Wordless Wednesday

Long goodbyes

Ava's best friend is leaving for a 3 month long vacation in a couple days.
They spent the day together late last week, snuggling up with popcorn and a movie...

And sharing a kiss...

while they discussed the finer points of hummus and veggies.


Bye-bye little Ozzie... Don't grow too big before you get back!
We'll miss you all!

Wordless Wednesday

Yeah, I know this was supposed to go up yesterday, but I tried to schedule it and Blogger wouldn't let me for some reason...

Got Real?

...On my kitchen chair right now...
...crumbs, dog fur, and N,N,W...

At the end of the day...

I need to unload my camera, so in the meantime I thought I'd share one of the MANY outtakes from my disastrous Father's Day shoot...

At the end of the day today, I'm still feeling rushed

I have an enormous week staring me down, and I already feel like I'm behind!

This weekend, we have our first homeschooling conference to attend. I'm excited, but a tad nervous. There will be lots of vendors there selling curriculum, so I've made a list. Yes, of course, a list. I'm obsessed with lists. I can't hardly move out of my bed without a list, mental or otherwise. So, I spent a couple hours today making a very throuough, itemized list of the curriculum and books I'll need to purchase or order at the convention. I'm a bit worried that I'll get there and feel totally overwhelmed and come home with tons of stuff that I'll never use. Thus, the need for THE LIST!!!

The conference is all day Friday and all day Saturday, but at 5:30pm on Saturday, we have to be at my cousin's wedding. We'll have to leave the conference early, pick up the kids, drive 30 min. home, unload, get everyone stuffed into their wedding clothes, re-load, and drivee 60 min. to the wedding!!

It will go fine, everyone's excited about the wedding, especially Ava. I made her a twirl-y dress for it and she's been dying to wear it. I'll post pictures of it for another "Handmade" post.

So, I spent some time tonight (while Marvin took the kids to Alec's baseball game) running errands pertaining to this weekend. I have to go out one more time, probably tomorrow, and then to the grocery store. A very close friend of mine is heading out of town for several months and I'm hosting a little send-off party for her Wednesday morning during our mom's bible study, so I need to get juice and stuff to make muffins. Anyone got any good muffin recipies?

Ooops, it's midnight! I promised myself I'd be in bed early tonight...I've been hitting the treadmill pretty hard lately, early in the morning, and I'm a little more tired than usual. Well, obviously not tired enough to stay up till midnight blogging!

Happy Father's Day!

to my husband, their father

only you can teach our daughter how to be strong and independent and how to put a worm on a hook or change the oil in a car

only you can teach our boys how to be men, how to walk away from a fight, how to forgive when it hurts, and how to fix a leaky toilet

only you can be the perfect partner for me in this amazing journey called parenthood

happy father's day to the man of my dreams!

i love you.

What I'm doing right now...
(well, actually by the time you read this, I'll have moved over to my sewing table and will be making a couple meeUps!)

What are YOU doing right now?

Got Real?

It's been dumped again...
and again...
and again...

See if you can find:

vintage Fisher Price; Happy Apple and dollhouse
broken plastic ninja sword
doggie paw
play food
princess crown and shoes
Webkinz
pink tutu

How about you, are your toys dumped today?

Wordless Wednesday

Happy Feet

Today I am attempting to take nice, frame-worthy photos of my three kids
(who were all awake at various intervals during the night for random reasons)
to give to their Daddy for Father's Day.
Clearly, from the image posted above, I'm not having much success photographing their faces!