Someone Turned 8 Yesterday!

Holy crap, and my life has never been the same.

Oh how I love my boy.

Happy birthday!

Just Some of the Fun

Of this past week, both kids spent a considerable amount of time on the neighbor's trampoline. Loved the pics.

I love this hair!

Sunday Fun!

My parents are in town for a rare visit so my sister and bro-in-law had an early birthday party for their little girl Zora. It was really nice to visit with everyone, and such a gorgeous day in Seattle.

Cupcake Oh Cupcake!

Cooked at the same time, funny how differently they turned out. All tasted fine tho.





And the 4 boys who ate them. Well, one each after pizza dinner.



I'm so thankful to have one boy and one girl. They're both so awesome. (coming soon: a moratorium on my use of the word Awesome)

7 Years Old Today!

And I should write an epic post - but suffice to say, my son is so wonderful, he makes me glad to be alive every single day. But I'm a little emotionally worn out, so I'll post a bunch of photos of my Wonderful Awesome Boy!
Happy Birthday!


Another of my Swamp Ogre


This day he complained that the trees for climbing weren't challenging enough. Ah next time they will be


When we were boarding for our flight to Minneapolis, the Pilot was right there and invited my son and another boy to sit up front for a little bit. He got a lesson in flying a plane. Waaayyyy cool.


Some days I only get to take a nice picture if I follow it up with a silly face picture.


More silly faces. In our Magnolia tree out front.


I really enjoyed looking at all the photos from summer. Ah, the warmth. The Light.

Happy Birthday Mom!!!!!!

I love you! I'll be praying for you tomorrow.

We Interrupt This Regularly Scheduled Rose Post To Bring You Something Really Important...

Happy Birthday Danny!

The next photo is the first I've ever put on my site by another photog - but I thought I'd make an exception in this case since it was taken by my Daughter - of 3 yrs old.

Happy birthday to my wonderful Husband.

Happy Birthday MJ

When I was pregnant for the second time, Daddy Himself and I agreed that we did not want to know the sex of our baby (again, didn't with Himself either) but I must say for some reason my curiousity was waaay greater with this one than the previous baby. But all along my head was telling me I would be having another boy. Then... somewhere about mid-term my heart started telling me it was a girl. And kept telling me, and kept telling me. And my heart was right. On June 15 2006 my beautiful baby Margaret was born.

She has been so much fun, so different and yet similar to her big brother but man, she's awesome. I cannot imagine my life without her, and I look forward to my life with my Girl. I am so blessed, first with my wonderful husband Danny, then my fabulous Sullivan, and finally the sweet special treasure who is Margaret.

I hope you enjoy the photo journey.

6 Years Ago Today!!!!

My water broke at 5:30 AM, and the rest as they say, is Family History. I welcomed my wonderful son into our lives at 1:33 PM. I cannot imagine my life without this little guy in it.

Happy Birthday to my glorious wonderful wild willful sweet Sullivan!