getting back the mojo...

well i have been on scrapbooking hiatus (so to speak) for the last month or 2. lost my mojo...but i am finally getting it back. and the bigger surprise was that my 1st layout i shared on CX the other day ("just be") got chosen as POTD (pick of the day)...now thats awesome! talk about making a girl feel good!

in other news...abby is still in the process of recovering. she spiked a nasty temp on friday (103.7), threw up in the night and then started having it on the other end. poor thing! she does ok as long as we keep her on tylenol or motrin...but as soon as it wears off, she spikes again. hopefully this bug hurries up and gets thru her system and doesn't infect anyone else in the house! for now i just keep my fingers crossed for an uneventful night.

thats about all that's happening here.

k

26 things...

to jump start my photo creativity...there is a challenge at two peas to help get your creative juices flowing with photography. they listed 26 things and you take pics based on your interpretation of them. now this challenge started back in june, but i am just now jumping on the bandwagon. so periodically you might see "different" pics...thats why. its been fun trying to think of things to photograph.

#13 patriotic

#1 angles

#8 patterns/repetition

#21 path

life here otherwise has been all right. the weather is hot and extremely humid...monsoon is right around the corner and keeps teasing us. we will get a day or 2 of horrendous rain and then it stops. the clouds and smog (when its not raining) make it dreary everyday:( i need some vit.D!!

the girls are fine. got some cute pics of them at the park yesterday, i will post. i am practicing with different lenses and modes, so not all of them come out like i saw in my head...but hey, thats what practice is for! i think its helping me get my mojo back...i actually feel like scrapbooking again! of course i just organized my cabinet...so everything is neat and orderly...isn't that how it always works?

ella is talking up a storm. she is so funny! her latest "sentence" is " bobby...R U?...come!" translation is abby, where are you? come here. she cracks us up!

we took the girls to the samsung childrens museum on friday (since matt had the day off). they had so much fun! i think they liked the water exhibit best!

well thats about all i can think of. have a good one! and enjoy the pics!

i just love these people!!

thanks for looking:)

k

i'm baaaaccckkkkkk.....

from guam that is. and let me tell you it was HOT & HUMID!! reminded me of Georgia in August. that being said...it was GORGEOUS!! and so nice to be away and not be on a schedule. we spent most of the early part of each day finding stuff to do until it cooled off and then late afternoon we hit the beach or pool...depending on what the girls wanted to do. we got to see quite a bit of the island, ride a trolley quite often, go to an aquarium, go to a water park, eat some really good american food:), shop at k-mart; ate traditional chamorro food and visited the chamorro village that had lots of traditional island crafts, etc. we visited both military bases there, had to buy an extra bag for all the extra stuff we bought and paid way too much for cabs!

we are happy to be home now...it was time. abby was actually begging us to come home. she just missed her things. one of the great things about staying there was we had a fabulous room and the girls slept most of the nights all the way thru...so we got some good "catch up" sleep.

the picture above is from our hotel balcony. more pics to come soon!

the start of a new year...

today matt passed the torch so-to-speak in his job...so we are free from the unrelenting cell phone ringing at all hours and i finally have my man back! his ceremony was this morning and afterwards we came home and just relaxed all day...this is how the start to a vacation should be!
we leave for guam soon and can't wait! (now i'm just holding my breath on the weather forecast that shows rain for the entire time we are there:( hopefully they are VERY wrong!)

we are continuing to build our summer tans by hitting the pool almost everyday. very convenient since it is located about 50 feet from my building! the kiddie pool is very nice...and the girls have a blast...so between that and playing at the playgrounds here for hours and hours...we are quite busy. abby is signed up for swim lessons, but they aren't until august. they are very hard to get here and i actually got her in the last slot.

ella has become the "cookie monster" of the family. if you remember how he eats his cookies, thats my child! sound effects and everything...she eats at least one meal a day this way. i can only take it that its her way of complimenting my cooking! haha!

i haven't scrapbooked lately...lost my mojo. actually, thats not true. i made a layout the other night for a friend and i hate the way it turned out...so its back to the drawing board...because i won't except it as just "ok". i think there has just been so much going on, and i am completely drained by the time the kiddos are in bed. matt's nights this past week have been so late coming home that somedays he didn't get to see the girls at all. thank goodness that is over! so i am anxiously awaiting our vacation and some down time...physically and mentally. and then when i come back i will be a renewed, energized woman! woohoo!

as far as photos...i'm always taking photos, still trying to figure out all the settings on my camera and all the neat things photoshop can do. so hopefully i return from our trip with some EXCELLENT pictures as well! until next time...
k

knotheads & boyfriends...

well here is a picture of my "not always paying attention" 4 year old...she was running at the park (of course not looking where she was going because she was too busy STARING at someone)...when she turned around she came face to face with a very solid metal pole. this happened a couple days ago...and the knot is still as big as it was when it happened...all though now it looks like she will be "lucky" and get a black eye out of it too!

on a lighter note, here is a recent conversation we had:

abby: mom, why don't you have a boyfriend?

me: umm, your daddy IS my boyfriend

abby: NO mom, he's your husband...you need a boyfriend too!

me: umm, ok...

well, i better get off to bed before my children decide tonight is a good night to keep me up.

here is a pic i took of ella today...been taking so many of other people and their kids that i thought i should get some of my own kids. plus it was a good day to! enjoy!

k

if only i could hook up my brain to the computer!!

then this blog would be updated MUCH more frequently and i would be the most organized person in the world. quick recap since the last post...we are heading to guam for some much needed rest and relaxation in about 10 days...very excited about this.

abby has managed to give herself an ENORMOUS goose egg on her forehead (ran into a metal pole cause she wasn't watching where she was going)...poor thing...it looks like she's trying to bud a horn there or something as swollen as it is!

we are trying to get approval to move in the apartment next door which is TWICE as big as the place we are in now...hopefully we will know something next week.

i have really kicked off my photography "thing"...don't really know what else to call it...check it out at kristycoxphotography.com and let me know if you would hire me:) haha!

ok...so i'm gonna quit babbling right now and post some pics! leave me a comment so i know you visited me:) its a lonely world here:)