WOW, what a BUSY last few days!

Hello guys, sorry for not posting in a few days. Just been busy.


As many of you know, I have my own business up and running. Legit business, license and TIN and all! =) SO that has me VERY busy.


If you'd like to know what's going on check out my "Life's Little Secrets Photography" Blog here on blogger, or on facebook. Type in Life's Little Secrets Photography on either.


Also, in case you haven't seen, I have my mom blog going. It really is all about me being a mom, and how I do this mom business.


Well, Saturday night we had Jayden's God Dad's and one of our good best friends 30th birthday. It was fun. Scott ended up playing bear pong with the gang, and had a blast. Needless to say, I'm breastfeeding still, so I was the DD. It's okay. I will have a big bang bash once I am not longer breastfeeding. 


Sunday, we went to church as usual, ate at Applebees for lunch. Jayden was the star of applebees. So many people commented on how well behaved he was, how good he sat in his high chair, how good he ate, how cute he was, etc. They played with him, as he of course flirted with the ladies. =)


We went home, and I had to do some work. So I got busy working. I finished a little early and played with baby boy before starting his night time routine.


I had a mini photo shoot, my first client, they were a couple from our church that recently got engaged on valentines day, Jim and Lisa. they are getting married on New Years Eve. 


So Congrats to Jim and Lisa!


I have been slowly working on their photos. Will be sending their photos out for processing on Wednesday.


Today I worked. I love adult interaction. (For those who don't know, I'm still working my other job for now, not sure how long, I'm just waiting for God to move. For now, this is how it is, and how I'm working things.) I LOVE the adult conversation. It's my break from being a mommy twice a week. I Love it. 


Got home, played with baby boy, fed, him, ate our selves. Went grocery shopping. Realized we only had enough baby food left for the morning, so I had to go get stuff. Since I'm a little behind on making some home made baby food, I just bought enough baby food to last till Friday, payday. I will somehow find time this week to make some more home made baby food. The problem is, he needs his meats now, since he's on stage two baby food, so I think we will have to continue to buy that stuff.


Other than that, baby boy is doing great on solids. He's allergic to Peaches, I don't know if ya'll remember that. And he doesn't seem to like the prunes all too much. =( I don't blame him, I don't like them either. BUT, trying to expose him to as much food as possible, so we are not stuck with a picky eater.


After getting home, fed baby boy his dinner, gave him his bath, played with him, read to him a bit, and then put him down to sleep. He only cried 6 mins tonight! YAY! 


I have since been working. Trying to figure out some cross marketing things with a few different places. I have been processing photos, and getting them ready to be sent to the processing lab. I have been working on maintain blogs/webpages. I have been working on my celebrate recovery group for church, preparing for worship group, and gearing up for our marriage group that starts this friday at our church. On top of that working on Arizona mommies play group activities and such. 


I'm telling you the life of a Christian: Wife, Mother, Employee, business owner, friend, and family member is NEVER over. lol.  


I know it seems like I have a ton on my plate, but really, I don't. It is very well balanced. I love it. It's easier now to maintain things, and do things, now that Jayden is older. He's learning to play with his toys, by himself. He rolls in both directions when he wants to however he wants to, he's getting this crawling thing down, so he's pretty much on his way to being self sufficient and soothing. 


Anyways, I have some work to finish, I did some shopping, and I've got a hubby to snuggle up to here in a bit. I will talk to you guys later! Good night!

Happy, Fussy, Happy, Fussy, Happy, Fussy........The song that never ends!

Today Jayden had a TON of moments where he was really happy, laughing and playful, and even TONS of moments where he was just fussy. It was a round and a round day of it. lol. Yeah, pretty much from the time we woke up.


Seriously he can go from happy, smiling, laughing cute little boy, to screaming, crying, banchie boy in 1.2 seconds!!!!!!!! OMG!


I love my baby boy, and I wouldn't change it for the world! Sometimes I feel bad because I can't help but to laugh at him when he gets fussy because he isn't getting his way. lol. I don't mean to laugh, but sometimes it's just so funny. 


Well, we got up to start our morning routine. To our surprise Grandpa was home. So while mama went about doing the dishes, and making some tea and coffee, I got his food ready, and Grandpa attempted to teach Jayden how to crawl more all the way. lol. 


