From Wish Jar Journal
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
“I supose so.” The Last Juror [...]

Easter Clothes Collage

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so I’m obsessed with this new found technique on picasa! Here is the kids in their easter finest a few weeks later!

Cousins Collage

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Birthday Breakfast

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duh, huh?
No but seriously I have issues with these ethereal concepts of “joyful living” “seize the day” “live purposefully” etc. etc. I guess ethereal is not the exact word I’m looking for. Rogets says ethereal is: aerial, airy, celestial, dainty, divine, empyreal, empyrean, exquisite, fairy, filmy, fine, gaseous, ghostly, [...]

journey and lamp

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journey smiling

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…of having a baby baby. I’m ready to be a little less “needed.” I want more than 3 hours at a time without my kids.
Journey isn’t sleeping that well again. She’s been waking several times a [...]

my parents moved. they’ve lived in the same house in chantilly for 15 years and 6 months, and now they live in a new house, and I don’t know how to get to the store from here. even the stuff is different, because they have a few of the same peices [...]

I made it here, with my wits as intact as they could be. It was a 5 + hour trip with 3 kids 5 and under, you can imagine how that went:) They were much more restless than they were last time because Jon wasn’t with me, and b/c they didn’t have tv’s [...]

Home greeting

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my little naked buzzard!!!! LOL!!! When I went out to greet Jon from work, Jaden ran out with me, butt naked, literally:) Enjoy!

our house was hit with the sickies….
last wednesday night Jaylie was up half the night with a wicked fever.
she didn’t go to school Thursday or Friday, and her fever would go up and down up through 103.4 and down to 99, and back up again. I told Jon that if she was running a [...]

I’m back from the retreat! It was awesome! I’m glad I purposed to have a good attitude about the weekend. God blessed that. A lot of cool things happened, but I need to mull it over before I write about it. Hope everyone had a good weekend too.

…..jetvan….or something like that.
Journey and I are heading out in a few hours for the weekend. I hope everyone has a great one. I’ll post again on Monday. My brother Joel is coming out on Sunday, so when I get home from my retreat he’ll be here!!!! YAY!!! I miss [...]

Journey looked at me and I was talking to her and clicking at her she laughed out loud. She’s done this for jon, and for me when I tickled her, but this was a first for just talking and smiling and clicking at her:) She’s getting to be a little person.