My Daughter's Recital

Some photos from E's recital.
She did a dance called the lollipop medley. It was very cute and she did not have stage fright

My Kids Enjoying the Summer

Here are some photos from June

E and her snail collection:



Enjoying our Easter Lillies that bloomed late

The kids enjoying each other:

Playing in the front yard:

And enjoying the first corn of the season:

My Shoe Fashonista

I wish I kept a folder of all the photos of Z in my shoes. He loves to wear my shoes. High heels, mules, flip flops, sandals any kind of shoe as long as it is mine. These particular shoes are my heels that I wore to work that day. What is even cuter is that he has them on the wrong feet. It is so cute to see him shuffling along in shoes that are just so big on him.

My Lollipop Medley

Today E had her ballet class pictures taken. With full costume. And make up. And hair bow. And shoe ribbons. And gloves. And bow tie. And tap shoes. Did I mention the 10 other girls? And 10 other moms?

The ballet studio has individual pictures taken and then a class picture. The photos are taken by a professional photographer. You have to pay for the photos before you see them. I didn't care for this arrangement. But it worked out last year. And I watched the photo session this morning, they took about 5 photos of E before they were satisfied. It looks like it will be a cute photo.

Here is E in her costume. Her dance is called the Lollipop Medley (as in the song...lollipop, lollipop, oh lolli, lollipop)

And here is a photo of her class and her teacher. E is in the bottom row, third from the left.

My Ice Cream Makers

What do you do after you pick strawberries? You make ice cream? After eating most of the strawberries we picked, we cut the rest of them up and made ice cream!

The kids were a little leery about the ice cream maker, but they sure warmed up to it once they tasted what it produced!

My Trip Back to the Strawberry Patch

Last week we went back to the strawberry orchard. E was supposed to go on a field trip with her class the week before, but came down with a cold and missed the trip, so we (me and the kids) went with my mom last week).


We had had a lot of rain and expected lots of strawberries, but we really had to hunt for them, unlike earlier in the season when they are really large and abundant.


The kids had a great time, running up and down the lanes and shouting "Get out of my row!"

My New Office

"We" have been hard at work at "remodeling", turning our work area in our garage into an office space.

Here are a series of photos that shows the process....

First is E, showing where the office door will be going.

Then there is J, our carpenter, cutting a hole in the wall where the door will be going. The kids (really only E) loved this. Z thought it was too loud.

Here are some shots of various stages of the door being cut and the new wall where there was once just garage!

We've also taken some of my mom's old kitchen cabinets and put them up in our laundry room. We spent this past weekend painting the laundry room!