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Batavia NY Autumn Trip – Strong Museum of Play

last year, isaac and my mom and i went to the strong museum of play in rochester. we didn’t allow enough time for all of the stuff and we left with so much unseen. i couldn’t wait to go back with isaac (and anna, but she didn’t care much) and derek. this post only has […]
Batavia NY Autumn Trip – The Travels

on october the first, derek and i packed up the little rav4 full of babies, grownups and a whole lot of clothes, toys, electronics and baby equipment. here are some pics i snapped during the road trips. happy girl: the gift shop at the rest stop in new york. it makes me laugh because we […]
first school pic

Got isaac’s school pics back today. I was a little nervous, because he’s 100% unwilling to have his picture taken at home. I was pleasantly surprised. 🙂
isaac’s prayer
derek came down from putting isaac to bed and gave me the prayer rundown: “thank you for mom and dad and that they can sleep good tonight and that me and anna will sleep good. and thank you that tomorrow morning i can wake up and get a star and feed lucy and get another […]
peanut butter cup cupcakes

one day, during a particularly long annababy nap (for which i held her the entire time), i did some cleaning out of my google reader… clearing out blogs that are quite stale and adding some new suggestions that google (big brother) suggested for me. amongst the new blogs was bake it in a cake. one […]
yay dirt.

after years of fighting with a stupid mound that runs along the length of our property, this weekend we FINALLY rented a skid steer and removed it. by we i mean derek. and by removed i mean leveled it into our yard. the freshly leveled ground proved to be a wonderful play area for a […]
anna on a blanket in the shade

while derek tended to some much needed yard work, isaac and anna and i camped out in the yard, observing. anna was being exceptionally cute (and isaac exceptionally camera shy), so i took advantage of the natural light and anna’s cute socks and snapped some pics…