seriously

this little lady gets more beautiful and beautiful every day. but i'm not just talkin the way she looks. i'm talkin the whole package. she continually impresses me with everything she is. i know at times she makes me want to pull out all of my hair asking so many questions and rarely giving me a break to just sit, but i am so so amazed at how interested she is in everything and how much she is learning. she has the memory of an elephant and can remember the most minuscule and random things. i love it.

and i love her.

feelin the love

i'm amazed at the love my little munchkins have for each other. it seriously makes my little heart sing to watch the two of them together.

it's not like they have much in common. she can walk, run, talk, play, feed herself... and he's too lazy to learn to crawl.



the one thing they can both do is laugh. and there is plenty of that going on around here these days. and i absolutely love it.



is it weird that i already want another one? obviously not until we are out of the mora kai. but i have been hungry for another baby. yikes.

thank you

pioneer woman.. for the worlds best dinner rolls.

seriously.
i ate four.
there were only 7.
mmmmmmmmmm.

me me me

last year was a great year. the only problem, by the end i was burnt out. the last two months i BARELY had any pictures of my kids. i was shooting too much work, and not enough pleasure.

this year is going to be different.

i'm doing a 365 project for 2010. a picture a day of things going on in our lives. no guidelines, no assignments, no nothing. so far it has been great. i love it.

and you can see it all here.

i have decided to do one self portrait a week. me in front of mine own camera. it's sure to be challenging, but i am up for it. i can't wait to push myself and experiment when i normally wouldn't.

come enjoy this little journey with me! it should be a blast.

today after our walk on the beach we stopped at ampm for a drink.

me: hey emmy, what would you like to drink?
emmy: a beer.

ummm excuse me? where does she learn something like this? she did just spend a week up north with bakers parents. nanny? was it you?

oh wait, i think i know. baker watches quite a bit of football around this house. possibly one of the thousands of beer commercials that play constantly?

i think we have our culprit.

happy birthday to me

my "oh crap my cupcake is about to fall" face. oops.

happy new year?

this fall slash winter season has been no joke for us here over at the morphy house. no joke. dane in his short little lifetime has already suffered from a case of RSV, one of pneumonia, had two chest xrays, a short visit to the ER (where they did nothing but tell me he was sick.. which two days later at the doctor turned into something much worse), countless rounds of antibiotics and ear infections, weeks of breathing with a nebulizer, and the list goes on. what in the world? the kid was only 7 months! by 7 months he had literally spent half of his life being sick. half!

emmy was no different. between two cases of the influenza virus, two bouts of croup, and yet again numerous rounds of zithromax and ear infections i was hoping for a fresh start for 2010! and a fresh start is what i got.

a fresh start of more sickness.

please shoot me.

sick kids bite. big time. the whole semester of emmy's preschool we were able to attend 4 classes. out of like 20. pathetic. i have missed more church then i can remember missing ever. (partly due to the fact that i am one of those anal mothers that keeps my sick kids home, rather then spread it around the nursery. i think 8 of the 10 or so times we have been sick we got it from nursery. so you out there thinking of taking your kids to church even though they are sick because you need a break DON'T DO IT! PLEASE! I AM BEGGING YOU!) we've missed out on weekends away, field trips at school, prime short line days at disneyland.. you name it, we missed it. plus all the money that we have spent on doctors, ER, pharmacy visits and drugstore runs could have been spent on things like shoes, clothes and a new lens or something. anything.

it's not me i feel bad for. i don't want pity. it's just these two munchkins, and seeing them like this that break my heart.


both photos taken from my phone this last week.

yeah that is emmy standing up.. asleep. poor thing. she had a cold that turned into DOUBLE PNEUMONIA. ugh are you kidding me? this was a new one for her which came for plenty of new activiities for her. she finally took after her little brother and was suited up for a chest xray. she loved it. not. she got a big shot in the butt (those normally come in the arm). she literally slept for two days straight. literally. she would wake up and cry for juice. we would get it, and she would fall asleep drinking it. lifeless for three days. which is not her. my heart hurt.

just as she was on the mend and we thought dane had escaped it. his cough started in. then the next day it was the runny nose. then the next the puking. and the fever. and before we knew it he couldn't keep down milk or food or pedialyte. for three days. when he didn't have tears and stopped smiling after he upchucked i knew it was bad. we spent the day in the hospital hooked up to iv's, monitors, and taking suppositories. he's only 8 months. how can one little child be so so sick.

dear 2010- if this is a sign of what your year is going to bring. i'll see you next year.

hugs (unless your sick too)
jenny

2009 a year in review

what a year... what a great way to round out a decade.

january.

shed our first drop of blood. shows what having church in the middle of naptime will do.


i turned a quarter of a century old. too bad i still look 18 though right?

february.

baker ran his first marathon. and finished. and did awesome.


baker and i spent a weekend alone in san fran before we were going to have our little man. it was perfect.

march.

this guy turned 31. enough said. look how ridiculously good looking he is. <3


these ladies threw me a party to celebrate the arrival of my soon to be baby boy. my friends are honestly the most amazing women on the planet.

april.

a very very pregnant me.. saw a very not pregnant britney in box seats at the staples center. uh-maze-ing.


i became a mother of two. life started to get crazy.


we became a family of four. life is starting to feel a bit more complete.

may.

we got our first suntan.


nanny taught us how to handle raw chicken.


we watched aunt mimi graduate.

june.

we turned two. i still can't believe it.


we spent a week with nanny at her house playing to our hearts content.


we spent countless hours in the pool.

july.

we ran slash walked the annual huntington beach 4th of july 5k.


we ate the best shaved ice on the mainland.


we took a two week vacation that landed us in utah to finally meet our newest dulgarian cousin and niece. two peas.


we ate the WORST shaved ice on the mainland.. possibly the planet. disgusting.


these don't even need a caption. thank you utah.

august.

we said goodbye to my brother and his family as they drove away into the sunset and moved to washington. come back.


we blessed our little daner boy.

spetember.

we had our first experience with the ice cream man.


we read books on the lawn with the neighbors.


we had our first trip to the ER. while dad was on a trip. this also marks the beginning of one of the LONGEST sick seasons at our house in history. in fact we are still sick.

october.

we had our first ride on the school bus.


emmy hosted her first halloween party.


we finally went to visit daddy at work.

november.

we spent thanksgiving in sonoma with family and it was perfect. and apparently i worked A LOT in november because all of my pictures are client sessions. sorry kids.

december.

we participated in a morphy family biggest loser contest. one and two right here. but that's because we didn't touch the above goodies when they were delivered by all the neighbors. we saved em. and it payed off!


we got a less then 24 hour visit from the glenns and i can't believe how sweet the cousin love is that was spread around in that short amount of time. i sure wish we had cousins closer.

2009 was a great year.. looking forward to the year ahead. hope you all have a fabulous new year too!