny enough to allow the picture to be posted, even with my triple chin!
Keith and my genes mix really, really well. Love this beatiful girl!
And a few fun jumpy pictures!
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Tonights nick names
Natalie: Princess Stinky Toots
Brady: Super Stinky Pants
Daddy: King Tootin-kamen
I love when my family wrestles in the living room. Those sounds of laughter are probably one of the best sounds in the whole world.
Brady: Super Stinky Pants
Daddy: King Tootin-kamen
I love when my family wrestles in the living room. Those sounds of laughter are probably one of the best sounds in the whole world.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Gingerbread Houses!
Saturday was too much to write about right now so I am skipping ahead to Sunday evening. Hey, it's my blog I can do what I want to!
One of Keith's childhood Christmas memories was making real gingerbread houses every single year. Lorraine makes the gingerbread and everything! I have never (at least to my knowledge) made a real gingerbread house. Ours always consisted of graham crackers and frosting, and were just as fun, just not authentic. Needless to say I was pretty dang excited to make my very own this year! Lorraine brought all the pieces and candy with her stored safely in her bag and every single bit made it here in one piece! We had a lot of fun, and they turned out so cute. The kids loved the candy part of course, and sneaking the treats was a big hit.
Getting set up and eying the candy.
One of Keith's childhood Christmas memories was making real gingerbread houses every single year. Lorraine makes the gingerbread and everything! I have never (at least to my knowledge) made a real gingerbread house. Ours always consisted of graham crackers and frosting, and were just as fun, just not authentic. Needless to say I was pretty dang excited to make my very own this year! Lorraine brought all the pieces and candy with her stored safely in her bag and every single bit made it here in one piece! We had a lot of fun, and they turned out so cute. The kids loved the candy part of course, and sneaking the treats was a big hit.
Getting set up and eying the candy.
Super sweet, when she wants to be. She is my Sassy Pants these last few days, but she is still our lovey girl!
Man, I love this little monkey man.
The Gingerbread Queen!
You don't even want to know how awesome Lorraine's house was. It doesn't hurt that she has been making them every year for the last 30+ years! I don't have a picture of hers though because our apartment was too hot, it was melting!
Brady and Daddy's house.
Natalie went to town with the candy! Keith said that is what he did as a child because you got to eat your house, so whatever you could fit on it was all yours!
Mine! My very first! I like my Golden Graham roof.
Such a fun time, and I hope we can start doing it every year, as long as Grandma Lorraine comes out and brings the supplies! LOL! But it was very nice, and I loved seeing Keith do something that he has been doing for years. He is a pro!Graduation Pictures
Just a few more pictures for the family that couldn't come. The graduation was inside a very large Methodist church in downtown Fort Worth. It was very pretty inside.
Keith and the Dean.
Class photo.
Group shot. From left to right Keith's dad, Wayne, Michael, Jason, and Keith's Mom, Lorraine. All we needed was one more, but he is busy with finals.
Another good one of Keith where he doesn't look like he has a black eye, LOL!
Too bad I cut off Keith's head. Arg!
Thursday, December 11, 2008
More visitors!
Keith's brother Jason and his Mom are here now. The house is filled to the brim! Lorraine made the kids these capes and matching shirts and Natalie has been waiting forEVER for hers to come.
Brady's is Batman on one side and Superman on the other, with matching T shirts.
This one pretty much speaks for itself.
Jason teaching Brady how to "fly".
He stood like that until we told him he could put his arms down. He was being so sweet!
Da da da DAAA! Princess Natalie has arrived! She loves her crown and wand.
Thanks Grandma Lorraine!
Brady's is Batman on one side and Superman on the other, with matching T shirts.
This one pretty much speaks for itself.
Jason teaching Brady how to "fly".
He stood like that until we told him he could put his arms down. He was being so sweet!
Da da da DAAA! Princess Natalie has arrived! She loves her crown and wand.
Thanks Grandma Lorraine!
Visitors
Keith's family members are starting to arrive! Yay! Keith's dad Wayne came in this morning and Brady is already breaking him in with wrestling, catch, cars and all other manner of fun activities. The kids don't get to see extended family very often so they know how special it is when someone visits.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
We have a Stowaway!
Here we are eating dinner and we hear a knock on the door....it's Uncle Jason! Here safely from Houston. He can't stay there because there is no power, and we have just been waiting for him to show up! I don't have to say how stinking excited these kiddos were! And luckily tonight is the last night of my shift! So YAY for unexpected, but welcome, family visits!
Monday, August 4, 2008
Presenting...
Congratulations Holly! She is beautiful!P.S. Aunt Sharon can you send me a number to reach Grandma at?
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Oh what a day!
