2 more down!

I keep forgetting to update on my Day Zero Project. I tend to be a procrastinator with that sort of thing at times. Since I last posted I've completed two more goals. 11. Redesign blog with my own design. It took me forever to get it on there right and it still glitches at times but it works for me for doing it from scratch:) 71. Go to 5 new restaurants. I had posted on the other 4 but the 5th and final new restaurant was Chick Fil A. I got a hard time for having never eaten there since I was working over at Buffalo Wild Wings and it took until the middle of last month for me to finally go. Megan and I went while we were on lunch one day. It was actually pretty good. The chicken was really juicy instead of dried out like most places. I'd definitely go back again!

The other couple that I have done more on would be 9. Read 191 books. I'm up to 20! I just finished Smack which is about a couple that runs away when they are 14 and of course get into drugs and such in the city and their long journey getting out of those habits. Then I am almost done with 96. Make 101 pages for the kids' scrapbooks. I am up to 97. I am probably finished but I only put the ones on here that I remember to mark down so I don't feel like I'm cheating. I've been working so hard to have Bentley's caught up before his birthday which is in a week and a half now!

That's about it for the time being! 

Water!!

So Toad's grandma has been staying with us for a couple of weeks now. Yesterday we went to get a birthday present for Bentley and ended up with a water table (even though it's for both boys) since Bentley has everything already. The boys absolutely loved it though!

Been a while

Ahh! I've been so busy but I feel like I've accomplished nothing since I last posted! I'm finally done with training at work so now moving on to less annoying people finally.  Since it was the last week of training though it also meant it was my last week of spending my evenings with the boys. Now I'll be working til 8pm which will suck but at least we won't be waking up the kids at 6am to go to daycare. Anyway, so since I won't see them in the evenings anymore I decided to take the week nights and do something fun instead of the normal housework and editing I probably should have done...but hey-that stuff can wait and it did! We spent a night at McDonald's playplace which went much better than I expected and then another night at the park with Tyler and Amber, oh and some other little girl Jax kept trying to chase lol!

Thursday night Toad left with the boys to head to Iowa to pick up his Grandmother. She is staying with us until after Bentley's party. Most people are like "oh god how are you going to handle that?" Honestly, if I had to have anyone stay with us it would be her. She's much more of a grandma to me than my own are so I'll take it! Plus she absolutely loves the boys so I can't deny her some time with them since we moved them miles away.

Since they've been gone I've been trying to catch up on what I ddin't get done the rest of the week! Thursday I ended up going out with a friend I hadn't seen for a while so that was awesome. Other than that though all I've been doing is cleaning, laundry, editing, scrapbooking, and more editing! I am finally done with these wedding pictures though and for the most part I was really happy with them! I downloaded Lightroom and it works wonders for cutting down editing time BUT I learned the hard way to be patient because after I thought I was about done I realized the error I kept getting and ignoring was saying that I was removing the files before they had completely exported so I lost everything I'd done:( Oh well, now I know better!

So now they are supposed to be home in a few hours and I'm just finishing my catch-up with everything and figured I'd post a few of my wedding favs here!

 I really wish he wouldn't have been looking at the camera here but I still love the emotion in this picture. Long story short, the bride's daughter was at the wedding at the bride had absolutely no idea this was happening. It was super sweet and the person who organized the whole thing is the one she is walking with.

I tried not to add too many on here but there's an idea of some I took. It was so hard condensing from the 1000+ pictures I took down to the almost 400 I ended up with but I made it!



Wedding Weekend Update

I never thought that after my own wedding I would ever be so stressed about another wedding! Well this week I checked the weather every day and it went from rain predicted for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, to just 2 days, to just Saturday...it was basically doomed to rain for the first beach wedding I was supposed to photograph. When I woke up Saturday morning and it was raining I was upset but what do you do? So I checked the hourly forecast and it was supposed to stop raining by 10am, then rain again from about 1-2: the wedding was scheduled for 1.

Well as the day went on it got cloudy on and off but didn't rain anymore! It was so nice out and even though it was warm and humid-I'd take anything over the rain! So we got the outdoor wedding. After seeing how small the reception hall was too I was very thankful for this.

I glanced through all of the shots I got last night after I got home and I was extremely pleased with the fact that I will have very little editing to do this time because I was happy with most sooc! I have only made it through converting the first portion of pictures from the day (I only shot in RAW and blogger only uploads them after they're converted to jpg) up through the bride getting ready so far so here's a small sneak peak of what I've gone through.

I love the lighting in this picture and that was even sooc!

 Bride and her MOH while getting ready:)

 Checking herself out in the mirror

 I loved their decorations! The pink of course throws off the balance for pictures but that just means to be more careful:)

I can't wait to continue getting through the actual ceremony! The only thing I was bummed about was the fact that we didn't get to do more outdoor shots like we planned because it got extremely windy. But I'll take what we got over none at all! More to come later...

Patty cake, patty cake...

...baker's man. Bake me a cake as fast as you can!

My kids love that:) This weekend I was trying to figure out what to do and while cleaning the kitchen I saw the empty frame in there and decided maybe I should take some pictures for it! So I went to my prop closet (sadly yes I have a whole closet of random photography props) and found the little chef hat I bought forever ago, and took some pictures:)

Bentley was ok for the first few but then of course wanted to crawl away. I managed to get a few cute ones. The whole time I was trying to get pictures of Bentley, Jaxton was running around saying he wanted his picture taken too so I ended up letting him do some and he had way more fun with it!

And in case you're wondering what kept him so entertained-there were a few M&M's in the bowl he was stirring and then putting on the spoon to eat:)

Two more down!

6. Go a week with no fast food
23.Go a week with no pop

It was kind of torture doing both in a week but it didn't really hit me until yesterday. I wanted a pop soo bad and everywhere I went I walked by it! I held out though because I wasn't going to cave on the last day. This morning I ran over to McDonalds just for a nice Mr Pibb though!

I'm trying to get some of the simpler goals done so I'm not cramming them in at the end. I thought about taking the boys to fly a kite today but we didn't make it anywhere. Bentley is teething again and poor Jaxton got a horrible diaper rash so we stayed in. Oh well...there's plenty more time for it!

Yesterday's cleaning spree

Yesterday I decided to super clean the house so I wouldn't have to do anything today. Of course by now it's a mess again and I feel like I should clean but I refuse! It wasn't too bad until I got to the boys' room. I always dread cleaning their room because it looks like this

I really do clean their room ALL the time but it seems to look like this every time I turn around. They both find it amusing to take the toys out of the toybox and off the shelves as I am putting them away so it takes forever. Anyways I finally decided to finish Jaxton's name letters for above his bed so their room is actually "officially" finished. I still will have to do another coat of paint and gloss over Jaxton's dresser since he decided to color on it but I'm not counting that. Which also means another goal down-Jaxton's room is redone! Here are a few pics of their room just for fun-after cleaning of course:)

Bentley's side:

The toybox that is wayy too full

Jaxton's Side:

I can't wait until we have a bigger house and can have a play room again so they don't have so much crap in their rooms! I'm just glad their room is fairly big so it holds as much as it does.