Try, just try not to get the goosebumps.........

Turn it up, turn it loud.
Bethany found this and we all LOVE it!!!!!
I put it on b/c I knew this would get the girlies out of bed, which can be an exhausting chore.:P
Enjoy.

We will find a way!!!

Cozy, Cozy, Cozy..........that's how Mom and I are rating the winters now, right, Mom? Cold is stricken from my winter weather vocabulary. Our thermometer is measured by coziness. The "colder" it is the cozier it is. It's very simple anyone can do it. And it leaves you with a much more pleasant outlook on winter (for those of us who struggle;) ).
Also, for those of us who regretably and sorrowfully don't have a fireplace ( to enhance the cozy factor) I give you, the YOUTUBE FIREPLACE!!!! We don't have cable and consequently no firelog channel. But we will find ways!!!!!!!!! Yeah to those who put these videos on!!! I'm posting the 20 min. video.

Enjoy.........and you got it, "Universal coziness to you".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLmwmX-mni8

The one above has 20 min. of fireplacing.

Knock, Knock, Who's there?

There in, and they're BEAUT-I-FUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks Hun and boys!!!

"Thank the Lord,...

...thank the Lord, right, Mom, that we didn't get stuck in that alligator," said Kennedy with a huge sigh of relief (in her precious little girlie voice) walking away from the elevator as she put her long, slender-fingered hand in mine.
"Oh, yes," said Mommy in a most affirming way, as I looked down into a little face eagerly waiting for an agreeable reply.

Swingtime Doll

Claire-Bear enjoying her first swing. I'd say she liked it.

Amd a clunk to Kennedy. haha

Bravisimo

Mas......

Speaks for itself

Okay..........I really like cupcakes

Chocolate Graham Cracker Cupcakes with Toasted Marshmallow


http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/chocolate-graham-cracker-cupcake-with-toasted-marshmallow

Celebrating 4 Years With Kennedy

Latte Art..........

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Personality

So here's Claire in her exersaucer ( for lack of a better name for that bouncey thingy......I've been trying to think of a shorter name but to no avail at present). Claire had already been putting on the act for a number of minutes before we got the cam. out. So she was actually almost all tuckered out.

Claire of many faces

Random........

A Decade Old.......

Julia just had her tenth birthday, and here is a photo summary, in part ( a few more pictures with her friends and family to come).

We like to take the kids out individually for their birthday and do something special with them, so I got a Second Cup gift card from Leah (bless you, Girl) for my birthday so I took Julia out for her birthday with it.





The Cookie Dough Cheesecake



Decorations



Food




Cake






Fireworks (at Capital X aka:Klondike Days)





I love the sight of fireworks but there are also a few other things I like about them. I love hearing the rocketing squeals they make and the boom/crack afterwards, maybe in expectant anticipation to what follows: the beautiful display of shimmery, sparkling wonder. As well as (I know I'm weird Murray) the smell.....hahahah the smoked filled air..........the leftovers, if you will to an exciting show.

You've been caught!!!!

Well, on film anyways.........

Pics of Rafting Tour