KORKERS

My little stylish baby decided she was old enough to climb in and out of her toddler bed. She has been sleeping in the pack and play due to her major room aversion that she has, but finds it funny to crawl in and out of her bed. She does take naps in her bed and crawls out and into the living room when her nap is done.



And this is just a shot of my little diva's outfit. Wow am I so happy I had a little girl to dress so stylish. I couldn't get enough of her in this outfit. Little miss Miss-matched!



Well the whole purpose of this post was actually to show my new found hobby! I have always loved the way little bows look and I absolutely am madly in love with KORKERS! I finally started to make some and boy are they so super easy to make. I love the packs of ribbon from Targets $1.00 section. Very easy to match the colors/patterns.

I have yet to buy the alligator clips to put them on. Actually, I bought some from WalMart, but they are way to big. So as soon as I get some ordered online, I will be able to start letting my baby wear them. The big orange bow is for her halloween costume. She's gonna be a pumpkin!

So today's agenda includes getting miss Rylee a haircut. It will be her second one. I am very hesitant but her bangs are once again in her eyes. We are just going to trim it up! Hopefully it all goes well. Other then that we will be staying home maybe swinging on her swingset. I am so nervous about the swine flu that we don't mozy far from home. I really don't want my baby to get sick with it. So on that note, let me know how you feel about the vaccine. Leave me a comment!

Well off to work on some phone calls, apppointments and cleaning. It's never ending!

Have a wonderful Tuesday world!

A B C D

So this morning while I was working so dilligently at making my daughter some pretty pink and white korkers to go with her new SDSU sweatshirt and skirt, I hear in the background the alphabet magnets on the fridge singing the ABC's. All of the sudden a little girl chimes in with ahh bahh dahh haah, baby babble but awefully close to the ABC's! She is so funny and must be part genius (of course that's accroding to her maybe a little too much biased mommy!). It was adorable and she just loves to push the music button and listen to the alphabet song.

And here are the pictures from the A's photo shoot! I took the two kiddos by myself while their mommy and daddy went on a date night! I left my little charmer at home with her daddy. On the way to the park I asked if they were going to smile nice and I got tons of Yeppers! And they did. Ash is just a little model when it comes to taking pictures. She is full of sass and poses. She was just constantly asking if we could take a picture here, and How's this look?

A on the other hand is quite the lady's man but hates to look at the camera for any amount of time. I don't know how many pictures I have with his eyes looking off to the side or outerspace. He is total boy though and found a stick that he sure wasn't going to leave behind!

They both did awesome though, and I love what we got from the shoot!

Ash in her model pose!

The pictures of Aidan in the trees were so much fun to take. Although he is all boy, he kept looking at me like, why am I up here. As frightened as he was, as soon as the camera came out a big cheesy grin was put on!

They are so adorable. This family sure does hold a special place in my heart!

This is one of the first ones we took. It turned out good although A was having some issues with the sun I believe.

And one of my favorites here. They both look so sweet and really smiled nicely!

I have a ton more but decided to only post a select few. The kiddos were awesome and I will deffinately be shooting some more of them in the near future.

I have a shoot with little princesses tonight! Hopefully it goes just as well. Their mom will be with which is a first for me. Right now I have been working on upping my portfolio so the only other person around while I shoot is usually my Havens mom whom which I am super comfortable around. It will be very interesting and hopefully all goes well! I hope to get some awesome shots of the three! I will be posting them soon!

Have a wonderful rest of the weekend and we will visit again tomorrow!

Overcast and Rainy

Well today is one of those days. It's overcast and rained overnight so that everything is wet with puddles everywhere. I am really hoping it dries up before we have the big photo shoot for the A's. If not, I might be seeing a bunch of wet tushies! Oh well!

So Rylee is officially a big girl! Well, not completely big girl, but somewhat. She is the big 1 now! She was having issues sleeping at night in her room so she has been sleeping in the pack and play next to our bed in our room. Don't get me wrong, I love co-sleeping (although I never thought I would say that - She slept in her room for the first 5 months exclusively minus the first 4 weeks when she was in our room in her pack and play). But I don't know when it turned to bite us in the tush. All of the sudden she would sleep for 2-3 hours in her room and need to come in. So we slowly put her back in the pack and play and she sleeps all night.

Well in all this drama, we decided we did need to lower her crib to the lowest setting as she is a stander now! While we were doing this we just decided to take the front off and make it a toddler bed. We figure she would be able to crawl up and down (the lowest setting is super low) and come into our room by the time she was back to sleeping in her room. Well Today I put her in her room on the bed for nap and she slept there. For 2 hours. And when she woke up, she just layed there and talked. So sweet! We are going to slowly make the transition back to her room now.

On another way different subject, I am so very much in love with those little crocheted beanies. i am dying to order one for her. I love the ones with the big Flower clippies attached. I am super excited to order one!

