I had visions of grandeur…posting several times a week, highlighting some new features, sharing more about my crazy life…
But apparently, I haven’t figured out how to fit blogging into my schedule (or lack there-of)!
I annoy myself!
But I’m not giving up – so don’t give up on me! Things are still moving forward!
We spent this last week having all 5 kids contract some nasty flu bug and puke their guts out (along with fevers, headache and diarrhea). It has been a very long and STINKY week! We still had Zeke vomiting last night, and 2 girls with stomach cramps, so I took Christopher and Payton to church while Chris stayed home with the sickies.
And to top it all off, Friday night was our 11th wedding anniversary (yes, William and Kate have superb taste)! I was supposed to take the kids to an auction at their school while Chris had an Elder’s Quorum activity at the church. But instead, I stayed home (and cleaned up mass amounts of vomit – that’s gotta be worth some brownies points, right??) while he went to his activity. At one point, poor little Payton walked into the kitchen and threw up all over the floor, then slipped in it, and smacked her chin on the garbage can on the way down! It was truly pathetic.
But there were a couple of bright silver linings…my wonderful friends who stepped in to help in all the chaos! I have incredible friends! Michelle is always checking in on us – and she’s an amazing cook! She brought us popsicles (life saver) early in the week, and then chicken and wild rice soup with bread for dinner one night. I love her lots! And dear, wonderful Katie has been shuffling my healthy (for the moment) kids around all week to and from school and brought us a tuna noodle casserole with sauteed carrots for dinner! Wonderful friends indeed!
So…here’s to a brighter week ahead, right?!
And since we’re looking ahead to good things…I’m super-excited to share with you, my friends, my BRAND. NEW. WEBSITE!
Drum roll please….
Webiste
I’m also going to be switching over to a new blog…
Blog
I’m excited to share all of the beautiful sessions that have taken place recently!
I will be changing things up and having a more concrete format for my new blog, but for now, I have imported this blog into the new one, so nothing is lost, and everything is still the same!
I will leave this blog active, but I haven’t decided if I will update it with personal/family stuff and save the other just for business or if I’ll roll it all into the new one.
What do you think? If you’re visiting a photography blog, do you want to see the photographer’s family or are you specifically looking for their client work? I’d love to know!
And, in honor of new changes (and things to come) AND Mother’s Day, I’m having my very first giveaway…I KNOW!! I’m so excited!
I love supporting local businesses (because I am one), so this Mother’s Day, why not give the gift of pampering? I talked about the Corvallis Nail Spa in THIS post and I’m super happy to be offering a Mani/Pedi gift certificate!
Seriously – if you aren’t going to have beautiful pictures taken of your self/child/pet, etc. then at least enter this giveaway and give mom a break! ;o)
HOW TO ENTER:
There are THREE ways to earn entries into this giveaway! Please leave ONE comment on this blog post for each completed entry – blogger (old) or wordpress (new) blog will work!
Entry 1: Visit my FAN PAGE on Facebook and “like” it.
PS – When I reach 100 fans I’ll be doing another giveaway…for reals!
Be sure to type the @ sign before 50 Toes Photography (after you like it of course) so it will tag my page!
Entry 3: Tweet about the giveaway on twitter (for those who don’t have a twitter account, please only complete entries 1 and 2).
That’s it! I’ll be drawing randomly on Sunday, May 8th and notifying the winner on Mother’s Day! Hooray for moms!
Speaking of moms…how cute is this little doll and her mommy?
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