my babies aren't babies

the girls and i were trying to find something to do today. you know that "afternoon lull"--during nap time, right before dinner...
anyway, we started looking up in the old blog archives. they loved it. it was like looking at baby books. we watched them sing songs, say funny things and we read about the funny things they did when they were younger. i highly recommend it to anyone who finds themselves ultra-bored. after scrolling through several blog posts on our old blog, we came upon this one and i just sat there and bawled my eyes out:

http://haylieb.typepad.com/haylie_b_photography/2007/12/anxiousanyone-a.html

my girls gave me a hug even though i explained to them i wasn't sad, my heart was just mushy.

my girls think i'm nutso but i love being bored WITH them because they love me despite my nuttiness.

summer vacation.

we may not have been able to take a summer vacation (again) this year but summer-porch-popsicle-licking is almost just as fun.

and playing in the doggy-door.

hollynd is a poet and didn't even know it.

her hair bounced all around her as she skipped down the stairs with notebook in hand. she stopped me at the stoop and insisted i write down her latest recording as she shoved notebook and pencil in my already full hands. first she sang it. then i wrote it.

go shopping with the heavy bags
fabulous when i go home
i always get ice cream
oh yah
i don't like anything--
just hanging out with my friends
i do have friends!!
maddie!
bella!
chloe!
friendship grows & grows
all the way up to your heart!
that's not all i like...
i do like daddy-daughter dates
and girls night out!
and passing out food at the dinner time!
and go to the fair and sing!
whatever a girl likes to do!
anything a girl likes to do!

hazel bee photography blog

did i mention there is a new photo blog for hazel bee photography?
click here and be dazzled.
(i mean...i HOPE you will be dazzled.)

the other blog.

i humanize objects quite often.
call me crazy but it is in my wiring.
i tend to humanize everything actually: inanimate, electronic, stuffed, you name it, if i use it frequently, it becomes like another living being who has a name and feelings; and we become neighbors. i have even humanized this blog into my very own special friend. hence, the feelings of shame for ignoring it for so long.

I'M SO SORRY!

ok. i'm over it.

these past few days--ok--months have been a little hectic. to sum up the whole of it, i will attempt to make a condensed list for posterity's sake:

birthday
dallas, tx
start a business
memorial day weekend
bowler family reunion
youth conference
10 year wedding anniversary
lynn's birthday
independence day
family photo session
3 newborn sessions
oakcrest
girls camp
grandma
idaho
west jordan high school 15 yr class reunion
2 more newborn sessions
reading classes
swimming
hiking
changing lots of diapers
playing

i think that just about sums it up.

at one point, i had a little over 100 blog readers (last year). where they came from--i will never know. now i have about 6; i just love that. to all 6 of you who regularly come back to check on me, thanks.