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Mother’s Day

Amy — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:54:07 +0000

I had an awesome Mother’s Day this year, definitely one of the best yet! I also love how the preschool teachers do little things for Mother’s Day as well for the kids to bring home. The funniest thing was this little “About my Mom” thing they filled out. The first question was “My mom always says” and Ty’s response was”

“TO-NY”, when she’s mad

I just about DIED laughing. We’re always joking about how I say Tony’s name when I’m yelling for him and he thinks it’s hilarious when Ty mocks me when I do it. So, the fact that he told that to his teachers as the one thing I always say…well, I’m sure they were rolling!

I guess I also like to wear pink shirts and that my favorite thing to do with Ty is play Wii Fit.

I also got my first breakfast and bed on Mother’s Day, which consisted of a very tasty granola bar (again from the preschool teachers!) and lots of snuggles with the kiddos.

I then got to go shoot a gorgeous little newborn girl, which was such a pleasure.

We then headed over to my sister’s house to celebrate with my mom and family. My sister made some super yummy kabobs on the grill and the asparagus was delicious as well.

One of my fave new recipes are these super EASY and delicious potatoes:

Range Roasted Potatoes

Preheat oven to 425.

Take 3 lbs of your favorite potatoes, skin on and cut them up into chunks, not too big though.

1/2 cup of Olive Oil (I like to use EVOO)

1 package of Onion Soup Mix

Throw it all in a big Ziploc bag and shake it up (this is SO much easier than mixing it in the bowl, IMO)

Once mixed, put into a 9x13” glass baking pan and bake for 30–40 mins or until potatoes are nice and tender. Stir occasionally while baking. You’ll know they’re done when they’re a nice, rich golden brown color.

I think Sweet Potatoes would be really tasty too this way!

Here’s a few photos of my sweet monkeys from our day

It’s scary how much they look alike!

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8 wheels

Amy — Sat, 08 May 2010 03:09:15 +0000

It’s probably been at least 10 years since I have gone rollerblading. Tyson got his first pair of rollerblades for his birthday (and some awesome pads and wrist guards too, thank goodness!). It did NOT go well when he first put them on him. He was scared out of his mind and held onto us for dear life. But, we tried again a few days later and I had remembered what they had taught them to do in his ice skating lessons, about standing with their hands on their knees and bent down. And sure, enough, it worked! He felt more and more secure, and before we knew it, he was cruising (slowly) down the sidewalk!

Little by little he’s getting better at it and he LOVES it. Brings back so many memories! So many in fact, that I dusted off my old rollerblades and took to the streets. I’ll spare you the details on how that went, but let’s just say my life did flash before my eyes just before I hit the pavement.

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Slacking 101

Amy — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:32:25 +0000

Yeah, that's me. I'm a total slacker. I've been INSANELY busy, but still, not really a good excuse. Nonetheless, I'm going to try to post some recent pics at least!

Here's Easter 2010! The Easter bunny was very good to our house.

We headed up to Scott & Amy's to see their new house in St. Cloud. It's SO nice to have them only about 90 mins away now. I can't wait to get up there more often to hang out with them and to go golfing with them.

The weather was SO gorgeous and for once, we dind't have to cover up our nice Easter clothes with parkas!

Here's B and Grandma

I LOVE this photo, these 2 little dogs are part of the brood of creatures from the Lee household. Aren't they cute? Bailey didn't seem to think so. She is DEATHLY afraid of small dogs, which is hilarious considering she lived with a Doberman the first year of her life!

Brotherly love. He's the *best* big bro in the world. Seriously.

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We got a good family pic courtesy of Tony's cousin!

With the grandparents...so much for the well behaved boy!

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A Party fit for a Princess

Amy — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:02:02 +0000

We had Miss B's first birthday party at our house on Sunday. Just as we did for Ty's first birthday, we invited all of our extended families over to celebrate this day with us. It was so nice to see everyone and to have them all over to the new house.

Here's the birthday girl having her morning breakfast. Ty said "I wonder if she'll look older now that she's one" before she woke up in the morning. I think he was a bit disappointed when we went in her room to see that she still looked the same! LOL

As soon as b'fast was over, it was time to get the giant cupcake cake decorated for the party! We had a cupcake themed party.

We also had a whole slew of smaller cupcakes for everyone. I loved this Cupcake Stand, it was so cute to display them all! To feed my Esty addiction, I got these adorable cupcake wrappers and personalized cupcake toppers. I just loved how they all came together for the display! And Tyson was such a good little helper and put all of the giant sprinkles on the little cupcakes.

It's Party time!! Here with Grandpa Al & Grandma Arlene. Adorable birthday dress from here and bow from here.

The dainty pinky in the air. Don't we all eat our crackers like this? LOL

Who are all of these people and why are they here?

Time to sing!

Good thing we have our helpful big brother around to blow out the candles for us!

Time to enjoy a cupcake

SO big!

Time to open some present!

She LOVES her new tea party set!

Me and my girl

Tea anyone?

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Project 52: Week 7 & 8

Amy — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:12:33 +0000

I know, I'm late posting my Week 7 photo, but I'm sure you guys can forgive me since we're in PACKING HELL!!! So, here's last week's and this week's, all in one post. And this is probably the last one I'll post from our old house! Yay!

Here's last week's. I'm doing an online photography workshop and was trying to work on getting a motion blur shot. There's so many technical things wrong with this photo, but I still love it and it cracks me up. This was Tyson's version of Cross-Country skiing while we were watching the olympics. In case you can't tell, that's two hockey sticks as skiis, and his poles are a golf club and a bat.

And for Week 8. Bailey got this cute little stool that is a puzzle with her first and middle name on in. She's OBSESSED with taking all of the letters off and putting them all back on top of it (and into any assortment of containers as well). She's still not crawling yet, but I'm actually happy this week for that with all of the packing we've been doing. It's keeping her out of a lot less trouble!

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My Funny Valentines

Amy — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:00:56 +0000

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Best Buds!

Amy — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:25:05 +0000

Here's Ty and his best buddy on their first day of preschool this year. I'm SO behind on sharing layouts, so stay tuned for a bunch more!

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A boy and his ball

Amy — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:35:40 +0000

You can see the entire post over here on my Ten Tiny Toes Photography blog. But, I just had to share these new shots of Ty from yesterday.

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Are you ready?

Amy — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:33:57 +0000

I *think* we're ready. At least I hope we are! All that's left for me to do is order the groceries (I'm doing this online and then going to pick them up on Wednesday I think). All of the presents have been purchased and wrapped and I cannot wait to GIVE all of our gifts this year. It's definitely more fun than receiving!

Last Friday Tyson had his little Christmas program at preschool. While the program consisted mostly of a local choir singing some songs, at the end, the kids got to join them and sing a few songs. they were SO cute! And Tyson did great and knew most all of the words to the songs (and I could even hear his cute little voice singing).

Here's a little snippet of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. He get's VERY into it about 1/3 of the way in.

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This was just a starburst sort of shape

This was my attempt at a snowflake shape, but clearly, I need to work on my snowflake cutting skills...maybe Tyson can help me!

And last, but not least, Christmas tree bokeh!

So, what do you think?

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A few more from our Santa visit

Amy — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:58:29 +0000

Sorry, I know you're probably sick of seeing them with Santa! But here are just a couple of more from our visit on Monday night. Including a baby freak out one! LOL

I love how he just let Ty have some time with him before sticking Bailey in there. We're pretty sure he asked for a Hockey net with a Scoreboard and the Wii.

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