Shoe shopping the night before prom.
They will match the dress perfectly! Can’t wait to take photos tomorrow!
On the way out to the car coming out of the mall, “The snowcone place is open! The snowcone place is open!” Me: “If I buy you a snowcone, will you STOP saying that?”
Yummy snowcone goodness. And that smile is worth one hundred snowcones.
Yum Yum!
Happy Friday night!
Going into St. Mary’s at 7:30 am. You can see that we are nearly the first ones there…so that we can sit in the back row.
Riding home with Sari in the mustang.
Bryan with his V8 Fusion.
William in his hat.
Jakey giving poor Isabella a smile of Twizzlers.
Sarah making the bunny cake.
Yum.
Sleepy…
Together!
Sisters!
Mom!
Elizabeth and Pudgey!
Happy Friday! I am soooo ready for the weekend!
Within a half an hour of arriving at Mom’s, the dogs had found something horrible smelling to roll in.
Time for a bath for all 3.
Tigger wasn’t happy.
Ralph was so embarrassed because the Pantene made him kind of frizzy for the rest of the night. So he just laid around and slept the rest of the night.
And I didn’t get a picture of Pudge when she was all wet and ratty looking because I was the one who gave Pudgey her bath. But here she is growling at a raccoon in the back yard. Yes Pudge, you are vicious! Pudge actually got 2 baths because she rolled in something again on Sunday.
Happy Thursday!
Isabella – our newest family member.
Such a beautiful little girl.
There was lots of this over the weekend.
Grandma.
Mommy!
Aunt Sarah
Aunt Christina
Cousin Liz
The proud and happy new parents. Neither one of whom has had very much sleep 
Jake: Come to Papa!
Isabella’s first Easter basket.
(She was the only one who got a stuffed animal!)
It was wonderful to meet you, Isabella! I am looking forward to many, many more visits with you in the future.
Happy Wednesday!
One of my favorite parts of getting together with family is all of the great stories that emerge as we are visiting. I had trouble deciding which story to start with. So finally I decided to start with the easiest first-the family photo.
Every year we start with all of us trying figure out each other’s cameras-mostly-we always forget how to set Mom’s camera to take 10 photos.
It sucks getting old.
So the rule is that I get at least 3 normal photos before the true faces start coming out.
Bryan decided not to cooperate this time, but I was tired, so I missed it.
Elizabeth was the one that started it this time.
And mostly it is just her making the face in my set of photos.
The rest of us are pretty serious, so we don’t change much.
Well…except that guy in the back that I’m married to.
Yea that’s right…
This one is all mine, ladies 
This is just the tip of the iceberg-there are lots more stories to tell.
Happy Tuesday!
Free Easter artwork from Ali Edwards, available here.
Wishing everyone a very happy and (hopefully) sunny and warm Easter weekend. I am looking forward to spending lots of time with family this weekend.
Happy Easter!
We are missing some people in this photo-but the ones in the photo are pretty cute!
Here they all are!
In front of the apple tree! I think it’s the apple tree…Love this photo!
Ha! Last egg be damned! Jakey found it!!!!
Happy Friday!
A couple weeks ago, Elizabeth called while I was getting ready to take a little Sunday afternoon siesta to say that the truck had broken down. Daddy was working (of course), so I left to see what kind of help I could be.
This photo is me sitting behind the truck with my flashers on. People don’t seem to know what flashers mean. I had to keep waving people on. Frankly, I decided that most people are stupid after this day.
This is Elizabeth and I hanging out in the car waiting for the tow truck-love having a camera on my phone for times like this.
This is the tow truck driver hooking up the truck. You can see that the truck chose kind of a bad place to die on her, but we got it home.
It turned out that all that was wrong was the alternator. Mr. Tryon had a new alternator in the truck and had it running and ready to go by 10:30 the next morning. The sad thing is that Elizabeth is already showing “the gene”. The gene that zaps alternators with nothing but a look. I have had to replace at least 3 alternators over the course of my driving existence (possibly more-I don’t recall some of my earlier cars problems, so I may be forgetting some).
Happy Wednesday…and don’t spend your Sundays this way!
