Its Almost Time

to hit the beach that is! This time next week I will be drinking adult beverages while lounging by the pool in the Dominican Republic. I say this time ( thur) although we leave wednesday. But I figure wed will be spent crying my eyes out bc we are leaving little man for the first time. I know it will be a fun trip and definitely much needed for me and the hubs but i just hate thinking that we will be sooo far from Will. He will be with the grandparents so I know he will be spoiled beyond belief and probably wont even notice we are gone lol.

I am so super excited that we have the oppurtunity to travel with two of our close couple friends. We had a blast on our honeymoon and one year anniversary when we went to Mexico by ourselves but i think it will be so much more fun having our friends there to party with :) I have heard so many good things about the Dominican and I am hoping it doesnt dissapoint. I of course will have my camera in tow. I cant wait to get pics of the scenery etc and hopefully some good ones of Joey and I.

Ive been preparing slowly but surely. I have been cleaning house. I got a mani pedi yesterday. I got the "shelack" (sp?) on my nails it is suppose to stay on for two weeks so we will see. I got my hair done last week ( blondes do have more fun hehe) Now I just need to pack. I made a list of what I plan to take so hopefully that will help me keep it minimal. Does anyone have and fun summer vacations planned? I dont know what it is but there is just something about the beach that makes me SMILE!

Good Times

Well the weather may not have been pretty this weekend but us Boussons had a blast anyways! Our weekend was jam packed with events and we had so much fun doing them all. Friday night started with work as usual but I will say that I got a little more sllep friday than Will normally lets me. I got off saturday morning and hit up the gym. Heck to be totally honest i colpletely drove right on past the gym on my way home bc I could not keep my eyes open and then i rolled down my windows got a wiff of the cold air and got my second wind so I made myself turn around and go back to the gym. I got there 15 minutes before bodypump started so i decided to run a fast mile ( at 5.5 heck yeah) well wouldnt ya know that body pump was packed by the time i got in there so i did some crunches and headed home. when I got home the boys were up so we all started to get ready for Miss Adelyns 2nd Birthday Party. The Party was fun (pics to come), and after the party was over it was finally nap time. I slept for about 2 hours and then we got ready to go see Sesame Street Live. I was not excited about going bc Will had a meltdown at Veggie Tales but he did so good he LOVED Elmo, but hey what kid doesnt??? The Bagwells had gone to SSL also so we went to eat afterwards at a family fave Hueys. We had such a blast hanging out and the kids were even having fun at the end of the table too. i am pretty sure my eyes were closed before my head even hit the pillow and this am it was sooooo hard to wake up. But I did and we went to church and then I slept the day away for work tonight. That pretty much sums up the weekend. I will end with the fact that we may or may not have a future NBA star in our house...pics to come!

New Carseat Recs

Ok so before I say what I am about to say PLEASE understand that I get that its safer to stay rear facing till 2. It makes sense and I am NOT arguing this. I am just bringing up what I noticed when watching a video that another blogger posted. Its on you tube and its titled rear facing is best i believe. Any who it is going through all the statistics-which I agree with. Well then it shows the "dummy" crashes. The forward facing one looks bad I wont lie, but it also looks as if the straps werent tightened (at all) then you get to the rear facing one and they show it from the side and overhead. Well from the side the dummy doesnt budge (again safer I know) BUT when they show it from overhead if you look you will see that there is a white peice of tape, fabric whatever it is strapping the kids head to the carseat. No wonder it didnt move lol. I mean if I taped Wills head to the carseat I would imagine he would stay put a little more than if I didnt ( actually he would go nuts- good thing normal people dont do this). so anyways I am all for safety but maybe someone shouldve looked at the video a little closer before they posted that one. And hey if Im wrong then I will apologize ahead of time. I even had a co worker look after me to see if I was just imagining things. Wish I could post the video but I am at work with no you tube so go check it out for yourself and let me know what you think! Heres the link from the blog I read that posted it. And Im not downing her this is just the only way I could post it from my comp!
http://www.becoming-mom.net/2010/04/19/rear-facing-carseat-video-must-watch/

