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Beautiful Things

  by plannerchick ~ So after perusing a few blogs (here and here and here), and spending the last 2 weeks feeling like I had nothing to blog about, I've decided to be a copycat, but in a good way. I always feel like I have nothing to share about that would be of any interest. So I have decided to spend the month of March (to the best of my ability) relaying the beautiful things in my life, and to spend my time putting into others, and stop worrying so much about my own concerns.

The blessings, the things that make me happy, things that I am thankful for. It's time for a new outlook, scripture says that you cannot add an hour to your life by worrying, and I for one am tired of trying to buy time.

As for the putting into others part, I might drop a few things here and there as to what I am doing, but I don't want to give to much away as a lot of folks that I know read this blog. I do know I am going to make myself step outside of a few comfort zones. This may sound laughable but when it comes to talking to people I don't know so well, I am completely shy and really have to force myself to do it!

So expect to hear and see a lot of my baby boy as he makes me incredibly happy! My wonderful husband and big chicklet, friends, fam, and assortment of randomness. Feel free to leave comments about what has made your day today, whether it be a compliment from someone, a particularly good piece of cake, a smile from your favorite person, whatever. It's time to look for the positive and to quit with all of the focus on the negative!

Well you know that I had to start with my baby boy. I put him down to play this morning while I fixed his cereal (thus the reason for no shirt). On my way into the kitchen I spotted a hat I bought for him that I had left to dry after washing it, so I went back and stuck it on his head.  It was so cute I had to take a picture!

 

I love the weather outside today. It is overcast and super windy, there is just something about that smell in the air and the way it feels out there. It's raining now, and just so comfy!

I made the best salad today. With leftover grilled chicken, cheese, bacon, croutons, and honey mustard dressing. It tasted like it came from a restaurant and was delicious. I told hubby like 3 times how good it was!

So like I said, leave a comment telling what your beautiful things are. I started a day early and will try my best to keep it up. Have a great day, enjoy your Saturday!

its not that hard...

by bossychick~ ...to figure out if a baby is a boy or girl. At least not to me. A friend of mine recently had a birthday party, and her uncle was asking me about my Tiny.

He said, "Now don't get mad, help me out here. Is that a boy or a girl?"

I would like to point out that SHE was wearing, a pink and brown outfit with flowers. And sitting in a pink car seat, sucking a pink paci.

But, I helped him and said, "I'll give you a clue." And I pointed at the bow in her hair, which was brown.

He then says, "The bow is brown so it must be a boy, right? You wouldn't put brown on a girl."

I then had lost my helping attitude and I yelled," You don't put bows in a boy's hair!"

That is all, you do what I say- Bossy

free mini shoot?

by photochick~ So all of you know by now that I'm teaching middle school these days. One of my classes is a Career Education course where students learn about different career areas, do lots of diagnostic tests to help them find an area where they have both aptitude and interest, etc., etc.

This is the class that Singerchick spoke to on her visit that I posted about last week. I teach in a particularly rural area, and I think it is not only inspiring and educational for these students to hear from people who work in all different areas, but also really necessary for them to have an idea of what jobs even exist in the world. In small areas jobs tend to focus around a few industries and that is generally what kids grow up considering as their possibilities. Not that there is anything wrong with those industries, but I want my students to be exposed to as many different possibilities as I can.

Do you remember when you were choosing a career field? Or a major? The world was at your fingertips and seemed wide open. And it really was. You really could be anything you wanted to be. I just want that world to be as wide as possible for these kids as they make life altering decisions that are coming earlier and earlier it seems.

So all that serious stuff to get to the free mini shoot . . . I pretty much ran through all of the favors I could beg for speakers by mid-year (if I forgot to ask you, consider yourself asked!!) and I would love to have a few more this year. I'd even be willing to give you a free mini shoot and a HUGE thank you very much!!

I would really like to represent careers from a full gammut of areas. While doctors, lawyers and engineers are great (and i'd welcome any!), I'd also love to have speakers that work in other fields. Law enforcement, legal secretary, x-ray technician, massage therapy, nurse, computer engineer, network manager, small business owner and more.

If you're interested, just shoot me an email to heather(at)heatherstewartphotography.com and we'll chat about the details.

I'll leave you with a couple of photos that will hopefully make you want some photos of your own! :-)

(and singerchick, we'll have to hook you up as well!)

 

 

what the "f"

by socialchick~ The flu that is. Yes the flu has entered into our house. Tiny woke up Monday morning with a little congestion and was really ill. Well Tuesday she had a small fever so I decided to take her to the doctor because we have an exciting trip coming up. After one swab of the nose it was determined that my little girl has flu.

Am I bitter?  Well that doesn't even began to express my feelings. We are leaving for Disney World this week so the Doctor ( who I love) decided to treat all of us. And to make matters worse, not only does tiny have the flu but she has pink eye in both eyes. So $210 (after insurance) later we are all being treated for flu, Tiny for pink eye and we should all be healthy enough for "the mouse" soon.

With that kind of money Tiny better better be riding on Mickey Mouse's back yelling yee haw! Miss Priss better walk up to Cinderella and snatch her crown off her head and tell her that she is the Princess of this Park.

Today is hard. I'm working off of 3 hours of sleep, a tiny who doesn't want me to put her down and a Miss Priss who woke up at 6:00 and doesn't understand that she needs to stay away from her sister who she loves dearly or wants to aggravate. Who knows? So please keep us in your prayers.

how did you find us?

  by babychick~ One of my daily internet exploring duties is to check a bunch of different blogs. Some of these blogs I don't even know how I found them or I don't even actually know the people. I was talking to a few of the chicks last night about how it is so interesting to see other people's lives, whether or not we know them.

