MAY!!! Don't LEAVE!!

Holy!

Where has this month gone??? I'm still wondering where April went!! Amazing how time can fly when you're slightly preoccupied with those little ones... Will I ever regain a life? :)

I just looked at my calendar and after June 12th I am busy every weekend until the middle of July! What the heck?

Faith is done with school next Friday already! It just means that she's getting older and more mature! Yikes!

Lilly will miss the preschool boat for this year because she was born in the fall, but that's alright, I don't know if I'm ready for her to leave the nest quite yet.

That's my ramblings for right now, good thing I can type quickly so it doesn't take too long!

Warm weather...

The things that warm weather does to your brain!! The sun makes you lift your head up to the heavens to soak in the rays instead of burrowing down in the chilly rain. It's nice to have these days finally. This summer I'm looking forward to spending family time. I don't know why, but it feels like it's going to be different than it usually is. I want to take my kids camping, or even on picnic for that matter... Let them run and swim and ride bike. Summers like I remember growing up.

It's so hard when you marry someone who doesn't appreciate living by the water and fishing and relaxing and spending time together! I know he appreciates it, I guess I should just say that I don't feel time is spent wisely enough for us to be together. On the other hand, I did marry a farmer didn't I? But there are days when he's not so busy, and I think he feels like he can't leave the shop for fear of something not being done!! Who knows. It's just me being jealous that he's married to the farm way before he's married to me and even on Sundays when families should be spending time together, he's gone... What a pity party I'm throwing for myself huh!!!??

Enough about him! Ha! :)

Maya is a wonderful baby and I couldn't be more thrilled with her, she's such a little dolly! Last night she slept for about 6.5 hours!! Crazy!

Lilly is my wild child... She's spending the weekend with Grandma and for some odd reason, I just miss her so much! I want to just hold her, but she's not into that very much. She'd rather be running and jumping and playing and chasing the dog! Such an energetic little being, I wonder how and where she gets it from.

Faith? Oh Faith.... My young lady. I came across some photos of when she was bout 5 or so and just can't believe how 5 years can make a child turn into an almost teenager! {Ok, we have a few years for that, but still!!!} Such a smart girl... I don't know how in the world I've been blessed with her as my daughter! She's such a great helper with the little ones and I don't know what I'd do without her.

I can't believe I'm just rambling like this!

Business is going slowly right now... Working on sending out products and gearing up for the summer. The first weddings of the season are right around the corner, so I'm excited for that! I've got different venues this year than usual, so I'm looking forward to all the new places I get to see.

Other than that.... I'm sure I've forgotten something, but we'll save it for another day.

Thanks for stopping by!

The birthday girl....

I have taken photos of this little lady since she was just a peanut. Needless to say... I DO believe that my child portrait techniques have come a LONG way since then :) Thanks K for being my model on many occasions. Here are some photos of her about a week before her 3rd birthday.

Baby Brain

Whoa NELLY! Time is flying by!

Ms. Maya is 4 weeks old today. I would say that I can't hardly believe it, but that would seem a little redundant, right? I think the thing that is more amazing is that it's May 3rd and looking at my calendar, it seems that there are a multitude of things popping up. Faith's last dance performance is this Friday... Bars to make for Grandparents Day, baby showers, meetings, sessions, birthdays, Memorial Day weekend {which always makes me jealous because I think I have the only husband in the world who's not into camping, fishing, boating, swimming or anything like that... especially when my kids and I are all about that stuff! That's how I grew up and how I want my kids to grow up...} Oh well. 'Tis the life of a farmers wife I guess. Being single all summer.

Anyway!

All is well otherwise and I have some great images from some recent sessions to show you... That will be the next time around... :)

Baby...

... is not as demanding as the 'Middle One'. While I could have caught up on my sleep a week ago with the babe... Lilly is ALL over the place and not at all accommodating.

That's all I have to say about that.

Dean is gone to work for 12-14 hour days already and that is tooooooooooooooo long for my patience to deal with! Especially when we got home from the hospital and 2 hours later he mentions that he's 'gotta go'. Oh well. Comes with the territory I guess.

So, this sounds like a whine session, but really, just a place to vent a couple frustrations with the world. I haven't yet figured out HOW in the world I'm going to manage ANY sessions, weddings or anything this summer with a baby AND a toddler. Faith will be helping, but there's only so much I can ask her to do... Should be interesting!

Anyway!
Maya Lee Schultz was born on Monday, the 5th of April and is the sweetest little baby... she loves to just hang out and look around at the chaos that surrounds her! Thankfully, I firmly believe she has been acclimated to Lilly's..... uhm... existence. Noise and all.

Here's a couple Hospital pics... Hopefully going to get some more done this week.