We then feed him Sweet Potatoes today! He loved them! 


We then went about our business getting ready, well after sleepy head woke up from his nap that he caught in his high chair after his breakfast. 


We went hiking at Estrella mountain park, and then played at the play ground. After wards we came home, worked on some crawling practice, and played out side with car walker. 


Baby boy ate a TON today. He was constantly eating. 


We fed him his dinner, he got really fussy. So we immediately gave him his bath, and surprisingly, he must have been tired, because he rolled over and went right to sleep. 


I'm really glad he did, because for some reason I'm extremely exhausted. =( man, I'm wiped. I think after Grey's I'm gonna take a nice long mama bath, with some candles and light music, and then go to bed. 


In any case enjoy some of these photos, and have a good night. 

 On his swing

 He loves playing on the baby swing.

 getting ready to go down the slide with his mama

 Our feet down the slide

 Yay, here we go!

 What a big boy!

 Diaper change and lunch time!

 Fell asleep in his high chair after breakfast.

 As you can see wee man somehow managed to wiggle a sock off

 Yummy yummy sweet potatoes

 New foods! yay!

 First taste of sweet potatoes! Yumo!

HOLY COW teeth batman!

Well, today was ONE of THOSE days. You know the type that wants to send you packing and running for the hills. Yeah, my son screamed his head off most of the day. No amount of pain relief or oragel made him happy today. I gave him a good amount of cuddling.


I desperately needed to get laundry done, so I had to let him tough it out a little today. As long as he could see me working on the laundry he was fine. Even when I had to fold it, he sat happily in my lap as I folded the laundry. Daddy got home, so he went on daddy duty so I could put all the laundry away. 


Jayden didn't fight me on eating at all today, in fact he ate quite a lot. More than he normally eats.


However, he did fight his dinner a little, mostly because he was over hungry. When he does this I have to give him a bite, then let him have his bottle, and so forth, until the hunger edge is off, and I can just feed him his solids.


We had fun playing with daddy, and his monkey in his walker in the kitchen until he got tired. We then took him to his bath, and got him ready for bed. 


He did fight us tonight to go to sleep. Ended up crying for 20 mins. We checked on him at 15 mins, and five mins after he was done crying. I checked on him after I heard 3 mins of silence. I went up checked on him, put his paci in his mouth, pulled his blanket up, and put his security elephant where he likes it.


I made sure the humidifier was going, he still has some gunk in his nose, and made sure the womb sound was going for him. Turned the baby monitor up a wee bit to hear him.


He is peacefully sleeping while mommy gets some work done. Working busy! I have so much to keep up on. I like it. Gives me a sense of accomplishment.


I have four clients booked starting next week. I'me excited. Just so some of you know, if I don't post the pictures, it's because the client opted not to allow publishing of their photos. I ask all clients if I have permission to share their pictures prior to sharing them. 


In any case, that's my day, I have a few more things to work on, then I'm hoping into the hot tub with hubby for a bit tonight. 

Just another Typical Tuesday and Crazy start to a Wednesday!

So since, I didn't get to post last night, here is last nights post.


Tuesday, really was mundane. Nothing special happened, nothing out of the ordinary. 


Jayden just decided to work on some more of his crawling, and at night he was REAL fussy, starting at dinner. Figured out, it's is teeth bothering him. 


He finally went to sleep with relative ease. So that was good. He slept until 6:40am. I'm really happy he's sleeping better. I hope it lasts!


I'm really excited because the marriage group at our church starts next week! YAY! I'm excited to be growing with my hubby spiritually!


Jayden will be 5 months old on the 26th! =( Makes me sad, he's growing up so fast. 


Jayden and I mostly played, played, played all day long. He was really on the go all day long.


Great grandma (Yes, they live across the street from us) caught us out front playing in his walker, and decided to come play with Jayden.


He was a very happy little baby boy yesterday. Made playing with him, lots of fun!


He was a VERY hungry baby boy yesterday. Ate his typical amount of food, and milk, and THEN some. lol. Such a chunker baby I have. =)


In any case, onto today.


Well, like I said he was in bed at 8pm, and didn't wake until 6:45am! Let me just say, my boobs were thanking him for finally waking up! Not complaining, I'm loving the extra z's. I of course kept him in his crib until 8am. I really want him use to the whole 8pm-8am is time for sleeping. Habits are forming, so we are making sure he forms GOOD habits.


