Candace's Photography Blog Has Moved... The Banks Bunch blog is still here....

I have decided that it would be best to move my photography blog to a new site...I will continue to post family updates at this blog.

Please visit my photography site at:

http://candacejbanks.blogspot.com

Blessings,
Candace

Thursday, January 31, 2008

I'm working on it already...

I guess I don't realize how many people actually look at our blog to check on us and get updates....but aparently more people do than I realize...which is SOOOO COOOL!!!...(so why don't I get more comments??...ha, ha, j/k)...anywho, I did sent a blanket email out to everyone that I have email addresses for letting them know that,
YES.....
KELLY IS HOME!!!!!!

Hallelujah & Praise the LORD!!!!

And, yes, I have taken bookoos (sp?) of pictures of our sweet boys interacting with their daddy...I just haven't edited them yet so I haven't wanted to post them...but I PROMISE that I will try to do it asap...

In the meantime, I will tell you that our reunion has been better than any of us could've ever imagined...God is sooooo gracious and He has allowed us many many sweet times over the past week...and we're going to go camping as a family here pretty soon and so we're all looking forward to that. Kelly has another week off from work which is wonderful...we're not planning on taking any vacations for a few weeks or maybe even months...

Thank you again for all your prayers and well wishes over the past 6 months...

Love, Hugs, & Blessings,
Candace




Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Warning: Gross Post...Why I'm up BEFORE the crack of dawn...


first let me say that it's been way too long since i've posted...shame on me...i have to admit that i have a good excuse, though...my sweet husband, who has been deployed for six months, is coming back home to us this week and so i've been running around like a chicken with my head cut off... so, here's the story...and i'm sticking to it...you, on the other hand, may not want to stick to it...unless you're a mom--and then you might find it quite amusing... so...if you're wondering why i'm up at 4am, well, i've been up with brendan since 1am...he threw up before he went to bed last night (spewed all over the floor outside the bathroom--thank heavens for the carpet cleaner vacuum i just bought last week (to clean up the huge pile of diarrhea that slid right past his diaper and onto my bedroom floor--oh yeah, i can't forget all the extra drippings from that side of the room all the way to the bathroom)...anywho, if you don't know this, i HATE cleaning up vomit...i know, i know...strong words, but really i just don't do vomit--i can do diarrhea all day long, but vomit and i just don't agree)...back to what i was saying, i thought it might've just been a fluke...like a one-time thing--which would be GREAT b/c then i could send him to school tomorrow (now today) and still go to BSF in the morning and have the college girl come over and clean my house...but it wasn't my luck--he was up at 1 and couldn't settle down...his tummy was growling (sounded like a hungry growl to me) and so i fed him some yogurt and warm milk (didn't want to give him cold milk b/c i thought it'd be too hard on his tummy being the middle of the night and all)...anywho, he was up again before 4 saying he needed to potty--i said to him "well, go ahead and go"--and didn't think anything of it until i noticed that he was making a MAD DASH to the bathroom...and since there was still vomit on the floor (there were towels over it--you don't EVEN want me to tell you why i didn't clean it up right away) and since corbin had just diarrhea'd all over the floor a few days before, my mommy instinct kicked in and i rushed into the bathroom to hear the joyous sounds of my precious little boy with the runs (why? might you ask is diarrhea joyous?? BECAUSE, silly, he made it to the toilet and NOT all over my carpet!!!)...ok, so he's going and going and going...and then the next thing i know he breaks out into this crazy story about the sandman (from spidey 3) "killed the bad guy and shoot the bad guy and he dead and...." and he went on & on & one (must've been dreaming about it before he woke up??)...anywho, then said he needed to throw up...so i took him off the pot and turned him around so he could do so--while vomiting (btw, he was naked from the waste down) he shot (litterally) diarrhea out his butt and onto the shower curtain and all over the floor...i didn't realize what he had done until (my glasses weren't even on) until he turned around with a confused look on his face that read something like "did something just shoot out of my rear?"...me, oh my!!! gotta love being a mom! the thing about all this is that satan is trying to steal my joy away...he knows that this is supposed to be a wonderful time with kelly coming home and all... but the thing of it is i, with the help of j.c. will not let him succeed... candace