Wednesday, November 13, 2013

so...yeah...it's november

That's about all I can really say today.  It's November, like nearly the middle of November.  The last few months have flown by as crazy and busy as the rest of this year.  It honestly feels like time decided to start moving at twice it's normal speed over the course of this year.  Of course it has to happen when my babies are still young and all I want is for time to slow down.  Maybe that's why it seems to be moving so much faster.  In July, after the kids and I had gotten back from our fun filled vacation in North Carolina, I thought it would be really fun to put together a little photo album of our trip.  As I was going through pics from our trip I started looking at pictures of all the other things we had already done this summer and decided to expand my little vacation album to include the whole summer.  That idea has once again morphed into me creating an album for the entire year.  You don't really realize how many pictures you take, especially on your trusty iPhone (side note...my photo stream will only hold 1,000 pics so old ones are going bye-bye when new ones are taken) until you start going through them to print.  I think the total number of prints heading their way to my mailbox, thanks to my new best friend Shutterfly and their amazing iPad app, has reached about 400.  Even if I put these pictures into the photo album and it sits on a shelf never being looked at , I know that I can rest easy with the comforting thought that this crazy year has been documented in a way that will let me remember all the things we did when my kids are grown and gone.  

To quickly recap, the last 3+ months have been filled with preschool starting (and meltdowns from Miss Davis because she wants desperately to stay at school with Monkey), a swing set for our yard, trip to the pumpkin patch, traveling for work and for fun, Disney Live shows, visiting family and family visiting us, a 5 year old's birthday (yes, he's really 5 already), Halloween craziness and of course Starbucks in their make-my-day red, holiday cup.