OH, I forgot about one little thing that happened yesterday. I laid Jayden down on his tummy to practice crawling about two feet from the couch. totally safe area. I then went into the bathroom to use it. I walked out and saw that he had rolled himself right into the couch, and he of course didn't like it. He had one leg extended and almost all the way, with his hands tightly gripping the couch. He was trying to figure out how to get his other leg up. He let go, and whoops, came tumbling down (only about half a foot) onto his toy. So we had a little red mark, that was it. 


I was wondering, does anyone else think long term habits with their children. For example, we have the urge to go to our crying screaming child every time, or kiss the boo boos everytime, but does this help reassure our love and bond with and for them? Or does it just cause horrible habits to break in the future?


I know my in laws have GOOD intentions. I get it, they raised children. I get it. However, the way we raise children here and now, is SO vastly different than it was 20+ years ago. I think they forget that. Foods we ate back then, are not so much recommended, diets back then are changed to better more healthy balanced diets. Toys we played with, well they are safer now. I get it, they want to help, they have good intentions, but I think they forget, that 20+ years changes things. 


This is a new time, a new era for children and parents. Children today are raised differently in the aspects mentioned above. 


I really wish they would lay off my case about how and when I feed my child. I have a balanced diet worked out with the pediatrician, it's the recommended diet. It's especially important that we follow it simply because it helps us know what he likes/dislikes, what he has an allergy or intolerance to. It's my job as the mother to know these things, so my schedules and menu's help me stay on top of it. Call me neurotic, but it works. 


Like I said I get it, they want to help, but things are done differently these days. I get yes you turned out okay, and your children did too, just these days, things are different. 


Jayden likes to drink his milk between every 3-5 spoons of food. Is that really so bad? We do it as adults. Only makes sense if he wants to do it as well. right?


Jayden's teeth have been bothering him ALL day. He's been suck a little stinker all day. Very clingy, which is not good being laundry day.


He has been driving me up the bloody wall. 


Anyways, he's awake from his nap, time to go get him. TTYL.

So Tired.

I just wanted to post that I haven't forgotten about all of ya'll today. I'm just tired. I really need to go to bed. I will blog about my day today, in the morning when I wake up and finish breakfast routine with Jayden. Good night ya'll.

Renfair fun! =)~

We woke up today and fed Jayden. We played around with him for a little while I drank my coffee and we watched the news.


We were thinking and talking about going to the Renfair today, last night. On the news today we saw that they were having a buy one get one free admission today. So we decided to look in the Az Republic, and snip out the coupon, and go.


So we went. We had a BLAST. It was fun and a good time to be out doing something as a family.


We immediately got our Turkey legs when we got there. And as we were eating our turkey legs, Jayden ate his pears.


We saw several shows, a joust and a bunch of fun new shops and attractions. I can NOT wait until Jayden is a little older to do the really fun things for kids! I'm excited!


In any case they have several new attractions and shows. Our fave is the barely balanced show. LOVED it. So funny.


Now typically the shows are pretty risqué in nature, however, it seemed like they were off the chart today, like they had an extra dose of risqué added to their shows. It's all good, hubs and I needed some good laughs. Laughing is medicine for the soul! =)


When we got home, we ate dinner, fed wee man his dinner. He ate it ALL and THEN some. He's been a hungry hungry hippo child today. lol. So cute.


In any case, I hope the Pears aren't doing what the Peaches did to him. He had one normal solid poop today, and then his second one was sort of very wet and diarrhea looking. The same way the peaches started out is how the pears are starting out. He just started to eat the Pears today. =( So we shall see. It could be that he had 3- 10 ounce bottles of breast milk today. I don't know. 


BOY, was baby boy T-I-R-E-D tonight. He was pretty much already asleep by the end of his bath tonight. Which is ALWAYS good. We dressed him, lotion ed him up and all. I cuddled him for a min like we always do to read him his bed time story, and before page one was done he was out cold. 