Well, the day started out peaceful enough, but then it turned into a day I don't ever want to forget solely based on the fact that it. was. AWFUL. So here it is, in all its horrible glory for me to remember never to let a day like this happen again. You can't judge me, because you KNOW you have had days like this too!
Today was to be my last night of my 7 day shift at work, so normally by the end of the week I am pretty tired, and when I say tired I mean grouchy. So this morning I was begging the kids to just sit quietly and watch Clifford so that I could nap for 30 minutes on the couch until the show was over. Now on any other day, they would do this for me, I don't know how, I guess I am just lucky, but NOT today! Not on the one day when I can feel the Monster Momma trying to break out, and I know that all I need to lock her inside is a quick little nap. Bleh! That is how it all started, it was down hill from there. For some reason Brady decided he wasn't going to listen today, and that it was his mission to pester Natalie so much as to make up for all the other good days when he left her alone. Needless to say the morning opened with a lot of pointless yelling, crying, and general whining from all 3 of us. So to make up for it I dragged the kids with me to Wal Mart (woo hoo) to finish up my grocery shopping. I knew this would only be a bearable trip if I promised a special lunch when we got home. So with the cart loaded with Oscar Mayer cheese dogs, Little Debbie strawberry shortcake rolls, and Mac & Cheese Pringles we were back on our way home after a surprisingly nice trip to the store, heading to what I was hoping would be a surprisingly nice afternoon. That was where logic failed me!
After the kids scarfed down their lunch I though Hooray! time for naps. This will be easy, we do this every day. Haha hee hee ho ho ha. No. The kids were in their beds at 2, and for the next hour I went in their no less than 5 times to pull Brady off the bookshelf, or clean out his bed of the toys he had gathered, or just plain telling him to shut it. Most of these times I held myself together, but in the essence of honesty I will say I lost it once (only once) during the full hour. So finally at 3 I left the room for the last time (I thought) and headed back to the sanctity of my bed (ah, blissful sleep! so close, yet so very, very far) to lie down. Now on a side note I will say that I am not a person that can run on little to no sleep, I have lowish iron so I get tired anyways (because I never take my pills, that I am not so sure actually help anyway), but after a week of erratic napping I was pretty much at my limit and NEEDED that bed to take care of me. BUT, right after I began to dose I got a phone call, and then after the call was over I heard something, I wasn't sure what it was, but I heard something. So I sneak into the dining room to listen at the kids door and sure enough, an hour and a half after I put him to bed (and I KNOW he was tired when I put him down, because he was rubbing his eyes, and SAYING sleepy!) Brady was still playing! This is after multiple pops on the butt, after mommy laying down in his bed and singing him sweet songs, after too much yelling on my part, after crying on his part, the kid was STILL awake. So I throw open the door (which always scares them, and I find this mildly funny, because they KNOW they are in trouble) and march in there to see what the heck he is doing. Do you want to know what he was doing?? He was playing trains! He had all of his metal (cuddly, no?) trains in bed with him, well except for the five or so that he had lovingly placed on Natalie's sleeping body (nice). Oh this boy, I love him so, but still! Why today?? When I most need a nap, and the beast is awakened, and my patience is shot, and I JUST. WANT. TO. SLEEP!
So, after that last bought of crazy (they both went to sleep after that! Hallelujah!), I went to call Keith to just cry a little, tell him I was losing it and obviously either sleep deprived or crazy, and have a little sympathy tossed my way. Luckily by this time he was close to being on his way home, and that meant close to being there to relieve me! There were other little things throughout the day that added to the drama, Brady's diaper leaking on MY bed, Natalie ripping a brand new book because she didn't wait for me to help her (that was not a good thing), the kitchen light burning out, the old sippies found under the couch with MILK (or what used to be milk) in them,, ick! There were good points to the day though! I will list them here so that I don't forget that with every bad day there is always something good too!
1. I am starting to work on a new rotation at work so that means transitioning from one set of 7 on, 7 off days to another. And THAT means that I have tonight off (which I should have been working) and tomorrow off. Then after a bit of a crazy work week this week I have a full week off next week!
2. We did have a fun time at the grocery store picking out fun foods for lunch, looking at all the people, and just enjoying being out of the house.
3. Lunch too was nice, the kids ate good, we all talked and played, and it was a very nice half hour in the middle of an other wise loony toons day.
4. I had a blissful hour and a half (or so) to myself when Keith went with Bryce to Sam's club AND he took the kids (which he said were monkeys, surprise, surprise, but at least HE was dealing with them, not ME).
5. We had a nice unexpected visit from Keith's Aunt Annette and his cousin April (whom I had not yet gotten to meet) tonight, and it was very fun! The kids loved April right away and we all sat and chatted in the kids room, while the kids showed off all their toys. Relaxing and nice.