And talking about new things, I really want to repaint/redecorate our living room and upstairs. It is so drab right now as we have an entire corner with toys and books. I really want to add some color. The downfall to repainting is that It will cause us to repaint the entire livingroom/kitchen/hallway as they are all attached. I am thinking about doing a red. We have white/tan couches and dark wooden stands, shelves and picture frames. However, we do have a red quilt with my darling Rylee's picture on it and 65 roses. So I am not sure how this would look. I guess we will have to experiment.

Well I need to finish cleaning and get rylee cleaned from lunch and her hair done before we go pick the two monsters up!

Have a very good fall weekend even though it's not officially fall, it sure feels like it here.

Nic

A Refreshing Phone Call

This morning I woke up to a text on my phone. My dear friend Emily was asking me to call when I had the chance. So of course I gave her a quick call...Well not so quick. I think we were on the phone for 2 hours! My poor daughters treatments didn't get done until 11:00 which is 2.5 hours later then normal. We visited about everything under the sun related to babies, toddlers, and CF. Yes, CF however mostly positive about it. We both have our days in which it seems like CF is the devil....But both of our sweet innocent little girls are victims of this nasty disease. It doesn't make then any less precious though, and we will find a cure!

It was so refreshing to visit to another mom going through the exact same thing as I am, the same struggles with jealousy of others that can just feed their babies without having to run to the fridge and dig out the applesauce, open 2 capsules of enzymes spilling beads all over the place and shove the spoon into our little ones mouths, or with constant worries about weight gains/losses, coughs, mucous, fevers, etc. It is so nice to have her and I love that we can chat whenever we feel down and out or happy and giddy. Today was more of the latter! We visited about mostly typical "Normal" baby/toddler things from when they crawl to what they eat, to their smiles and laughs! It was so nice!

So on the topic of CF, my little 1 year old princess was eating lunch today. On the menu was pizza and of course some cheese crumbles as she loves them. She had been taking her enzymes whole the last couple of days and today was no such luck, they went in and came right back out. Finally we got her to take them and she was such a piggy! She ate and entire piece of cheese/sausage pizza and about a cup of cheese crumbles plus 8 oz of milk mixed with cream. I never thought she was going to finish and was worried about having to give her another enzyme.

Well on the lighter and none medical side, I am very excited for tomorrows shoot with the A's! Their little boy and girl are the most adorable things ever. I can't wait. And while I was verifying pick ups/supper with their mom, she invited me to a scarpbooking night with some other moms. I am very excited and hopefully will be able to get some more clients to photograph! I had just recently pulled the scrapbook back out and started to look at it. I desperately need to print some quality pictures before then, but will be doing that soon! Maybe someday I will forego the paper scrapbook and turn to digital, but for now it's mostly for fun! I love it!

Well to leave you with some Thursday Thoughts! Enjoy each and every moment of life. The precious high pitched screams when the little one doesn't get what they want, the beautiful tears from cries for the other parent, the hilarious toilet paper mess when they get into the bathroom. They grow up way to fast and soon these will be some of the most memerable parts of life. Try to catch as much on camera as you can so you never forget the moments!

Breath Easy everyone!
Nic

Funk Funk Funky!

So i have been going through quite the funk these last couple of days. I spent so much time busy getting ready for the little cupcake party that these last few days or I might even say last week and a half I have been not the least bit motivated to do anything. I really need to jump back on the horse and start doing things again.

We do have a couple of busy days coming up. My husbands parents are coming for a visit this weekend. They live in Arizona and with us here in the upper midwest, we don't get to see them often. Actually Rylee has never met her Grandpa and has only met her Grandma once. So the next couple of days I will be busy cleaning the house in preparations for their arrival.

I will also be taking pictures of the two monsters I love so much - Ash and A! Before I had Rylee, I worked as a teacher at a childcare center and became so particular fond of these two kids. We have since became good friends with their family and do children swaps/date nites. On Friday I am going to pick them up and take some pictures and then bring them home for pizza! Their mom and dad are having a date night. Hopefully, with Rylee at home with her dad I can get some quick good shots of the two.

My main goal is to really seek out some good locations for the next day. I am taking some pictures for another family with 3 wonderful and crazy beautiful girls. My issue is that I have mostly been taking pictures of Rylee and her friend Haven and when you put them in front of some pretty flowers, they have a perfect background. Now with children older and taller, the background will cut them off at the calves. So we hope to find some great spots at the park for this amazing family!

And then on Monday, Rylee starts story time again on Monday. It will be so good to have her around some kids her own age, but I really have a fear of the flu season. Hopefully people will be smart and not come out if they have colds/flu symptoms but you never know. We will see how the first couple weeks go and decide if we will continue from there. Hospital stays are no fun, and we don't want a repeat of the Castle of Care this winter.

Well, no pictures today, but will post some hopefully after the shoots on Friday and Saturday!

Wishing everyone in the blog world a wonderful and fabulous night!
Nic!

The Birthday Bash!

