In your world.

In your world Stella and Sam is your current favorite show.

followed by Phineas & Ferb and Justin Time.

In your world the square cereal is the yummiest.

In your world, sleeping in mommy's bed always makes you very happy.

In your world you still can play all day shooting imaginary things in your head.

In your world wrestling is still the only way you'll play with me.

In your world twinkle twinkle and I am a child of God are your favorite bedtime songs.

And Boo Hoo Bird your favorite book.

In your world, you love your cousins and ask to see them daily.

In your world you miss living with two of those cousins.

In your world you don't understand why you have to go back and forth between Daddy and Mommy

and you put up a fight every time.

In your world, sleepovers at Omi's house are regularly requested.

In your world, hangers are a very cool toy to play with.

In your world Pizza is still your favorite food.

In your world skeletons and zombies and monsters are becoming very interesting.

 

 

In my world I'd do anything to make you happy.

In my world, I fret all the time if I'm doing this right.

In my world I have moments where I get tired and frustrated easy.

In my world I wish I could explain to you why our family is broken.

In my world, every time you cry that you want to stay with me, I would let you,

but I know you need both of us.

In my world, I love seeing your giggle and smile.

In my world, I can't believe the little person you're turning into.

In my world, I'm so glad you're such a loving boy.

In my world, I love that every day when I pick you up from school that you are always

SO excited to see me.

In my world, I love you more than you could ever know!

10 People.

I did this on my old blog.

It was a ten day thing.

I'm only choosing to do day 10.

because I like it.

 

Here is it.

10 things that I want to say to 10 different people, right now!

 

1. I forgive you. I hold no anger, resentment, or bitterness towards you at all.

 

2. I'm so glad I met you, you helped me realize so much

and empowered me with knowledge that helped me move on in life.

I thought I was broken, I thought I was stuck in life,

you showed me that wasn't the case.

 

3. I miss you. I miss our friendship. I miss your kids.

I miss hanging out. I miss stupid random texts.

I miss zumba and zumba after parties.

I miss talking most of all.

I miss you.

 

4. I love you. I love you. I love you.

 

 

5. I didn't talk to you for a long time. I'm still uncertain if I want to.

Part of me says it feels good.

 

6. I want nothing more than for you to find him.

I want that giddy feeling for you.

I want you to enjoy being wanted.

 

7. I hope he will be able to see the basket of crazy that you are.

 

8. You make a great sister, and my life would suck without you.

 

9. I know you're concened about me and the choices or lack of choices that I make in my life.

It's your job to worry, it means you care.

And although I struggle and I slip up a lot.

I want you to know that I got this.

I'm an adult, let me screw around and fiddle with things until I figure it out.

I won't learn if I don't occasionally fail.

I don't blindly make decision, I consider everything.

 

10. My heart is breaking so bad for you right now.

I see the pain all over your face with I look at you.

I can't even imagine how empty you feel without him.

I hope the ache will ease with time, because your smile is beautiful and the world needs to see it.

Back to school.

Can I just say...WHAT??

I have a kindergartener?!?

WHAT?

How did he get from this?

to this??

It amazes me daily how fast children grow and how much they change.

I always wondered when he was a baby,

what's he going to be like when he's 5?

what kind of personality will he have?

what will he look like as he grows?

I couldn't have predicted something so amazing.

I love this kid more than I could have ever imagined.

He drives me crazy...absolutely crazy

and I have days, where I question how we both made it out alive.

He's so busy and his curious little brain encouranges him to cause so much trouble.

But at the end of the day..when I see

this...

I'm overcome with love and I can face another day.

 

I'm so happy school has started back up.

Joseph goes to Providence and in my opinion it's the best school ever.

He thrives while he's there.

It gives me time at the gym without worrying about finding a sitter.

It gives us both time to learn and grow.

I only have one big beef with school.

I firmly believe that you should never wake babies or children up

and well sadly I have to do it.

 It's no fair to have to drag him from his blissful slumber.

And no fair to me that I have to sacrafice quiet moments.

Kids are the sweetest while they sleep, aren't they?

 

Pretty much all of the pictures you're seeing are from my iphone. I am a photographer,

I really need to get my real camera out.

I have plans of doing a back to school shoot of him but I have yet to get on that.

If you followed my old blog, you'll know that I LOVE comparison pics..LOVE THEM!

So I do them often.

Here is last year beginning of the school year

 

 And now this year.

 

So excited to see how much he learns and grows this year!!!

Hello world!

So I was just looking at my old blog.

this one

and delcared to myself...

"Kim, you were an excellent blogger,

your photos are beautiful

and your writing is interesting enough to hold some peoples attention,

you really should still be doing this"

(no need for humility here, we all know I'm awesome,

well at least I do!)

I really wanted to separate myself from the old blog,

seeing as it's a family blog, and well our family dynamic has changed.

So here you go, a bright and shiny and not quite beautiful new blog

(No worries, I'll make her beautiful, right now she's just a template)

 

So here is a little backstory, just in case you don't know me very well.

This past year I found myself in a situation that I never expected to be in.

When I said yes to a proposal 7.5 years ago and decided to get married

in the temple, I never thought that it would some day come to an end.

I signed up for life and eternity.

Unfortunately(and fortunately) this is where I am.

I'm not one for airing dirty laundry on the internet or anywhere in life really

and so the facts will be very vague and there will be plenty left to your imagination.

Our divorce though to most other people seemed sudden and unexpected

was a very long time coming.

Jordan and I were not happy together,

we brought the worst out in eachother

and we just couldn't seem to get a handle on loving one another unconditionally.

Don't get me wrong..it didn't just end because we couldn't get along.

We went to numerous different counselors and we fought hard for our marriage.

but some big things went down and

it just came to a point of knowing that we would both be much happier if we split up.

So here we are.

This blog is just going to replace the other one.

it's still going to be about family,

just with the new dynamics.

It'll be all about Joseph and I

and what we're up to

and how we're adjusting

and how we're growing

and well just how awesome we are!