I'm a Material Girl

I don't have a good pic of this, but my new haircut goes with the theme???

MMMM A top 10 wish list of all things wonderful I want this year. I'm not really material, these are things for my biz, to help my life be a bit more organized, and a few fancy trinkets and clothing items that will help improve my personal presentation (lol)

1.Nikon D3 $5000
2.HP Touchsmart computer for my homeoffice $1500
3. Smallthings apple ring $45
4. shootsac $179
5. Photocart $279
6. Calistoga Keens $85
7.a vespa ($3600 for this one)How cool and evironmentally friendly would I be going to sessions on this?!
8.Globe necklace $30
9. Another awesome bracelet from Amy with either "Imagine" or "Suddenly I See" on it! Love Amy! She's super talented and friendly! $50
10. That cool green polk a dot top from target...too lazy to find it online ;)

P.S. I do have some crafting posts coming up...don't abandon me yet!

In the books

As you know I haven't had much time for crafting lately. I miss it a bit. Even with my love of photography, scrapping has gone out the window. However, I did put together a 12x12 file for the baby's baby book. Digital scrapping is sooo the way to go...for me anyways. The space it saves alone is a life saver!

And Raesha told me of a couple of cool things in the world of moki. Remember when I has the tutorial blog (lost the password and the email ;( ) Apparently Craft Magazine.com posted a link to it. How fun!

And Raesha also picked up Plush You in which I am published! I think this is the first time???

8 things minus 3

I haven't been tagged in ages! (thanks Raesha)But I have to make it 5 things...once I get to 5 my mind goes blank

5 Passions in my life:
Photography
the perfect sugar cookie
going to Disneyland
my family
making lists of my goals and dreams and making them happen


5 Things to do before I die:
Do this thing in Australia(I can't remember what it's called. It's like body boarding on the rapids...I saw it on the Amazing Race I think)
Go to Disney World (yup a passion)
go to Hawaii
support my hubs in his dream to make a movie
raise my children to their old age ;)


5 things I often say:
"or no?" funny story... we noticed B would ask questions like this: "Can I have a cookie or no?" we thought it was so funny but soon realized that she had got it from me. you know how kids are right? you as them a question and only get an answer half the time. "Or no?" helps me keep my sanity by filling in that extra unwanted silence after I ask a question.
Shut up
I love you
Where's the phone?
Ow-ouuuu It's the noise the baby makes when she wakes up, it's fun to say it back to her...but when I do it, it sounds like a cat in heat!

5 books I’ve read recently:
recently? no
Wicked
Carpe Demon
Twilight
Tom Sawyer to my kids
For One More Day


5 Songs that mean something to me:
Suddenly I See KT Tunstall
Far Away Ingrid Michaelson
Keep Breathing Ingrid Michaelson
Evolve Ani Di Franco
Imagine John Lennon


5 Qualities I look for in a friend:
a tolerant heart... I'm a pill
a listening ear
kind intentions
an artsy soul
a coversational demeanor

A list of me, for me 2007

Some years seem like off years. I remember sooo many off years, that is until I turned 30 a few years ago. I think 33 will be a superb year!

Things I've accomplished this year:
1. Learned to solder and made some frame charms for some friends
2. Increased my business/clients
3. I became a dot com
4. I have REAL business cards
5. gave birth again successfully and w/o any drugs
6. Lost weight

Things to do next year (think mondo beyondo):
1. Get another camera body, preferably better, how about top of the line?! a Nikon D3!!!!
2. 2 family trips to Disneyland/CA
3. Whittle away at the clutter in my life...really get rid of the excess to focus on the abundance
4. Get out of unnecessary debt permanently
5. Triple my business
6. Begin accessible plans for my ideal studio
7. Finish house renovation
8. Finish home studio/movie room renvoation
9. All organic or natural, locally grown summer of eating
10.Increase my food storage and other preparedness areas
11. Live a more spiritual life by tithing, prayer, temple attendance, and testimony building activities for myself and my family

ack! Tomorrow is the first!

It was the last day of school for my year rounder children and the last day at their year round school. We'll most likely be switching them back to the regular district school after Christmas break...just not working out. But I did put together some yummy candy for their teachers (along with gift certificates for a free session and family photo.)

Tomorrow is the first! I will have my last scheduled photo session and hopefully wrap up all loose ends before the first week of Dec. is over. It has been a busy month for me as far as my photography goes!

I hope to have a productive, relaxed, fun, enriching month before Christmas gets here...maybe even get some more blogging in ;)

The Birth Story Part 1

It was September 19th, "Talk Like a Pirate Day." Argh! One day before my due date and the 40 week check up with my midwife, Ginger. Everything was the same at the appointment. Ginger showered me with compliments for a variety of things (I think they all do this.) She checked me and said I was at a 3, maybe a 4. Little B was with me and came over for a little peek, but not a full on exposed look. Ginger "moved things around" as she calls...everyone else calls it stripping the membranes, but she thinks that's a little off...it's not like they actually strip anything out of there you know. We chat, we hug, she schedule me to be induced a week later when she'll be there, but she says (as she has said for the last 2 weeks) I'll be surprised if I see you in a week ha ha!

After the appointment I have and hour and a half before I need to pick my kiddos up from school. So B and I head to target to walk around and waste time and drink soda. I started having contractions there. But I wasn't worried, anxious or surprised. I had been having a lot of false labor, especially after "moving things around." The time comes when I need to pick up the kids. As I am driving home (on a 15-20 minute drive) I realize I have had a couple of contractions. Watching the clock on my dash, I see that they are 10 minutes apart. I dropped off our cute car pool buddy and on the way home call up the hubs to see if he is heading home for the day. He is already home so I tell him the things he needs to do "Take a quick shower, put some clean clothes on, and brush your teeth. We might be headed to the hospital."

It's so funny when he opens the door for all of us as we lug in our bags and mess...he's ready to bound out the door and get going! But I didn't want to mistake this for false labor so I decided to take a warm bath first. But in the bath the contractions were 5 minutes apart. SO I figured it was time to go. They had gotten closer, the were consistent, etc etc. We got the kids all shipped off to where they needed to be and headed to the hospital.

I can't tell you how excited I was thinking I could have the baby on "Talk Like a Pirate Day!" Think of how cool the birthday parties would be!

I suck at blogging

I am terribly busy and haven't been doing any crafting. And on top of that I went to urgent care (the first time I've seen anyone in the medical profession for something not pregnancy or ankle related in about 10 years?!) I had back pain...what I thought might be a kidney infection...and the nurse practitionar who saw me for 5 minutes, never touched me, said they'd send my sample to the lab, and the lab would call me if it was positive, said I probably didn't have a kidney infection because where I was pointing at was too low.
Come to find out, the lab doesn't call patients at all. My midwife thought if it's not an infection it could be a stone but she ran a test too. 3 days later I start having fevers and chills in the middle of the night...but since nobody called me to say I had a kidney infection I thought maybe I caught a virus in urgent care. 3 days later I'm not improving so I decide I probably should go back to urgent care...but maybe I should call them first and see if they FORGOT to call the gal in pain who DOES have a flippin' infection...that could develop into something more serious if not treated!!! argh! ;)

The good thing is, except for the nights I haven't felt that sick, only tired. I had been taking ibprofin (?) to treat the head aches so the back pain was almost nil. I'd done Raesha's shoot, managed my kids, and even went to bunco tonight. I'm on antibiotics so all will be right soon.