around here

 ^^ At this lady's Bridal Shower!  Can't wait for her wedding day in August!

^^ Chasing windmills on a random evening drive.

^^ This girl!

^^ My favorite time of the day.

 ^^  Yummy treats at work.

^^ My first sneak peak at the wedding photos from Kristin's Wedding.

Photo Credit : rachelbeckphoto

^^ So honored to be present and document the birth of Samson Lane, born June 26, 2013.

More photos to come!

^^ At the Mustang's Game.

Update….

So, the thing about cancer is that it sucks.
Duh.
It sneaks up on you when you least expect it to.
…….

The last few weeks dad has been having some major work done on his teeth. The cancer has been pulling all the calcium and other good nutrients out of his teeth making them weak and ultimately destroying them. About 2 months ago dad went to the dentist at KU Med (this dentist specializes with cancer patients) and found out that 4 teeth will have to be extracted and he has cavities on just about every tooth in his mouth.

The Catch 22? Some of the teeth are dead and rotting in his mouth so they need to be pulled. The cancer pulls out all the nutrients in your body and makes your bones extremely fragile. Pulling a tooth could shatter the jaw bone.
Dead tooth = pulling tooth = possible shattered jaw.
Yikes.

So far, dad has been doing well. He has had about 7 cavities fixed and had 1 tooth pulled a little while ago. But today he had 2 more pulled. 1 went well. 1 did not. When they pulled the 2nd tooth, the bone bleed, which is good because that means that part of the jaw bone is healthy and it did not shatter. The bad news, dad will be in a lot of pain the next few days. By Friday we should know if things are going well. He has about a 50 percent chance of getting a dry socket which will put him in incredible pain. So much that pain medicine won’t help much.

So I’m going to ask you this.
Please send prayers that dad will heal from this tooth.
Please send prayers that when he has the last tooth extracted, that it will go well.
Please send prayers that everything will go alright.

Currently : June 2013

Happy it is the weekend.
Looking forward to some upcoming travel plans.
Hoping dad’s kidney stone passes so we can
Travel to Minnesota.
Nervous about going back to Minnesota because I haven’t been back since I moved away from there.
Remembering what my childhood looked like there.
Feeling old because I haven’t been there in 15 years.
Needing to mark off the things on my to do list that have been on the list far too long.
Wishing the weekends lasted just a little bit longer.
Getting caught up on my One Little Word project.
Over thinking about how I want to document my travel adventures.
Listening to the new mix cd I made while still
Painting my scrapbooking table.
Loving the calm moments outside while
Watching Abby chase bubbles.
Wanting to get my crafting area set up.
Putting off cleaning my room.
Ordered my Matt Nathanson concert tickets.
Excited about what will unfold in the next few months!

Joe & Katie Maternity Photos

Always Sometimes Never

I have always been a night owl.
I always eat breakfast.
I will always choose Secret Garden by Bruce Springsteen as my favorite song.
I always come up with some new project to work on.
I always put my family before anything else.

I sometimes eat frosting out of the container (and I’m not ashamed of it).
I sometimes wish I could run again.
I sometimes have horrible nightmares that leave me bruised and battered.
I sometimes wish I could live on a beach, or have mountains in my backyard.  {And sometimes I'm content right where I am.}
I sometimes clean at the most inconvenient times, usually when I’m trying to put something else off or it's really late at night.

I never feel like I get enough sleep.
I will never like sharks.
I never watch scary movies.
I never like to be alone for longs periods of time.  (Like the 2 times my parents were in KC for a month during dad’s transplants and Abby and I had the house to ourselves for an entire month—each time.)
I will never get used to the fact that my dad is sick.

#77 | Make Pizza from Scratch

Check out the recipe here.

Daddy

                                

 

Happy Fathers Day to an incredible man.

I love you!

Scavenger Hunt Sunday | June 16, 2013

Summer

So loving these summer days.

Dance

Me and Kristin dancing on her wedding day.  So thankful I got to be a part of her special day.

Laughter

This dog and her love for bubbles.

Helper

Mom has been helping me paint my new scrapbooking table.  Can't wait for it to be finished!

Water

...or something like it.

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Project Life 2013 | Week Nineteen

 Welcome to Week Nineteen!  This was a fun one!  (I'm not sure what happened to my full page photo...)

This week had a lot of every day bits and pieces.  A work photo.  An evening walk with my friend Abbey.  A foggy morning drive.

The right side was all about my friend Kristin’s Bachelorette Party.  We went to Worlds of Fun and I rode a roller coaster (and marked something off of my 101 list!)  After the park, we stayed in KC and had some fun girl time at the hotel before going out to the bars.  It was a great night!  Lots of fun memories to look back on!

12of12 | June 2013

This months 12of12 really snuck up on me.  Usually I'm anticipating days in advance on how my day will unfold and today my phone had to remind me that it was the 12th.  First time in 2.5 years...that's pretty good!

01.  Morning sunshine.
02.  Off to work I go.
03.  Work.
04.  Where I spend my entire day.
05.  My desk is right under a vent that blows freezing cold air on me.  I'm always dressed for winter at work.
06.  After work we spent some time outside.
07.  My flowers that I seeded a few weeks ago.
08.  Enjoying the evening.
09.  Bubbles!
10.  She is worn out!
11.  Making progress on Project Life.
12.  Tonights Oscar movie is Jezebel with Bette Davis.

Project Life 2013 | Week Eighteen

Welcome to Week Eighteen.  This is by far my favorite page so far!

 Again, I used a photo as my date card.  I absolutely love how it turned out.  This week we got the bubbles out for Abby and she was in doggie heaven!  Now she waits in the garage for us to get them out and often acts like she needs to go to the bathroom just to get into the garage and wait for the bubbles.  She is a silly one!

This week also had some quieter moments like the day mom and I went for a walk and then drove up to the park and got to pet the Bison that lives there.  Usually they hide in the back away from people, not stand right up against the fence.

Another big event this week was getting a new lens.  This one is a fisheye.  So fun to learn more about how it works.  I also used this stamp from Elise to document.  Love how it turned out on the photo.

The right side has the “Right Now” photo.  Mom has been spending the last few weeks making flip flops for her school and had a nice little craft area set up in the living room floor.

This week we took a day trip to Kansas and did a little shopping and then toured the town’s little museum that had trains.  Dad was in train heaven!

Right Now

An Instagram Photo Dump from the Last Few Months

Moments to be remembered.

Scavenger Hunt Sunday | June 2, 2013

I've been meaning to participate in the last 2 scavenger hunts, but life always seems to get in the way.  This weeks prompts were super easy and I could share some photos that I've been meaning to share with my scavenger hunt friends.  Each prompt this week is Photographer's Choice.

 ^^ Family time at the park.

 ^^ One of the photos from my maternity session with Joe and Katie.

^^ So many horrible storms this week. 

#sunsetdiaries13  Sunset photos taken this year.  I'd love it if you'd play along.