Our life certainly has had some twists and turns. We don' t have much in terms of material things and we live far from a charmed life.
We also don't always have it all together, once in a while it feels like its actually coming apart.
BUT, its those times when I look at what I have - and feel like the richest girl in the world.
Never would I ever have thought I could love this much. Not many people can say they ended up with a guy that absolutely stole her heart and have kids that are everything she could have ever hoped for. My kids and my husband teach me something new every single day.
As long as there is a roof over my head, food in the fridge, and my family together I will always feel like I am the luckiest girl. My cup runneth over.
I am so very grateful for love and the ability to share it with all the special people in my life. What I give them, they return it tenfold.
Happy Valentine's Day!
Life is short - each day hug the ones you love. And eat lots of cookies!
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust
New Year.
New Possibilities :)
Someone having way too much fun in the rain (with a couple of biodegradable takeout containers)...
and soggy cardboard!
So anyway, its pretty sad when your own daughter tells you that you take Halloween way too seriously and need to spend more time with your kids. Sigh. Me, scolding my son "Stop bugging me- I need to finish my costume!!!" is possibly a sign that I need to ease up. Well, here's some Halloween love, I have to admit I spent way too much time setting up for one days worth of festivities, but I will have them for next year when I again neglect my family to decorate, play dress up and watch way too much Addams Family reruns. :p
C-boy as something scary that we don't know the name of
C-girl as Jack Skellington, and her two cousins the Woodland Fairy and Birthday Present
Me, as Angry Bird. Ugh. Cause I enjoy bumping into a dozen different kids in the head as I walk around and have my husband carry my drink and feed me through a straw because my beak is in the way and incidently the beak stuffing was going up my nose. I definitely won't be going as this next year.
My sister's family did the Domo pumpkin
We did the evil "why is our pumpkin sinking in?" one.
C-boy seemed to enjoy his mask a little too much.
Hope everyone had a great Halloween!!!!
We made this from C-girls favorite cookbook, "Hello, Cupcake" -Werewolves...
They don't look quite like the book ones but we tried our best. And they used A LOT of frosting. Much more than I figured. And took way more time then I anticipated. Which is why you only see 5 out of a 24 batch of cupcakes. Cause that's how we give up around here.
You run out of M&M eye's so you use Skittles. You run out of Skittles and you call it a day. I found out that I get very fussy when frosting goes all over my arms. Wasn't pretty.
So we ate it all anyways.
Its all G.
My little brother competed on the Food Network show "Chopped" which aired yesterday (and I think will air again on Friday, on either the regular Food Network channel or the HDTV one not sure which)....
It was an amazing episode!!! So proud of him :)
We took a little vacation to Breckenridge this past Presidents Day break-
our suite had a fireplace so we roasted marshmallows and had s'mores at night (yes, we Hawaii people get excited over stuff like that)
C-boy and C-girl at ski school-
the three of us at the end of the mountain
the Kidtopia snow fort at Keystone resort after we went tubing-
inside the fort...W peeking around the corner
C-boy on a quest for good snowball making material
the pretty Belgian Draft horses that took us on our dinner sleigh ride-
A perfect week and our second trip to this great little town, hopefully we'll be back soon!!
Hope everyone is having a super new year !
Its been a long blog break, so far we've been...
Chasing off the bad spirits, guess who liked that the most?
Bubble, bubble, bubble. My brother in law is the chemist behind AMAZING bubbles-
Trying out different cinnamon roll recipes, this one is Alton Brown's Overnite Cinnamon Rolls-
We'll see tonite if it passes the test at Nana's house!
How can it be over???? Well, we had a blast this Christmas...
(pattern for the ornament I made above by pimpstitch)
we put up our new (to us) tree (given by our Aunty) our old one that we bought on Craigslist bit the dust and Aunty was getting rid of hers, just in the nick of time.
the kids got a couple of new games, Jenga MAX anyone? The girl screams everytime it falls, almost louder than I do...
our traditional walk around the neighborhood to look at lights-
The best presents from the kids - a wall hanging sewn by C-girl and pinch pot tree by C-boy. Love it!
A belated Merry Christmas to everyone!!!!
“Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.”
-Francis Pharcellus Church, 1897
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