... 1) your sister yells at you AGAIN for not blogging.
2) You get a request to be followed ... and you have NO idea how to BE followed because you're so rarely on the blog as of late that you CAN NOT REMEMBER YOUR PASSWORD!
3) Your husband asks you when you are going to update.
YEP - it's THAT bad! And again, I could give you LOTS of excuses ... but I'm just busy. And you must not be. Right? Just me. Not you ... me. Because I don't have a house to clean, or my own yard to work on ... it's other things - like ............... looking in the mirror at my GROWING belly and GROWING pregnancy mask marks. Which is quite disturbing (the pregnancy mask thingy) and I would really REALLY like pretty skin. But the pregnancy Gods have chosen otherwise. DID YOU KNOW that being in the sun when you are pregnant is NOT GOOD? Like ... instead of making your legs tan (because your husband made fun of them at church on Sunday .. thinking you were weird enough to wear WHITE TIGHTS) it makes SPOTS on them? And that is SO not pretty? And instead of giving you a nice over all glow ... you get LARGER pregnancy spots on your face? If you are questioning whether I am speaking the truth and you just looked in the mirror and THANKED your lucky stars you are not a "chosen one" to receive these markings ... then log off now. I already feel like crap.
Which leads me to a PICTURE! Back story .. ready???? go ......
My brother and I (CHRIS "FREAKING COOL" WOOD) and I decided to go in on weddings together! YAY! We are SO excited! And it's something we've wanted to do for a long time ... but either I was pregnant, nursing or ... moving to another state (which we ALL know how THAT turned out). And even though I'm PREGNANT now .. and about to be nursing (any male followers were JUST grossed out!) ... we're still going to make it work. ANYWAY ... last week I was at his studio shooting some outdoor engagements, while he shot some other engagements (right after shooting a family that I watched through the window and LAUGHED hysterically!!! Have you ever WITNESSED another photographer try to get the attention of a little 6 year old in a family shot? I laughed SO hard I totally peed. Which we ALL know being pregnant is normal! And then I wondered .. do I look like that while shooting???) ANYWAY ...... where was I??? Ok - so AFTER we shot all those things Chris decided that we looked good enough to do a little image that we'd use for our AD of our weddings. I freaked out - applied more lipstick - and begged him to use my good angle. Then - he reassured me that the amount of photoshop would do us BOTH good.
So today - he emailed me the image he was thinking of using. EXCEPT me made a GIANT mistake ... he didn't FIX ANYTHING! And I was MORTIFIED that i ACTUALLY looked like that! Actually .. I KNEW I looked like that ... I was MORTIFIED that HE didn't love me enough as my BROTHER to fix me!!!!! I sent the image back saying "FIX. MAKE ME PRETTY. Then we'll talk!"
So he did. And I was LAUGHING so hard because the captions were HYSTERICAL! Then I noticed ME. (because let's face it .. do ANY of us EVER look at anyone else in the photo besides ourselves? NOoooo .. and I know that!!!!!) And I was SO happy because he photoshopped the CRAPOLA out of my "pretty pregnancy marks". **HAPPY SIGH**. I was SO happy I called Nate in!
"NATE - come see this! I'm so excited to work w/ Chris!!" I said.
"ohhhh cool. Whose that?" HE SAID.
"WHAT THE (*&*(^*)(&. WHOSE THAT??????? ME. IT"S ME! And I THOUGHT I looked PRETTY - which is WHY I called you in here!!!"
"really. That's you? But .... your face is so ... clear! I mean... YES it's totally pretty and it DOES look like you!" he said.
"nice. REAL NICE back peddling. So - you think it's pretty. But you didn't think it was me?" :) (I LOVED making him feel bad for it ......)
ANYWAY ... here's the picture. MINUS the FREAKING MASK on my face!!!
OK - oddly enough ... I think it's saved too small for this. I'll email my brother to mail me a LARGE ONE so you can get the fullness of it. :) Maybe just click on it and it will look better.
