today's funny

This is addicting. I dare you to watch it only once.

country comes to town

We loaded up the fam this weekend for a little visit to Fort Worth. The girls and I got lots of shopping accomplished!

First, we headed to Frisco for a trip to IKEA. Paige lurved it. So many colors and toys and beds and chairs, oh my!


Afterwards we had a yummy lunch at the Cheesecake Factory (blood sugars were VERY low by mid day) and then spent some time in Stonebriar Centre where Paige got her first taste of Libby Lu. It's like little girl crack, I tell ya!!




Here are some shots of our VERY modern-style hotel (purple velvet chair in our room!) The gardens were very pretty, too!








One Sunday, Daddy joined in the shopping fun by helping Paige pick out her very first "hunting outfit" for the BIG hunt coming up this fall.


Here's what Brooke thought of the ride home about 4 hours into it.


And last, a pretty terrible picture of the capital as seen through my window as we drove through Austin.


We are ALL glad to be home!!!

photo overload

love that curl!


that's so funny!


the big sister


this isn't going to end well....




one more!

anaqua

This tree is just down the road from us and I noticed today that it had burst into blooms almost overnight. So, when Paige came home from school we took a little walk to get a closer look.

It was soooo full of these tiny white flowers and the whole tree was flooded with butterflies.



So pretty!



Paige decided to run home.

we've got the fever

Olympic fever that is!!! Swimming, volleyball, diving and gymnastics, oh my!!

Paige has really taken an interest in learning the names of different countries, about the different sports and about China in general.

Does anyone else feel really sorry for the "other" male swimmers? These guys have trained their whole lives for this competition, and are winning medals and breaking world records and they keep getting referred to as that American swimmer or the other swimmers, or Michael Phelps' teammate. "You just swam the best race of your life, you must be so excited! How does it feel to swim with 11 time medal winner Micheal Phelps??"

He is the new American Idol.



Micheal Phelps and "those other guys"

saturday morning...

was spent relaxing in our pj's


and playing with Pepper


no more pictures, mom!!!

school spirit

I had the honor of taking a group picture at Paige's school today. Can you believe this is PreK-8th grade? These are some of the best kids and teachers around. We are so blessed to be a part of it!

Paige is first row, 7th from the left. (She's wearing flip flops with bows on them)

weekend snapshots

a dream is a wish your heart makes...


you know, there is an easier way.....


getting clean