Update

So I thought it was only appropriate to post an update to my post earlier about my sweet sweet child...LOL. Im assuming you can tell where this is going. Well it was if my little ray of sunshine saw me posting about him bc that later half of our day went nothing like the first half. After blogging I decided to make us some lunch. We ate lunch and then proceeded to get back in bed to rest up for mommys night at work. On any other given day this would be nap time. But in true Friday fashion this was a no go . There was bouncing and climbing and then when mommies eyes closed for a moment to long there was full fledge face smacking-which resulting in tantrum bc he got in trouble. then there was round 2 with the dry erase marker ( did i not put this away good enough). and lastly there was sleep at 3:45 to be exact just enough time for mommy to get a last minute nap in....if she were remotely tired. I figured rather than wasting quiet time trying to fall asleep (which i knew wouldnt happen) that I would enjoy a solo shower for once-but then seeing the nasty growth in the corners of our shower (sew me im not betty homemaker i think we all knew that already) I was inspired to clean it...be gone! See ive been cleaning with the "all natural" stone cleaner your suppose to use and guess what it DOESNT work so it was only natural that I do what the home depot guy said NEVER to do... I whipped out the big guns-BLEACH! And guess what it worked like a dream bathroom nightmare no more! and the only poor outcome was that my nose hairs are now singed with the smell of bleach lol! when I got out of the shower the hubs was home and little man woke up so I got to see my two boys before I left for work. all in all it was a good day. Now if I can just make it through this weeked ( it is jam packed!)

On a completely different note today was also exciting personally. I got my "hair did" the other day and I am back to my roots-Blonde that is. Im actually a brunette so I guess its not my "roots" but with the exception of fall time the last couple of years I have always been a blonde. Well enough explaining basically with my new hair came a new sense of feeling pretty good about myself these days. Then I came to work tonight and gots lots of compliments on the hair and the wt loss so it made me smile. and I guess since i was feeling good I thought it was a good idea to tatally CAVE and dink my first mtn dew in almost 3 months! But where I was thinking it would taste nasty bc ive been without it sooo long it was actually the polar opposite. It tasted sooooo good so I am gonna have to work overtime to not fall off the bandwagon. Occassionally splurge-fine All out chug fest-no way!

I guess thats all from my day, I hope everyone has an awesome weekend! we have Birthday Celebrations and possibly a little sesame street live in our future tomm. Maybe the rain will hold off!

Fridays

Fridays are always so hard. I work every friday night and Will is home with me during the day. To say that I dont get much sleep would be an understatement. We tried the whole MDO thing on fridays but it just didnt work for us. he cant go till 9 so if we woke up early then i had to keep us up to get there and if we woke up late it seemed like a hassle too. And since he naps at school when i picked him up that meant I was up from 2:30 till i went to work. And then throw in the whole cant sleep even when your house is quiet bc you know you have to sleep. So needless to say the time we tried mdo in friday I got less sleep than I normally do ( if thats possible). For a while it was all good until Will decided that only on fridays would he wait to nap until 3 lol. Its like my boy knows! Any how I say all of this to get to today. We've been up since 9, I actually think Wills been up longer as evidence by the dry erase marker that was all over my hard wood and all over some little fingers and toes. Im just glad he was smart enough to grab something that could be removed easily thanks son :). After the marker event we ate breakfast and laid in bed some more. Will has just been so cute this am and I am soaking up every second. Its not that he isnt always cute but this morning he has been tickling me( he gets me with his fingers while saying gotcha gotcha gotcha-too cute!) and then he will snuggle in real close to me and smack his lips like he is giving me a kiss. I just love my little boy! So I guess thats it I am gonna go spend more time with him now :)

Does anyone need a second shooter?