Baby boy is peacefully sleeping. Didn't even fight us or anything. Just went to sleep. YAY! So I'm hoping this will help him sleep awesome tonight. Last night he didn't even wake to nurse until 6:33am! yay! And he was in bed at 8pm! I'm SOOOOOOOOOO happy! I don't know if it will last or how long, but I am GRATEFUL! and Thankful! I will take any little victory I can. Of course I nursed him at 10pm as always. I don't even wake him up, I just pick him up and gently get him on and he nurses in his sleep. =) I love it. 


I don't know if this is gonna cause issues in the future, or if it's to our benefit.  The whole nursing him even when he's asleep at 10pm. I have read conflicting stories about this. I don't want him to be dependent on the nursing at 10pm, because once he is weaned, he will most likely wake up hungry to eat at these times, and I don't want that. Kind of torn as to what to do. He's at the age that he is forming habits, and learning, and discovering all kinds about himself. I want to try and form good habits for him. =)


In any case, I've got a lot of work and homework to do, so I will ttyl. Enjoy these pictures!

TOO many birthday Parties today=upset stomach.

We started our typical Sunday morning at 8am as always. Feeding baby boy, playing a little while momma cleans up. Got him dressed and ready for Church, then proceeded to get our selves ready for Church. 


I'm telling you, God is a good God. Really, can I get an AMEN. Seriously. He knew exactly what Scott and I needed to hear today. 


He gave us a message that our hearts just had to hear. Thankfully we were both open to hear, listen, learn, and receive the message. 


In case you are wondering what the message was on, it was on John 16:16-22. Here it is below.


¹⁶ Jesus went on to say, “In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.”

 ¹⁷ At this, some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?” ¹⁸ They kept asking, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We don’t understand what he is saying.”

 ¹⁹ Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, “Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me’? ²⁰ Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. ²¹ A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. ²² So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.

Wow. Just powerful. I don't want to go into the ENTIRE sermon, or details of WHY Scott and I had to hear this today, but I will tell you what made it the most impacting today.

I learned this lesson the hard way. That EVERYTHING was up to God, His Will, His timing, His Grand plan of things. 

How often do we say to ourselves, that this IS the plan for my life. For example, when I graduate high school, I'm gonna go to college, and God could you help me get to THIS college. I'm gonna study this, and I want to work at THIS job, so could you God, please get me there? And When I have a stable career, I want the RIGHT person, to marry and have children with, THIS is the person, or type of person I WANT, so God, could you make this happen? 


So, what happens, when God, pulls you in a different direction? What if he says, well, okay, but, this is MY plan for you, and I'm gonna take you THIS way? Well, we are left standing, sort of confused. Right? Like, well, God is suppose to be all that is good, and listens to our prayers, so when our prayers aren't answered, or they are, and they are redirected, we are confused as to why.


This is what the disciples were going through. Jesus told them that in a "little while" you will not see me, than in a "little while" more you will see me. They were all confused as to what Jesus meant by this. They knew what Jesus meant when He said in a "little while" you wont see me. They knew he was talking about his trial, crucification, death, and resurrection. They however did not know the second in a "little while".


Before I go further, I have to explain that there are three thought process's as to what Jesus meant by the second in a "little while."


The first thought process is some believe this is in reference to Jesus's Resurrection 3 days after his death, and that they would have Jesus among them for 40 days before he ascended back into heaven. The issue with this is, why would Jesus put them through the sorrow of Him leaving, and them, the disciples losing him a second time? So, likely that He was talking about this, BUT, not the less sorrowful.


The second thought process of this is some believe that this is referring His second coming. When Jesus returns to rule the earth. However the issue with this is, in order for the second coming, the churches of the Earth will have to face the elimination rapture, which is still years before His second coming. So, when the rapture occurs, we, also the disciples will be brought up while the rapture happens. So, likely, however, not the one I think is appropriate or what Jesus meant by the second "in a little while". 


The third school of thought is the descent of the Holy Spirit once Jesus ascends back to Heaven. This is the MOST likely meaning when Jesus said, the second "in a little while" because the Holy Spirit is God. It is among us, around us, within us. We have God with us 24/7. The Holy Spirit will never leave us, He is always with us. 


The ENTIRE purpose of telling the disciples that in a "little while" they will no longer see Him, than in a "little while" more they will see Him, was to comfort them. So which thought process do you think best fits? 


The thing is Jesus knew the disciples were confused and secretly trying to figure out what He meant. He dud bit remove their confusion at this point, because we are to follow GOD's plan, His will, and His timing. We are to TRUST and REST that He is God and in control. The disciples knew the who and the what of what had to and was going to happen, but they didn't know the why.


