that moment when your son stands up in the bathtub and says "ewwwww...." and you know that means he just pooped and you look around to say "not it!!" but you're the only one there.

WHAT?! say you, A NEW POST?!  IT'S A FREAKING MIRACLE!

yes, yes it is.  you see, we've been, well.......not busy.  not busy at all.  unless of course you're talking about me and the mister, because in that case, we've been Bizz-AY.

that's what you get for that smart-allick comment up there at the top.

lets just say that the first 20 weeks for me aren't my favorite thing in the whole world.  although I feel so incredibly lucky and so incredibly humbled and so incredibly blessed, laying at home all day (half running to the toilet and half moaning on the couch) is not my cup-o-tea.  not that I ever actually throw up.  see, that's the thing.  my body likes to play this fun game where one out of 15 or 2 or 37, I actually WILL throw up.  so its kinda like this fun little guessing game.  I stopped running to the bathroom every time.  but sometimes that left me heaving all the way to the nearest wastebasket.

okay, enough of that.

I've been doing a picture a day with Smith so far this year (okay, OKAY, more like a picture practically every day) and most of it has been in the back yard.  while I ask him to pick me an orange and I peel in while I lay on a blanket in the grass and die.  and then we share it and make a good ol mess all over ourselves.  and I lay as he jabbers and runs and throws balls and swings bats and has the most minimal supervision possible.  sometimes we searched the grass for four leaf clovers.  which DO NOT exist, just in case you wanted to know.

but then, last week happened.  and wha-BAM!  the adventures began.

train park with owen.  this pretty much sums up their relationship right now.

the stock shop with mimi.  me and our cowboy-in-the-making cannot WAIT to have a chicken coop one day!

phoenix zoo with reed.  oh yes, that's a lion behind us, waiting to be fed.  smith had enough sense not to listen to me when I told him to hold on the fence for a picture.

can you see that orangutan?  because it was ginormous.  and right in our face.  and so so so cool.