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To those who still keep up with my blog thank for continuing to check back in.  I've been pretty busy with this photography stuff and haven't had much time to write blog posts.  Anyway, Halloween is approaching and Kyla will be Little Red Riding Hood this year.  I hope she doesn't flip out about the costume being too tight, or won't wear her red shawl.  She is picky about how tight her clothes are (she gets this from me, I lived in spandex and leggings as long as I could when I was a little girl until I finally had to start wearing jeans and I can still remember flipping out pulling on my jeans because they were too tight)!  A bunch of us got together this past weekend and carved pumpkins, I did a Mickey Mouse pumpkin which Kyla LOVES, a snow white pumpkin (which I'm still working on...it's a tad difficult) and Greg did a regular ol' pumpkin face pumpkin.  The kids also cut out sugar cookies and watched Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin or whatever.  It was a fun night!  Greg is now working a lot in his part time job.  He worked 60 hours last week.  Poor guy, but he is taking care of our family and getting us ready for the future, which is good.  Kyla is hilarious...she is so funny and cracks me up a lot.  She is starting to run around the house and squeel at the top of her voice all while laughing at the same time.  She hates to get her diaper changed, so most of the time I've got to chase her around the house and she runs super fast, squealing super loud and laughing at the same time because she doesn't want me to catch her.  If I'm not in a hurry this usually cracks me up.  If I'm in a hurry, it's super annoying.  LOL.  I swear the kid is so slow and anyone who knows me knows that I'm always in a hurry and always late.  This combo doesn't work well with a 2 year old.  I got her ready to go to church all by myself this weekend by 9 am, but I was huffing and puffing by the time I got to my seat and was a tad bit late.  Hmmm what else.  I got a new manager at work...I just met her today.  She seems nice, but I'm not sure how things will turn out, hopefully good.  Kyla got her Annual Limb Differences Social invite in the mail a few days ago from Seattle Children's Hospital.  It is in mid-November.  I would like to take her this year.  I think she is old enough that she will be able to get something from it.  Even if it is a 3 hour drive and probably not in the best weather.  We will see.  I'm not sure if I've mentioned it here yet or not, but Kyla knows how to count to 10 no problems and has for a while now.  She is also starting to say her ABCs and we practice her letters in the tub when she takes a bath.  Hope everyone is doing well and has a good Halloween.

My Photography Blog

For anyone who would like to follow my photography, as I get better, do shoots for family and friends, etc., please access my new site:
 
http://www.ambervancephotography.com/

I also started a Facebook page which I seem to keep more up-to-date than the blog.  Check that out if you wish, Amber Vance Photography and 'Like' it!  :)

I'm still doing this just as a hobby, and wanted somewhere to show my works, so I have started this site.  Hope you like it.

Amber

Brief Break

Welp, it’s been a while since I’ve blogged, eh?  Let me just say, September was one heck of a month, and not in a good way.  LOL.  I blocked access to my blog for a while and decided to return it.  I told my Hubby that I had blocked access and he was like “well then people who want to know more about ABS won’t be able to read it.”  I said that I knew that, but I am pretty sure people who just wanted information on what all was going on with our family were accessing it and not with good intentions.  So to those people… get a life, OK?  Now, on to important things.  I enjoy writing, always have.  I can remember being like in elementary school, having a diary and writing about things that were going on in my life, like about my dogs dying, about my parents fighting, about my parents divorcing, about who my best-friends were at school, etc. etc.  Then once I hit high school and started dating guys, I started writing again.  I still have both of these diaries, but the high school/after high school one is a doozey.  I was one of those girls who always wanted my first kiss to be with the man that I would marry.  I waited for my first kiss till I was 16 and wasted it on one heck of a loser, grown up man.  Literally.  He was 4 years older than me and out of high school…his intentions were not good ones and I luckily got away from that relationship the moment God gave me a fairly large wake up call.  Then came a few others that were alright but not too special, then came my first love.  That relationship was full of young kid issues and eventually dissipated, then came my Hubby.  He was the last one in my diary that I wrote about…  he didn’t make me cry, he didn’t break my heart.  Sure we had some issues in the start, but eventually worked through them.  That’s when I stopped writing.  Then with the birth of Kyla, I started up again on this blog.  The thing about an electronic version of a diary is it’s out there, for everyone to read…and unfortunately there are plenty of people who do not have good intentions and are only looking to gather information.  So, although I love to write about all things, I’m going to try to refrain from going into personal details too much and try to keep the focus of this on little Kyla.  I’ve also decided to start a separate blog for my photography.  Granted this is just a hobby of mine.  It’s fun for me to do, I’m not trying to call myself an actual photographer, because I barely have a clue, but I’m working hard on getting better and want to display my photos, so I plan to do that soon.  I’ve always been into art, but again, stopped doing that about 8 years ago. 

My family took a trip to the Oregon Coast at the start of the month and we camped for 5 nights.  Pretty sure this was the longest I’ve ever camped in my life!  It was a nice break, but I could’ve used a hotel or vacation share the last night.  Our laundry was so filthy by the time we got back home, LOL.  Good times.  I took almost 400 photos while at the coast and unfortunately purchased a corrupt memory card right before leaving.  I lost all but about 4 photos of my baby girl.  Even paid a data recovery geek to try to recover them for me.  No luck.  Totally bummed out about that, but I’m looking forward to shooting again and have something planned for this weekend.  Kyla began potty training last week and Friday, Sep 30^th was her first time using the potty.  I was so proud of her.  Unfortunately she isn’t too into her potty anymore.  I thought for sure we were going to be like on our way to getting out of diapers.  My child is so hard headed - she does what she wants to do and that’s final.  We have also been discussing making a big decision for our family soon, so I’ve been pre-occupied thinking about that.  Won’t say what it is right now.  We will see what the future holds.  I volunteered in our church nursery twice last month.  Those little kids sure are fun, but lots of work.  There were 13 little ones both times I volunteered and just me and two other gals.  The criers liked me for some reason.  I think because I picked them up and tried to make them all better, which usually worked.  I brag about how one little girl who only ever lasted 10 minutes in the nursery lasted the entire service – just call me the baby-whisperer.  :)  More later.