6. My kids love me, this is the most important! Even when I lose it and get all "Rawr" as Natalie said today, they still love me and I love them. And at the end of the day we can put it all behind us with a few prayers and promises of a brand new day in the morning.
Days like this need to happen every once in awhile I think to remind us of how to behave. When I have a day like this it is a nice kick in the pants for me to get my rear and gear and work on being a happier Mommy EVEN if I am tired, exhausted, and otherwise beat down (as Sarah said, I am a total lightweight!). I still need to be nice.
A few moments of peace this morning, playing with the infamous trains. I love when kids lay and play like this. Brady kept kicking his legs up, but I just couldn't capture it on camera. Natalie was being a doll. Poor thing got the short end of the stick today.
K
Keith, April, Annette, and the kids. They had so much fun showing April all their toys. Natalie LOVES "big girls" so she was in heaven!
Brady took to April very fast. He was really hamming it up looking all cute and innocent in his jeans and no shirt. Under that sweet exterior though...today he was a little booger. For reals.
Today was to be my last night of my 7 day shift at work, so normally by the end of the week I am pretty tired, and when I say tired I mean grouchy. So this morning I was begging the kids to just sit quietly and watch Clifford so that I could nap for 30 minutes on the couch until the show was over. Now on any other day, they would do this for me, I don't know how, I guess I am just lucky, but NOT today! Not on the one day when I can feel the Monster Momma trying to break out, and I know that all I need to lock her inside is a quick little nap. Bleh! That is how it all started, it was down hill from there. For some reason Brady decided he wasn't going to listen today, and that it was his mission to pester Natalie so much as to make up for all the other good days when he left her alone. Needless to say the morning opened with a lot of pointless yelling, crying, and general whining from all 3 of us. So to make up for it I dragged the kids with me to Wal Mart (woo hoo) to finish up my grocery shopping. I knew this would only be a bearable trip if I promised a special lunch when we got home. So with the cart loaded with Oscar Mayer cheese dogs, Little Debbie strawberry shortcake rolls, and Mac & Cheese Pringles we were back on our way home after a surprisingly nice trip to the store, heading to what I was hoping would be a surprisingly nice afternoon. That was where logic failed me!
After the kids scarfed down their lunch I though Hooray! time for naps. This will be easy, we do this every day. Haha hee hee ho ho ha. No. The kids were in their beds at 2, and for the next hour I went in their no less than 5 times to pull Brady off the bookshelf, or clean out his bed of the toys he had gathered, or just plain telling him to shut it. Most of these times I held myself together, but in the essence of honesty I will say I lost it once (only once) during the full hour. So finally at 3 I left the room for the last time (I thought) and headed back to the sanctity of my bed (ah, blissful sleep! so close, yet so very, very far) to lie down. Now on a side note I will say that I am not a person that can run on little to no sleep, I have lowish iron so I get tired anyways (because I never take my pills, that I am not so sure actually help anyway), but after a week of erratic napping I was pretty much at my limit and NEEDED that bed to take care of me. BUT, right after I began to dose I got a phone call, and then after the call was over I heard something, I wasn't sure what it was, but I heard something. So I sneak into the dining room to listen at the kids door and sure enough, an hour and a half after I put him to bed (and I KNOW he was tired when I put him down, because he was rubbing his eyes, and SAYING sleepy!) Brady was still playing! This is after multiple pops on the butt, after mommy laying down in his bed and singing him sweet songs, after too much yelling on my part, after crying on his part, the kid was STILL awake. So I throw open the door (which always scares them, and I find this mildly funny, because they KNOW they are in trouble) and march in there to see what the heck he is doing. Do you want to know what he was doing?? He was playing trains! He had all of his metal (cuddly, no?) trains in bed with him, well except for the five or so that he had lovingly placed on Natalie's sleeping body (nice). Oh this boy, I love him so, but still! Why today?? When I most need a nap, and the beast is awakened, and my patience is shot, and I JUST. WANT. TO. SLEEP!
So, after that last bought of crazy (they both went to sleep after that! Hallelujah!), I went to call Keith to just cry a little, tell him I was losing it and obviously either sleep deprived or crazy, and have a little sympathy tossed my way. Luckily by this time he was close to being on his way home, and that meant close to being there to relieve me! There were other little things throughout the day that added to the drama, Brady's diaper leaking on MY bed, Natalie ripping a brand new book because she didn't wait for me to help her (that was not a good thing), the kitchen light burning out, the old sippies found under the couch with MILK (or what used to be milk) in them,, ick! There were good points to the day though! I will list them here so that I don't forget that with every bad day there is always something good too!
1. I am starting to work on a new rotation at work so that means transitioning from one set of 7 on, 7 off days to another. And THAT means that I have tonight off (which I should have been working) and tomorrow off. Then after a bit of a crazy work week this week I have a full week off next week!
