Pose!

We all piled in the car Saturday morning and headed for the beach. The
kids ended up having a ton of fun between the swimming, driving Speedy
Gonzales, the golf cart, and eating S'Mores...

We slept in the trailer through all the rain, and woke around 6:30
this morning. Connor exclaimed, "that was the best night's sleep I've
had in a long time".

It's not too often I can get all 5 kids to look at the camera at the
same time...especially when they're playing and burning off all that
sugar from the yummy s'mores!

Rain, wind and lots of SAND

Oh the joys of Crystal Beach since Hurricane Ike. When it blows, the
sand all relocates....again.

Update on the Orange Wall

Well, I guess you can see that I found something to hang on my wall, that still looks great as a backdrop when I'm Skyping! I actually stole this idea from a good friend....that and 50% off at Hobby Lobby made my decision pretty easy!

The Orange Wall

So, I painted one wall in my house orange. Not really bright, but by some standards, certainly not a color many would choose. I however LOVE orange. And I love orange in combination with other colors....yellow...the right shades of green and sometimes red.

It's been nearly 6 months since I did this, and have been hunting for just the right picture to hang on my orange wall. I've yet to find one, and after last night? Not sure that I'm going to.
Why? Because it makes an AWESOME backdrop when video conferencing and or using Skype. Wow. It's almost magical. What do you think?

Lost and Found

I've been challenged to clean up my files at work...and in doing so, found a blast from the semi-recent past. I wanted to post it here, so that I could remember that 5 years ago, Tyler graduated from high school....wow! How time flies. I love you Ty!

Kiki Loves her Kitty

The day we got home from Alaska after being gone for so long, Kiki
spent some quality time with her kitty, Oreo.

She used her teddy bear clothes and dressed him up (in this lovely
ensemble) and then put him in her dolly stroller and strolled him
about the house....

Funny thing is....I thought to myself "How cute! I should take a
picture", but was too tired...and have berated myself several times
since then. Today I was going to do a test upload to my MobileMe
account, and lo and behold found quite a few pictures taken by Kiki
herself!!!

I truly think this child loves my iPhone more than I do! You go girl!
To be 5 and so tech savvy!! What more could a mother ask for???