So as a photographer you learn that sometimes you need an extra pair of hands or a second shooter to help you get the pics. Well in either case I dont think this is what people are talking about. It was hilarious seeing him interact though. I had a photoshoot with a friend from work today so I brought Will along. I bought him a camera toy at target a few nights back so he had it in tow ready to go.

you go here, you stay there

reviewing his pics

testing the camera.

LOL

just thought I would share

Can you tell he is his mothers child.

(If you couldnt let me just add that he was saying CHEEEEESSSSEEE the whole session)

Outside Fun

Driving our car around the back yard!

Hanging out on the deck

Wondering why I keep chasing him with my camera

Play Ball

Yesterday was bunches of fun. Since my weekend consisted of working saturday and sunday i pretty much has to sleep the days away, which meant no enjoying the sunshine. So yesterday was make up day. I had to do a little sleeping in the am since i did work sunday night but i got up around lunchtime and met my friend Jackie at McAlisters...yummy! We sat on the patio and chatted away. Jackie is preggers and finds out the sex of the baby next monday woo hoo I cant wait to hear what she is having! Boy or Girl? Either way it will be a new friend for Will!

After I left lunch i went to get Will at MDO and then we headed to the Zoo for a little mid afternoon run through. By all the cars I thought it was gonna be packed and surprisingly it wasnt too bad. I didnt take a stroller and just let Will run free. He had such a blast and only refused to hold my hand a time or two which resulted in me picking he up so he got the hint! After getting about half way through the zoo little man started getting a little feisty so that was my que we packed up and headed to the next destination, the gym. I wasnt sure that he would behave in the gym nursery so I told them to come get me if he acted bad but when I went to pick him up they said he was fabulous yeah ( dont think I ever posted about my gym nursery issues..must do!). Anyways afterwe left the gym we came home and played in the back yard ( see pics above) I am so glad its that time of year again where we can enjoy some patio time.

I even started to rake the leaves but then some wood bees came out of the wood work (lol) and we really didnt want to get stung so we decided to take cover inside.

I have been working on my website all morning as well as editing pics so now its time to hit the gym and then back outside for a day of fun. I really should be cleaning the house but that just seems so blah!

Hope everyone is out enjoying the weather!

New Photography Website

Ok so after getting my Mac I started the rode towards a better site to display my Photography. I created a website through IWeb and I really like it BUT the url is soooooooooo long. So if anyone has any suggestions please let me know. There has to be some way I can change it to .com. Also there is no place to comment so that will need to be worked on too. Again all suggestions are needed and wanted. Let me know what you think. And if you are a past client check out the Photos section you might see some familiar faces :)

check out the new site here

you can also get to it by clicking on Bousson Photography on the top left corner of my blog

Your so vain......

Ok so let the vanity post begin lol now that I have that somg in my head. So i have been reading the skinnyrunner blog lately and it is too funny. I think the greatest part of it is that she is always taking pics of herself and posting them and she has NO shame in it. Now most of my posts revolve around Will and day to day happenings but i must admit that now that I am hitting the gym daily and I have started seeing the difference in the waistline i wanted to blog about it so here goes

Of course I uploaded them backwards so here is the AFTER

more AFTER

BEFORE

photo courtesy of Oh Susanna Photography

this was last summer and i know i am sitting funny but the rolls dont lie and neither do the chins (as in I got more chins than a chinese phonebook)

and for even more chins (see below)

OK so i have NEVER been this large (photo courtesy of fatbooth app on my iphone)

but i sure did feel this large

geez this pic is gross!

So with a little less than 3 weeks till we leave for the dominican I thought I would post some updated pics of my progress. I have blogged about the numbers but dont pics tell better stories! I am down to 155-156 depending on the day lol. All my sz 8s are getting more loose which is super exciting. I went dress shopping for vacay and everything was too big ( again a good thing but i still need to find dresses somewhere!) alrighty well there was my all about me vanity post. Hope you enjoyed (bc i am soooo sure that all of you care so much) It was more for me to look back on if i decide to plump up again! You can do anything if you put your mind to it!

