August 25 First day of school! First day of school!
Kaely starts second grade today (*sniff*). Elise will start on Wednesday. Kindergarteners are doing the staggered start thing where, during the first week of school, 4-5 children attend at a time. This gives the teacher time to get to know the children and also do assessments...it will also greatly lower the amount of crying children in the classroom at any given time. 
August 08 Presents!
Elise had a great birthday! :) 
August 04 Herbology
Yesterday we worked in the yard! Woohoo! And it was Donnie's birthday! Hooray! I baked a cake! 
July 31 Artwork!
Lillian has always enjoyed coloring, but until today, she never really talked about her pictures. So this morning she brings me a picture that 1) takes up the whole page and 2) has a story. Exciting stuff! Here it is...Lillian's Lake with green grass and purple and orange flowers. She also kept talking about a raft, but I guess that's off the edge of the picture 
July 30 Quirkalicious
Your Quirk Factor: 60% 
You're a pretty quirky person, but you're just normal enough to hide it.
Congratulations - you've fooled other people into thinking you're just like them!
How Quirky Are You?
Ribbet
So finally, a frog emerges! We were so busy playing with it that I forgot to photographize the moment. But he was a cutie! 
July 24 Road Trip
We drove to Tallamahafee, Fladeeda for the weekend. Long freaking trip, but the girls did well. They had so much fun playing with their cousins and swimming in the hotel pool (too bad the one thing I forgot was their bathing suits). It was a short trip, but well worth it...I was so glad I was able to go to Jenny's shower (eventhough I'm not the sister with Penny). Oddly enough, there are a few pictures. Heh...go figure! 
July 18 The stress level at our house
is outta control! 
July 14 Lady Properly-Decapitated
I won't bore you with the details of the way my mind works, so I'll just say that certain events led me to bake a cake (from scratch, no less!). 
July 10 toot toot
I made tomato sauce...from fresh tomatoes. So good even Lillian and the cats ate it. Yum! July 08 I'm going to the river...to put a hole in it!
Thursday we set out on an adventure. Mom and Dad and all 5 of us set out to play in the Nantahala River. It was a very long drive...made longer because Dad missed the sign he was looking for in Bryson City. 20 minutes later we had passed the train station twice (Look, kids! Big Ben...Parliament!). I was on the phone with Jen for some of the "lost" trip and she asked me where we were going and all I could say was that it was a river and that we were following Mom and Dad. She said, "That was your first mistake!" We did find the river and the park, as well, but the 3 hour tour was more like four. Anyway, after a lovely lunch at a restaraunt on the river, we took care of the business at hand...some serious playing. The water was Sheep's Crossing cold, but the girls were not content to just dip their toes and squeal. Bathing suits were required. I quickly abandoned any thoughts of getting in the water and focused my attention on the science project that I had brought with me. My only regret is that Mom is a wee bit on the technically challenged side and none of the experiment was caught on video. I guess that's ok, though. All you missed out on was a lot of squealing and jumping up and down and hand clapping...and the girls liked it, too. Next year we plan on rafting down the river instead of waving at the rafters.
August 25 First day of school! First day of school!
Kaely starts second grade today (*sniff*). Elise will start on Wednesday. Kindergarteners are doing the staggered start thing where, during the first week of school, 4-5 children attend at a time. This gives the teacher time to get to know the children and also do assessments...it will also greatly lower the amount of crying children in the classroom at any given time.
August 08 Presents!
Elise had a great birthday! :)
August 04 Herbology
Yesterday we worked in the yard! Woohoo! And it was Donnie's birthday! Hooray! I baked a cake!
July 31 Artwork!
Lillian has always enjoyed coloring, but until today, she never really talked about her pictures. So this morning she brings me a picture that 1) takes up the whole page and 2) has a story. Exciting stuff! Here it is...Lillian's Lake with green grass and purple and orange flowers. She also kept talking about a raft, but I guess that's off the edge of the picture
July 30 Quirkalicious
Your Quirk Factor: 60%
You're a pretty quirky person, but you're just normal enough to hide it.
Congratulations - you've fooled other people into thinking you're just like them!
How Quirky Are You?
August 25
First day of school! First day of school!
Kaely starts second grade today (*sniff*). Elise will start on Wednesday. Kindergarteners are doing the staggered start thing where, during the first week of school, 4-5 children attend at a time. This gives the teacher time to get to know the children and also do assessments...it will also greatly lower the amount of crying children in the classroom at any given time.
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August 08
Presents!
Elise had a great birthday! :)
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August 04
Herbology
Yesterday we worked in the yard! Woohoo! And it was Donnie's birthday! Hooray! I baked a cake!
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July 31
Artwork!
Lillian has always enjoyed coloring, but until today, she never really talked about her pictures. So this morning she brings me a picture that 1) takes up the whole page and 2) has a story. Exciting stuff!
Here it is...Lillian's Lake with green grass and purple and orange flowers. She also kept talking about a raft, but I guess that's off the edge of the picture
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| Your Quirk Factor: 60% |
| You're a pretty quirky person, but you're just normal enough to hide it. Congratulations - you've fooled other people into thinking you're just like them! How Quirky Are You? |
Ribbet
So finally, a frog emerges! We were so busy playing with it that I forgot to photographize the moment. But he was a cutie!
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July 24
Road Trip
We drove to Tallamahafee, Fladeeda for the weekend. Long freaking trip, but the girls did well. They had so much fun playing with their cousins and swimming in the hotel pool (too bad the one thing I forgot was their bathing suits). It was a short trip, but well worth it...I was so glad I was able to go to Jenny's shower (eventhough I'm not the sister with Penny).
Oddly enough, there are a few pictures. Heh...go figure!
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July 18
The stress level at our house
is outta control!
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July 14
Lady Properly-Decapitated
I won't bore you with the details of the way my mind works, so I'll just say that certain events led me to bake a cake (from scratch, no less!).
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July 10
toot toot
I made tomato sauce...from fresh tomatoes. So good even Lillian and the cats ate it. Yum!
July 08
I'm going to the river...to put a hole in it!
Thursday we set out on an adventure.
Mom and Dad and all 5 of us set out to play in the Nantahala River. It was a very long drive...made longer because Dad missed the sign he was looking for in Bryson City. 20 minutes later we had passed the train station twice (Look, kids! Big Ben...Parliament!). I was on the phone with Jen for some of the "lost" trip and she asked me where we were going and all I could say was that it was a river and that we were following Mom and Dad. She said, "That was your first mistake!"
We did find the river and the park, as well, but the 3 hour tour was more like four. Anyway, after a lovely lunch at a restaraunt on the river, we took care of the business at hand...some serious playing. The water was Sheep's Crossing cold, but the girls were not content to just dip their toes and squeal. Bathing suits were required. I quickly abandoned any thoughts of getting in the water and focused my attention on the science project that I had brought with me. My only regret is that Mom is a wee bit on the technically challenged side and none of the experiment was caught on video. I guess that's ok, though. All you missed out on was a lot of squealing and jumping up and down and hand clapping...and the girls liked it, too.
Next year we plan on rafting down the river instead of waving at the rafters.
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July 03 Happy Birthday to me...
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I love these things!!!
Build-A-Bear Workshop
Birthday parties at the BABW are always awesome and Lillian's was no exception. Everyone had a great time and then came here for cake...bear cake (of course!).
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