so, it's been a while...

for many reasons:

1. i haven't really been home (missouri) since june because i went home (south carolina) for a month and a half...BECAUSE...we were SUPPOSED to be back in SC FOR GOOD in june, but people quit matt's project which meant we had to stay...biggest.bummer.EVER!!! i'm still pretty bitter about still being HERE...but whatevs...get over it already. ANYWAYS...we had planned some work to be done on the house before we got home...had it scheduled and all...so i went home...to make sure it got done...finished. it did. and then some. mom came for a few weeks and i PUT HER TO WORK!!! ran my own little sweat shop...she sewed and sewed and sewed until i had curtains in the living room, curtains in the bedroom, curtains in the kitchen, a dolly in zoey's arms, and two SUPER cute quilts in my babies' beds. (i'll have to look for pictures...) then it was on to a family reunion in TN...which is why i stayed in SC an extra long time...no reason to go ALL the way back to MO to drive ALL the way back to TN in a two week period. the driving with the children...not my favorite thing...i don't want to talk about it.

2. when i got back to MO, our computer crashed. what seemed like a simple repair ended up being a total loss...hard drive...FRIED!!! thank you, Jesus, that i had backed up my pictures and music...didn't lose anything. BUT the computer was out for the count...couldn't focus on that because...a week after getting back to MO...

3. we got BACK into the car for a 25+ hour trip to MT to visit matt's family. the trip there...good...despite the DAILY blow-out diaper situation. (and matt scoffed when i wanted to pack laundry soap and dryer sheets...he knows better now.) the time with family...SOOO GOOD. the trip home...i really don't want to talk about it...it was just time to go home...after three weeks with two kids in a car, out of a suitcase, without our "stuff" and "space"...ya think?!

4. HOME...FINALLY...even if it is MO and not SC. ordered a new computer...that was backordered...we were given a really specific delivery window...between september 19th and october 1st. it's best that i don't talk about this either. phone calls are made, orders are cancelled, new computers that are NOT backordered are looked for...and i know i said i didn't want to talk about this but i have to say this: we ordered from schmestschmy.com (changed the name so as not to defame the company...can you figure out which one i mean???) and were told the computer was backordered-as mentioned before-and after cancelling our order online we went to the store to find one that wouldn't be backordered and WOULDN'T YOU KNOW IT?!!!! LO and BEhold...there's the computer...THIS computer...the one i'm typing on...the one that was backordered. there. in the store. schmest schmy is NOT my favorite place right now...i don't want to talk about it.

i bought the computer at the schmest schmy store and now i'm connected...hooked up on the intranet.

so, enough chitter-chatter...you didn't come here to listen to me yammer and complain...you came here for the pictures...and they're coming...i'm gonna go back to the "beginning of summer" pictures...but not in this post. i'll just leave you with a few....

more soon...i sorta promise.