Family Photos

Doing our own family photos is always a challenge...they rarely turn out the way I want them because we are so limited when we aren't controlling the focus and zoom...one of these days I am going to hire an outside photographer! Here are the shots that did work out... at least we didn't have to go far, we did these in our front yard.

quiet...

As a mom you enjoy a little "quiet time" however as much as you want to indulge in the moment of solitude you know deep down that something is definitely not going well. My fear is that some day I will come into the room and see that Zane has gotten a hold of a sharpie and went to town on my carpet. With that in mind it is only a small humorous sight to return to the room and see that he has only gotten into my purse and used my mascara as lip gloss...

nice look!

fishing

Zane and I went on a little fishin outting. The weather was awesome and the leaves were very pretty! (although not very pretty in the photo). Zane thought it was fun to bouce the bobber up and down and hooked me, lucky for me it caught on my underwear and not my back...also lucky for me I was able to rip out the barbed hook and I didn't have to go ask the wildlife guy to cut the hook out of the back of my panties! LOL

nature trail

proud of his fishing pole, so exited to fish!

fall photos...

it has been a while since i have taken "formal" photos of zane. we've been so crazy with the new house that i neglected my over obsessive photo opts. i took these pictures on someone's property down the street from us. she probably thought i was a bit weird for asking to use her field but i couldn't resist.

I love this shot, it's sweet and I love the background. I really like being in north ga, it is so pretty.

he is pointing at a bee, he tried to shower it with flower petals.

above is just cute and to the right is my FAVORITE. i love pictures that show personality!

figured i would group a few together so the page didn't go on forever.....

:)

Innocence...

One of these days I will update our insanely crazy up and down, down and up life...but right now I don't have the energy or shots needed to adequately report the story...so on to the story at hand...

I love the innocence of toddlerhood...it's so funny to see how little untainted minds work. Zane definitely gets away with more if he portrays that state of innocence. (Although, the other day he proved he is perfectly capable of "acting innocent" which was just as funny so he got off the hook for that offense as well).

example one: today in the bath zane emptied out close to half a bottle of shampoo. our bathtub wall is pretty high so all I could see was the top third of his body. so he proudly showed me the empty bottle and proclaimed he did it "by himself"... i seriously can't even afford a bottle of shampoo right now (that would be the down part of the life alluded to earlier) but really it was more cute and funny than anything so we bypassed the "how could you be so wasteful, lecture" ;)

example two: yesterday we went to pick zane up from my brother's house. he was in a great mood and had been a "perfect angel" the whole time. he and jerry (his cousin) were in the kitchen and we hear jerry start to cry while zane was running to me laughing and telling me to look. I asked him why Jerry was crying and he was laughing, he apparently (acording to him) hit the cup of water Jerry was holding (i'm not sure if it was intentional or not) the water got on Jerry and he thought it was hillarious. Jerry didn't, but it really wasn't a major smack down and his response was so funny that it was sort of difficult to chastize him. (although he did have to say sorry and give him a hug and we are working on the "showing sympathy" thing).

example three: (my favorite and, as usual, involved jerry) we were at my parents house and jerry and zane were in the family room while myself, lee, and jen were talking with our backs to the room in the breakfast area. we were interupted by jerry crying (again) however zane was all the way accross the room sitting in a rocking chair carefully studying a book on his lap....we were trying to figure out what happened to jerry (because obviously zane had nothing to do with it, he was immersed in his book on the other side of the room) jen then recalled a smacking sound and then the jetting super patter of little feet. realizing that zane probably was involved and seeing how he tried to pull off appearing innocent really just made me chuckle and think "wow, he is smart for two" so he was off the hook because it really was too humorous and jerry was ok. :)

anyway, toddlers are so funny. challenging at times but mostly funny and amusing.

I feel i should add that zane really isn't a bully, he is usually defending rather than initiating.

Family Vaca 2008!!!

In celebration of "earth day", I think it is sometime in the near future, we went to enjoy God's creations at the Yellow River Game Ranch! It was so much fun, Zane LOVED petting and feeding all the different animals. They had bears, cougars, foxes, skunks, etc. Most of the animals roam free, there was one turkey that was in a constant state of anger. Zane got chased and hissed at from a peacock (he wasn't super excited about it). Good times!

my favorite holiday!!!!

I love Valentine's Day!!! It's my favorite! Lee always does something really sweet for me. This morning I woke up to 24 red roses and a banner of hand written notes hanging from the ceiling and strung out on our island along with rose petals and heart shaped candies. Oh, and not to forget the Lindt truffles that were dropped on the roses, yummmm!!!

We got Zane a "Blue's Clues" dvd. His reaction was "cool! boos cues".

I have so many "favorite" Valentines' days! My top four go something like...

3. This would have to be grouped into the "when I was a kid". We would stuff little valentines with candy and leave them at the doorsteps of our friends. We also created fun valentine boxes to put on our doorstep for our friends to leave a valentine for us. It was always so much fun! (I think I might attempt to start the tradition here when Zane gets bigger).

2. Mine and Lee's first Valentine's day. I walked out of my house to go to work to find that he had come by the house in the middle of the night and covered the door with bright pink sticky notes. He also left a red rose, and a heart shaped box of chocolates on the doorsteps. That evening he surprised me by making me a shrimp pasta meal and chocolate lovers cheesecake. It is still a Valentine's day meal tradition!

1. Last year we were in Rome. He picked me up and spun me around on the top of the Vatican, bought a rose from a street peddler (we took a picture) then he gave it back so the guy could resale it ..We ate gelato and some awesome lasgna! It was such a fun trip! Perfect for Valentines!!!


Anyway, I hope everyone has a HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!!!