Once it all happened, and all was said and done, the disciples then knew the why. 


The second major thing to pull in, is that "Your Grief will be turned into Joy!"


This is exactly what we tend to forget in our daily lives and daily walk with Jesus. That through our trials, through our storms, and through our mis understandings of Gods Will and Plan, that we can take rest and trust God that we will have Joy at the end of the tunnel. 


True Joy, can not be taken away. Because True joy is NOT a condition of life, or a condition of time. It's the fact that we are saved through Jesus. It's our eternal state. It's not our walk on this earth, it's our resting place. 


There were many other key points into todays sermons, but like I said, they were things Scott and I needed to hear, so I'm gonna keep those private.


Apparently God knew though that we both needed to hear it, so Jayden had a good day in the nursery, so we both got to hear and stay focused on the message. 


After church we went to my cousin Hunter's 3rd birthday. We had fun, Hunter was so friggen cute! I loved how hard he tried to blow his candles out! =) It was really REALLY cute. 


Afterwards, we had to go to 3 cousins Bailey's 1st birthday party. It was Scott's Step dads, sisters, daughters, daughter's 1st birthday. lol. I know, WILD family right?


After that we had ANOTHER family birthday party to go to. We had my cousins birthday party he is turning 6 tomorrow. 


SO, we had a LONG day of birthday parties, and cake, so I will be WALKING OFF a LOT of cake. lol.


In any case, we came home to shish cobobs. =) yumo yumo.


Jayden decided to wanted to elephant crawl tonight. It was so cute! So cute. We got plenty of pictures and a short video. 


We did our nightly routine, and surprisingly Jayden went to sleep nice and easy. 


So, it's time I get to doing some work, and homework. I will talk to ya'll later. Good night.

Epic fail Babies R Us. Epic. =(

Well, my day started out as any other normal day. Woke up with baby boy, feed him, cleaned him up, and got him ready for his day with grammy and grandpa Petty, while mama went to work. 


His diaper rash, by the way is WAY WAY WAY WAY better today. Way better. So glad it is. He doesn't seem bothered by a diaper change any more.


So I went to work, with a few intentions, however, on my way to work, after having an hour to think about things, I decided on a different path. When I got there, I talked with boss man. We have a good 30 min conversation about everything, straightened some things out, and ironed out the issues. I must say, I'm glad I went in with the right mind set. I told him my concerns, and my issues, and we fixed them.


So, now that, that ugly beast is behind me, I can move forward. Really just a lot of things blown out of proportion. Which is par for the course when everyone is having a terrible day, and the day starts off terrible. I guess God gave me a change of heart before I got to work.


In any case, BUSY day at work. Freakishly busy day. I guess it had to do with the Ferrari car show, and the home and garden show by us today. Some nice Ferrari's they had! =) I wouldn't mind having one. 


In any case, got done with work, and drove home.


When I got home, we ate dinner, played a little with bubba bear, and then went on a few errands.


Our first stop was QT for gas, and a soda. MAN was it busy. Some jerk cut us off at the ATM, guess he didn't see us in line, and guess that he thought he was more important that us? hmmm. Whatever.


Our second stop was Babies R us/ Toys R us. We were looking for a birthday gift for my 2nd cousin Hunter for his 3rd birthday party tomorrow. So, cool, they have all ages legos now, and all kinds of cool legos. Why didn't they have these back in our day? Seriously. lol. I was slightly disappointed though, because I didn't see any linking logs? 


We ended up buying him three monster truck toys. It said ages 3 and up. SO, since he's gonna be 3, I'm hoping it's a good gift. We got him a shark looking one, a tiger looking one, and just a plan monster truck looking one. So, we shall see tomorrow if he liked them.


Then we went to the babies side of the store to look for two things, the one thing we found. Decided to break down and buy a jumper thingy that goes in the door way for him to jump. MUCH like a baby swing at a park. The other thing we were looking for was a shopping cart/high chair cover thing. Yeah, they had them, but the had the high end, ridiculous ones that were like 60 bucks plus. Sorry, not paying 60 bucks for something he will use temporarily, and spit up, and all kinds of stuff. Not to mention they only had girly designs. They had one "in stock" for 20 bucks, but when the guy went to the back to get it, it wasn't there. It then showed up as someone bought in 5 mins earlier. 


