A picture from this morning: He’s here today with just the big kids. John and Dannell took the little ones to an indoor amusement park for lunch. t.c. was so excited he was shrieking as he headed out the door, John fast behind him yelling, “Don’t run! No running! It’s icy and wet!” Good luck, […]
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I’ve heard of something called Cooking Mama. This is our Construction Mama: Tim took this thing as far as he could, which was impressively far, actually. But then it all got away from him and others had to help. These Knex are much tinier than the other ones we’ve had before, the tiny drawings and
Jay’s brother and his wife hosted the party at their house. There was way too much food–even something called cooky salad which is whipped cream and cookies, mandarin oranges, and possibly even candy bars? I’m not sure. By any name, this is no salad, but it’s hilariously decadent. My sister in law is so much
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All dressed up: I only took a couple pictures at church because it feels impolite, for some unknown reason. We were there early because the guys were ushers, so I sneaked a couple without flash. this is a friend’s son lighting candles. (he’s wearing his bell ringer gloves.) The service was gorgeous–beautiful music, formal, elegant,
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Tonight was our 23rd of December family Christmas party. It did not disappoint. The usual characters, the usual noise, torn up wrapping paper, giddy kids were there. We had the usual shrimp and meatballs, cheesy potatoes, and salads by both Alicia and Jay, the little weenies and the gingerbread. There was a bottle of pinot
He’s here today, getting watched by the fam, and he’s too darn cute, striding around, deliberately swinging his little arms, eating kidney beans and pumpkin bread. It was during the eating of the kidney beans and pumpkin bread we noticed he was struggling to keep his eyes open. His head would dip and eyes droop
The snowstorm is over, and it’s bright, with a high arched sky, brilliant blue like a July afternoon–even though it’s 7 degrees out. Tim worked on an igloo all morning and I’m making chili. We never made it to church. The streets in the city aren’t plowed, so we don’t know where we’d park, and
We continued baking this evening, sugar cookies. Tim and Julia wanted to help Kari and me, but at some point, I just couldn’t handle it another second. Julia was touching everything and not taking turns. Tim had the angel cookies pooping on the other cookies. Yeah, that’s fun. (When Little Jay was just about this
oh yeah, more baking Read More »
It’s been a quiet week, good. Here are a few pictures for fun: We have more baking to do, and frosting, and a big snowstorm is scheduled to hit tonight. Hopefully I’ll be done working this evening before the roads get bad. Then we can just be here and bake cookies all night. I guess
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Here she is. And it’s no secret she has struggled with her nephews. One’s bigger than she is and has a LOT of ideas. When he was a tiny and super-adorable new baby, she was eighteen months old and she’d cling and cry whenever I held him. It was a bit pathetic. I even named
