4th of July in Provo...

Since I know I am not going to be up at 5:00 AM this 4th of July due to...being due, I decided to post one I took from last year from the Hot Air Balloon fest in Provo, Utah which is really quite spectacular. If you have time to work this into your July 4th schedule (come on, what else do you have to do at 5am...unless you are "due" too), I would strongly suggest it. And if you can get the kids outta bed, even better! It is quite exciting to witness. My kids loved it and I was beyond camera happy.

Been sick....

So much for photo of the day and daily posts. I have been sick with the pregnancy bug of vengeance. I really have been sick for 8 1/2 months but a couple days ago it was like the heavens opened and lo and behold I woke up in the morning and didn't feel like puking. So I'm back! I have a six pound baby inside of me that is squashing my insides but I now think I just might be able to conquer the world because I am not nauseated anymore. I really couldn't tell you what exactly happened to make it go away. I've read thousands and thousands of websites and books about how to get rid of the pukies when you are pregnant. The only thing I have found to work is one day you just get lucky or you have the baby. I will say Preggie Pops are a nice treat and for some odd reason they help. They don't get rid of it, but they do help. So go to Amazon.com and buy some for yourself if you have the preggie pukes, they may just save you in the check out line in the grocery store when you get the wiff of the awful cologne the guy infront of you is wearing....

Rain, Big Belly and Photoshop

It has been raining all day. Not just the kind of storm that blows through for a couple hours. No, all day, non-stop, when I look out my window I can see the little sheets coming down and bouncing into puddles all over my sidewalks. I used to live in Vancouver, WA. It was like this every day for most of the year, except for the summer, which was heaven. Nothing is more beautiful than the northwest in the summer time. Anyway, this reminds me of Vancouver, and then I am reminded of my dear friends who live there that I never get to see anymore. *sigh*. We have moved three times in the last 4 years, that is too much. Although I don't regret it because of the wonderful experiences we have had along the way (aw gee).

My belly is getting bigger. Everyone keeps telling me that I look small for how far along I am. So I took it upon myself to lay on the couch with a tape measure and measure my belly from the top of my uterus to the pubic bone and I measured 35 cm exactly. Being as I am now 34 weeks and 3 days, I'd say that's right! I am right on. Perhaps everyone who sees me remembers that I gained 70 pounds with my first pregnancy and 40 with my second. And being as I have only gained 12 this time and I am not the huge whale I was back then...maybe I look small. In which case, I do not mind looking small.

Since it's been raining I have been playing with photoshop. I love photoshop. It seriously wastes my time but boy do I know how to do some cool stuff. I found a great site for brushes. If you are into photoshop I suggest visiting and downloading them, they are free.

www.obsidiandawn.com

Cheers!

Photo of the Day

Perhaps I should just always have a photo of the day, it's just too much fun not too. This was a crazy day. My son ran over the Comcast cable with the lawn mower and shut off our cable, telephone and internet in one big swoop which sent me into a panic because what do I do without those three very important things. So I did laundry, shocking, I know. And then I went through my recipe books and thought...hmmm, that'd be a good one to make. This is something I need to do more of so that I am not stuck at the grocery store wondering what to buy. Or when I get home and I go to make dinner, wonder...now what the heck did I spend $150 bucks on if I don't have a thing to make for dinner. Menu planning...must do more of this. And I am proud to say I have the next two weeks planned.

This is a photo of the Mt. Timpanogos temple in Utah. It's really a beautiful place and I needed to get some shots of it for my digital design business. I like this one a lot. Again, must picture an 8 month pregnant lady lying on her side in the grass to get this perspective shot. Never mind, must not picture that.

Photo of the Day

Be your own kind of beautiful.

Enough said.

Homemade Puppy Costume

I guess I didn't get the note back in February that told parents their preschool child must have an animal costume for the end of the year program in MAY! So when I realized I had 24 hours to come up with an animal costume, and my son insisted he wanted to be a puppy, here it is. I thought I would share because it really wasn't that hard. First I started with black shorts and a white T-shirt. I glued with a glue gun (much better than that fabric glue that takes forever to dry), black spots that I cut out of felt on the shirt. I had a white baseball hat which my son wore backwards with a spot covering the front hole. I cut out two ears from some fluffy fabric I got at the fabric store and sewed the fronts to the backs (this is optional, glue would also work fine). I sewed the ears onto the side of the hat. Black socks on his hands and feet for paws, and oh yes, I did sew a tail on the back of the t shirt. I drew a nose and freckles on his face with black eye liner. Now this would actually look a heck of a lot better and be easier with a black or white jogging suit in which case you could use the hood of the sweatshirt to sew the ears too....however, it's May, and all the stores are now selling summer clothes, not sweats, so I had to deal with what we already had on hand. So there ya go. A homemade costume that looks adorable and costs maybe 5 bucks (if you have to buy a shirt and fabric which I did). Cheers!

House Cleaning

I hate to clean my house. I know that if I slave away at cleaning my house, within a few hours it will probably look worse than it did before I started. I think this is because I always clean on Saturday when the kids are home. Therefore by the end of the weekend the house is a disaster again. I should really clean the house on Monday, the beginning of the week when I know that they will only be home in the afternoons. Of course I realize this now that school is out in three days. (sigh)