we had a pretty uneventful week this week. we started off with memorial day, as did the rest of the country, i suppose. derek made a bucket of guacamole and we headed over to our pals the p-salls for a little cookout. the buddies. derek took this picture of his burger, and thanks to apple’s […]
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tanglewood play day.

on saturday, we decided to get out and do something outdoors. as a family. wanting to avoid any memorial day crowds, or spend a lot of (any) money, we decided to stay rather low key. so, we headed over to tanglewood park. first, we went to the bigger playground, since we had just been to […]
summer so far.

we’ve had a number of popsicles. we made a sidewalk chalk town. complete with target. played with/in the sand and water table. we went to a concert in the park followed by ice cream at alex’s. (with my kid’s favorite person in the universe, nadia)…. derek built a swing set for the lid kids, so […]
end of childhood year picnic

so, i lied a little. i said that friday was isaac’s last day of preschool. and it was. but, he still had one more event to attend, to cap off his year. an end of year party at joanie moser park. monday. first things first, ike had to show off his swinging skills. there were […]
some randomness.

on saturday, i went yard sale-ing with my pal jude. it was one of those sweet yard sale days where i just kept finding sweet sweet deals. one of the best was this radio flyer trike (with handle) that i scored for $20 for anna. it’s $100 new. the hat she’s wearing was also a […]
summer ’12 to do

with one day of school left for the boy, we decided to assemble our second annual summer to do list. the first one was a big hit, and this year’s looks very similar. why ruin a good thing? we left some space to add in some extra ideas.
children’s museum. again.

on thursday, we hit up the children’s museum again. we’re shooting to really get our money’s worth out of this year membership… plus, i wanted to sign isaac up for a summer camp that they have there at the end of summer. construction junction. :). they build forts and sugar cube igloos and so on. […]
the annababy is two!!

happy birthday to the annababy. at this time, 2 years ago, i was just waking up from a little rest, afforded to me by my good friend the epidural. within the hour, however, you’d be here, changing our little family forever… the first year flew by. we had a rainbow-rific bash for your first birthday. […]
i-spy quilt for the lid kids.

i finished this up last night. i was in a couple of i-spy charm swaps, resulting in 112 different fabrics. then, i used some of my own stuff to get the number up to 144. added 144 more gray squares… quilt. bind. wash and dry. and… the whole top. the binding. machine stitched! (and you […]
a few more bday party pics

bear with me. i posted hastily. derek had some really good pics on his phone and my friend heather emailed me some more last night, and i couldn’t help but post some of them. thanks. 🙂 sweet pic of anna and ike: blowing out candles. derek’s vantage point. happy girl being serenaded. the cake, after […]