"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."

-Henry Ward Beecher

Bubbles, bubbles everywhere...

There's something so cute about naked kids and bubbles... in a non-sick-o way.

These are my kids enjoying a bath in "the BIG tub".

This picture's my favorite...

"Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that

something is more important than fear.

The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all."

- from the movie "The Princess Diaries" (2001)

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves,

and it is tiresome for children to be always

and forever explaining things to them.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince)

The CREW...

In Junior High and High School (some from pre-school!) I had a group of friends...

'THE CREW' we were called. Kelli, Lisa, Laura, Brooke, Mandy, Liz and I made up our little group. We also had honorary members... Melissa (moved to Seattle), and Kristin (went to Brighton High School) who were one of the CREW when they were around.

The CREW spent it's days making music videos, walking around the neighborhood,

crusing boys' houses, taking pictures of ourselves, hanging at the mall,

country dancing at Wheeler Farm, dressing up in costumes, renting ASTRO JUMPS, playing cards at restraunts for hours, sleeping over at someone's house, doorbell ditching,

planning the next dance, answering to dances we weren't asked to,

toilet-papering people's houses... and street lights, leaving diapers full of treats on people's porches... the list goes on. High School was the FUNNEST (it is a word!) time of my life.

This weekend some of our CREW spent Friday night over at Mandy's cabin. It was awkward and boring and we didn't have anything to talk about.....

NOT!!!!

These girls are FAR too much fun to be boring.

We did the old 'camera timer' thing and played around for a few hours.

Love you girls!! Thanks for the newest of our memories together!

Family B.

I'm so glad I'm Laura's friend! We've been friends for 20+ (actually closer to 30!) years.

She's so sweet and her family is a lot of fun to hang out with. I did their pictures last summer and now they gave me the ULTIMATE compliment... they asked me to do it again!

Little Miss C. in my husband's grandma's chair that I stole, but they said I could have. Such a cute family!

Little Miss C. came over to my house a couple days later to get a picture of her darling Christmas dress...
And this one... ohhhhh! I'm soooo proud of this next one...

I hope you like these, Family B. See you soon!

Thought...

"When birds burp, it must taste like bugs."

-Bill Watterson

2008.

Here are a FEW of my favorite pics from 2008... Thanks, everyone!
See ya next year!!

Dance, baby, dance!

If this isn't your first time on this Bloggity-Blog, you may have noticed I've added some songs. My boys noticed too. One of our favorite things is DANCING...

we are not very good, but we sure love it anyway.

We were having so much fun, I decided to try to snap a few pics by using the timer on my camera. Obviously, this is a difficult task for me... cut-off heads and arms and legs... I don't even care. I love them because I'll always remember how much fun we were having when I took these.