So we had him call the other babies r us. They are sold out as well.


So at our third stop at walmart, to stop and buy a bag to put Hunter's birthday gifts in, we took a quick look there. Of course, sold out. HOWEVER, the Walmart closer to us had two in stock and we have on on hold. So we are gonna pick it up tomorrow. It's the one that babies r us is selling for 30, and it's only 20 bucks at walmart. Glad we checked there. PLUS it's a BOYS color! yay!


Anyways, we got home, feed Jayden his dinner, and bathed him.


The little turkey wanted to try and feed himself. So we let him play around with his spoon. Man, I think he likes his spoons more than his toys! lol. Seriously. 


In any case, we are sort of trying different things to see what works best to get Jayden to go to sleep at night. So tonight we tried nursing him while reading Cinderella. He really just wanted to play. So that wasn't working tonight.


Then we decided to let him "play it out" and when we put him down to play, he decided he didn't want to play.


So we then decided to let him watch a little of music videos that Scott was watching, and then some cartoons, he didn't want those, he got antsy.


So when nothing seemed to be working, he was rubbing his eyes, like he was tired. We reverted back to the Ferber method of cry it out. Sad. Sad, sad, sad. 


It worked. He cried like 5 mins, and rolled over and went to sleep. I very much dislike that, that is the best way my son will go to sleep on his own. VERY much dislike. hmpt. 


In any case, he's asleep now, so I guess that's what counts.


I didn't get to do much work on my business today, but I plan on doing some foot to pavement gorilla marketing this week.


Monday, Scott and I are thinking about taking Jayden to the Arizona Science Center for the Body Works Exhibit. So, I'm planning on taking some flyers, and passing them out there to whose interested. 


Tuesday, I'm going to local business and seeing what sort of partnership marketing I can do with them.  My goal is at least two business partnerships.


Wednesday I'm gonna hit the pavement at Walmart, Fry's, Westgate, The Mall.


Thursday I'm gonna hit the pavement at Target/Kohls area, 99th and McDowell area


Friday I'm gonna do Home Depot area, the other mall area, best buy area and Fry's Electronics area.


Any one have any marketing advice? Suggestions? etc. 


Anyways, I'm thinking of doing some residential areas. I know some areas allow it and some don't. I will have to use some old resources to find out those areas. 


Well, I've gotta get going, big day tomorrow at church, then we have Hunter's birthday party, then some how have to make it to Bailey's birthday party. FUN times I tell ya. 


Ttyl, goodnight folks. 


Enjoy these pictures!

Oh My, ONE exhausted mommy, taking a break Tomorrow Night.

Well, today was NOT restful at all. I had planned on having a low key day today, just to do homework.


Jayden was Go, Go, Go ALL day long. He didn't want to be put down, and he didn't want to stop playing at all today. 


I think he took 1 20 min nap today. 


On the bright side, he sat next to me and played with his toys as I did homework and worked on marketing my business. So I still got work done today. I actually got quite a LOT of work done today. 


I have worked hard on my business today, and I am satisfied with the progress. I will be doing some foot to pavement marketing this week. 


I've got flyers on order, and business cards on order, and I'm gonna hit the pavement at a few different places. This up coming week is going to be aggressive marketing. 


All those that remember how awesome I was marketing as the General Manager at Papa Johns, know exactly what I'm talking about. I'm gonna step it up 100 notches though. 


I'm REALLY excited to be out doing some marketing. Feels good to be so productive! 


So my Student Advisor called me today. I am on track to graduate and walk in the July 29th, 2011 ceremony! YAY! So as long as I keep doing well, I will be graduating at the end of summer! Those following my business blog, and on Facebook, stay tuned to an extra special end of summer blowout deal. Of course I am working on a summer deal. Just have to fine tune it a little more. 


So, I got the good news of my graduation from my Advisor, and then the devastating blow from my advisor. In order for me to walk in the ceremony I will have to pay 542 bucks! =( No good at all. I can not afford that, so, I will only be paying the 120 to get my diploma. =( So sad. But, walking isn't the most important thing, at least my name will still appear in the program though at Graduation. So I may go just to pick that up. =)


Daddy took, Jayden and I to Panda Express for dinner tonight! YUM! I've been craving it for a while now. So good. 


