tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69274258558027885242024-10-08T20:01:05.254-06:00Life - our way.Karynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00248311133200874984noreply@blogger.comBlogger234125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6927425855802788524.post-66443159662172427792012-08-02T01:03:00.000-06:002012-08-02T01:03:03.222-06:00

Kalen's getting married in October! So we went to her bridal shower. In D.C.! Here's proof.

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Unedited, but sure cute! Kierstyn is 3. She is potty-trained. Between the gym (oh yeah, we opened a CrossFit/JKD/MMA gym in April) and the ball fields she has had one very unique potty-training experience. So thanks to my pal Susy, I am inspired to blog again. First subject of importance? Kierstyn's funnies of the night. Funny A: "The bright lights make me get fat. Don't turn the lights on."

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Jesse performing Paper Jamz, clad in CVHS wrestling singlet, Jason mask and jeans.I spend a lot of time performing and hiding behind a somewhat less frightening and certainly less plastic mask. I can relate to this picture in ways words can't explain. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••On the worst days, I not only lack motivation to do my daily tasks, but to even exist at all. Sometimes I drive

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This article was published on aliveutah.com. I changed the names because I didn't want random people avoiding me without really knowing me or continuously asking me how I'm doing. I don't want the attention - positive or negative. But I have to be true to myself. I need to write. I need to know I could possibly help someone else who may be experiencing the hell of post-partum depression, so I'll

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President's Day weekend is one of the earliest baseball tournaments of the year. Daelan is on a new team with a lot of the same players - we've replaced the Fusion jersey with the Falcons uniform. The Falcons won their first two games and we were looking forward to the next day. If they won the next two, it could put them into the Championship. We arrived at 12:00 noon for the 1:00 game to

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When Jesse wants cereal, Kierstyn wants cereal. When Jesse stirs his cereal with a swift, chopping, up and down motion, Kierstyn does, too. When Jesse takes a bite, Kierstyn watches him closely and follows with a bite of her own. It's the sunshine that starts my day before the real sun has even risen. It makes me smile.

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I ended up taking our own family pics at the end of last year and I didn't even get them printed out, mailed - nothing.  (Actually, I did send a few out on an e-mail.) That's what happens when you're a photographer, taking care of everyone else's Christmas pictures.  I did thoroughly enjoy doing everyone else's cards, though.  The look on Daelan's face tells the story of the day -

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I'm only a bad blogger on blogspot...I've kind of been focusing all my attention on bloomShoot Photography - a business I started recently.  Blog, Website and Shoots are so much fun!!!  Yep!  It took me until I was 33 to figure out what I really love to do.  Crazy what a year and a great camera (actually, I'm on my 3rd great camera by now) will do.   So forgive me for

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Woke up at 4 am - couldn't sleep Tried my best to hurry through a very important photoshop project. It ended up taking me until 11:30am No lunch. No time! Meeting at noon - late again. Meeting rescheduled - quarter til one. ring. ring. 10 minute explanation on the other end. The word "yes" on my end as I stood in the kitchen wearing nothing but nature's coveralls - shower water running. [

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This post should be filled with descriptive words about the utter joy I felt as I watched my baby take 4 or 5 steps to me, to my complete and utter surprise right after a routine diaper change, two days ago on April 7, 2010.  Or about the sky, finally sending more rays of sunshine onto my Vitamin D starved skin and less frequent showers of shimmering snowflakes onto my pH imbalanced lawn.

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<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 i love the way my husband's eyes can hardly stay open if he sits down for even a minute.  hate that he has to work so hard, but i'm so grateful for someone who would rather work himself to the bone than sit around   being all kinds of unproductive.  as if he were capable of such a thing. i love the way my (almost) 12 year old son's mouth tightens and

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Over the weekend... Kierstyn turned 1 Jesse turned 6 and I can hardly believe it.   As if she knew it was time, Kierstyn started walking everywhere.  She is mighty unstable and isn't exactly a marathon walker yet...she's more of a sprinter.  But she's doing it and it's probably the cutest thing I've seen in a LONG time!  Jesse had a great big party at Fun Time Inflatables on

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...no, not that kind of annual exam.  More like a personal inventory of the last year... Honest to goodness, I can hardly believe that 364 days ago, on April 22, I had a routine OB appointment to see Dr. Heath, was sent to Labor & Delivery in pre-term labor and that night, though technically the 23rd, I delivered that tiny, beautiful, raven-haired sweetness and named her Kierstyn.

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OK, she doesn't walk yet, but she cruises.  You know, like along the couch, the ottoman, the sliding glass door, the entertainment console....she crawls at lightning speeds to whatever destination is most enticing, pulls herself up to standing and walks alongside, holding on. In January, Kierstyn said her first two-in-one word, which even included a contraction!  She started saying "

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J.R. took his managers on a company cruise the week before Christmas.  It was HEAVENLY!  A much needed break after a rough 18 mos!  For me, anyway. My little sister Kelly is the manager of iTECH SECURE, the security division, so she and her new hubby, Logan, went, too! Here are a few pics I took on the cruise. We had an amazing time and couldn't have done any of it without my

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Merry Christmas!!! Head over to my foto blog to see my latest shoots!

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What is my favorite season?  Well, if we're talking weather, that little interval between Spring and Summer where everything is blossoming and green again, the warm sunshine is generously pouring it's perfectly average temperatures and the earth is softening. High 70s to mid 80s! BUT if we're talking SEASON as in Holidays, well Christmas sits way on top of the list, far surpassing even

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wink fotos by emily clark.  We have never ever had our pictures taken professionally. Not even Sears or Kiddie Candids.  Wal-Mart Special is the best I've ever done for each kid and I haven't even done that for a couple years now.  I feel so spoiled to have had Emily come down and take our pictures.  It was worth it.  SO worth it. I finally have the beauty I see

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I have zero photography skills.  I bought a magical camera that makes it appear that I DO have some skills. From my first little practice: I edited all but the pumpkin pic.  Lots to learn here... My new foto blog, squish foto co, can be seen HERE!

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ouch! I weaned Kierstyn.  I can't remember if I mentioned that before and I'm too lazy to go searching. Anyway, it's done. Over. Kaput. And I am in pain. Yes, yes.  The emotional pain is one thing.  It is a close second to tragic. I can no longer breastfeed. Not ever again.  I got shortchanged on that one, but I am infinitely grateful for the full six months of sweet,

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I just bought a new Nikon D60 camera with two decent lenses. Um, yeah.Not sure I can hack it, but I have such a passion for creating and I've recently seen some of the creative possibilities having a decent camera can provide. I'm pretty anxious to test it out. I hope I'm not as terrible a photographer as I think. At least I have some adorable kids to practice on.There will, of course, be a

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XI started P90X. It felt great. It went well. I could do a few DVDs but I couldn't do most of the DVDs all the way through. I went back to aerobics and strength training. I feel MUCH better about this.The end.

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Witchy, crampy, weepy. All I want is....OK, I want a lot of things. I'll try my hardest not to be witchy. Can't help the crampy or weepy. Blasted IUD. Cursed post-partum depression.So is it really too much to ask that SOMEONE, who shall remain nameless, go through a TINY bit of outpatient discomfort so that I don't have to suffer one more obnoxious procedure and more pain than I already

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