Spring is here

Botanic Gardens was much less crowded than the Zoo yesterday from what I hear

and we had a blast

He loved the WATER

Way past his nap time but till tried to snap a pic

banging the drums

Just being my sweet boy

the warm weather has been such a treat i hope it sticks around awhile bc my boy loves the outdoors!

What a Day!

So the day started off slow. I am having MAJOR sinus problems these days. I have never had sinus issues quite this bad in years past. I literally have a continual (is that a word ha) sinus headache/borderline migraine, and for people that know me HEADACHES are NOT allowed ( long story i dont care to discuss so dont ask..k thanks) so any who it has made me kinda grumpy and way lazy. So me and the little man stayed in bed till about 10 ( ok i stayed in bed and he would lay with me then go to his room and play then come back and so on) I got up and decided it was time to clean so I started with the back of the house. Well i got a good portion done and before i knew it it was lunch time.

Well to everyone who thinks they are super mom you may want to turn away now. Our lunch consisted of Ramen noodles (beef flavor) lil cutie oranges and mini club crackers. Thats right I let my kid eat crap...and he LIKES it! In all reality it is way past grocery day and that is about all i had for us to eat today lol. So we eat and then it was nap time. I put him in his bed but for naps this never really works, besides i think i like to cuddle with him just as much as he likes to cuddle with me. If you didnt catch that YES i take naps too! So we are almost asleep when Will starts moaning which turns into screaming! I had no idea what was wrong with him bc I had never seen him act like this. So being his mommy i immediately grabbed him from his side of the bed to lay him on me and hug him. Well to say that i was not expecting what came next would be an understatement. No sooner than i laid him on me and wrapped my arms around him he sat straight up and projectile vomited everywhere. And by everywhere I mean ALL OVER ME! EEK! There is a reason I dont take care of older kids and in one word its PUKE!

So back to Will this was the grossest emesis I had ever seen ( I will spare you the details and the pic-yes pic i had to show Joey just how severe the problem was). Well to side track a little Will hates getting dirty, strange for a boy I know but if he gets dirt, etc on his hands knees whatever he freaks out and screams. So when he realized there was vomit all over him he went nuts. I quickly got us into the shower to clean off and he was so pitiful. He actually started to scare me bc he was clenching his teeth and would not open his eyes and he kept moaning. Before he puked it was almost as if he was grabbing his head. I was scared to death although i knew he hadnt fallen or pulled anything on him. I got him dresssed while calling the Dr office. And they returned my message 45 min later ( thanks!) and then all the nurse said was since he was to young to tell us what hurt if he grabbed his head again or puked again i needed to take him to the ed.

I mean REALLY do they know who they are talking to? I sometimes wonder how I am even a nurse bc i freak about everything. So by this point Joey gets home ( yes I called him and said come home now-he can keep me sane) I wake Will up and wouldnt you know the same thing happens all over except this time I have to pukers bc Joey cannot stand the sight of vomit. GREAT! so then we have to debate on wether to go to the ED or not. It wasnt about money or anything like that I just know what the residents would do to my poor baby and I couldnt stand the thought of putting him through that unless it was absolutely necessary. So we waited and Will rested on the bed. Joey then started talking to him and asking him his animal sounds and repeated all of them. Then Joey asked for a high five and Will gave him one. And then Joey asked if Will wanted to go outside and he said woo hoo and although it was a weak woo hoo we thought the worst might be over.

And I think we were right shortly there after he came around and even asked for "bite". He is asleep right now and I am praying that the funk has passed. I had planned on going to the gym but I totally bailed and I even got a chocolate milkshake and it was yummy. Sometimes you just gotta be bad!

Kates 2nd Birthday Paw-ty (editing on my new MAC)

Me & My Stinker

My Sweet Little Man

One Big Happy Family

(with a son who never looks for pics haha)

My 30mm lens wouldnt quite fit us both in this close

Daddy & Will

The Birthday Girl and her Mommy & Daddy

(lil bro was snoozing)

Miss Ainsley

Saturday we celebrated Kates 2nd birthday. It was a puppy dog theme and it was sooo cute. We had bunches of fun and enjoyed the beautiful weather and Family fun. Me and Will were troopers with our no napping selves but I wouldnt have changed it for the world!

