our sweet mess

Friday, September 17, 2010

joey t

anyone remember the show "friends"?

remember when joey and chandler were fighting?

i forget about what...

i think chandler wouldn't get dressed for something.

joey and he spent most of the show fighting.

then joey shows up wearing EVERY piece of clothing chandler owned.

(i am not sure whether or not he is going comando, but i suspect so!)

but wait...there is more....

anyone remeber Hans and Frans from Saturday Night Live??

"we want to PUMP (clap) you UP!!!"

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

no y

we had our first ever girls' weekend!!! (and of course, our first ever boys' weekend!)

(this is us girls trying to take our own pic!)

dan drove up to fresno to see his family and brought the crazy company of our two boys....lots of y chromosomes on that van trip!

the x's stayed home for a very sweet (and quiet) weekend!

(here we are at church...the girls stayed with me in our service! we had a friend take it this time!)

the boys had a blast, so we were told, but i've no pics to show.
while they were swimming and visiting and enjoying the WARM days of fresno, we played board games, washed our car,

painted our back brick wall,

watched movies, walked to get yogurt, ate ice cream cones on the family room floor, slept in, stayed up late and enjoyed every second of being just girls!

we missed our y's a ton though and were all very excited to have them return!

we love our boys!

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

PA

Pennsylvania...none of us have ever even been there.

years ago, so the story goes, dan was given a steelers jacket for christmas when he was 4.

he's been a steelers fan ever since.

his passion for pittsburg has been passed on to his children(as you can see)...

and everyone who knows him well(including his sewing colleague, cassie, who made these scrub hats!), knows he is a serious fan!

here we go steelers, here we go!

Sunday, September 5, 2010

first days

here we are, first day of school...back in action!

and here's what some do while others are gone!

Saturday, September 4, 2010

summer remembered

just some pics of summer...reminding ourselves of all the fun we had!

loving our new neighbor...baby audrey!

cortez dog pile

getting ready for a slip and slide at clark's house!

this one doesn't even need a caption!

india and china were recently attacked by a pirate, but superman saved the day!

Sunday, August 29, 2010

checked boxes

our summer ended the way it started...

we all slept in as long as we wanted and then awoke to cozy coastal fog that begged for a blanket and hot cocoa. after cuddling on the couch while we slowly came to, we enjoyed yummy, sticky monkey bread that had filled our little home with sweet cinnamon smells!

the only part we were missing was our surfing cousin...
we savored our monkey bread while we remembered that first week of summer break...

Joe, we miss you!!! in your honor, we played "slug bug" all summer long, keeping track of everyone's score!
miguel won with over 200!
selah counted 197
samuel found 190
dan had 68, i think...
and i...well, i just counted it a real blessing to have survived being in a van with five other people who were constantly screaming, "slug bug!" for 10 weeks straight!

so it is...summer has ended. we jumped back on to that crazy train ride called school...filling out paperwork, stuffing backpacks, making space in our heads and our house for a schedule that is not our own and homework that stretches our brains(ALL our brains!)

our summer-o-fun calendar came down, the list of fun things we wanted to do all checked off.

i have had more fun with my four than any summer so far, enjoying them in new ways, enjoying every day!

after a mini panic attack the night before school started, and a few other "mini" attacks over these first two days, we are all aboard and hanging on as the school train races down the track!

hold on to your hats people, it goes pretty darn fast!

though we may have our heads in books and hands to pencil and paper, our hearts will be here...