Penelope Ivette Maloney

My gorgeous daughter :

November 2010

So this month has been quite an odd one. I have been unorganized in my priorities and trying to keep up with the day to day stuff has been quite challenging. We had court earlier this month, and the hearing was postponed until Dec. 1 (pretrial) and Dec. 15 for trial. Unfortunately, I have had to make some decisions that I had wanted to avoid, but all in all, it's been a good thing to weigh the options. Mike has had the kids every weekend this month; and I have had a lot of transcription work to do, but I still can't seem to catch up on the weekends! But I am certainly grateful that I do have work at all, especially from home! I am registered for school - 15 credits next semester. But it's Bachelors coursework finally, so I think I will enjoy it a lot more. I am working on a variety of businesses, as always. I will post about those a little later.

We had a cute little surprise party for my momma last night and she was really shocked! It was hard keeping it a secret because she is so hard-headed. My dad went out of his comfort zone to take her to Macy's to shop while all the guests arrived, even though she was restless to come home. I'm sure she thought it was odd that my dad wanted to shop? She also tried to convince him to take her to Cafe Rio that night...and he got in trouble because he said no. Geez...Mom...will you just let us surprise you?? :) Well, happy 49, Mom! You certainly don't look or act your age! Pictures below:

OCTOBER 2010

Pretty much...I really suck at blogging! I actually forgot I had a blog for like two months almost until yesterday. This weeks is my commitment renewal week...I've been a huge slacker for the past two weeks, but not because I'm lazy...just really busy!

So what has happened since late September? Well, October was a great month! We spent all month having fun watching scary movies, picking our costumes, going to Halloween parties and the zoo, and then finally trick or treating on Halloween night! I've included some pictures below:

Took some pictures of Brackyn before snow hit! I'm wishing it was still this beautiful outside!

My best babies! They were so proud of their costumes this year! But, please remind me, pink next year for Penny. It took awhile to convince her that princesses could wear black too :).

Made some caramel apples with the fam one nice October evening at home. Enhanced this one for Vaness.

I also took pictures at The Shilo Inn here in Idaho Falls. Business wasn't amazing, but it was fun nonetheless!! Some of them were a little on the scandalous side, so I didn't include those here. ;)

Photography Website

I know, I know...I always have a million things going at once. Here's the link to my photography website. I can honestly say I love doing photography! Let me know if you want me to take your pics! http://www.julphotography.com or http://www.wix.com/lvjuls/photographybyjul

Latest Photography Work

I've had a lot of fun photographing some friends and family. Here's some of my work:

State Fair!

I didn't have the kids on the day we went to the fair. But I had fun with the rest of my family!

Picture Happy!

I've gone just a bit picture-happy this summer. My kids are pros at posing by now. Not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing...

It's been a quite active summer! The kids passed out from exhaustion almost every night. Now we are in school mode (between Penny, Max, and me) and keeping busy everyday. It's been hard to get in a good routine since we live in Shelley and driving back and forth is too gas-consuming. I think we are figuring this out little by little. It's hard doing it by myself for sure. One extra adult makes quite a difference! I sure love my kids, and all of the effort is very much worth it!!

Oh man!!

I'm sorry everyone! It's been a heck of a long time since I have posted. Life has been soooo busy. Trying to get a routine down has been quite challenging. Here's what we've been up to:

Pics of our new place in Shelley:

Zoo Children!

We took the kids to the zoo today, quite fun, but by the end, the kids seemed to fit in quite nicely with the other loud animals...

I am surprised by the amount of animals that the Idaho Falls Zoo has, considering what a small town it is. Most of them were hiding out in their caves today, probably because of the hot weather, but we still saw quite a few.

We had a lot of fun and got a lot of pictures. Lindsay planned out the day since it's Brackyn's b-day. Today is his actual birthday, but the party will be held on Saturday. Happy third birthday little guy!!

Notice Max's blue eye through the mask... :)

Two chickens and one beauty in a nest.

Max, max, max the Explorer!

Beautiful Browning ladies.

Linz, texting at the zoo...guess the seal didn't impress.

The tiger was a little too hot to sit on, but they insisted on a picture, and settled for standing by it.

Those short legs don't help.

Buds

Bracky's B-Day!

I'm extremely excited for my nephew's birthday. It's crazy how fast these little chicks grow. I treasure these special moments with my nephew and my own kids. Maybe someday my sisters & brother will have lots more children to add to the family. Hopefully. Hint Hint...

Long Awaited Opportunity...

I was always planning on going back to school after I put my husband through school, but it looks like I'll be doing that sooner than later. I'm pretty excited to be getting back to school again. I got accepted to ISU! Like that was hard? hahaha. Unfortunately, I would rather stay home with the kids, but I have no option. I have to choose either work or school, and my feeling is schooling 100% is the right choice. Like there's jobs out there anyways, right? I feel like I have enough legal experience that I could probably find a job in that field, but why not do what I've always wanted to do? I'll be majoring in human resource administration. I had started in healthcare admin, but this degree is quite similar. I feel good about it! :)

4th of July Fun!!

Now, since the kids have two separate families, they had four straight days of fireworks and fun! They went to the lake with Mike and his family and camped and swam in the lake and fireworks that night. The next day they went to the parade with me and my mom, and the big fireworks that night. On Sunday, we went to more fireworks out at Heise with our neighborhood friends. Then on Monday, they were with the Maloneys again and went to the activities and fireworks in Menan. Geez, talk about spoiled children! The one drawback, they get bored too easily now when they don't have a lot to do. Asking them to sit and watch tv is impossible! Here's some cute pics from the holiday.

Why does she always look so suspicious?

Ya, ya, eat your pie!

Max & Gabe...chillin' with their like third piece of pie.

Of course, we've got a model on our hands. Can you say Miss 007?

Mom, enough with the pictures! I think that the parade this year threw the most candy I have seen since I was a little kid myself! Yay! Maybe the floats will start to improve and we'll see less and less trucks and tractors.