tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:29:31 +0000AlaskaFallallergiesbeginningcar washfirst day of schoolfirst postfunintroductionpollensprinklerstomach bugsMy ramblings about my life, my photography, and anything else in between! Let me know how I am doing, will ya?!http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)Blogger170125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-2936918903253582733Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:38:00 +00002012-12-04T14:38:29.948-06:00 This is a cross post from my photography blog, but it is a personal post. So, it belongs here as well. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Something has been sitting on my heart very heavily over the last few years. And, it's my own fault.   I have never been one to be in front of the camera. But, I sure do love being behind it. I love capturing memories of my kids and my http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/12/our-turn.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-6222323992693589276Fri, 02 Nov 2012 21:29:00 +00002012-11-02T16:40:20.987-05:00 Yesterday's blog post was a bit rough. I actually regretted it for a few minutes after I posted it. But, I am glad I left it up. I'm sure people may get annoyed with my posts of frustration and annoyances with my kids. But, like I said, I'm human, I'm real. I post the good AND the bad. I find it comforting to read other people's "bad" posts. Not because I take pleasure in other people havinghttp://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/11/so-little-change-of-pace.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-292842734523605772Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:29:00 +00002012-11-02T12:18:45.475-05:00 I'm not sure where this is going to go. I just know, I need to write. I'm not going to sugar coat anything. I'm tired of people thinking I have it all together. Because, I don't. Far from it. This is just me. A mother of three who struggles every day to keep her sanity. I'm the mom of a special needs child. He is diagnosed as Autistic, but it is not a diagnosis that we are 100% sure about yet. http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/11/raw-no-sugar-coating-here.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-6741533649418434564Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:36:00 +00002012-10-10T17:36:36.770-05:00 Yes, yes. Another cross post. Hey! At least I'm blogging!!!! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ This poor child. My poor husband! I think I am going to drive them both insane! I have seen so many gorgeous bridges in the area. Only, I have seen them in pictures. There is ONE bridge though, that REALLY caught my eye! The bright, bold, BLUE color just POPS in pictures! I fell in love. So, I set myself on a http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/10/yes-yes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-7889176450200286420Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:17:00 +00002012-09-26T14:52:34.468-05:00AlaskaFallfirst day of school I know I don't seem to be on here much these days. In fact, I am not really on here at all. But, I thought maybe if I at least keep up on the appearance of my blog, maybe it will prompt me to write a blog post or more.... And, that it did. So, I did it again, I changed my blog look, AGAIN! This time, I went for the fall look!!! My favorite time of the year! I kept it a bit simple, and I love ithttp://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/09/i-did-it-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-3736858907821044142Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:52:00 +00002012-09-26T13:34:30.430-05:00 Ok, so, I am totally cheating here! I am just cross posting from my photography blog. Just sharing some recent pictures of the kids!  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The past few weeks have been nothing but wind and rain! It's been quite ridiculous actually! The sun barely made an appearance! I was pushing off my kids fall/school pictures for a while. Mainly because I was waiting for the http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/09/fall.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-2633980836340408775Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:52:00 +00002012-09-02T19:58:48.316-05:00 This summer seemed to have lasted FOREVER! It has been gorgeous here in Alaska!!! Yes, rain and all!!!! There have been a lot of rainy days, but quite honestly, I will take cool and rainy over hot and humid ANY.DAY! We made the best of the 3 summer months. My kids played outside with all of their new neighborhood friends, we explored Anchorage and the surrounding area, we went camping, http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/09/summer-has-come-to-end.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-7614726152320830077Sat, 07 Jul 2012 01:03:00 +00002012-07-06T20:03:43.639-05:00 Just playing around with a different blog theme. Not sure if I like this one. Liking the bigger bloggin view itself... but I miss my tabs on top. Need to figure that out yet..... so, carry on :) Don't mind me goofin around on here :D http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/07/just-playing-around-with-different-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-8576106729484229484Mon, 28 May 2012 06:50:00 +00002012-05-28T01:50:06.953-05:00 Sheesh, Ok, I'll just say it... I suck at blogging now! The days of blogging every single day are long gone! So,  lot has happened since the last time I blogged. We moved. Again! Not too far! Still in Alaska. But, the owners of the house broke our lease, so we moved on base. I was bummed about the breaking of the lease. But, it has worked out. We got a house on base fast and we are saving http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/05/has-it-really-been-almost-three-months.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-2719531508935093764Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:54:00 +00002012-02-28T00:55:40.862-06:00 It's been a rough few weeks. I've been battling a crazy head cold that suddenly turned in to a horrible sinus infection. My head has never been so clogged up with pressure before in my life. It sucks! It's knocked me back a bit as far as my workouts. But, it hasn't knocked me OUT! I've been doing TurboFire as much as I possibly could (I am sure that is not true, I probably could have pushed http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/02/down-but-not-out.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-3326909474369999462Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:42:00 +00002012-02-22T15:43:33.467-06:00 For the better of course! Moving to Alaska has been a fresh start!! I knew coming here that it was going to be an adventure! And I REALLY wanted to make some changes while we are here! My first change was with my business. It was a tough decision, but, I decided to take the year off so I could focus on my family and this incredible place we are blessed to call home (for the next four years http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/02/making-some-changes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-3234197705282078409Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:40:00 +00002012-01-31T17:40:07.704-06:00 It feels like {FOREVER} since the last time I did an I Heart Faces challenge!!! In fact, I think it HAS been forever!!!! But, don't fret! I decided to jump in on this one! (not that anyone is really paying much attention! lol!) It actually worked out perfectly with this theme! I took some Valentine shots of my kids yesterday, and they were just... well, SILLY! So, I have an over http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/01/oh-so-silly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-2152188864447249070Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:40:00 +00002012-01-31T15:45:06.736-06:00 It was better than nothing! Lol!! I made the attempt. I failed!!! LOL!!! I've been a busy bee lately though! So, blogging was pushed to the back burner! Maybe I will do a catch up post all in one and then jump back on the wagon. Hopefully I can do that tonight! But, for now.... my crazy kids! http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/01/24-days.