My car is still dirty

It's sooo warm today. 74 to be exact so I thought I would take the boys outside while I cleaned out my car. Well I tried cleaning the car anyway. That counts for something right? Heh.

Within the first 20 min I had to pump up the tires on 2 bicycles, the boys fought over the bicycles. Gage cried. He wrecked one of them. Cried. He fell over something (i dont know what), hurt his finger. Cried. Walked right into the open car door. Cried. Fell out of a chair trying to climb a tree. Guess what? He cried. I gave up & we fed the fish instead. Now he's asleep :)

I did get a few pictures before he got mad at me because I wouldn't let him fill up a bucket with pond water so he threw said bucket INTO the pond. That was fun trying to fish it back out. Oh and I haven't seen the duck in about a week guess he found a girlfriend and flew the coop. Or he got eaten like the last one :(

Here's the pictures I got along with a few from yesterday. Happy Spring to you all!



Aww they're friends

Who knew turtles love cat food? Lol!

Our tiny fishies (blue gill I think?)

Catfish anyone? Never thought about catching one to eat.

Hmm... nah they're huge but I'm not sure how they'd taste

The kids love it when they do that!

Gavin's first soccer practice

I know it's been over 3 weeks since Gavin started soccer but I'm just now getting time to post the pictures and video! I know, I know, Mama's slacking.

The coach gave Gavin his hat. I don't know why though, it kept falling over his eyes and he couldn't see!

 Aren't they cute?

 Poor guy was exhausted

Hee hee, I'm a soccer mom now. I feel proud of that title! All I need now is a minivan... oh well, the Jeep will have to do. Oh, and I did finally find a cute pair of soccer cleats on ebay to fit him. I mean, he does only have another month left and he'll probably outgrow them by spring season but they match his uniform and all the other kids have them (I know, I'm that kind of mom. And how old am I again? I just realized how immature that sounded!)

The next 2 are me just playing around with editing.

I was trying to cover up the old guys crotch but it doesn't seem to help! I tried cropping it but it didn't look right.

I leave you with video of his very first time on a soccer field. EVER!

He has been practicing and is a little better. He sometimes goes in 

the right direction now!

Birthday Portraits

I took the boys to have their birthday pictures done today. We got some really cute poses, I wanted a few more of different backgrounds but I couldn't get the photographer to do anything. She was very nice I guess but she pretty much refused to work much with them. Where I usually take them, the woman will work with them all day and the kids love her but this time I thought I'd try somewhere different just to get a different look. I'm just a tad disappointed. The pics look great but after shelling out $180 bucks, I'd kinda like to get the poses I really want.

The appointment was for 10am but we didn't get in until about 10:05 because they were late opening up the mall. We were the ONLY people in the studio and she kept talking about how she was glad that her 11 o'clock canceled. I was thinking we'd been in there forever so when I got back out to the car (now, this was after taking pictures, picking out what I wanted, burning the CD, paying and all that) I was surprised to see that it was only 10:42. I believe next time I'll just stick with the studio I'm used to. This one was a lot higher, price wise. The usual one is so much cheaper and they take more pictures, they actually leave the collages on the CD so I can reprint them. This place went through and deleted them so I couldn't print any extras. I've learned an important lesson today folks... More expensive DOES NOT mean better quality. Don't get me wrong I really love the pictures I got but I just expected more from this place. That's all.

Anyway now that I'm done with my ranting, here's my sweet lil' boys pictures. I LOVE the fishing ones! (My idea thank you. I even brought my own fishing poles!)

My fave! I got a 10x13 of this one

and another 10x13 of this one

and another 10x13 of this one too! 

I'm going to put all 3 up in the library

I know some of these show some black around the bottom. The prints I'm getting do not have this on them it's just when they burn them to the CD, they put them on there as they were taken. I haven't cropped it out yet.

Overall I'm pretty happy, but I just wanted like one of each standing by themselves in each outfit and a couple different poses and some different backgrounds. It was actually a good price for all the sheets I got plus 3 10x13's, 2 collages and a CD, I just wish there was a few more poses. I like variety!