2. We did have a fun time at the grocery store picking out fun foods for lunch, looking at all the people, and just enjoying being out of the house.
3. Lunch too was nice, the kids ate good, we all talked and played, and it was a very nice half hour in the middle of an other wise loony toons day.
4. I had a blissful hour and a half (or so) to myself when Keith went with Bryce to Sam's club AND he took the kids (which he said were monkeys, surprise, surprise, but at least HE was dealing with them, not ME).
5. We had a nice unexpected visit from Keith's Aunt Annette and his cousin April (whom I had not yet gotten to meet) tonight, and it was very fun! The kids loved April right away and we all sat and chatted in the kids room, while the kids showed off all their toys. Relaxing and nice.
6. My kids love me, this is the most important! Even when I lose it and get all "Rawr" as Natalie said today, they still love me and I love them. And at the end of the day we can put it all behind us with a few prayers and promises of a brand new day in the morning.
Days like this need to happen every once in awhile I think to remind us of how to behave. When I have a day like this it is a nice kick in the pants for me to get my rear and gear and work on being a happier Mommy EVEN if I am tired, exhausted, and otherwise beat down (as Sarah said, I am a total lightweight!). I still need to be nice.
A few moments of peace this morning, playing with the infamous trains. I love when kids lay and play like this. Brady kept kicking his legs up, but I just couldn't capture it on camera. Natalie was being a doll. Poor thing got the short end of the stick today.
K
Keith, April, Annette, and the kids. They had so much fun showing April all their toys. Natalie LOVES "big girls" so she was in heaven!
Brady took to April very fast. He was really hamming it up looking all cute and innocent in his jeans and no shirt. Under that sweet exterior though...today he was a little booger. For reals.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Feeling sentimental today...
We had our family photo shoot with Missy (see her stuff HERE and HERE) and I am really excited about how I think they will turn out. Natalie, of course, acted like a total drama queen (I wouldn't expect anything else!), and Brady wouldn't smile until we gave him a starburst which made him smile a little. I know Missy took a bunch, and I am sure she got some fabulous shots. Spending time with them this today made me appreciate how much I love them. I heard this song while blog hopping and it just touched me. What would I do with out my husband and my children? I have no idea, they are everything to me. And no one will ever love my kids the way I do.
*UPDATE* Missy has posted a preview of the shoot on her photo blog (HERE). So awesome! And yes, I do love my monkeys feet, they are so small and chubby, and I know one day they will be big and stinky. So I love me some baby toes! (grown up ones not so much!)
*UPDATE* Missy has posted a preview of the shoot on her photo blog (HERE). So awesome! And yes, I do love my monkeys feet, they are so small and chubby, and I know one day they will be big and stinky. So I love me some baby toes! (grown up ones not so much!)
Thursday, March 13, 2008
On the Border
Here are the pictures from our outing to On the Border (Natalie's choice) for a birthday dinner. It was so cute, because we just let Brady be, and he just started sneaking chips over and over and over again. I think he had at least 10.
Natalie I think ate chips, 2 bites of nachos, and TONS of ice cream. If that's not a birthday dinner I don't know what is!
Sneakin' a chip.
We asked Natalie if she wanted them to sing Happy Birthday to her and she said yes. So of course when they all come out the scream first to get everyones attention, and to send Natalie hunkering down in Mommy's side until they were done. All the waiters were very nice and wished her a Happy Birthday when they had finished their song. And then she was free to dig in to the yummiest sundae ever! Lucky for me she preferred the ice cream over the warm brownie! More chocolate for me!
Natalie I think ate chips, 2 bites of nachos, and TONS of ice cream. If that's not a birthday dinner I don't know what is!
Sneakin' a chip.
We asked Natalie if she wanted them to sing Happy Birthday to her and she said yes. So of course when they all come out the scream first to get everyones attention, and to send Natalie hunkering down in Mommy's side until they were done. All the waiters were very nice and wished her a Happy Birthday when they had finished their song. And then she was free to dig in to the yummiest sundae ever! Lucky for me she preferred the ice cream over the warm brownie! More chocolate for me!
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Parties (take 3)
Here are some more wonderful pictures from Brady's party taken by the lovely Sarah. click on the pictures to see them in better detail. Some of them are just wonderful!
Here's Erin...she carried a watermelon...I love this picture!
Here's Erin...she carried a watermelon...I love this picture!
My sweet birthday boy!
The Kirchmanns
Bubbles!
I am sorry, but that is one cute kid, and one cute outfit!
Perfect picnic food, uncrustables, goldfish (whales actually), cheese sticks, juice boxes, and bags of apple slices! Yummy feast!
And a huge sub sandwich for the old folks!
Cupcakes!
The bestest one! I love this pic so much. My little boy all growd up!
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