It's been a long time

Wow...it's been a long time since I've posted anything. It was a little too much work to try and keep up with my 365 project. I was constantly falling behind with my posting which made it quite a job when I finally got to it. It makes more sense for me to stop doing it, but I like the idea of posting updates on the family and how things have been going. I haven't decided if I'll do weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly updates (I don't know if my life is interesting enough to update weekly...lol).

I'll let this be my first update. Since I posted last, Kelsie had her 3rd birthday. We had her party at the park and she had such a great time. The weather was perfect, too. She had a great time playing on the playground with Ashlin and her cousins Abby, Jada, and Reagan. Mamaw pushed her really high on the swing saying she's make sure she didn't send her to the moon, but Kelsie wanted to go to the moon...lol. She talks about the moon almost every night now and if she can't see it, she has to ask me where it is.Kelsey Jo and I took the kids to the park cause her brother was coming to town for Thanksgiving and we were thinking about doing a little photo shoot with the family (just for practice) and I wanted to scope out locations in case we did. I didn't end up doing the shoot (Kelsey Jo's mom didn't want to take time away from my family so close to Thanksgiving), but we had a great time looking for nice spots anyway. I got some cute pictures of Kelsie and Ashlin. The big (main) picture in the storyboards are from that day at the park along with the one of them in the leaves. These are the first storyboards I've ever made :o).
Thanksgiving was great. We went to Grandma and Grandpa Peabody's first (Daniel's dad's side of the family). That's always awkward. When we left there, we went to my mother-in-law's and we had a blast. I love the family gatherings over there.
I took the girls to get they're Christmas pictures made. I like that they have backgrounds I don't have and the photographer was great at getting the girls to smile at the same time, but I think I may like being the one to take them. If I ever get the materials to make my own makeshift studio, I may never take them somewhere else again. I really like being able to say I took their pictures and then there's the instant gratification of having the pictures as soon as I'm done with the shoot. No waiting around for them to be shipped (unless I'm getting prints). Not to mention one of the most important things...I tend to fall in love with all of the poses and I can only buy one or two. When I take the pictures, they all belong to me.

The girls are sick right now. They've been battle low fevers for a couple of days and they have runny/stuffy noses. Ashlin's nose is worse. The poor thing has a hard time nursing. When she's sleeping, she tries to breathe through her nose, but can't and she stops breathing for a couple of seconds and then breathes through her mouth, but that startles her and sometimes wakes her up. I just hope they get better soon.