happiness is...

Baking

Music (?)

Spending my afternoons with this little peanut!

We gave pics a shot...this is where she (seriously) said "No more pictures." While she thrashed around on the floor.
Four boys (my three plus a friend) that came home from school and went STRAIGHT to the table to do their Math homework. No lie. I even got the question "Can I do the rest of my homework now, too?" Apparantly...pigs do fly...

Four boys that polish off 2 1/2 (smallish) loaves of the banana bread that you made especially for them!

Life is good!!!

(oh yea...the Kleenex STAYED at school this time, but the glue sticks are back!!!!!)

oh sammy...

The Kindergartners were asked to donate two...just two...things to their class.

Kleenex

Glue Sticks

We purchased both of these things well before school started. Well, the glue sticks were sent in the backpack on the first day of school.

They came back.

So, thinking it was too hard for Sam to remember that they were in his backpack, I sent them in his hands.

They came back.

I asked him why the glue sticks kept finding their way back to our house. "I didn't need them today."

Today the Kleenex was sent...a package of three. Guess what?

They came back.

He didn't need them today, either.

(Sam walks up a VERY big hill to get home...the three pack of Kleenex is not the lightest thing for a 5 year old to carry...)

We'll try again tomorrow!

block party...

Setting up...

...a packed house...YAY!!!

I got the idea for the cookie election from Gab. It was a HIT!!

Pinata + Kids = FUN TIMES!!! & a lot of candy...

We LOVE our neighbors and had such a great time hanging out with them!!

Next September...same time...same place!!!

friday fashion foto...

Redefining the word "Princess"...one bad dress up episode a a time.

a mom's gotta do...

Sam has never been real "hip" on clothes...

In the dead of winter this kid would cruise around in his undies. Daily.

This went over well when friends that didn't have kids would visit.

We even had a professional capture him in his element...

Sam is ESPECIALLY not too fond of new clothes.

Definitely not something he picked up from his mother...

Sam got new clothes for school. In an attempt to keep the peace, I bribed him. That's right. I bribed him.

It worked. Everyone is happy. Some are more sugared up than others...but everyone is happy.

bowling...

The set up...

The wait...

The VICTORY!!!!

*Yea, this last pic...totally posed (incase you couldn't tell...)

please read...

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