down by the bay...

wishes

cuteness

march madness

 here's a video i took of brighten, what a cutie....

we celebrated ember's 9th birthday! whaaaat?

9 years?!?

crazy. 

please stop growing.

please.

thankful thursday!

Ember Lane

 When did my baby grow up!?!?!

silly kids

the kids are quoting a line from the movie "Despicable Me"

--great movie!

"Can we have stuffed crust?"

"ooh stuffed crust!"

"i'll stuff you in the crust!"

randomness

here's a cute pic i took of ryan and olivia...she's all curled up with him...like when she was 

a newbie! 

the boy who has all access to my heart!!

 this is adia's rainbow cake i made for her birthday! it was such a success!

 here she is--all overwhelmed with gifts!

big 5yr old girl!

 here...brighten is just being goofy with the headbands!

lovely adia with a headband i made for her.

favorite picture

my latest favorite pic!

big baby!

my baby girl is growing up!!

Olivia Jean is: 

crawling around, 

knocking on doors,

saying ma-ma!

eating finger foods

loves baths

loves her sisters

loves her brother

really really loves her daddy!

she points to everything she sees

sister love!

This morning we did a family portrait shoot....went pretty well i say!! the kids loved it, especially when we gave them all cookies at the end. aren't they cute?
Brighten looks sooooooo big!
wow. well hopefully you all are enjoying the season!
blessings!

Adia as a happy princess!

here's the latest dress up clothes!! we went yesterday to target to look at clearance halloween costumes.....we got some good ones...and they were thrilled~! this was actually the first time my girls got to pick out costumes, all the ones we have, have been gratefully given to us. around here, dress up day is every day!!

Ivory is dressed like mermaid Ariel!

Ember is the glamorous winter princess!

Adia and i had a tea party today while her sisters were off at a friend's birthday. it was so fun spoiling Adia, my third child, and give her a little "lovin". she's so adorable! i love her so much!

i like cute aprons!

i just discovered that i enjoy looking cute while i clean my house! i only discovered that after my great friend jenn gave me this really really cute apron that she ordered for herself on etsy, she didn't like the way it fit her, so she passed it on to me! i've had non-stop compliments when i wear it, from random people who happen to stop by the house while i'm wearing it! --and let me just tell you--it makes my day! "oh! i look cute? i'm cleaning, wiping butts, and trying to keep my sanity! cool!" feels great! i think i need to invest in more cute aprons now...maybe one for every day of the week! sounds like fun to me!!

so, the other day i was in world market, (my absolute favorite store!) and they had these really cute pink rubber gloves on sale/clearance and i had to get them...so cute! put it all together and wham-bam!-cute cleaning outfit! yay! fun times...way to spice up the mundane if you ask me! what do you do to spice up your day?

recently our girls have been blessed! the Lord put them on someone's heart that we met in the prayer room, and they bought our girls a big box of Ghiradeli brownies....oh man! they've been loving making batch after batch! What a blessing!!



now isn't she just adorable? yeah, we think so too......Adia is practicing walking more and more each day. for real, they grow up too fast!