molly and macey-jo

just a few quick shots to keep the grandparents happy: Molly ran track for the first time this year. She did GREAT!

And she is still riding and jumping. I think she'd leave us and move in with them if she had the choice.

And Macey is playing baseball. This shot is from ONE of the sunny days she played. This weather has been really cruddy for baseball.

My camera battery has been dead so I'll get some current pictures of Jake and Maya up soon.

this and that

I am happy to say that this quarter is ALMOST over! I'll get to check off 12 more credits! 34 total! Yeah!! I am sad to say that my time spent in the ECE dept. has come to an end. I've created such great relationships there with students and staff and that will be missed. Now I'm on to the exciting world of math, sciences, english... joy.

I am also looking forward to another member of the family joining us very soon! Cameron's fiance' is expecting on June 3rd!! Little Julian James will be the second boy in the family. The first will be 14 and a half years old! I can't believe it's been that long. My kids are excited to have 6 cousins now.

A few weeks ago, I put a shower on for Tanya. Here's a few shots:

I had high hopes of making my own cake using fondant but realized I had zero time to do that. I still want to try this though, it looks so fun.

These pictures should be switched. The bottom one is a little girl who was helping Tanya with her presents. There was a lot of little gifts in this laundry basket and pretty soon she was inside of it trying to get them all out (see above picture). She was so cute because after Tanya opened up the gifts she would be a little Vanna White and model the present for everyone to see.

look at that belly! LOVE IT!!!

My wonderful MIL made all of the food. I didn't want to stop eating! It was amazing food!!

Molly took this m-n-m's shot. She likes to get some interesting shots... wonder where she gets that from?

Easter

So sad. This year Molly and Jake had no interest in dyeing eggs. Molly actually slept through the whole process and Jake was watching TV hanging out with G'ma. But us girls had fun!

For Easter dinner I made strawberry shortcake. First take some whipped cream. Mmmmmmm.

Then some Angel food cake, store bought... only the best from me!

Cut up the angel food cake and the fresh strawberries.

Add one very pretty dish.
start layering

pretty little design on the top.

Looks yummy, doesn't it!

here's a random shot for the day. this is the set at our church. It looked like we were at roof top level, looking at the tops of buildings and the Space Needle. the tightrope walker with the wheelbarrow is actually hanging from the ceiling and resting on the tightrope that is going across the stage. It was really cool.

I hope you all had a blessed Easter. We were pretty happy to have spent it with MOST of our family. We missed seeing just a few people: Dad, Jackie, Deanna, Darin, Daisy, Dani.

Practicing...

Maya practicing before her concert.

HIVES!

These are not the greatest pictures but it gives you an idea of how miserable Macey was. Last Sunday at about 10pm, Macey comes to me and tells me that she is itchy. I lifted up her shirt and this is what I found. This is her back and I know the picture stinks, but you can see the splotchy red parts. It was like this all over her body. Here is her back: It looked like someone had punched her in the face.

Big red welts on her forehead.

We can't say for sure what caused them but Jason and I are about 90% positive it was an allergic reaction to the penicilin (sp?) she was on.

It is 4 days later and she still looks pretty bad and is still very itchy. Benedryl wipes her out too. The doctor gave her some on Monday morning and this is where she was about a half an hour later:

This was taken from my cell phone camera.

busted

When I got to Molly's concert last week, I got there plenty early to position myself in the best possible picture-taking spot. I knew the gym would fill up fast so I was pretty proud of myself for getting there in time to get the PERFECT spot.
And it would have been the perfect spot if they were in the same spots they were in at the last concert. For some reason they were on the complete oposite side this time. So no pictures of her acutally playing her bass.
I settled for getting pictures of her during her down time, waiting for the other bands to perform.
One small glitch... she spotted me trying to get her picture so she hid behind her bass, like this:

So then I would text her and threaten her if she didn't knock it off, so I have some pictures of her trying to slyly read her texts, like this:
Can you tell by her fact that she is very frightened by my threats?

But I did sneak this one in:

the neighbor

Our next door neighbors are the kind of people that have lots of pets. 3 dogs, 1 lizard, 2 guinnea pigs and the newest member: a toad.


They just brought him home this past weekend and you would have thought they brought home tickets for everyone to Disneyland.







His name is Motor. Welcome to the neighborhood, Motor.