What I am craving!

I have to say I am just a little bit dizzy with excitement that school is starting. I am not that excited that my kids will be leaving but just all the things that begin with school starts like routines. I am craving them. Cannot get enough. I want to get up in the morning and have something structured to do. Maybe then I can get back into excercising. I am craving that also. Done with camp, done with vacations, done with ignoring diner.

This morning I got up at 5:30 to make sure that I was ready on time for church. Can you believe that I was still really late. I really do not want my kids to think that we just do not go to that part of church. I want to get my spirituality where it needs to be. I am craving it. So I thought as long as I am late I can stop and take some back to school pictures of some of the kids that were willing to participate. I have to say that Soren looks particularly dashing.

I have to say that I am so into the olympics. Michael Phelps is so amazing. Not ashamed to say that I have a little crush. Not enough to stalk him which I have been known to do, but enough to say that the races do not last long enough. I hope to be an olympic swimmer. That one lady was 41--it is never to late to begin a dream. Daniel had to laugh at that one. I told him I had swimming lessons when I was young it should not take me that long to get back into the groove.

I am craving hanging and talking with friends and having quiet moments. I should be getting plenty of those. Until next time...

What a wild summer!!

The summer has gone by so fast, it seems like I have not even stopped to take a breath. We just got back from the beach with our friends Joe and Joella. Had the most fun ever, spending the days at the beach and evenings in the pool. We even got to spend Carly's eleventh birthday there. Just thought I would share some shots of her to remember how big my little girl is getting.

I worry about her all the time. Especially at night when my thoughts are running through my head. Have I done enough. I think she is amazing but will she? She is looking forward to her birthday party this year at the water park. Not my favorite place to hang out in my bating suit, but I guess anything for your kids.

This week will not get any easier. I leave for girl camp, it is my birthday, Carson's birthday and we are going to my moms. I try to throw work in there somewhere also. There is also school registration. I cannot believe it is time for all that again.

So if I have neglected any friendships, I am sorry(especially Kim who has been sick) but things will slow down and I hope I can get back to my normal life.

I also wanted to share this picture of Soren. I thought it was so beautiful and just reminded me of pure innocence. I absolutely love it!!

Always learning.

I have decided the only way to get really good at something is to practice over and over. So lots of new families have been asking me to take pictures. Just a word of mouth thing. I love that!! So I love the practice. I am learning all kinds of different ways to take pictures. I am truly starting think and this is way out there for me to acually write it down and put it out there that one day I would like to have my own photography business. There I said it!!! So here are some of the the day with the Moritz family!

My sister is coming tomorrow and we have lots of days of fun planned. I just hope I can get all my work obligations taken care of.

Carson crawled into bed with us this morning and the first thing he said to us was "Lets talk about our dreams." In his dream he was a hunter of bears and wolves. Just very cute.

My crazy life!!!

I have a hard time keeping all my ducks in a row. I hate the fact that when I have so much to do my feeding of the family suffers. I do not plan ahead and I feel like they are learning bad eating habits. I guess I will figure it out. I have just had the pleasure of two weeks with Becky Jean and like I said I had the best time. So relaxing to have her here. She just pitched in and became part of the family.

Work is getting super busy but I did have time this week to take some pictures of a friend of a friend who needed resume pictures. As always I am nervous because I have my doubts of my abilities, especially around people you don't know and you are asking to pay you. But he was very nice and I instantly liked him. Here are some of my favorite shots.

I am again nervous because I have a fun family scheduled for the beginning of next week. I am going to have to get my brain moving so I can be creative. They seem willing to do anything that I ask so I will have to share some of those.

I am still really enjoying having the kids home. Some days are better than others but they are having fun playing with all the neighborhood kids. The summer just seems to get busier every week. Maybe it will slow down when we go back to school, or maybe this is my life with 4 very busy kids.

I love Becky Jean!!

I have had the pleasure of having Becky here for almost two weeks. I love having her here and wish she could stay forever. I know she has her own life, but it sure would be nice. We talk for hours and never seem to run out of things to talk about. So we took some pictures of her beautifulness and I thought she looked fabulous if I do say so myself.

I hope everyone has a wonderful fourth of July. I hope someday to not be so busy and catch up with all my blogging friends. I was just thinking how fast the summer was going and how much I have enjoyed sharing it with family and friends.