today was our friend addison’s 2 year birthday party. since she turned two on 2/2, her parents threw her a tutu party. i had to wake anna from her nap early to go. she wasn’t happy. strawberries: cupcake: all the kids trying to sit still for a pic: anna, at home, where i could finally […]
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party time. excellent.
so, yesterday, we had two big bashes for ike’s fifth birthday. first, 6 or so of his best buds joined us at bounce u for some running, jumping, sliding, wrestling and general mayhem. i never get good pics in bounce u. too much motion. terrible lighting. iphone camera. it all adds up to a bunch […]
sickie.
On Friday, Ike got a nasty cough. It’s made for some rough nights. And then he has these episodes where he coughs violently for a few minutes and then vomits for his grand finale. So there’s been a lot of steam cleaning and laundry. Then this morning, annababy woke up coughing like a smoker, and […]
chillin’ (no really – it’s cold) at the playground.
it’s been a pretty mild winter so far and we’ve been able to go to the park a few times. it’s nice when the kids get their energy all out. but usually anna just wants to swing the whole time. and isaac wants to sit around and tell me stories about super mario brothers. at […]
christmas. belated.
a long time ago, it was christmas. and i took some pictures. with my phone. and i kept thinking that once i sat down to sync up my phone, i would get the pics and a glorious blog post would follow. then, i didn’t sync my phone. and the pictures got shoved further and further […]
anna, parks, friends.
the weather has been pretty mild here in the carolinas this almost-winter… we’ve been out to the park twice in the last week. i didn’t get many pics of the kids at the first park. mostly because it’s got a ginormous two story play structure that my kids seem to have very little fear of, […]
Christmas Cupcakery
our december meeting for the triad modern quilt guild was officially (we voted) changed to a christmas party and i decided to dust off the cake decorating supplies to whip up some cute little christmas themed cupcake toppers. as always, my trusty sidekick was available to help mix: and my newest trusty sidekick was available […]
pre-thanksgiving family R&R
just got back from spending a week in banner elk, nc. it was lazy. and restful. and fun. here are the pics on picasa. click on any of them to go see all 89 pictures. blue ridge village
luigi and a dragon
this year, we went all out and trick or treated twice. on sunday night, we went to old salem. mistake. there were approximately 650,000 other trick-or-treaters and it was slow going. our kids didn’t hang in there for very long. but, they were cute and we got the best pics there, because it was still […]