children & families,  personal

new books & the hic family

First, news from around here. Went to the bookstore today to restock some reading material for the boys. And $175 later…we are the owners of:

  • Diary of A Wimpy Kid (two volumes)
  • The Boy who Saved Baseball
  • The Lightning Thief
  • Dooby Dooby Moo (loved the whole Click Clack Moo series)
  • Duck
  • Toy Boat
  • Diary of a Fly
  • Diary of a Spider (we already own Diary of a Worm and loved that one)
  • Charlie Hits it Big
  • Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs

Looking forward to hours of enjoyment with these. Thank god these boys all love to read. And as much as I don’t want to spend that kind of $, I feel like I can kinda justify it spending it on books. Kinda.

We met Timmy’s BFF Jack with his mom and little brother at the bookstore. Img_0690sl_2 Img_0693sl Always good to see friends. Jen is very good at "talking me down". And after waking up this morning with a horrible red rash ALL OVER my body, I am in great need of talking down.  Its slightly itchy but it definitely has the potential to become excruciatingly itchy- it’s moving that way. The doctor seems to think it’s a reaction to either the steriods or the Prevacid he gave me on Friday. So now no more steroids. For those of you following my (crazy hypocondriac) lymph node saga, they are now much less swollen, but unfortunately still there. I am still totally freaking out that I have lymphoma ("you don’t have lymphoma!"). The doctor said my bloodwork came back with nothing out of the ordinary- still waiting on some results tommorrow. I hate this. Really.

Business…For those of you waiting for your pictures (the other two shoots from Saturday and the rest of the wedding) I am working on it and hope to have them up by the end of this week. The wedding may be a little longer but soon, promise.

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Had my first shoot of the day on Saturday with the hic family who came to me by way of a referral from a Christmas shoot family. If you are reading this T, thank you! They were so nice with great, sweet photogenic kids. The baby wasn’t so thrilled most of the time, but I did manage to sneak in a few good shots when he wasn’t paying attention. Mom wanted to include her (pregnant) belly cast and some breastfeeding shots during the shoot. It was a first for me and I really enjoyed it. All pictures in an album on the left, click any image on the blog to see it bigger. Hope you love them. Img_4230sl_2 Img_4198sl Img_4206sl Img_4309sl_2 Img_4241cbw Img_4347 Img_4358sl Img_4245cbw