And arent these pics so clear ( if I do say so myself) I am LOVING my new Mac. I bought a mac destop last week and I am just now starting to figure things out. It is very hard to make the initial switch but i think it is gonna be soooooo worth it! I figured out how to put all my pioneer woman actions in my pse 9. They were made for up to pse 8 and nothing on the internet said wether they would work in 9 or not so I just gave it a shot and voila they worked perfect (which saved me about 200 dollars bc I was about to by an action package from another site.

I think thats about it for now. More to come in the future. When Will is at MDO on wednesday I am going to try and put together my photography website so say a little prayer i do figure it out without chunking the new comp. lol!

Whats New? ( Warning Random Post)

Ok so this is a post of whats going on in Cassie world right now. Atleast its the at work version seeing as how all my fun fabulous pics from this weekend are at home on my computer waiting to be uploaded to my NEW computer ( post on that coming soon)

Sweaty bands...Love or hate? Well first off hate the price tag, these bad boys are at minimum 15 bucks and well to be honest I could probably make one but that would require getting the sewing machine out and well USING it and that just aint happening these days with an almost 2 yr old on the loose! As far as the product itself it is beginning to grow on me. The first day I wore it to the gym I wasnt so sure. It claims to be non slip bc of the felty fabric on the side that sits on your hair. And for the most part this is true, it did stay in place I just felt like I was one step away from it coming out so I dont know what was more annoying. I think I was also skeptical bc of the price, I am an impulse buyer and I went to fleet feet to get some nike shorts (latest obsession but somehow didnt make it to this post???) and these bands were at the register. 52.oo later (shorts 32 and band 15 +tax) I was not a happy camper, but it is cute (bright polka dots on a black background). But after wearing it the past few days I can honestly say I am digging it. I may just even have to get another one????

Next Love.... M&Ms and all their chocolaty goodness.

I guess I am loving these so much bc with working out and counting calories I am not allowing myself all that much sweet stuff. Dont get me wrong I do partake in eating crap ( exhibit 1-Kates 2nd birthday party yesterday lots of sugary goodness was consumed....by yours trully)

Atleast With M&Ms I feel like I can control my sweetness intake mainly bc these are Wills favorite treat so I eat half the bag and he eats half the bag and we both win!

Onto My TV obsessions

One Tree Hill

Ok so I was totally an O.C. show when it was in its prime ( I wanted to be Marissa Cooper minus the drugs and such, ok so I totally just wanted to look like her and hook up with Ryan Atwood but who didnt!) Well One tree hill was also on during this time but I never paid it much attention. And then the O.C. went to tv heaven and began airing on soap net. Well after I had watched EVERY epsiode about 1000 times I was kina over it and oth came on before oc so I gave it a shot and wouldnt you know it became an instant love! Now I watch the current episodes on the CW and I am soooo wondering is this season is its last? I just dont think I could handle that especially since my other favorite show
Greek
JUST went off the air this past monday. It was such a great show! It was about the greek system at a college and I can say it honestly had some truth behind it. Although I quit the greek system early (Junior year) it was some of the best times of my life and this show kinda took me back. It was so funny to watch the characters freak out about events/formals/awards/boys, looking back those were all such BIG deals at the time and now you can just laugh at how silly you must have looked. I dont watch much tv at all so I am trully heart broken that Greek will no longer be part of my Monday night routine. I did however miss the first season bc I came in on season 2 so I could always watch those ( maybe I will get lucky and they will air on soap net then I would have all my shows in one place!)

