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The 2007 Holiday Season, in Photos

January 28, 2008/1 Comment/in Family, Lucy, Photos, Trent /by Megan

OK, after much procrastination and all-around laziness, here are the highlights (and lowlights) of the 2007 holiday tour.

First, we had a quick family holiday in Kansas City. And just in case Mother Nature was worried we may be too excited for the Florida sun, she hit us with a huge ice storm. Gee, thanks. I was starting to defrost a little, but you just took care of that, didn’t you.

Icy Tree

Although the ice just pissed me off, Lu seemed to like it. And she’s become obessed with eating snow. Did I mention she falls down a lot? I think it may have had an affect…

Lucy Ice Princess

So at our little KC Christmas with Trent’s mom and step-dad, once again I was totally outdone by Trent’s mom. I got Lucy an Ugly Doll and coloring book for Christmas…she got her a tricycle, duplos and a bubble machine.

Bubbles

In case you were wondering, this is the face one makes when first confronted with the joy of the bubble machine. Let’s just say the coloring book was less impressive after this.

Bubble Face

Then we headed out to Tennessee to visit Trent’s dad and step-mom. They live in the middle of nowhere, on Poor House Road. Seriously, it’s called Poor House Road. We stole a street sign and hung it up in our house. Just seems more fitting.

Poor House

I spent much of our time in Tennessee sneaking off to take pictures. Trent has started to get a little ansy with me taking pictures of all sorts of stuff and then running out of memory before we get to the important events. Like, say, Christmas. So I threw him a bone and we took this family shot.

You gotta love Lucy’s big “CHEEEESSSEEE!”

Then I ran off and took some more pictures of horses.
Horses

But Trent got to drive his dad’s Porche, so that got him off my back. At least for a while.
Porche

So I continued taking random pictures. Hey, everyone loves a festive wreath, right?
Wreath

The highlight of the trip to Tennessee had to be the Christmas Eve Day party at the farm center. Very “Little House on the Prairie.”
Farm Center Band

After a quick stop back in KC, we headed back to the airport on our way to Florida to visit my parents. We knew it would be warm there, but 80 degrees?!?!?! Do you remember what we were leaving?
Icy Tree

So the 80 degree weather was quite the treat, and we took advantage by heading to the beach. Lucy was a little afraid at first…
Testing the Gulf

But after some encouragement, she was loving it! That is, until the salt water got in her eyes. Then the sand seemed much more inviting.
Getting Her Feet Wet

In Florida, we realized that Lucy and my dad have the exact same haircut. Or lack thereof.

This has to be my favorite picture from the whole trip. This is exactly how I used to look on the beach with my family as a kid. Wind blowing in my face. The smell of salt and the sea. Sand caked in every nook of my body. It’s so incredible seeing Lucy with those same expressions. It makes all of those plane trips worth it….maybe?
Wind

A bright spot in all the grey

January 18, 2008/2 Comments/in Lucy, Photos /by Megan

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Procrastination

January 16, 2008/1 Comment/in Blond, Family, Grumples, Lucy /by Megan

So, I meant to write a HUGE, GINORMOUS post by today. I really did. It was going to have beautiful photos and illustrations and unicorns and rainbows would come out of your computer screen and you’d hear angels singing and the snozzberries would taste like snozzberries…but I digress. Instead, I spent most of my evening and night and early morning with my baby girl who has a cough so bad that it makes her puke. Seriously. I might add that this is another thing I wasn’t warned about in child care class. Can I have a refund?

Last night around 6:30 Lu was sitting in a pile of all of her toys right next to our dining room table when she started hacking uncontrollably (as she has been for a day or two). All of a sudden, the hacking turned to hiccuping, turned to gagging turned to puke all over the freaking place. This senario repeated several times throughout the night.

So after lots of clothes washing and sheet changing and cleaning the puke out of my hair, I had to get up and go to work early so I can leave early enough for Trent to get into work. And my normal work day starts at 6 a.m., so you can imagine how early “early” is for me. I’m sure you can also imagine how crabby I am, as I am normally a crab, but lack of sleep adds about a million on my crab-o-meter.

Long story short, no big ole’ post today. But in my sleep deprivited state, this post made me laugh for about 10 minutes straight. An exerpt:

So I swing the door open, grab her before she has a chance to get away, and then walk back into the living room where Leta is still crying and Jon is actively acquiring more Star Bits. And I’m standing there with my parts peeking out the front of this giant coat, a snow-covered puppy wriggling violently in my arms, her poop-scented tongue licking my forehead. Sometimes life is such that it’s too much to ask for them all to sit still so that I can take ten seconds and put on a pair of panties.

T-Shirt Collector

January 14, 2008/2 Comments/in Gimme, Lucy /by Megan

I have a lifelong obsession with t-shirts. Back in my hometown, there used to be a warehouse of a local sporting goods store that sold old/reprinted/damaged t-shirts by their weight. You could get 10 t-shirts for a dollar. Man, I loved that place.

Since I had Lucy, I’m constantly looking for fun, funky t-shirts for her. Too bad buying anything fun for her seems to cost a zillion dollars. Why is it so expensive to be hip? Why can I not just be hip for the very low price of $1.99?

Well, if I had more money, I’d be very in to Tiny Revolutionary t-shirts.

Reads “More Milk, Less War”

Reads “I’ll Change the World Someday”

And my personal favorite:
Makes Gold
Reads “My Mommy Doesn’t Dig the Gold, She Makes the Gold!”

Continued Education

November 16, 2007/1 Comment/in Lucy, Photos, Work /by Megan

Some lovely Mamas from my Mamas Group allowed me to use their children as test subjects in my never ending quest to not suck at taking pictures…man, is my glass half empty today or what. I was a little bummed because I thought the pictures were going to turn out much better than they did, but, because I had such gorgeous subjects, they’re still pretty cute.

First up was Noah, my poor little guinea pig. This unlucky child was my first subject to bask in the horrible backlight that I couldn’t figure out, but I still got some good shots.

Noah

Second was the only fearsome twosome of the day…I guess Mama Jen had no idea I had never attempted to get two kiddos in one shot before. Let’s say there was a LOT of unused photos from this session…

Siblings

Third was Betsy, whose mom Sarah watches Lucy once in a while. She is one happy kid! Almost all of her pictures looked like this.

Betsy

And last, but certainly not least, was Sidney. This little girl was so busy, you could tell she was just taking in everything around her. Quite the mover and shaker, I must say.

Sidney