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That is what the girls proclaimed after our recent trip to Orlando to visit our good friend Harry.  I’ll warn you now, this is a picture heavy blog post so you probably need a full cup of coffee for this one!  (I should also say that half of these pictures were taken with my dslr […]

Best. Vacation. Ever. (Part 1)

In our family, getting earrings is a rite of passage.  A celebration!  Why not tack this on to the end of our crazy week?  The neat thing is that Jill’s best friend Madison came with her and got her ears pierced at the same time. Jill was excited to get it done, but she was […]

Rite of Passage

I didn’t actually throw a surprise party for Jill last Saturday because she knew she was having a party and she knew who was coming.  She just didn’t know anything else about it! This is one of those parties that I’d filed away in my brain for more than four years.  I’d heard of another […]

Surprise!

That’s what the news people were calling our freezing rain.  I suppose it was a mix of freezing rain and drizzle.  Either way it spelled disaster.  Turns out that not only do I need some quiet time to finish working on all my pictures (read that as ‘I need all you interlopers, my family, to […]

Frizzle

I like fabric.  I like ricrac.  I like purses.  Therefore this project was a homerun for me!  On New Year’s Day I decided that the girls needed some new purses to take with us on our trip.  So we trekked off to the fabric store for everybody to pick what they like.  Of course those […]

A homerun

Today I have a teenager.  When did she get so old?  (Today.)  When did I get so old?  (When WASN’T I old?!?) The picture below perfectly captures the stage Jill is in right now.  Caught part way between the kid world (I guess you could call a love of Harry Potter kid like) and the […]

Happy Birthday Jill!