Another contest, another photo…

5 Minutes for Mom is having a summer photo contest, too. The winner gets $500 from Skinny Cow! So go enter now.
On the other hand, please don’t.

Summer Photo Contest

Playing in the sprinkler is definitely the #1 summer time activity at this house!  This picture is from last year, catching Emma doing one of her favorite things, drinking the water instead of playing in it!
You can see other entries by going to Write From Karen, or go ahead and enter yourself!

Weekly recap

There’s been lots and lots going on around here lately.  Can you believe my birthday came and went and I never even blogged about it?  What has the world come to?  Lots to summarize, so time for a list.

My birthday was Saturday.  I’m 32.  I have no opinion on that.
My family planned a surprise party [...]

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Thursday Thirteen

Often times I love to sit amidst the squalor that is my home and think about all of the things that I would hire people to do if I only had the money.  Yesterday, we had our windows cleaned and it just solidified the point that outsourcing is the way to go.

Personal Chef – I [...]

Wordless Wednesday

Nothing spectacular about these, I just loved the color of Emma’s hair against the blues and greens. This is at our science museum. In the bottom one she is sitting on a ledge looking through a porthole. The other reason I love these because it’s one of the few times in her [...]

Are these my kids?

The most amazing thing happened today, and once again I didn’t have my camera.  Bad mommy.
We went to an outdoor “adventure center” today for something for Dave’s work.  They had a ropes course and a pool and walking trails and all that kind of stuff.  We thought sure that (besides the pool), there wouldn’t be [...]

Soccer to me

This whole past week has been soccer camp for both Jake and Emma. And being the good scrapbooker/blogger/mother that I am, I forgot to bring my camera every single day. But I finally remembered today.

I didn’t get that many pictures of Jake and his group because they were constantly on the move…and I [...]

Blissful sleep

I’m a real big fan of sleeping.  I always have been.  When I was a kid, I would sleep in until noon or 1pm on the weekends.  I would roll out of bed, do some stuff, eat some dinner, watch some TV and then head back to bed.  What a wonderful time of life that [...]

Why yes, that is Eddie Murphy’s Head…

Not exactly what you expect to see when you are driving down the highway…

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