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Busy-ness

Amy — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:28:08 +0000

To say we’ve been a bit busy these last couple of weeks would be a crazy understatement! But, it’s all been good. I’m also giving the blog a mini-makeover, so please excuse the dust while I get it updated.

Today, Tony officially started his new job as a Trainer at Lifetime Fitness. If you know of anyone that’s looking for an awesome trainer, who takes his job VERY seriously, my man, is your man. We’re SO proud of him! I can’t wait to see him do well, which I’m confident he will.

We also went out of town to Dubuque, Iowa this past weekend for my cousin’s wedding. It was GORGEOUS and such a blast. I was honored enough to be asked to sing a few of the songs during the mass as well!

While we were in Dyersville, Iowa for the ceremony, we visited the Field of Dreams Movie Site! Surprisingly, I left my camera home for the weekend, so all I had was my camera phone. So, here are a few weak shots from that. You get the “picture” though. It was really neat to see it in person! And for just $5.4 million it could be yours! LOL

Yes, Kevin Costner’s tushie sat on this bench.

“If you build it…they will come”

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Project 52: Week 10

Amy — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:58:56 +0000

Ok, so did you figure out what last week's photo was of? I'll tell you. I was filling a bean bag with bean bag beads and it was a MESS!!!! So, there you have it!

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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?

I'm still hoping to get a Bailey's first year post up later this week, so stay tuned for that!

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Catching up…

Amy — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:02:47 +0000

Finally, I feel like I can breathe.

The last month has been such a whirlwind in our lives, but a wonderful one. When I look back at the last few weeks, I wonder how we survived, but we did, thank God, and we're all settling in. We couldn't have done it without the help of our family. We hired some amazing movers as well to help. If you are in need of a moving company, I highly recommend Two Men and a Truck. They were A M A Z I N G. The best money we ever spent.

We officially moved into our new house on the 26th. It's been a little over a week, but now it's beginnging to feel like we've been there MUCH longer than that. I drive by Tyne Lane every day and wonder how our cute first house is doing. I'm sure the new owners are loving it, but part of me does miss it just a little.

We also had an awful decision to make about a week before our move. Our dog, Zeus, was 9 years old (that's senior for a Doberman) and his health had been declining pretty quickly over the last few weeks. We knew the time was coming, as horrible of a decision as it was, we made the choice to put him to sleep and let him cross the Rainbow Bridge. It was a very sad day for our family, but we knew in the long run, it was the right decision.

We're now getting settled into our new home. I have been taking a few pics here and there, but it's been such a mess with boxes and unpacking, that I've been holding out on taking too many until it's all prettied up. So, when it's all nice and pretty for B's party this weekend, I'll be sure to take some new ones.

Speaking of The Princess, can you believe she's turning ONE on Sunday? I know I sure can't!! We took her one year photos on Sunday and did a cake smash. Stay tuned for those, but here's one of my faves of her laughing at her brother. And I LOVE my new natural light studio in the house!! I can't wait to use it over the coming years!!

While I'm on the subject of photography...I'm having an amazingly fun contest over at the Ten Tiny Toes Blog. Definitely go and check it out and I'd love to have you join in the fun!

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Project 52: Week 5

Amy — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:42:04 +0000

The packing continues...good thing boxes make fun toys too. New pics of the house coming soon! We were over there yesterday and I took some of the main level. Stay tuned!!

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Project 52: Week 1/52

Amy — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:37:48 +0000

So, instead of a Project 365 (where you take one photo every day), I've decided that I'm not quite up to that challenge! So, I'm going to aim for one photo a week, which is much more manageable for me.

So, here is my week 1 photo. Bailey is really trying to start crawling now and so here she is doing one of her pushups. I tried to do a fun crop on this one.

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Decking Our Halls…

Amy — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:00:49 +0000

This will probably be the last year that we'll be in our little house for the Holidays (more to come on that soon I'm hoping!) So, it was very bittersweet digging out all of our Christmas stuff. We are taking it easy this year and I'm not putting up my Christmas in the City village, but it will definitely be up in our new house next year. Tony was VERY happy to be digging everything out of the crawl space for the LAST time. He only said maybe 15 curse words this year instead of the usual 50 or so

Tyson was AWESOME at decorating the tree this year. As you may recall last year, he concentrated the majority of the bulbs in ONE spot on the tree. But this year, he was a decorating rock star and even wanted to put the star on the top on (which I tried to let him help with, but it's Swarovski, man!)

