everyone’s home

everyone is home. it’s back to business. had some great friends time with the speakes and the lawlers. more like family than friends. perfect way to spend a weekend.

mel

this is mel. i haven’t figured out if mel is the horse or the girl in the supine position on the table. i think it might be the girl. we went to marmalade tonight. really slow, but for some reason it took forever to get our food. the girls got tired of waiting,...

sick

sometime soon after this i got sick. really sick. i never recovered. speaking of sick. this past week was the worse. everyone was feverish, chilled, cranky and not happy. the worst part? i’m back at work.

firsts

today was our first family bike ride. i think it will be the first of many to come. poor kenz. her wheels and bike are a fraction of the size of ours and she doesn’t know that she can coast. so her little legs were spinning at seven hundred revolutions per...

grown

sometimes they do something that makes them seem so grown up. i look at this photo and think to myself, “what happened?” what happened to the girls that cruised in the stroller? now they answer our questions with, “wot?” oh. and they fight....

face.flare.rim

this pretty much sums her up. always being the ham. great weekend. family, friends, futbol and oh. something about the happiest place on earth. yep. we went to disneyland. coming soon.

kenz-isms

picture by maddie. #1. martin luther king jr. day. heath is educating the girls on everything from rosa parks to obama. the girls are eating their breakfast seemingly ignoring everything. then kenz lifts her head and says: “mommy. did he worship the...

horse or snake

still the age ol’ question in the house. in other news, we were watching the news this morning and they showed a picture of bin laden on tv. commenting that he is sick. kenz says, “remember when mary was alive? they just showed Jesus on tv.”...

firsts

this weekend we had firsts. took off the wheels for maddie. she stubbornly refused me to hold on to the seat and quit. she said it was too scary. meanwhile her sister was riding circles around her taunting her. i let her be. i turned my attention to kenz and then two...

sure you can.

we have a nightly tradition of reading books before nighty night. however, maddie doesn’t like to be read to anymore. she wants to read. so last night she is reading and stumbles across the word, “cinnamon.” she glosses over it and reads it aloud as...