Remember When-sday

For Trent's First Halloween he was a Hershey Kiss, grey sweats a tin foil hat with label coming out. (Have to scan the pic.) For his second Halloween he was a Lawn Knome.

Callie was a chicken for her first Halloween.

I am the queen of last minute inspiration! We were so busy working on Trent's Thomas the Train costume we forgot about something for Callie!

Remember When-sday

I know it's not Wednesday, but the timing was right!
Exactly 3 years ago today.
We had just moved into our new house. Callie was almost 15 mo. old.

P.S. This is my 100th post!

Way Back Wednesday

Since my last post was pictures from Luke and Amy's wedding, I figured I'd stick with the theme.
Marshall and Luke at Luke's Wedding:

Marshall and Luke at our Wedding:

I could do weddings.

I have a facebook friend who takes amazing wedding pictures.  Made even more amazing by photoshop.  He has the full version and therefore can do really cool things that I cannot.  I always figured I could take wedding pictures.  In my opinion what makes most pictures so impressive these days is mostly all done in photoshop. 
I took 1500 pictures at Marshall's brother's wedding.  I was basically the assistant photographer.  I poached  the formals from the professional, but my candids are most special to me.  What one does with 1500 pictures, I don't know!  I do know they tell the story.  It is important to me that my pictures tell the story.
I won't be available for hire anytime in the near future.  The last thing I want to do is work every weekend in the summer!  Especially when the weekends are the only time Marshall is really home.  And you know the minute something becomes a J-O-B, it's not any fun anymore.  I'm sure it still could be for the most part, but let just say I liked being on my end of the lens for Luke and Amy's wedding. 
Here are some of my favorites.

The "Masacre"

Last night I went to check on the kids at the park. Trent mentioned something about a "masacre" and getting a bloody nose, but he wasn't upset and not bleeding anymore, so I let him keep playing.
This morning the new neighbor girl told Marshall some kids tried to take Trent's bike and beat him up. I heard Trent say "masacre" yesterday, but thought nothing of it. He and this other little boy "play" fight all the time, in addition to the mud "fights" after any rain.
Of course the kids are back at the park this afternoon, so Marshall asked me to go see what other information I could get from Trent. I went to sit with the kids and without saying a thing the new girl said to me, "Did you hear about what happend to Trent last night?" I said no, and she proceeded to say the same thing to me. She said it wasn't anyone they'd seen at the park before, and not from our neighborhood.
When I asked Trent, he said, "He was holding them off so Callie had time to run away." That, "they were trying to take his bike and the "tall" guy told the other two guys to "get" Trent, and they pushed him into the ground, when he was on the ground a stone poked into his nose and gave him a bloody nose. Then the tall guy changed his mind and they all left."
Again, Trent didn't say a word of this to me last night, he didn't even seem one bit upset or ruffled.
I'm not sure what to make of all this. I believe them. They all told the same story. It scares the crap out of me to think something like this happened. Just like when his scooter was stolen(click to read about it.), I want to put signs up all over the neighborhood chastizing these kids who ever they are. I want to never let my kids go to the park again! But Trent is fine. Not phased one bit. He thought he was defending his sister. When I asked him what he would do if it happened again, he basically said the same thing, that he would make sure Callie was safe. In his mind he did what he was supposed to do and that was the end of it. Never mind making a big deal out of it, or bothering to tell me. We talked about the importance of letting an adult know about these things.
So what does this mean?
That he isn't afraid of bullies?
That I should not be as trusting of the time they spend at the park?
That he should be given more skills either: mental, verbal or physical to deal with a situation like this?
I see this as one of those things in life that happens. It is most certainly affecting me more than Trent.
Can I ask the city to ban teenagers from the park?

Laundry List

This was posted by one of my facebook friends. I thought it was worth passing on. How often do you wear/wash your bra's (Click on it to link)

Queen of Avoidance!

Man, I am really good at getting things done! Just not the things that are supposed to be done! Anytime I have something I don't want to do, I don't just procrastinate, oh, yes, that's a whole seperate problem. I somehow get involved in a completely unrelated task. Today I was supposed to be cleaning up my house since I haven't been home for 4 days straight and when that happens the house becomes a dumping ground. I went to put a dish away in the cupboard, one thing led to another and I had cleaned out and reorganized four cupboards and one drawer. I do great work when the project at hand is not the priority of the day.
I guess the alternate way to look at it is, eventually every project will become the one I do when I'm avoiding something else!