4,000 Pictures

I've had this pressing feeling for a while now to organize all of my photos into folders in lightroom...and from my phone. 

I've never imported photos from my phone onto my computer. I just email what I need...but I never delete from my phone. 

Let's just say I have thousands to go through. Most of them are blurry shots of the same darn thing, but hey I can't help myself when I catch a cute moment. Gotta have 100 copies of it. 

Really though I need to calm down in the photo department. 

Because now I want to crawl in a ball in raise the flag that says SOS. 

Each night I'm pluggin' away...and I'll get it done. I'm just not letting myself download pictures from my camera onto my computer until everything is in it's place. 

I didn't realize how many photos I didn't even put on my blog of fun times! 

I hope one day I can make photo albums of vacations, children, and important events. I have been looking through old photos at my mom's house (my favorite thing) and I realized that my kids need to have their pictures easy to find as they get older. 

Luckily chatbooks has helped a ton with that...but I'm wanting something different too. (I need to print this blog every year...why is it so time consuming.) 

Off to bed. This single parenting thing is kickin' my trash. I love my children so so so much. Really. I'm just starting to get very tired during the day....multiple days in a row. I can't function like that! Ha!

Utah

We are here in Utah for the next few weeks, and this is how we feel about it! ^^^

I was hesitant to make this trip up here because Alex is gone, but my dad came to the rescue...again. 

Love him.

We are soaking up time with family, and can't wait to meet up with Alex over Fourth of July weekend. 

My heart could just explode with all the family time we will have. 

My kids are being doted on all day, and are eating up every second. 

Hard Days

These last few days have been super challenging for me. I'd like to blame it on Peter for learning how to roll over...who knew a fun trick like that could make things so difficult. 

He rolls in his bed. 

He rolls out of his bouncer. 

He rolls when I try to change his diaper. 

Peter--you're too young for cool tricks like that!

(You're siblings never rolled over, so this is a new thing for all of us.)

Trying to put a baby to bed without a blanket, who is usually swaddled, is hard. So we've started crying it out now. Judge me if you will, but by the third, I don't have time to sit and rock for hours. Tonight he cried less, and fell right asleep. Probably due to that fact that he only napped for O N E hour today. All day. Maybe I'll pull out those trusty sleep books again...

The heat is already taking a toll, and makes this mama frustrated. It's hard running errands with whiny, sweaty kiddos. 

Another sweet child of mine admitted that they didn't like this house, and that they wanted to live with their dad....oh and that I was hated. I thought that sort of talk didn't come for another few years! Good thing the sweet times outweigh the bad. 

So Alex bought me some much needed flowers. I keep them in the only clean room in the house.

 (not exaggerating there) Ok ok ok, actually his debit card bought me flowers, heck, it's all the same thing. The flowers remind me that hard days always pass. I always underestimate what fresh flowers does to my mood. 

I'll be buying more weekly. 

(happy mama/wife, happy life.)