Kyla the Photographer

Tennis ball













Grocery store clerk












Rainy day




















Kyla Capturing the moment of me driving in the pouring rain













and her feet














and her legos








and her dad on the computer














and me reading

Its her new favorite thing to do and it gives me time to relax for 15 minutes at a time. She goes around taking pictures of just about anything in sight from my phone, and sends every photo she takes to my online album. I found these today while paying my phone bill. Thought it was kind of cute to see what she sees. xxx

So i forgot again. I keep everyone updated through facebook anyway. Nothing new really. Spring here is beautiful but frustrating with the bipolar weather. Sunny and nice turns into hail storms in less than a minute. I'm attempting a garden on my small deck. So far, nothing but its only been about 2 weeks. Kyla is doing good. We are really just getting ready for the summer so we can get in the pool and spend time outdoors. Tomorrow we are going to these hot springs, supposedly its a nudist colony or sorts so im hoping we dont run into too many nudies. Been trying new recipes and working at the clubhouse here in my apartments. Told Simon i would move to New Zealand for a year to try it out after he becomes a US cititzen so thats always in the back of my mind. We have so much of this beautiful state we want to explore before we leave so we are really looking forward to the summer and road and camping trips. At the moment our passports are with the inlaws while they try and get Kyla New Zealand Citizenship but when we get them back we are going up to Vancouver, hopefully by then my friend will have had her second baby. Second babies for me still arent even a thought. I just went through so much tramatic events with Kylas birth i can't even fathom trying it again. Plus i blaim almost every health issue i have on that since its been 2 years and i still dont feel the same, and i suspect i never will. I made a new friend with a son around Kylas age so that has been fun but almost awkward. It's like i spend so much time alone that i don't really know how to act around people. I only just started getting comfortable with Tiff before she took off for Germany. So i guess from here on out ill try to remember to post photos and such of our adventures we are planning on. xxx

forgot i had this blog!

pumpkin patch
fire pit on our street
cheese
mt tabor
winter park
end of summer zoo trip with mom
corn maze
polar bear
fall into fall
beauty and the messy living room

Things have been cooling down here in Portland, its been high 50's to low 60's and raining off and on. Starting to get that cooped up feeling again. I got Ky a jungle gym to put in the living room since we cant go to the park that often anymore. She likes it alot, i don't. Its HUGE. Other than that we are planning our month long vacation in feb/march2010. California and New Zealand. Hoping to take Kyla to Disneyland and have a bbq for her birthday again at my dads. We will only have a few days in Ca so it would be cool to have everyone i wanna see come over and bring kyla presents! haha. Simons good, working alot and playing soccer. Kyla has a cold right now and with the flu scare i've been keeping her isolated till i can get all her vaccinations. Thats just me, over worrier. Shes getting quite tempermental and likes to get into anything she knows is naughty, and gets these horrible tones with me yelling at me and telling me "NO MOMMY ITS MINE" hitting pulling hair, ect.. terrible twos? i hope its just a stage. Sleeping has been hard, i dunno if its a mix of stuffy nose and teething but she thinks its play time between 230 and 430 am. I think maybe once i get her out to play and run around she will sleep better. Right now we are spending alot of time indoors. Its taking its toll on both of us. Ill post some photos. im off to put her to bed now.

my name is kyla i like to party

sommersault
fun with daddy
ni ni sun
hats
angel baby

been a while

first ice cream cone
weeee
nap time
mt scott park with baby addy
probably our last chance at the pool.
one quarter equals pure bliss at fred meyer
photobooth
happy valley park
oregon state fair petting zoo


Things have been pretty good. Calliou is on at the moment so i have a second to update. Shocking how big Kyla is getting, shes counting to ten, she likes to skip 5 and six sometimes. She knows most of her colors, has trouble with red, and some of her shapes. Shes a total copy cat and its so funny. She answers herself all the time. When she says thank you she follows it with your welcome. Or when she says "Im messy mommy" she follows it with "thats okay". The other day i caught her asking her monkey if he was hungry and if he wanted a sandwhich, and followed that with yes!!! We start gymnastics again in october. Her favorite. I'm doing okay. Looking forward to going home to cal to see friends. Hopefully ill make it for my brothers grad, and erins baby shower AND kylas 2nd birthday. All her buddies are down there whats a birthday without kenadee kincey damien vaugn and new addition lila. Plus ill be stoked to see everyone too and maybe actually have a night out. Totally craving greasy mexican food so ill post some new photos and go get some tacos. xo

dam and edgefeild with hadleigh and emla

This last weekend we got to have the best houseguests ever. They did dishes, helped watch Kyla for us, even cooked us a delicious roast dinner. It was almost uncomfortable, i felt so little like a host. Hadleigh and Emla came and stayed with us. It was alot of fun and we already miss them tons. Here are some photos from Some dam in the gorge, i already forgot what its called, and one photo from Edgefield where we stopped for dinner and a drink on the way home. Pretty good day overall. Even though the security guard at the dam was racist again kiwis or something.

Growing up

Just taking a second to address "growing up". I am just thinking back to being an irresponsible kid, unruly teenager, college, dropping out of college, bad decisions, not holding jobs. Not just me, but basically almost every one of my friends. Its insane to see how much we all have grown up. Graduating college, having kids, getting married, pursuing careers, buying houses, buying cars, actually paying off credit cards. My most irresponsible decision in the last 3 years is buying Kyla a pair of 27 dollar shoes when we just bought a car so we are broke. Im excited to go back to school, get a good job and buy an amazing house with my husband and daughter, when just a few years back, it would be something lame like big parties or nights at some bar in costa mesa with my friends having far to much to drink. Guess what im saying is wow we all have our "big girl pants on" now.