a LONG time ago, i bought a stack of cotton+steel tinsel fabric with great plans for christmas sewing. and then recently, i finished up this sucker: i was missing a few pieces and so it took me awhile to get started. once i secured all of the missing prints, i delayed on choosing a pattern […]
hazel
busy october. apparently.
excluding pics of our trip to NY, two field trips, anna’s class halloween party and actual halloween, i still managed to find 45 pictures of october happenings. and i totally could have had more. it was a fun month, i guess. of course like seven of them are hazel eating a donut. oops. here we […]
tricks or treats. 2015.
yesterday was halloween. obviously. and it was a saturday. so we had all day to get worked up about it. all along, the plan was for isaac to be harry potter. hazel would be olaf. and anna wanted to be a mix of darth vader and a princess. we just weren’t sure if it would […]
autumn in batavia. part 2.
when we returned from “the most sincere pumpkin patch” — we wandered over to the beach, where the lake folk were having a clam bake. the kiddos played in the sand, while we ate some sea creatures. later, there was a bit of excitement, when we managed to capture a frog from the “pond” of […]
the most sincere pumpkin patch.
it’s no secret that i miss western new york autumns. so, when i learned that my reunion was scheduled for the fall, i was so excited to partake in some our typical fall activities up there. it was tough to squeeze in, because of weather and reunion stuff, but on saturday, we headed off to […]
a fall visit to the homeland. part 1.
i graduated high school in 1994. so, last year, we attempted a 20 year reunion. it fell through. and was rescheduled for this year. a 21st reunion. scheduled for last weekend. so, we loaded up the lid kids and back up to batavia, new york we went. i have been to ny twice and florida […]
september.
man. i really really am doing a terrible job at blogging. not that i think anyone is actually reading this. so, mostly i’m talking to future me and the kids. i had every intention of getting a september blog up and posted before we took a big trip to ny, so that right now, i […]
that time we camped about 4 months ago.
ok. it wasn’t that long ago. but it was awhile. like august. and the school year has been crazy. so i haven’t posted in a millionty years. and i barely remember this camping trip. so, here are some pictures. campfire. chilly morning… the baby. grub face. my favorite all time pic of crazel. a terrible […]
a boring august recap.
the second half of summer flew past in a flash. i hit up some consignment sales for clothes for the annababy, who can still squeeze into 4t clothes, but they are quite short. i took her with me, and wound up purchasing a darth vader costume, which she insisted on wearing everywhere, much to the amusement […]
the first day of school.
on monday, the summer came screeching to a halt, and the two oldest lid kids had their first day of school. a new school. isaac tested into the HAG (highly academically gifted) program, which is only at two schools in our system. fortunately, it’s only about 6 minutes away from where we live. anyhow, anna […]