Challenging? Indeed.

You may know that our family LOVES Usborne books.  You may know that I sell them – in order to get more educational and entertaining books for our family and to share them with others. (Did I mention we love these books?) Do you know that I have accepted a challenge to book 24 Usborne book […]

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2 of my favorite circles…

p.s.  That is a Birthday Cake Oreo.  Sprinkles on the inside = happiness.  Happy 100th Birthday Oreo!  May you have many, many more.  

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Secret Ingredient

Love these sisterly fun times, so I’m capturing and preserving them. Autumn & Katey made “strawberry jam” together. They combined raspberry & strawberry yogurts, frosted sugar cookie pudding, lemon juice, fresh strawberries & a “secret ingredient”. They had so much fun & claimed  it was super yummy. My favorite part? The cute ribbon packaging. {credits} […]

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Story Stones

{credits} Love the idea of these!  This is my first set – all about schooling and exploring.  Inspired by story stones over at red bird crafts. Turn over one random stone at a time to make “mystery stories”. Place in a row to make a story.  What’s happening here? Take turns selecting stones and telling the next part […]

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Oh snap

I feel that there is a combination of talents in this world that are uniquely mine.  Ones that help define me as a person.  Three of those talents are:  pulling out splinters, tying water balloons and snapping green beans. I don’t have the best technique when it comes to snapping beans.  This I know.  I […]

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Spotlight: Katey Belle

Daddy:  Katey Belle, I love that you love to dance and I’m so happy you had fun at your first dance class this year.  You also love to twirl. Caleb:  I love her.  I love her dance class. Daddy:  What else do you love? Caleb:  I love Meri. Joshua:  What I like about Katey is […]

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Mommy and Me Journals

I found about this idea for capturing everyday from my good friend Mindy:  Mommy and Me Journals. {credits: here} These are journals to ask questions and draw pictures in. We take turns. Child asks a question. Then they place it on my pillow. I answer their question and ask them one and put on their […]

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Tour by Katey

Back to Pageant and those promised posts… On June 12th we parked in the temple parking lot and started up the curvy path to the costume building to get our costumes for the year. Watch Katey – she’s going to be your tour guide.  🙂  Look at those determined steps… turned to a run. At […]

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Olympic Gold

Meet my amazing, sweet, beautiful, giggly, new mama, fun-lovin’ sister Christina: She’s on the right. 😉 Recently we went on a road trip/family reunion together.  It was pure gold.  I loved having her riding shot gun and we talked and talked and talked for a few days.  Loved it.  On our last day together we […]

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What we do for R & R – M&Ms photo shoot

Caleb and I headed out to the treehouse for some fun self-portraits – timer style. When asked what he wanted to do for the next photo he said – “Eat candy!”  {He has the best ideas.} So we did. Thankfully I had a sharing-size bag of M&Ms waiting from my birthday (Thank you PTA.  😉 […]

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