Month: August 2009

Mallory

Time to make the donuts

August 31, 2009

One of Rick’s memories from growing up is making homemade donuts. So much so that his mom gave us a deep-fryer for a wedding gift, so that we could continue the tradition.
We don’t make donuts very often, seeing as how the mornings we have together as a family can be counted on my two hands. But we finally made donuts a few weekends ago – and Mallory LOVED them.

Back before we had our own kids, I used to bribe Shane to stay the night with the promise of donuts in the morning. Then he told grandpa to make …

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Miscellaneous

For Sale Update

August 30, 2009

We got our house in tip-top shape for the open house…we’ll see how long it lasts. Mallory got some books out after the open house and wouldn’t put them away so I threw them in the garbage. She fished them out and put them away. Whatever works.
So only two couples came to the open house. I think I knew that we wouldn’t get a ton of traffic but Rick & I needed the open house as a deadline to get the house organized.
Supposedly one couple asked how firm we were on the price, and our realtor said there …

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Mallory

Huh?

August 30, 2009

Mallory was FABULOUS all afternoon while Rick & I worked on getting stuff done around the house.
I told her she could have ice cream and a pony and whatever else she wanted because she had been such a good girl.
She said she wanted ice cream but that she didn’t need a pony because she already had one…and she showed me her ponytail.
But this is what happened when she ate her ice cream sandwich. I told her she was a mess and she told me:
“I am NOT a mess!”

Oh, OK.

Miscellaneous

Cleaning Up

August 29, 2009

I’m supposed to be on vacation up north with my kids and my dog and my dad. But the weather was craptastic so we came home early. So my vacation day got converted to a cleaning day.
This morning I sent Mallory to play with her friend Alli, and Cooper went to play at Grandpa’s. We are having an open house tomorrow (see, I told you our house is on the market for reals), which means we need to get the house cleaned up.
As I’m cleaning, I’m realizing that the process would be easier if I kept up with the every …

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Carson, Mallory

I know I may be jinxing myself…

August 26, 2009

…but my sweet baby boy is the best little baby.
We have our evening routine finally figured out. We get home from school, I nurse him and then he plays or maybe naps. Then he eats cereal with us while we eat dinner (sometimes Mallory feeds him – THAT is hysterical). And then he gets a bath because he’s a mess after dinner. He LOVES to kick and splash in the water and we could leave him in there for an hour if we wanted to because he loves it that much. After bath we load him up with Aquafor for …

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Carson, Mallory

Family Stuff

August 25, 2009

I have neglected to post some family stuff the past week or so – so here goes.
Football started. So Rick is gone a lot. He barely gets home in time to say goodnight to the kids each night. We went to see him at practice one day last week, and Mallory ran up to him and said “Daddy? I want you to come home with my mommy right now”. I had to swear up & down to Rick that I did not put her up that.
There was a family day last weekend with an open scrimmage and then …

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Carson, Mallory

Carousel of Progress

August 25, 2009

The “Carousel of Progress” is one of Rick’s favorite attractions at Disney. It’s a 21-minute show where you “…travel through time from decade to decade as the family discovers fantastic new technologies that make their lives more easy, comfortable and fun…”
We’ve had our own “Carousel of Progress”, where my darling children have discovered fantastic new skills that make mommy’s life more easy…
Mallory learned to pump her legs on the swing (so we’ve alleviated some of the “can you push me??” requests).
And Carson can re-pacifier himself.
How happy am I?

Blog Hop

Time to Laugh

August 25, 2009

The theme this week is “Time to Laugh” and you are supposed to use a joke or a cartoon or picture or whatever.
Given the fact that I have my own personal laugh factory happening in my house almost every day, I figured I had to go with these two pictures. I think it’s a tie.

I titled these: “Handy Mallory” and “Mallory, The Cold Ballerina”. I’ll ask you to name these photos in another post.
 
 

photography

Before & After

August 24, 2009

I wanted to share the before & after of one of my recent favorite photos.
this is SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera):  
and this is after I “Lightroomed” it (using Adobe Lightroom):

I think I could play with it a little more, and I don’t know that it would ever pass muster with some real photographers, but it’s all about me and what I like and I think it’s fabulous. I tried cropping it down more to have it just be Mallory & Allison, but then it seemed to really lose the fun of seeing the teacher and the other …

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