Kids

   Sweet Baby J. She is so easy on me. She wanted the following for her birthday: 1. One friend over for a sleepover 2. To watch Ella Enchanted 3. To have the following snacks on hand: The balloons were just a little something extra. I'm pretty sure it made the day...

   Sweet Baby J was at a friend's house for the day, so B and I took my Handsome N to the park just for fun. I was armed with my camera and thought I'd get some fun family shots. I was sure my cute retired ballerina feet looked amazingly artsy with the moon in the...

   Natalie. Oh, I miss her. Storytime:  (scroll down if you don't feel like storytime... I will totally understand!). Natalie was in the same youth group (CRUMY kids rule!) that I was in... but 10 years later. She started college in the town I was living in and our...

I'll be honest. Today didn't exactly go like I had hoped. I scoured the internet for an egg hunt J could participate in. I found one, arrived 30 min early and they were already too swamped. She gave all her eggs to the younger kids then had an unfortunate accident...

  Today was beautiful. It finally dried off a little... so the kids spent most of the morning in their hodgepodge fort outside... chairs, air conditioning duct leftover, old shoe rack, some extra 2x4s and anything else they found in the project pile... Their story was...

  Today I pulled out some sun catcher crafts - J got the butterfly and N got the planet. I was honestly dreading this craft... but it was the best one so far. They were each so careful with the tiny beads (it kept them occupied for 45 minutes). They turned out...

  We have had so much rain. It almost decided to come inside with us.   I have been saving up some rainy day crafts which came in VERY handy today. I have a shelf in my closet that I save crafts on. Ever so often I think... oh, I should just take all this to the...

AZ Highways magazine promised fields of wildflowers... Rattlesnake Cove out at Bartlett Lake was the closest... I was so ready! Armed with my camera, beef jerky, horizon chocolate milk (to keep the back seat appeased), good music and a beautiful day, we drove out. If...

  At 10:16, Brian walked into my office - the nurse had called... Julia fought the slide and the slide won. (You may remember that this month last year, a three foot fall off of a slide resulted in a broken arm) One Urgent Care trip and two stitches later, she was...