with the jenkins included:
group photos:

thing hands:

krispy kreme:

chee-pote-lay:

new friends:

and of course at least one trip to McD’s:

not pictured above: lots of discussions on faith, movies, animation, imaginary friends etc, viewing of movies, taking of copious amounts of photos of inanimate objects, making of imaginary soup, spelling tests, book reading, seattle library visiting, Ikea shopping, [...]

May Monthly theme:
on the street
with the fabu hula seventy!!!
she and ward and their bebes came to visit for the weekend! We meshed perfectly….like finding long lost family. It was too wonderful for words:) Crazy children, crazy parents, crazy house, crazy seattle. It was a blast. I’ll post more photos [...]

I started this post a couple of days ago, and wondered why I didn’t get any responses, and then saw that I hadn’t actually ever posted it:) I guess that’s what I get for running around like a chicken with their head cut off preparing for the wonderus Andrea and Ward to visit:) [...]

monthly theme:
street photography
this is LITERALLY on the street!!!
more street photos: HERE
That was us on Mother’s Day: Here are some more and HERE are even more

an OLD layout I did, but I have to have photos on every post:)
I heard this poem on Writers Almanac this week
Poem: “A Twice Named Family” by Traci Dant.
A Twice Named Family
I come
from a family
that twice names
its own.
One name
for the world.
One name
for home.
Lydi, Joely, Door,
Bud, Bobby, Bea,
Puddin, Cluster, Lindy,
Money, Duddy, Vess.
Yes,
we are
a two-named [...]

seriously I may possibly be the world worst blogger…..I’m on the computer a good 8 hours a day give or take, and I can’t blog ANYTHING? I’m just boring and naughty, sorry about that folks!!!
Here’s a Saturday Something for ya:

I did a photo shoot a few weeks ago, and never shared!
BTW: I just [...]

may monthly theme: street photography
I was told by my husband that I was shaming his street photographers cred with my inside the car shots:) tee hee!!! So he uploaded this one for me last night:) This was on one of the few dates we’ve been on since we moved to Seattle! [...]

Saturday was National Scrapbook Day. I was on my women’s retreat for church, so I didn’t do anything crafty that day, but I did do projects for Lasting Memories and Scrapbooks.com
Lasting Memories was giving out some Making Memories Kits for NSD. Here’s my take on the kits:

and for Scrapbooks.com we all made a [...]

may monthly theme:
street photography
seriously I’m so boring….my mighty whitey arm and the road….at least the trees are pretty
more street shots at www.selfportraitchallenge.net

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SPT 05.01.2007, originally uploaded by joymadison.

May Monthly theme:
street photography
this is me on the street…..I’m pretty much only driving on streets, my hubby is the street walker…..I always have 1,500 children with me (okay they just [...]