13 months

My living room after the kids ransacked my diaper bag snack stash.

Isn't it amazing what a difference 13 months can make? Two kids, two pudding cups, two different outcomes. There is also a picture of Emma with my foot (not that I like to take pictures of my feet!), but Emma just loves them and we all think it is so funny. When she is tired she will cuddle up to them and almost fall asleep. Here is also a picture of her with Beary Bear, her cuddle buddy for sleepy night night time. Austin is turning into quite the little man, and starting to really talk, he loves to list things. Like he will say "Mommy and a baby, and a Daddy, and a choo truck, and a puppy..."then he will trail off into silence. He sounds the list off to no one in particular. He likes to make up names for things, like a choo truck is a fire engine. I love him so much, he is such a wonderful son, and a great big brother.

Here's the deal

I have been really bad about updating the blog. Since I have started to use photoshop and I am starting to really appreciate the artistic liberties I can take with it. I have started two blog books to no avail. Using the program offered to make the blog book after using photo shop is hard. I feel very limited in how things are laid out and it is always telling be that I have too much text in the boxes below my pictures. Maybe I am just not smart enough to figure it out. Anyway, this is the reason I have not updated to blog recently, since I feel no motivation. I think I might have found a solution though. I can cut and paste the text into Photoshop then hunt down the pics on my computer (I can cut and paste them, but not re-size them. Bummer.). It's just a lot of work. Does anyone have any suggestions? Included are some of the pages/pics I have completed for my digital scrapbook, which is what I want to turn my blog into.