{Miracle}

Some people find pictures of the virgin Mary burnt into their toast or in their hard water stains.

Us?

We find random smiley faces while mixing up our eggs for Sunday morning french toast.

Our own little happy miracle.

Remind you of someone?

Happy Sunday everybody!

{Elizabeth is 9!}

That's right.
Nine.
How/why/when did that happen?!?
I. feel. old.
I even told her so.
She said, "It's OK mom, it's not like you're 30."
To which I replied, "Girlie, I'm gonna be 30 in 3 weeks."
To which she replied, "Oh, never mind then."
Sheesh.
I let her have a birthday party anyway... I'm that awesome of a mom.



Here's Elizabeth and her besties: Karly, Hannah and Sara. I sure am going to miss these smiley faces popping in and out of my house every day. I have a feeling we're going to be driving into town for a lot of play dates this summer! Thanks girls, for making Elizabeth's day super special!


...and thanks to the usual rowdies that came to make this party a PAR-TAY!!!
You know who you are.

We even got Elizabeth the pink cowgirl boots she wanted... and I'm happy to report she's worn them every day since. The girl can rock a pair of pink boots, I tell ya.



Then somehow, the grandparents just couldn't stand by and watch the kids have all the fun anymore. It all started with a friendly little race between Nana and Papa...




She won the first one, but for Papa's pride I will document that he did beat her two out of three races. Barely. *snicker*

And I guess Todd's folks figured that if my parents could do it then they could too...
Not to be out done, I guess.

Here's grandma (who has had both knees and one hip replaced, by the way) pretending she's nine again. Louis gave a few pointers along the way, "Just CRAWL grandma!!!" I'm happy to report we got them all out of there without having to deflate the bouncy thingy. That was my back up plan, anyway.


We partied until we were pooped. Not party poopers, just pooped partiers. Hey, you only turn 9 once, right?!?

{It's been a good day...}

Any day that starts out like this -- well, you just know it's gonna be a good one!

But wait, it gets even better! Lookie at what's in my little package! It's my blog book from blurb.com! YIPPEE!

I'm going to hug it and squeeze it and pet it and love it and and name it George!

I'm so happy with my new book! I kinda want to scream like a group of 14-year-old girls right now...

...but instead I went out to hunt down a new store I just heard about. Here's a little peek at a little somethin'somethin' for the new house (more screaming!!!)

I told you I had a good day.

Now I need to go pack boxes...

{Hoppy Easter}

Nothing warms the cockles of my heart more than seeing my little carnivores gnaw on their giant chocolate bunnies. Check out that bunny's eyes -- I think it may be rabid! Run for you life! Rabid chocolate bunnies!



The diabetic friendly Easter basket:


...and in true Idaho fashion, an Easter egg hunt in the snow!


Caroline's got her crazy eye on one! Watch out!


Then the kids just had to watch out for the scavengers...
Happy Easter!

{Hot Stuff}

Spring brought out the crafty in me. I started haunting craigslist and found this desk for $40... then the chair from DI for $3. Three dollars! Three smackaroos. Three bucks. That alone made me happy. After a little elbow grease and one beautiful Saturday they went from this:



to this! Then I was super-duper-ala-ka-zooper happy. LOVE it!


Now Elizabeth will have a brand new desk for when she gets her very own room when we move next month. That's right, the gypsies are off again. We're moving. (Blech, just saying it out loud made me want to throw up in my mouth a little...) Same town, bigger place. That means no more weight bench in my living room. No more bright pink desk in my dining room (even if it is adorable!) No more sewing desk in my hallway. No more tile saw in my bedroom. No more deep freezer in my master bathroom. No more computer desk in the laundry room. You get the idea. If I could just twinkle all our stuff there, I'd be so excited! I can't wait until we're there and settled again! It's gonna be awesome!