We bathe Jayden a little early, so daddy could help and make it to band practice.


I feed him the rest of his cereal from dinner, and nursed him.


He turned into SUCH a little stinker tonight. OMG, I don't know what happened.


I changed his diaper. I cuddled him, I rocked him, I nursed him again and again. 


It took till 930 for him to finally fall asleep, to where I could lay him down in his crib.


Man I need a break. So, this mama is taking a break tomorrow night. Yep, I'm taking a night off from mommy duty. =)


Also, since Scott doesn't work Sunday's, I'm taking the night off to sleep all night. Scott will be getting up with Jayden.


I have SO much on my plate, that I just need to take a break. So I am. I'm treating myself to a nice relaxing massage, pedi and mani. Afterwards, I'm treating myself to a facial. I LOVE coupons! LOVE them. What I would normally be charged 200+ for, I am only paying 50! =) Thanks to an awesome friend. 


In any case. I got to catch up on my Glee, House, Grey's Anatomy, and some Fringe. It's Friday night, not much on, so I caught up on my DVR'd shows.


OMG! Glee did one of my FAVE songs from RENT! YAY! Loved it. I belting it out with them! I could have done without the Justin Bebier or whatever, but I have to admit, I was digging some of those songs. =) Not catching the fever, just saying, some of them, were actually good.


In any case, this is ONE very worn out, VERY Tired mama.


I had to work on my lesson plan for my CR group at Church. Whew. I just went ahead and did the next 4 weeks of lesson plans, just so I can clear up my plate a wee bit. As of now, I have NO homework this weekend, I have no Business to do, I have NO lesson plans to do. I'm hoping I can do some small family like photo shoots this weekend, although it's suppose to be raining all weekend long, SO, I don't want to destroy my camera, so I am rethinking of just cuddling up with baby boy, some coffee and a good book. In other words I am having a relaxing weekend.


Well, Time for me to go to bed. I have to work tomorrow. I have a BIG day tomorrow, since I plan on having a MAJOR discussion with the owner. I will explain what I'm talking about later, and I will tell you how it went. I will say this, I know my rights, and I will take it as far up as I have to, I will even get the news involved. 


Anyways, good night. Ttyl. 

Accomplished!

I feel so accomplished right now. I've been working on my final project for my Photography Marketing class. Basically we are building real life businesses. Complete with an EIN number to pay our taxes, a business plan, marketing concepts with outlets, business cards, marketing flyers, a name: a reall business name, a slogan, and eventually real clients. So Far, I'm pretty much done. And so much more behind the scenes that is boring to the outsider. 


I just finished everything but my business cards, and marketing flyer. I will be working on those tomorrow hopefully. They are due Tuesday. I'm really excited. I knew this was a "required" class, but I had NO idea that it would actually help me get my business going! I'm so thankful and grateful for all the wonderful help from friends, and family, and of course my fellow students and professors! They have been a true blessing! I'm truly blessed!


In case any of you missed my multiple updates on my personal facebook page about this, here are two very important links I'd like ya'll to check into, and help me get the word out. 


This is the blog link to my Business:


http://lifeslittlesecretsphotography.blogspot.com/


On this page you are also able to "like" the facebook page.


http://www.facebook.com/photos/clusters/?aid=24705&id=131103233625658&frecId=&tid=&success=35&failure=0


This is the facebook page you are able to like!


I'd appreciate it if you could pass around the word of mouth of my business. =) Thank you very much!


Okay, so now onto out day!


Jayden and I went about our morning adventures through breakfast, afterwards we cleaned up and went to meet his God Mama and my Best Friend here in Arizona, Dee Dee, to go hiking.


We went hiking at the White Tank Mountains today. We did the Waterfall trail. It's a good mile and a half into the mountain. It was fun, Jayden loved being in his little bjorn pack and we hiked up and back down. He just jabbered, looked around, and laughed the entire time.


We then went to lunch with our Dee Dee, and headed home for a nap and some house work.


I made breakfast for dinner. YUM!


We got Jayden bathed, and in bed, and I got to work on my business and homework. That's basically been my day.


Enjoy the pictures! Gotta get back to work now. Thanks ya'll.