Photo Shoot Give Away!!!!

I am posting this because I want it...also because this photographer is AMAZING!!!, and I want to help her expand her clientele. She has done our family photos for the past 2 years, as well as my 29th Birthday Glam shoot. You should totally enter (even though I want to win) because Mandy is fun to work with super talented! Good luck to all! Pass this on to all the moms you know, they deserve to feel pampered, beautiful, and sexy...and there is no other way then to get all dressed up and to pose in front of a camera!!!

Just go to this link and follow the instructions...

http://www.mandybakerblog.com/?p=716

Its been WAY to long!!!

It has been forever since I have sat down to blog. Many things have changed, yet many things are still the same. We are rounding the one year mark to our shop on the west side opening, and are in the process of finalizing store #2 on the south side. It has proven to be much hard work but worth all the blood, sweat, and tears!


Makynna is now 4 1/2 years old and in Pre-school. She loves it to death! She thrives on learning and playing with other kids. Makynna's teacher, Mrs. C. is the best!








Oryn is 2 years old now. She is...well, she is Oryn. She's a comical, boisterous, independent, strong willed, frighteningly fearless child. She loves to mimic her older sister, even if Makynna doesn't appreciate it.







Scott and I work opposite shifts at the store, sharing our time with the kids. We would have it no other way. I am grateful that we have the ability to have a parent at home with the kids both day and night. Even though our time spent together is short, it is sweet while it lasts. =o)

I took a bit of a walk through memory lane and this is what I got:

I just finished organizing this month's photos and thought I would see how close my kids looked to each other at 17 months of age. And I didn't think my kids looked anything alike!

This is the last picture I took of Makynna when she was 17 months old.


This is the last picture I took of Oryn...at 17 months of age.

What did I say! You can barely tell them apart! LOL
Way too funny!!!

Way too long...

Things are moving along. Kids are growing up. An empire is being built. LOL In the stress of trying to open our Marble Slab Creamer I haven't had much time for anything. And for those of you who didn't know, Yes, Scott and I are opening a Marble Slab here in Lethbridge. Things are coming together quite quickly now. Soon I will have even less time than before.


This week it was beautiful so I took the girls to the river bottom for a couple hours. We blew off some energy and got some great shots!

My Baby Is One Year Old Now...

My littlest girl is one! I don't believe it has been a year already!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ORYN!!!!

1 Year Ago

Today

When Mom is tending the youngest, the oldest shall play...

This is just a small glimpse of what I entered into when I was finished putting Oryn down for her afternoon nap...I hope you all get a kick out of this. I cleaned it half up, Oryn woke up 5 minutes later, I got her back to sleep and Makynna destroyed it once again. Just a side not here, this doesn't show the bed and closet that are also full of kaos and such. I am just going to say, I am not having all that great of an afternoon.

Six Random Facts About Kimmie

#1. I am anal retentive about capitals, spelling, and grammar when typing thing on the computer. It annoys me to all heck when people type in all lower case and when they don't use the correct words, for example: their/there/they're, whole/hole, write/right. ALL computers have spell check as well. For serious people! Would you get a passing grade in elementary school doing this?!?! I think not! Proof reading is a must.


#2. I still have my first security blanket, Mr. Booboo. I cannot sleep without him. I cannot travel without him. I WILL NOT EVER GIVE HIM UP!!! I WILL be buried with him. There isn't much left of him. When my Grandma T. made him about 23 years ago, he was blue and had little puppy dogs holding blankets on him. Now the only part of him left is the underside and the little ties the used to hold the top, the cotton batting, and the bottom together. I fear that every time I wash him he will fall apart...but I just cannot bring myself to retire him.

#3. When putting my groceries away I must organize, face (have all the labels facing English side forward), lined up perfectly and rotate old in front and new in the back. Everything has its place, and if it isn't where it is supposed to be I will take everything out of the cupboards and reorganize so that everything is perfect again. This is thanks to a boss I had years ago.






#4. I love theater makeup. Halloween is my favorite time of year. I enjoy making people look grotesque. I would have to say that my favorite Halloween yet was when I made my youngest sister and I look like bear attack victims. We each had three claw marks across our faces from hairline to chin. At the time I worked at a camping/hunting supply store and it looked so realistic that my co-workers would tell anyone who asked that I had a run in with a bear while camping and the costumers believed them. But due to having two young children I have put this passion on hold in fear of scaring them.

#5. I LOVE LADYBUGS!!! I have just about everything imaginable with ladybugs on it. I started collecting them in my early teens. It is a sickness in ways but I can't bring myself to stop.


#6. I have a complete and utter fear of open closets. The doors have to be all the way closed or I cannot sleep. I have taken the doors off all the closets in my house to creat a no closet feeling. When I was 5 years old I had a nightmare that a Dracula came out of my closet and killed my whole family. Ever since then either they are to be be shut or must not exist.





I don't know many people with blogs so I tag the next person that reads this...Papa I know you have read this. =)