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-1323562296706512262Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:24:00 +00002012-01-24T18:24:15.649-06:00I'm not big on eating meat. In fact, I went a whole six years without eating it before I was pregnant with Mackenzie. It just didn't appeal much to me. After I became pregnant with Kenzie, I started craving it! So, I ate it more and more and it became a part of my food pyramid again. But, it was mostly chicken I started eating. I'm not a big fan of red meat at all. But, hubby is! Since it doesn'thttp://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/01/243651.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-8210772861430727375Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:13:00 +00002012-01-24T18:13:58.750-06:00I think my theme for this whole series may just stay at 365+1adaylate! Lol! I keep trying to keep up, but it just never works out! But hey, at least I am kind of keeping up! I really thought I would slack by weeks at a time! So far, I'm going pretty good! Yesterday, we had an asthma appointment for Mackenzie. I was really hoping that the cooler Alaska air would help her out. And it has, some. http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/01/233651.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-6120859612088510841Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:15:00 +00002012-01-23T23:15:23.724-06:00 I know, I am slacking still. I had full intentions on getting my post up for yesterday right after I got my delayed post up from the day before. But, life caught up with me! So, hopefully I can get two posts put up tonight to catch up! Yesterday, Adam and I came down the stairs to find our quiet kids. We hadn't heard them in a little bit, so we snuck up on them. They were being quiet in http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/01/223651.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-8574607128685326010Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:49:00 +00002012-01-22T22:49:18.874-06:00No real excuse to my forgetfulness of yesterday's post. It was a lazy day. Well, lazy in the sense that we had nothing planned really. We just hung out, did a little shopping at Target and the BX, went to the automatic carwash ( the kids always get a kick out of that!), then we ordered some pizza and played some Bop It! We kept the kids up pretty late last night in hopes of seeing the aurora http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/01/213651.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-7194888692722262644Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:09:00 +00002012-01-21T02:09:12.100-06:00Today was an incredibly busy day. So, my 365+1 picture wasn't on my mind much. In fact, I'm just getting this post in just in time! Whew! I'm doing alright with keeping up so far..... Don't want to make it a habit of forgetting! Eeek! Today's picture is.... Alaska! The view from our living room window! It is amazing!!! And it never gets old!!! I catch myself just standing there for a while http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/01/203651.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-4963291057917899857Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:40:00 +00002012-01-20T00:40:47.563-06:00My crazy lil Maddybug! This is who I get to spend my days with!!!! I think she may be tired of following mommy around cleaning. She kept yelling at me that I was too loud and she couldn't hear her toys! Lol! She doesn't like the vacuum at all! http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/01/193651.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-3960025868667371709Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:45:00 +00002012-01-19T02:01:44.922-06:00Big accomplishment today! I have been hunting for a small console table for this area since we got our household goods delivered. I just haven't found the one I wanted... I bought this one because it was cheap and it can do the job for now! I eventually want to find a black or ebony one instead of this lighter espresso color. But, like I said, it gets the job done. As far as the big http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/01/183651.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-3587956566725635260Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:43:00 +00002012-01-17T23:46:44.754-06:00Am I the only mean mom who makes the kids wait to dive in to the cookies just so I can get a picture for my 365(+1)?????? Didn't think so ;)http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/01/173651.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-8548572792825083167Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:04:00 +00002012-01-16T21:04:20.261-06:00Moose crossing :) We went out exploring today! Let me just say again, Alaska is AMAZING!!! I brought my big camera out today! Finally!!!' but, I grabbed this shot with my cell before I got out of the car for better ones!!! This moose was just chillin in someone's yard munchin on the trees with no care in the world! He didn't mind the dozens of people ice skating on the other side of the street! http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/01/163651.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-358070667541428023Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:44:00 +00002012-01-15T22:58:42.660-06:00I have been pinning like crazy since I first found out about ( *ahem* became addicted to ) Pinterest! So many amazing ideas!!!! Some of them I have actually accomplished! And some I have... Attempted. Tonight's attempt was a fail!!! I came across a pin a wile ago about mixing a box of cake mix with a can of diet soda! everyone who commented under it RAVED about it!!! So, I thought why not!! http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/01/153651-pinterest-fail.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-8830256143914454535Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:01:00 +00002012-01-15T21:01:16.439-06:00 A lot of people thought I was crazy when I posted this picture to Facebook yesterday! I got the idea from a fellow military spouse stationed up here in Alaska! She made snow ice cream with her girls and shared the recipe! So, we gave it a whirl! Hubby was kinda grossed out at first! But then, once he tasted it... He liked it just as much as the kids! They devoured it! I went outside and http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/01/143651-day-late.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219532055532824639.post-7536062880874052668Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:20:00 +00002012-01-14T03:12:18.076-06:00I've been wanting to go down to Anchorage to go to the Moose's Tooth for their AMAZING salads!!! But, I had a killer headache this evening and didn't want to cook or go anywhere. So, I used a few ingredients we had on hand and made a pretty good sesame salad if I do say so myself! No, it wasn't as good as Moose's Tooth.... It didn't even have all of the ingredients! But, it hit the spot!!! Yum! http://wife-mommy-photographer.blogspot.com/2012/01/133651.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura Craig)0