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OK, so here's the deal. I can't keep up with 2 blogs, it's just too hard. Sooo for a while, or maybe for good I haven't totally decided yet. Please follow our family and our adventures at:

http://www.kristijamesphotographyblog.com

Currently I am doing a Photo-A-Day Challenge for 30 days. This will put me done with it about a week before Baby Conrad arrives. So check there everyday for a day to day update on our family. It has been quite fun so far, I hope you can join the fun with us!!!

LOVE TO ALL!

KRISTI

Summer has come to an end......

I know I'm lame, but I'm gonna link you to my other blog to read about the end of summer. It's so much easier..and prettier :)

CLICK HERE

Much LOVE!

Due for another update I guess....

WARNING: LONG POST WITH LOTS OF PICTURES :)

Wow, I feel horrible. I keep up with my work blog, but not on here. The last real post I had was Kayli turning 2. Well since then... I think I already posted that Dallas has deployed. We are a few months into this deployment and it hasn't always been easy. Many things have gone wrong, but many things have been great as well. I first want to thank my AMAZING neighbors for helping me out with my kids so much. They have been watching them while I work and go to Dr. Appointments ( especially a BIG thanks to HEIDI). On July 26, Jesse turned 6 years old. I can't believe that he is already 6 years old. It's still crazy for me to think that most of my friends from highschool are just now having their first and second children and I'm on my 4th, one of which is now 6 years old, going into first grade this year. I sit and think about how fast my life has gone, it has just flown. Seems like yesterday I was still in highschool, just married, having my first baby and then it started really really flying, had my second baby, moved to Japan and had my 3rd baby, survived a deployment and many training trips away and now expecting my 4th child in the next 2 months. WOW!! Dallas and I will be celebrating our 8th wedding anniversary on Oct.5. Right before our last child will be born. I'm pretty sad that he won't be here for it or the birth of our son. I am very grateful for him being here for the other 3 though. In this career, that's not always possible. I am so grateful that my mom will be able to join me over here for a few weeks though to help out with my other children. I will have to have a csection( SOOOO getting my tubes tied too LOL) so I will be in the hospital for at least 72 hours :( . I have this feeling though that this baby may have a different plan than what we have. I just had my second scare with what I think may be pre-term labor. 45 min. of very painful contractions, ect... luckily laying on my side and drinking water and gatorade helped and they stopped. This is the second time in about a month and a half this has happened. I sure hope this little man stays in for "THE PLAN". I don't know what I would do if he came early. I have stopped taking clients on Okinawa now to be careful and prepare for our son and shortly after our move back to the states. I will still have a few more newborn shoots before I'm completely done though. Wow... I sure did ramble, I guess that's what you get when I only update every couple of months. Oh BTW, I am now 29 weeks and we should have baby by Oct. 19... if not sooner. Feel free to visit my other blog, which I occasionally will post personal blogs on as well. BLOG ... also since I won't have many new clients, this will probably be where I post more personal ones from now on, so bookmark it and keep up on it :) Here are some pics that i have for you :) OH... and Kayli potty trained herself...how bout that. Not at night but during the day and I"m sooooo proud of her. no more diapers. Just pullups at night!! YAY KAYLI!!

Playing with Japanese friends at the beach.

28 weeks










Jesse's sleepover last night.

Giving Back 'That Others May Live'

A project I'm working on!! Check it out on my BLOG.

Kayli is 2

Well... she turned 2 on May 7, 2010. I finally got around to taking her 2 year pictures because for once it was NOT raining!!! So enjoy a few of them.

It's a BOY!

Well we weren't going to find out the sex of the baby, but the ultrasound tech blew it and so when I go home I just had to look at what I thought she let out,we are having another BOY. I am not completely thrilled about this ,but Dallas is. I would have like to have another little princess running around, but that's okay. Another brother to protect sister and mommy. The ultrasound showed my due date more around October 21st. I have to wait to see he dr. first to see if he is going to change it from the 28th to more around the 21st. We haven't been up to a whole lot because it has been raining.

Dallas deployed the beginning of May and will return in December. Kayli turned 2 on May 7. Well, instead of my boring rambling LOL, i'll just post a bunch of pics to look at, just hanging out. Just a little background on the picture of Kayden with a big ol' goose egg: We were picking Jesse up from school and Kayden was wanting to catch butterflies, but they were at the front of the school, not at the park we were at. He thought he would sneak out and was running as fast as he could looking backwards at me and smashed head first into a big huge cement pillar they have...it bruised the next day and was pretty much gone by the 3rd day.

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Can you say "MAJOR SLACKER"?

I thought I would be better at blogging this year, but it has proven completely opposite! I haven't necessarily been to busy, just lazy I guess. Last time I left you with Dallas going to training and verifiying that I miscarried the baby back in November. Well I have some good news this post YAY!

Dallas returned from training and we are so glad he is home, but he will be leaving again in the next week for the long deployment. He will be gone for 7 months. Now this is bad news I know, but it may mean that the kids and I get to move bac

k early. At this point we are waiting on approval o

f the orders. I hope to know by this week, but as most military families know it is just a waiting game. If we get the approval for this, then we have a 5 bedroom 3 bath house we will be moving into.

NOW FOR THE GOOD NEWS!! Many of you already know that I am expecting again. I found out back in February. I am now 16 weeks along and doing well. My due date is Oct. 28,2010. I will have to have a c-section, so I will be scheduling this at least a week before that date. I will also be getting my tubes tied because we are DONE! No more little cuties. 4 is plenty for us. The due date means that Dallas will be gone during t

his time and I'm pretty bummed about it, but what can you do right? I will hopefully be getting those orders home so that family can be around me and the kids during this time.

Last month we finally got our trip to Utah. It wasn't easy to get there though. We did not make it on the Patriot Express, but we tried for a few

other flights including ones to Guam, Hawaii and Alaska. After 3 different tries we finally got on a flight to Alaska. Now there was only one flight going out from Alaska in few days and it only had 6 available seats on it. We would take up 5 of them if we got on. Amazingly and luckily we had some friends that just moved there. Many of you know them.... Wendy and Alex Jones!!!! Alex works up there and he was kind enough to MAKE SURE we got on that flight!! A

ll the other families were not to happy that we got on and nobody else did. We had about an hour in Alaska to finally meet Wendy's family! Her daughter is just adorable as can be and her hubby Alex was just as kind! Thanks Wendy and Alex for everything you did for us! We then made the 4 1/2 hour trip on the C5 from Alaska to Travis AFB in California. We then waited there and finally got a ride to the Sacramento airport. We spent the night in the Sacramento

airport sleeping on the floor and chairs. Well Dallas and Jesse slept, but Kayli, Kayden and I didn't sleep at all. We finally got on our flight to Utah, stopping in Vegas and then moving on. I was pretty sick for those flights.

Once we were in Utah I realized I forgot my camera charger, so I didn't get to take too many photos while there, but that's okay because we had a ton of fun while we were there and didn't have time to worry about picture taking. Anyw

ay if your still with me , Thank you! I hope you enjoyed this adventurous tale!

P.S. We are not going to find out what sex this baby is so we can have us a SURPRISE!!

Boy Name: Conrad Marius James

Girl Name: Aniston Kaye James

We can't wait! OH YA and Kayli turned 2 yesterday!!! I can't believe it. I will be posting more pictures a little later of Utah and Kayli's second bday!