Teaching Joy School

Two weeks ago I was teaching Joy School at our house! I loved it. I hope kids did too. We talked about the Earth, how lucky we are to have it. We went to my garden and picked carrots beats and pumpkins. Then we had a talk about how we need to keep the earth clean. The activity for this part was picking up garbage at the park.

 Those are the bags of garbage that kids collected. I was impressed

 Play time on the swings!!!

Halloween Party

Today we had a very Fun Halloween Party. Thank you Katherine and Leah for all the help. I hate doing parties alone, it is always too overwhelming but with Katherine's planning abilities it was not stressful at all. Katherine, you should be a Professional Party Planner!!! 

We had all these cute kids in their costumes decorating cookies, doing cake walk/ musical chair type game, making ghosts and having fun. We also had a ton of tattoos to put on little hands. I am shore parents will love wiping them off in the baths:)

Here are some pics of some kids who did not leave early

My crazy rascals

Jessica's cuties

Leah's warriors

and a ladybug

Annie's little cutie

Hot Mama

Katherine's superheros

and a princess

 Audra's Goofy (she is)

and Buzz Light Year

After months of waiting my husband Jim finally got his Massage Therapist and Myofascial Release Therapist License. It is finally the end of one journey and the beginning of another.

Now he will be practicing Myofascial Release therapy and Massage Therapy at Pioneer Comprehensive Medical on Fridays so far. Hopefully after his fill up his Friday schedule he will get more days to do it. 

Here is his Ad

A lot of people know what Massage therapy does but not everyone is familiar with Myofascial Release Therapy (well including myself, I am just starting to get it). 

When I ask Jim what is the difference between Massage and Myofascial Release, one of his answers finally made sense. Shortly speaking Massage forces your muscles to relax and you do feel good after a session but after a a couple of days the muscles go back to what they were before - tense.

  During Myofacsial Release session your muscles are not forced to relax they are gently pulled to allow fascia to freely flow, which makes tense muscles relax naturally. That is just one of the many benefits of this therapy. I won't go on about it more. Jim is revising his web site and putting more information about his practice. I will have to post the address to it when it is done.

My Poor baby...

Due to Mom's profession and the need of practice gets my poor baby in bowls, baskets, trunks every kind of photography prop I can think of every week-end it seems. I still have a hammack to put together and try it out.

Now that I have my own newborn he ends up being a guinney pig for my new ideas, poor kid.

 I have knitted this hat and a cocoon myself. I am not a very good knitter, I have a lot to learn from my Mother in Law and sister in law, but this one I made myself.

 

 

 

Fun with 3

So, here I am almost stay at home Mom with 3 kids. I never thought I would find myself being a Mom of three so soon, but it is challenging and fascinating at the same time. It is like having the Best and the Worst of the both worlds. Sometimes I am amazed at how well I do and sometimes I go crazy.

I am enjoying every minute with my new baby. I don't want him to grow fast and want him to stay this little just for a little bit longer. I love when he snuggles to my shoulder and curls up close to me. I LOVE it, LOVE it!
In the middle of the night I try to explain to my hubby how much I am in love with this baby and can't fully express my thoughts. Then Jim tells me : " I love you ". Sometimes I loose myself in this baby and really need to remember to express my love to my husband and other kids as well.

Anyways, it has been nice to be home more and to have Jim home these past two Saturdays. Jim has fixed a ton of stuff in the house and made me very happy by doing so. We finally got a chance to do some more pictures of Quinn. Still not all of my ideas but some. So here they are:

New Arrival

We have been waiting for a long time for this baby to come ( I think I will always be that forever prego woman on the street) for Baby Quinn to join our family. It has been such a blessing to have this little angel in our home. I keep starring at him and thinking how sweet, soft and cuddly he is.

Shortly speaking labor and delivery went well, after they broke my waters nothing happened, then 10 min after they gave me petocin it had started for good. An hour and a half later we had a baby boy. I know, shortly speaking, without details, it may sound that having babies is a piece of cake for me, but we (women) all know that it is a lot harder then it sounds, let's leave it at that.

Tasia mothering Quinn, AJ- ignoring him

Imagine that, It has been a week and I have not done a session for my own newborn. These are just some that I managed to shoot while my mom was here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Baby Shower

This Last Saturday I was checking my mail and found a couple of cute Baby Shower invitations and thought, "Cool, I get to go to a baby shower". Just when I was reading the rest of the invitation where it mentioned "helping Olya to prepare...  Little Quinn should be..." it hit me it was for me.

It was a total surprise!!! Thanks Leah and Audra, you guys are the BEST!!! Now I am all set with Diapers and Wipes.

Some of us from the Party, I always forget to take pictures before people leave

Audra ...... Audra.... our baby hungry girl, Quinn is definitely going to recognize  her after he arrives

Being prego is not an easy thing, but I feel so special with all the friends  and family around who are as excited about you and the baby as you are!!! It makes it all worth it.