Lap Time

Chain reaction! As soon as one gets a good idea, the rest follow suit. We made it work. I have so many helpers. How lucky could I be?
All looking at the camera. Must be a miracle.

Real Life - Monday Morning

Monday started out nicely. We made scrambled eggs with cheese and home fries and even found a stray package of turkey hot dogs. Erika is doing the honors today.
Delicious!
It is an idyllic setting as the food sizzles and Mozart plays in the background. Just another Monday morning, NOT! Wait a minute. It is awfully quiet. Where are the boys? We conduct an all out search.
Found them. Aren't they the cutest. They went and found Rosy and climbed in with her. Instead of reprimanding them, I took pictures. After all it is Monday morning.
She is their sister and they love her.
There were other shenanigans along the way. Pants on the head? Shirt on the legs?


And a vacuum blaring in the background....
Good thing Mondays only come around once every seven days.

Basketball Girl

I think I took these in March since there is still snow on the ground. Kloey is a study in perseverance. She tries and tries again. This is a strength that will serve her well.

Although it was completely by accident, I thought the shadows were cool.

Sprinter = Spring + Winter

Today is April 16, 2010. I noticed yesterday that the rhododendrons were blooming and thought, wow, that is pretty early. Usually they bloom closer to the beginning of May. They are getting a little frosting today.



Someday I will learn to how to use my camera.

My Real Life Guitar Heros

WE WIlLL, WE WILL,....ROCK ON.....ROCK ON! We know how to rock on in this family. Broom guitars are so cool. Well, my kids are so cool.

This one has the moves.
This one is pretty silly and fun.
They make an awesome rock band.
Not to be outdone by these two!
Decked out in appropriate eyewear with pint sized cleaning (weapons) tools.
These guys are the coolest sweetest rockstars I know.
I'm jammin'.
I'm cute.
Putting it all together.
Micah is having technical difficulties with his..ahem..."guitar."
Slammin'.
Ultra cool!
Making the moves.
Criss cross!
Too much fun!
Singin' the blues.
Oh yeah, baby.
The eyewear is fashionable, don't you think?
Lurking in the hallway.....I caught this one looking in the mirror.
Okay, you have to do it too.
She can rock out like nobody's business.
Love the smile.
We can't leave this one out.
Future rock star.
Double protection.
I love these silly kids.

Erika's Special Day

This smilin' beauty's last night as a "10." She will always be a "10" in my book.
She picked Red Velvet cake for her special day. Never made that before. What the heck does red velvet taste like? A drape? That's all I can think of. Isn't it great when your cake matches your wall?
How awesome is this when they get old enough to want to frost their own cake?
She is doing a fabulous job with the butter cream frosting.

Of course, decorations are in order complete with the date 3 29 10, a very good day.

Oh dear, we forgot the candles. Erika ran to the cupboard to find the candles she had hastily picked out and plopped them on the cake.
Oh, here they are. All 11 of them.

Our fearless self-proclaimed fire starter.
Can't seem to get it started....
O.K. we got them all lighted. I mean lit! I cannot tell you how many matches it took.
She looks utterly impressed.
Here goes the first blow!
Only to discover...
that she picked out the sparkler candles, accidently I think. Wish I had a sound byte, oh did we laugh.
She tries again. She huffs...
and did she do it? Alas.....
to no avail.
And then she puffs...
until she conquers the sparkler candles!
That was hard work! Well done wonderful girl!