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You know that moment when you totally realize that you have been checked out of life for a while... hehe I had one of those today. I have been reading the book, The Dark Side of the Light Chasers, and have been loving it and have not been really checked in on life outside of my little world, and guess what! I love it. My baby turned two last month, and you would think for being a photographer I would have pictures, ummm yah I don't. He is growing like a weed and talks in complete sentences all the time. The kid never cries, the other day he fell on a knife his dad had just got done sharpening and it was nasty gross and the kid didn't cry once. Sometimes I wonder if he feels pain at all. He is insanely good at tattling all the time. Which is cute but gets old in a hurry sometimes. I think I will start potty training him real soon, the kid brings me a new diaper anytime he does anything in it but he refuses to go on the toliet. Thomas is growing as well just not as fast. He is loving his gymnastics class and is always excited to show us what he has learned. He is also learning the art of creating value in other peoples life so they will create value in his. Good thing the only value he wants created is for someone to be his bull, but I figure its a good lessson to learn now. Zackary has been farming and cowing and probably crying behind my back :). After somewhat of a crazy winter, which we has one cow get stuck in the river and after zack spent 2 hours in the freezing winter to get her out she died. Then nothing short of a miracle we found the missing 5 cows so I no longer believe in luck but rather miracles. Things are perfect or else they wouldn't be what they are. I have started a new buisness with Essential Oils, which I love, if you don't know anything about them I highly recommend learning about them. Its pretty sad because now I get excited when my kids get sick because that means I get to make them better... :) My new website for the oils is http://www.mtsavoryoils.com . And if anyone is skeptical its okay, cuz i've been there, done that, now I really do love them and use them all the time. When my kids get sick I just rub oregano, lavender, and eucalyptus on their feet, The oregano is a natural antibiotic, and it even kills colds. Lavender helps them relax and sleep and then eucalyptus clears them up so they don't have stuffy noses. I promise you I can have my kids over a cold in 3 days max. and I do it without any sleepless nights! So other than being consumed by life we are living and loving every second of it. and if you are looking for a good book to read, the one I was reading is by Debbie Ford, its more of a self-improvement but in a good way book than a light and easy read!!

Thomas has a girlfriend!

and she is the cutest thing ever. Its actually my brothers girlfriends daughter (is that complicated enough) so they only get to see each other when we are both visiting my parents at the same time but he has got the hots for her. I had been teasing him about holding hands with her because she tried to grab his hand one day and he panicked and so one day on our way to go see them out of the blue he goes "I think today I will try to hold her hand mom" and then I heard him saying to himself softly "I'm brave enough" Oh young love. Little Tom is constantly full of funny things to say and is getting bigger all the time. He loves to go with his dad and sometimes wakes up early in the morning so he can go with him (Tom loves to sleep in - just like his mom) Zack's Brithday is the friday and he is gonna be 26, he tried to tell me he was only going to be 25 but I reminded him he already got his insurance discount last year. He wants a laptop for christmas and finally decided that computers and interenet weren't "just a phase" My little pudge budge is a handful (and thats saying it kindly) He is saying new words all the time and has become a professionaly at saying "Tom pushed me" or "Tom hit me" he is such a little tattle tale but when the boys decide to they play exteremly well. Well I doubt I will update this again before christmas so Merry Christmas to everyone!

Slightly Obsessive

So I got my seamless paper to use for backgrounds the other day -- totally and completely lovin it, so I bribed thomas to be my sweet lil model (the poses were his idea), then of course once pudge had woke up from his nap he had to see what all the fun was about. Then I found my remote for my camera and got a few of the three of us. it was fun. Just thought i'd share some cute new pictures of my babies - gotta love those smiles!!

My Babies

I finally took some new pictures of my babies, even if they aren't babies anymore. Its next to impossible to get the two of them to coperate but I try. We have had a busy summer, between farming and going 100 miles an hour fall came entirely too fast. We lost several animals this summer from cows to our family dog that was 10 years old (he belonged to zacks old roommate and he gave him to us when we got married) that was a very sad day but Tom was incredibly sweet and brave and pet our snack dog and told him goodbye. I fear my children are becoming all too used to death. Levi killed our two fish so I went and got a new one for Tom and Levi pulled that one out of the bowl and killled it too. (he spent lots of time on his bed for that one cuz mom was really mad). My children have taught me patience, its not a fun lesson but its finally sinking in. (I hope) Levi is learning new words all the time and is even learning to use his words. One day when he was throwing a fit I looked at him and said I don't speak baby, use your words so he goes "well I want that" (in his baby talk of course) but I about fell over, since then I have been giving him more credit than I did before. Thomas turned 4 and is becoming a big snuggle bug (which I love). He is learning lots of new things. We do preschool at home. Since he isn't going to kindergarten for 2 more years I figured we would do preschool from home and then next year he could go to an acutal preschool. its good for him, he is really smart and about the only word he can't say is Hospital no matter how hard we try. We love our boys and are excited to see them continue to grow and learn!

cutest little crack ever

So Levi suffers from either saggy diaper syndrome or just having a bad mom, I'm not sure which, but this is what I found running around my house this morning, until of course he pulled it off and peed on the carpet.

Branding time

It was that time of year again... In years past I have escaped it because I was either pregnant or had a newborn baby, Since this year neither of those applied (thank goodness) I was roped into helping brand cows. I asked Zack if he would teach me to castrate them but he wouldn't, I dunno why, maybe he thinks i'm crazy or something. Anyhow, Tom had the time of his life. He had found the stick off of my blinds and was using that as a sorting stick. He wasn't too big into chasing the big cows but calves he could handle. I did catch Levi out with the cows twice. Luckily he didn't get hurt even tho the mamas were very angry. I got a horrible sunburn after being out there for more than 6 hours but at least its done. I dont understand why my husband wants or even likes the stupid things but good thing I have two boys, Maybe someday they won't need my help at all. Ha, yah right, he'll just get more :(

Where does the time go!

I am pretty sure every time I blog, I talk about how I should blog more but I just don't. I don't have any time these days. My hubby thinks taking care of two small children and helping with the cows is a simple task but really, it does take time. My two baby boys are growing up and they are super busy. This weather has not been kind to them, teasing them, letting them think its warm enough to go out and play but then the next day its not. Its driving my youngest one crazy. Most days I just shut all the garage doors and let him go out there and play just to give him something to do. Poor kiddo. I am still doing my photography and am learning, but loving every second of it. My own children hate my camera but I am slowly finding willing people to let me practice on them. So if you want to become my next practice session just let me know :) For Easter this year we ended up with a bunny. After all the other animals we have killed Tom was very worried about keeping this thing alive. Much to his happiness it is prospering and i'm hoping that it jumps out of its pen and runs away some day soon :) Levi didn't even open up his candy and just ate it wrapper and all. He has also been eating lots of sand. My kids will have healthy immune systems, needless to say. We are off and running with farming this year. After the bank decided to loan us our lives for this year, its going. Zack has been crazy busy with his job in town that his mean wife won't let him quit and chasing around to his farms but its been good for all of us and at least our grain is growing and our hay looks good. The cows are almost done calving and hopefully we will take most of them to pasture here shortly. I am tired of having to feed but I am really not looking forward to moving pipe. The only good thing about that situation is I get to spend time with Grandpa Larsen, thats a relationship I never thought I would establish so well but am truly thankful for it. Hopefully we will by still alive by this time next month when I finally get around to blogging again :)