Up Next: Workouts
so I have been working out sine Jan (11th to be exact) and so far I am down 16 lbs! I am weighing in at 156 lbs which is super fabulous to me bc it has been a while since my scale has seen anything less than 168.
Everyone asks what I do when I go to the gym so here it is

Les Mills Body Pump
I decided after doing almost 2 months of straight cardio that I would throw some classes/strength training in the mix. I went to body pump 3 times last week and I was pretty impressed. I started with really low weights bc I didnt want to die after one class and I also dont want to bulk up. I really didnt get "sore" after any of the classes so I was kinda bummed about that but hopefully I will keep going and increase the weight a bit to see if that will help.


I havent abondoned my first love. This is the arc trainer. Everyone always asks what it is so I thought I would post a pic. I LOVE this machine. You can burn 600 calories in an hr EASY. One time i burned 800 in a hr. Its not to hard on the knees which is a plus and although they still do from time to time my toes dont go numb on this machine nearly as much as they do on the elliptical. There are only 4 of these at my gym though so its always a fight to get one. I would have to say that this is where most of my lbs have been lost so I owe it alot hehe!

(Next 2 pics out of order)

heres a look into Wills 2nd bday party.......




and this shouldve gone above with the working out I just uploaded them backwards I guess. After going to body pump most of the week I decided to try body jam friday am and it was acutally pretty fun. Its basically an hr long dance class. I figured since I had a cheer/dance background it would be fun to try. But please note that when you are almost 30 and its been quite some time since you cheered/danced you may feel a little out of place lol. I felt so silly and that might have been bc I somehow ended up in the front row! they turn the lights out so everyone is not checking eachother out so that helps but I could still see myself in the mirror so I still felt silly( maybe if I had a margarita before I went I could loosen up) I guess I wasnt so terrible though bc the lady running the class pointed at me and said "youve done this before havent you" that made me feel kinda good, but overall I still felt silly. But then after I left the class and realized I was drenched in sweat I thought about going again bc if I had that much sweat on me I must have burned some calories!

So there you have it a little looksy into my world lately ( minus the cute baby boy and the hot hubby-that post to come tomm)

Oh and to leave you with a few more random things I learned this week:
* since I am at work I will throw a work learning moment in- you cant use HOT water to warm breastmilk-it breaks down the proteins...who knew???
* I totally heard from skinny runner that there is going to be a Super Troopers 2-WHAT?!?! I loved that movie ( littering and........)
* the wonderful hubby has the bon jovi hook up so we are going!!!!!
*5 pigs in a blanket are like a million calories (seriously like almost 300)

And if I can leave with just one word of advice it would be this
NEVER, and I repeat NEVER yank a diaper off your young one in a hurry when you have a head cold ( warning head cold can impair your sense of smell) that my friends is when you unknowingly and unpreparingly let the S%&T hit the floor. And dont ask how I know these things please its just better left unsaid :)

Gods Miracles Happen Everyday

Ok so first off let me just start with saying that blogs are kinda obsessive. I am sure anyone who has one can state the same. In my case i love reading well 1-friends blogs just to keep up with day to day stuff , 2-photography blogs bc i LOVE staying in the know and getting tips and pointers and lastly there are those blogs you hear about through the grapevine that really tug at your heart strings and I think reading them can shoe you just how lucky you are and also give you someone or ones to pray for. This post is about the last one. Over a year ago I came upon a blog that "everyone" was praying for. This girl and her husband were pregnant with a little boy and they had found out that he had a serious heart condition. They were not sure if he would survive to term or how long thereafter. I kept up with the blog often. She had her son and after going through many surgeries is hi short little life he did indeed go to be with Jesus. I have since continued to read her blog , she continues to write about him as well as her health issues that might possibly make having more children difficult. Well this week God showed himself in the form of an little miracle. She announced the other day that on Christmas they found out they were pregnant. and then her following blog explained that after seeing the dr they heard 2 heartbeats meaning TWINS. God is so good (as if we needed any proof) I cant wait to keep up with her blog through this pregancy and to begin praying now for her little nuggets to be healthy :) Almost forgot her blog is inthiswonderfullife.com

Family Funday

Nothing Like spending time together as a family :)