A lot of the blogs I have stumbled across are mostly for family and friends that live far away to see and keep up with their loved ones lives. Then some are just for pure enjoyment, or an escape for some people. But no matter what if you put your life out there on the internet there are endless possibilities to who or what is going to read your story.

So I was wondering how you found our blog. Or maybe you have recently started your own blog, put yourself out there and let us here your story!

I'll leave you with my new favorite picture of my tiny. His mimi took this a couple weeks ago and I love it!

my turn to Bless Your Heart

by bossychick~ I would first like to say, that I love the idea of this "Bless Your Heart", but I think It should be called Bless Your Freakin' Heart. Moving on.....

You don't remember what I just told you because you were too busy looking at the TV, well, sorry Honey, but Bless Your Heart!

You can't figure out that my baby is crying, because you won't get out of her face, and she doesn't know you, well, Bless your heart!

You won't quit talking to my screaming baby and scan my groceries, so I can leave this store, Bless your heart!

You think that I'm mean, just because I say what I think, rather than lie to your face, well, Bless your heart!

You think that, because I knew my husband for only a few months before we got engaged, that I cant possibly know him well enough, or it can't really be love, why? because I didn't cross reference his DNA and the kind of tooth paste he uses with the FBI database? (and by the way, my grandparents knew each other a whopping SIX weeks before the got MARRIED, and had four kids and stayed married until one of them died, which was over 40 years) so...Bless your heart!

You create a situation, then complain about it, Bless your heart!!!!! (I know I've already mentioned this in a previous blog, but this tap dances on my LAST nerve!) 

That is all, You do what I say- Bossy

life in photos

by singerchick~ I have been scarce here the last couple of weeks due to life and its' busyness.  But, really not that much has been going on out of the ordinary with us.  So instead of completely boring you with the mundane things of my life I'll only slightly bore you with photos from the past couple of weeks. 

As always the kids have been keeping me on my toes. This is Mr. Chocolate Face.

 

They were Mama's Valentine sweet hearts.  Notice the orange gum they're proudly showing off.

 

They do occasionally give me a sweet moment of peace in which I can stop and thank my Heavenly Father for such amazing gifts.

 

You know I really ought to post a blog one day of all the pictures I have of Mr. Singer asleep with the boys.  They are many!

So we made it through Valentine's Day, but not without making lots of fun goodies.  We also had a Valentine's Banquet at church which you've already seen pictures from.

Here are my guys at home before leaving for the banquet.  We actually took the kids with us because some wonderful young ladies (shout out Jessica W. and Kelly and the other ladies who know who they are ;-) babysat upstairs while the adults were having a wonderful dinner downstairs.

 

Last week I was out of town for some training on how to use our new GPS surveying equipment.  I've somehow managed to avoid out of town meetings and training since Big Man was born and he's almost five so it was inevitable that I would eventually have to hit the road again.  Big Man handled mama being gone pretty good while my tiny has clung to me TIGHTLY since my return.  He keeps asking me if I'm going to leave him.  Talk about feeling like mother of the year....  And worse than that, I am leaving him again for another meeting. (tear)

Here are pictures of our new technology (if you care).  :-)

   

We look pretty confused, huh?

tickled pink

by socialchick~I just wanted to share with you how tickled Tiny gets. Her laugh is too funny. Miss Priss can just about do anything to make her laugh. She also laughs real hard at Singers big man. I guess it just takes a special touch to make her laugh this hard.

my new addiction

by socialchick~ I heard on the radio the other day that they have come up with a new disorder called FAD. Facebook Addiction Disorder. There are actual people out there that can go one hour with out writing something on their Facebook or checking to see if they havecomments. If we have a FAD then I'm sure there are MAD Myspace Addictions Disorder. I can't say that I have either one of these.

What I do have is BBAD BlackBerry Addiction Disorder. Mr. Social bought both of us a blackberry last week and I guess you can say it was our Valentines gift. I went from a phone that was glued together with no texting to having the world at my hands. Let me just say that I LOVE IT! I have never been one on gadgets but I'm addicted to this little berry. Now I want all of my friends and family to get one so that I can message them all day.

I don't have to wonder if someone has posted a comment on a blog while I'm out of the house. It comes to my phone. I have it all and I'm so glad that we got them. Let me just add here that I haven't had a new phone for 4 years. I'm pretty rough on my phones but I'm learning how to treat this one like a baby or like a tiny little juicy berry. lol

So do you have something that you are addicted to?  Maybe you have FAD, MAD, or BBAD. How long have you been addicted. Lets just call our little session GA, gadgets anonymous. So Hi, I'm socialchick and I have been addicted to my BlackBerry for 2 weeks now.

Let me just say thanks to Mr. Panio Man at church for showing Mr. Social his BlackBerry. That was all she wrote. lol!

Here is my new baby!

bless your heart!

  by babychick~So here's my try at bless your heart!

So you think I'm a snob because I don't talk a whole lot. Well Bless your heart!

You say my baby will be a sick weakling child or that I do not love him because I didn't breastfeed. Well Bless your heart! He looks pretty healthy and loved to me!

So I have to work while my husband gets his degree, so that he can work and support our family. Bless your heart!

You think I shouldn't have bought those expensive purses. Bless your heart, I saved and worked hard for them!

You think my husband is too old for me. Bless your heart!

I shouldn't have quit college to have a child. Well Bless your heart! That degree wouldn't have given me the joy my child has given me.

So you never did anything wild and crazy when you were a teenager, and I did. That makes me a bad person huh? Bless your heart!