Here's Tyson hard at work and VERy focused

And since his Daddy was making weird faces and poses for the camera, guess who else had to do it??!

And I'm SO proud of myself for taking all of these without any flash (yay, me!)

More focus and concentration...

That smile...and my attempt at getting some Xmas tree bokeh!

What the Princess thinks of our Xmas tree...let's pray she doesn't start crawling until after it's all down because then I think she'll LOVE it!

And I'm in LOVE with our new stockings that I splurged on this year. And it was awesome to finally be able to use the 5th stocking holder that I've had for the last 5 years

Had SO much fun taking this pic, I've always wanted to get one with the "glow" of the Christmas Tree. It took my tripod and lots of test shots, but I LOVE it!

It's been so awesome getting these annual ornaments, someday I'll have a whole tree full I hope!

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So Thankful!

Amy — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:44:54 +0000

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year. We are so lucky to have such awesome family and friends to spend the holiday with. It was fun having another "first holiday" for Bailey too, we're running out of them all too quickly. This year we spent with my Dad and step-mom and my sister hosted at her new, first house! She did a fabulous job and the food was all so yummy!

We attempted to get a couple of family photos with my tripod set up and I managed to quickly teach my dad how to use my camera, he did great! Now, these are not the smiley, perfect family portrait that I had hoped for, but oh well, you take what you can get, right? They make me smile and really show our family's personality

It was an exciting day for B, we managed to get a bow to stay in her hair! Woooo!

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Miss Priss

Amy — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:32:32 +0000

Sunday Tyson was spending some time with his Grandpa so it was time for another little shoot with Bailey. I got some new damask fabric that I wanted to see how it would work for a background and I've been dying to put her in this adorable pettiskirt I got. Grandma Bev also gave us this cute string of faux pearls and they were just the icing on the cake.

These are definitely my new favorites to date Bailey's also been doing some new, exciting things! She's been waving for a week or two now, and it's so cute, it's like a beauty queen wave, so dainty and sweet. She also has started signing Milk! So, we've been adding in a few more signs and I'm sure it won't be long until she's doing those, she seems very interested in them and I can't wait for her to start using them more. Then, yesterday when I got home from work, I said "Hi" and was waving to her and she said "Hi" back to me!! It was so cute! Tony said she had been saying it earlier in the day too, so it wasn't just a fluke thing! She's growing up WAY too fast!

Can you tell I'm loving having a girl?

I like to call this one fascination

I'm hoping to get another blog post up before Thankgiving, but in the event that I don't, I hope you all have a wonderful thanksgiving with friends and family. We have SO much to be thankful for in our family this year: our health, our beautiful baby girl and sweet big boy, and all the success I've found in my new venture as well as my wonderful husband who I wouldn't have ANY of these things without.

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More Halloween!

Amy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:25:43 +0000

Now, onto Halloween night! We had our first ever Halloween Party for the little ones and some of our good friends from our years of doing ECFE came over for a little pre-trick-or-treaing get together!

Ty and I took on the task of making some cupcakes for our party

I *lurv* purple frosting...yum!

Party favors for playing Pin the Tail on the Cat

Guess who decorated this one? LOL

Shake your sprinkles

And yes, he pretty much used the entire container of sprinkles.

Now, onto the fun! My new fave pic of him as Spidey!

For some reason this totally cracks me up!

Our fun little party group (sans one member). The shot is nearly a miracle. They're all looking at the camera and *almost* all are smiling!!

Our little Moo Cow <3

There's our group! Next year, we will have 2 more babies added to it, yay! And yay for it not being one of ours! Oh, and please note Tony's awesome pumpkin bush that he decorated himself!

Dead Spiderman...who will save the world now?

Crackin me up some more

One more of the most adorable cow ever!!

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