Folly beach

As promised, here are the pictures of our time in Folly Beach, SC. This house was incredible! Spectacular views, and can you believe it.... I never actually made it down to the beach. Between fevered kids, wedding chaos, nursing a little guy, this beach lover and dweller in the desert still didn't make it down to the beach:(

but my very cool husband did. And brought back up a very cool (and dead) present. Science time!

My sister found just the right spot!

the view from the front door. Sigh! (it doesn't get much better)

This pleased my heart very much. Grandpa reading to the kiddies. So sweet!

One very happy and voracious reader!

A lovely wedding, a lovely visit

We had a wonderful time in lovely South Carolina (Charleston and Folly Beach) except for.... four very sick children. Fevers, coughing, sneezing, sore throats. You name it. Not fun! But spending time with family, lovely Christmas memories, and visiting was wonderful! You can see a high fever on Abi's face above. Poor thing!

doing some make up touch ups.

My "little" brother and I

Here is my sweet angel flower girl. She took my breath away.

My Soeren, uncle tony and my brother.

My father looking at his daughters in admiration. So sweet!

Getting to walk down the aisle with my older brother Michael.

a sweet pic of my little guy and I.

Flower girls. (and their four uncles behind) I found these dresses at the Thrift store for about five dollars each. It worked and I was happy!

These cousins are a week apart. And sooooo adorable.

Everyone thought Gennevieve was so precious, and this picture is beautiful. But I'm thinking it was the Tylenol working :)

The girls!!!!

So many special memories made. We trimmed the tree. My sister and I got to go through my grandmother and greatgrandmothers jewelry and special things. It was magical to have a legacy to keep, something to hand down to my daughters some day. I'll post pics of the incredible beach house we stayed in later. Amazing!!!! I could have stayed!!! So wonderful, just wished the kids had felt better.

keeping me organized!

I found this idea from Littlebirdysecrets that I made and thought I'd pass along to you. Here is my version.

You take a regular photo frame, inside the frame put your pretty paper and fancy stickers (to do list, weekly schedule, menu, etc) Then use the outside glass portion with wet erase pens and change it whenever you need to. I thought this was genius and looked much better than slips of paper everywhere. Give it a try!

Growing!

Someone is now three months old and growing out of the bassinet and into the crib. Last night (after I'd put him to bed for the night) we heard him screaming quite loudly and upon running into our room and turning on the lights we discovered he'd scooted himself into the corner and was very stuck. He needed more room. After I put him back to bed and got him situated the right way, I saw a foot pop up and try to hook the side of the bassinet and was using that help to try to sit up (as if he were trying to escape) Crazy!!!. He spent the rest of the night in our bed between us, but is now safely into his crib. Is he really getting so big? Can this already be happening? It's going too fast! (although I love the belly laughing that just started, oh-so adorable!!!)

Baseball!

Some dear friends of ours gave us tickets to a Diamond back's game. So much fun! It was a lovely memory maker for our family.

The boys!

My lovely girls!

Mary Cassatt

We're studying Mary Cassatt for school today. we read the book "Suzette and the Puppy" by Joan Sweeney, used different mediums for art: crayons, colored pencils and painting. Art days are so much fun and a deserved break from all the Math and Spelling they've been working hard on.

Chubby Bunny

Sorry I've been a little absent from blogger lately. I'm enjoying these chubby cheeks instead. Delicious aren't they? I'll be back with creativity soon!

I can't believe she's already 4

Can she already be four? It seems like yesterday she was a little baby.

Bacon Cheddar Bread

So I decided to play in the kitchen the other day, and made this yummy bread.

1 cup butter milk

1/2 cup butter melted

2 eggs

2 cups all purpose flour

2 cups cheddar cheese, shredded

2 t. baking powder

1 T. sugar

1 t.chopped parsley

1/2 t. baking soda

1/2 t. salt

1/2 t. coarsely ground black pepper

5 slices cooked bacon, cut into small pieces.

Place buttermilk, butter, and eggs in bowl and beat. Add flour, cheese, sugar, baking powder, parsley, baking soda, salt, pepper, and bacon pieces and continue to blend.

Place in greased loaf pan and bake for approx. 30 minutes. at 400 degrees.

Everyone snatched this bread up. It is super delish!!!

Good news!!!!

These two important men in my life just had wonderful news!

Soeren is one month old today. We were told by the Urologist that the surgery he needs will be when he's six months old, but it will be a minor surgery (misplaced ureathra) that will only take an hour and he can go home that day.

Secondly.... MY MAN HAS A JOB!!!!!!! He starts work on Monday. Praise God for good timing!