Nate apologized. He felt bad. He should. Then we discussed how I can get RID of these marks. Lots of options ... but after the baby, of course. Any ideas?
He's running a MARATHON this September. SO excited for him! So proud of him .... and so in AWE that someone would actually WANT to run that fast!!! I mean .. I would. If I were being chased. But to just DO IT? :) NO really - I would love to join him one of these years ... but not now. Or ever. Maybe. No - I don't think so. Maybe. Not.
We're doing a little family night ... movie. popcorn. blankets. A naked baby maby. How did she get that way? We're also looking at HOMES! We're about to be REAL people again! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leave some love ..... tell me you think my skin is SO fantastic and you think I look like that ALL the time! :)
Pregnancy mask and spots?? Dont understand---could you explain.
Hope you are well. :)
Posted by: Christine | April 28, 2010 at 01:31 AM
Christine - some pregnancies (and lack of folic acid/folate) case a little "mask" to be on the mother's skin. Some people get it SO bad that they look like a crazy raccoon. I got it w/ Maby - but it went away - EXCEPT for a few round spots in weird places on my skin. This baby is causing it too. So I'll up my folic acid - and PRAY that my skin returns to normal after this baby. :)
Posted by: kara elmore | April 29, 2010 at 05:40 PM
Kara, your skin IS beautiful...and I would know because I saw you just last week! You are one of those beautiful pregnant women that other women are super jealous of!
Have I told you lately that I LOVE you and that I LOVE my pictures? I still squeal when I look at them (especially when I see the one of J crying!! LOVE IT).
I love baby Maby--she makes me laugh and I still think it's funny that she wants to be naked but then says she's cold and needs a blanket wrapped around her.
Garrett is going to run a marathon this year too...but not me...
Sorry for the rambling but I know how I feel when people comment on my blog, so hopefully it's ok that I rambled! :)
P.S. For about a week now, we've gotten 7-8 hours of sleep at night!! And I totally have YOU to thank! :) So, thank you.
Posted by: Stefanie | April 29, 2010 at 08:38 PM
Yay!!!! House hunting!!! Best of luck finding one right in the "perfect place" for the whole family. And mostly you. I will look forward to seeing it when we visit again.... next year, or so... hopefully not longer.
p.s. you are beautiful!
Posted by: Amy Elmore | April 30, 2010 at 11:58 AM
Stefanie - liar. YOUR skin is TO DIE FOR!!! BUT I THANK YOU for saying you think mine is pretty. And yes - my fave image is of J crying, too. Why is that?? :) I love that you rambled. You should totally do it everyday. I'll post again just so you can do that - I love it!!
Amy - I'll make a place JUST FOR YOUR FAM for when you visit!!! I need to email you some things from when you were here. :)
Posted by: kara elmore | May 01, 2010 at 12:04 PM
I think you look beautiful.. I love it..
Posted by: elizabeth pellette | May 02, 2010 at 06:31 PM
I would...if I were being CHASED?! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Even then, I think I'd just turn around and run toward the killer, since we both know that's how it's going to end anyway. Your skin is beautiful, by the way. Eventually, once it spreads across the rest of your face, you'll have an all over tan, right? That's how I chose to look at it. Eventually the splotches will meet and then I'm pigmented forever. :) Love ya! And you're priddy.
Posted by: Lisa | May 03, 2010 at 01:10 PM
Well you know I had this too. It came after #2 and didn't go away. THE ONLY solution as far as I'm concerned is PPX Laser Treatments...all the bad ones will be gone in 1 or 2 treatments. BUT plan on 4 treatments because the laser will see all the spots you can't at the moment and it will bring them to the surface but not get rid of them until the next treatment when they're close enough to the surface to be burned off by the laser.
it's worth it. :)
Posted by: Brandi Ginn | May 16, 2010 at 07:31 PM