As many of you know, our days are filled with treatments, meals snacks, laundry, cleaning, and disenfecting. Most days pass without me even realizing where the day has went. In the past I have struggled to update any blog that I have started very often, However I am starting over. I am hoping to make this a daily event. I love the fact of writing about what my darling little one and I have done during the days past and updating the blog world about our little lives.

Well my little cupcake turned on at the end of August and we threw her a cupcake party! A majority of the ideas for the party came from the Hissyfits Photography blog . I must say that I just love all the ideas that she had for parties! Being a stay at home mom, made it all the more easier to plan and create and craft!

Here are some of the pictures from the day that we caught on camera!

This is her first ever taste of cake. She seemed to enjoy it, but wasn't overly enthused by getting messy! Oh well! She's going to be my little clean girly!


The cake ball cupcake pops were a big hit! We are even considering forgoing the cake next year and just making cake balls. The cupcakes were a little time consuming and not near as cute as the website that I found them on, but still delicious! And I can honestly say that Rylee like these more then the cake itself!



Cousin Logan watching while Rylee opened presents. He is such a ham!



Rylee walking with her Grandpa. I just love this picture of her feet!



A friends little boy while decorating cupcakes. He was one of the kids that was guilty of Double Dipping!

The tableware. They turned out super cute!

The cake table. Don't mind the mess in the background. The party was meant to be outside and it was a cloudy rain threatening day so we moved it into our not so clean garage. It didn't ruin the spirits of the party though!

A picture of the banner. Well half of the banner! It was very long, and I figure you can get the idea from just half! I made it all myself and was pretty proud of it. I am deffinately going to get a cricut. I borrowed my friends to cut the letters out and it would have made the entire process so much easier and quicker!

Another idea I stole from Bethany at Hissyfits Photography and made my own. I cut these cupcakes out of foam. Originally I was going to spray paint them, but low and behold, spray paint eats the foam... Plan B - I painted them with acrylic paint and they turned out darling! Now if we could have only stuck them in the lawn a little better!

And finally a quick snapshot of the gifts. This little girl got so many toys! Magically she didn't get too many clothes, but a ton of toys! We were very appreciative but had to put some toys up as they were sort of overwhelming to our little cupcake!

As a side note and suggestion, if doing cupcake decorating as an activity, give each child individual portions of each color of frosting. I had originally planned to do this but it was hectic and I forgot so I just put the frosting tubs on the table. Lets just say the sequence of the decorators was spoon in frosting, frosting on cupcake, spoon in mouth, repeat! Not the most sanitary and this germ-a-phobe mom was almost sick to her stomach, however it was all good!

And way off topic, Miss Rylee had her pictures taken this last weekend. Yea yea, I know, I am working on getting my photography business started and I take my little one to another studio. This is because I don't have an indoor studio yet and wanted some good studio pictures. So the point of this is to tell you about how fashionable my little girl was! I got her this little corderoy skirt and this tee and this sweater only in chocolate brown and paired them with some way cute chocolate brown suede boots! Oh my, I was in love with her style! We will be taking some fun fall pictures in this combo and I will post when I take them!

And finally I leave you with this.....Life isn't measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away! Have a wonderful day!

Haven Photoshoot!

So we took the girls out again to take pictures and Little Miss would not cooperate. I mean, every time I sat her next to Haven a fit was thrown and the shot was over. I don't know what it is about taking pictures with Haven, but I have a feeling it's going to be on hold until she is a little older. On the other hand, she will let me take her pictures if we are alone, or if someone else is taking her pictures. Then she cheeses it up!

Well here are the latest pics of Haven and some of Rylee that I have managed to sneak the last couple of weeks!

This is the only shot of the two girls together.

Haven is such a ham! She is always just grinning and making such adorable faces!

So I am in love with the little chubs on these legs! And the snaps on the jean shorts made for the most adorable ever leg pictures. The grass was a little long, but I still love it!

And here are a couple of my little princess. I only got about 3 or 4 decent pictures of her during this shoot. She can be so innocent and is a true blessing but she is also just a stinker at times but I love her none the less!

This is one of her new faces. She is teething and so she is always chomping and sticking the lips out in a pout. I know it makes her feel better and makes for the most hilarious faces in photos. Priceless

And here before tantrums start, Distraction is key! She was very interested in the flower and made for an awesome shot!

This one isn't very good quality. The lighting outside was very bad. Shawdows all over and with me being not very good at this photo stuff, means that we still do get these photos in which there are shadows. Oh well, still the look on her face is great and she was semi-cooperating with me!

Again, shawdows galore. This would be her "Mommy, I didn't do it!" look. She is so yummy I could just eat her up!

Mom, what am I suppose to do with this silly flower?

Well that was super long, but it is now time for treatments. Not Rylee's fave time of the day, but none the less, makes her feel a whole lot better.

Will be posting later this afternoon, maybe during nap time!

Have a wonderful Tuesday!