Chuck Taylors

We went out to our local aboretum for family pictures last week...(images coming soon) Of course family pictures are a great occassion to do a little shoe shopping. I decided to treat Jamos to some new sneakers for the special ocassion.

...I think not.

He is Love

This post is to celebrate my precious baby boy Jamison. He is so lovely to me. It's amazing how two people can come together with God's help and create a life. A life that is totally different in personality and mannerism to the other life that God allowed you to create just 3 1/2 years earlier. Each life is just as important, but so very different and unique. Precious Jamos. My life wouldn't be the same without you.

I could get lost forever in those eyes...

My New Signature

So here is my new signature. A great idea that I found from one of my favorite website writers C Jane. I'll be adding this and other tags to all of my posts. It's in my favorite color too!

It's Zoo Time

We had a fabulous time at the zoo the other week. Dear hubby and I already had the day off and decided we'd keep the boys home from daycare and set out on a family adventure to the zoo. The crowds were small and the temperature was perfect.

Everyone say CHEESE!

There was a lovely Mama and baby elephant. They were easy to fall in love with.



Jamison became fast friends with this little guy.

Even through this thick pane of glass this tiger kept a keen eye on Jamos and Jamos kept a weary eye on him. Jamos even jumped back a few times when he walked by. It's amazing how he already gets the predator and prey roles...That tiger looked hungry.

After the run in with the real deal he wanted nothing to do with this tiger...metal or not. He was outta there!



The fearless Camden conquered the tiger with his sinister smile.


After a long and exhausting day at the zoo we headed through the parking lot toward the car. Jamos having had as much as he could take and finally succumbed to the the call of Mr. Sandman, but not before he gave us some very funny footage of a kid trying to win the battle over gravity...gravity won.

Enjoy funny video below.



I hope that it doesn't make me a bad mommy that I watched this over and over again and laughed harder and harder. It broke my heart a little too....a little. My poor sleepy head.

It was a fun day.

Zoo pics coming soon - Giveaway on Lola B's blog!

So I'm a little behind getting the pictures from our recent trip to the zoo. The hold up is the hilarious video from the zoo that I'm trying to download to blogger is taking like a hundred years. Really, it's more like a few hours. I don't know how people do it, I need more tips and tricks on navigating this blogging world!

Anyway, in the meantime, if you want to checkout a lovely blog that will make your heart happy go over to Lola B's. She's having an awesome give away, but most importantly you can enjoy her beautiful writing and hear a little Priscilla Ahn and some other feel good music.

Have a great weekend, my precious followers...all 5 of you!

Two by Two

Camden came home the other day with an assignment he had worked on in school. The directions on the top of the Noah's Ark themed assignment were...

Draw a matching animal so that you will have two.

Here is his precious artwork, which had my eyes streaming with tears of laughter and pride.

Tigers and tigers and tigers...oh my!

The Turtle and the turtle

Curious George and his brother George W....:-)

We found Nemo! His time lost at sea has taken quite a toll.

Snips and snails and puppy dog tails!

That's SOME pig!

All kidding aside, I couldn't be more proud!

I give this assignment an A+ for talent and good humor. These are truly precious times.

Crazy Day

Okay, so I’m going to pretty real with you today so the faint of heart should close this post now. I had a crazy day. It started crazy and calmed in the middle and ended crazy.


I was late to work today. Late for a meeting which I host. That’s never a good way to start the day. Showing up with everyone but the host already in attendance. I hurriedly rushed in with my purse and without my notes. Just as prepared as usual…not! (I know that’s an outdated phrase by the way, so save it). Anyway, I had a extremely MUNDANE day working on org charts. You might ask yourself why am I doing this mundane task when there are perfectly capable administrative assistance to do this, as I did when I was an administrative assistant. You might ask but….you’d be waiting until eternity for a good answer, so don’t bother asking.

Anyway, I headed from work late to pick up my boys because my dear hubby needed to work late. It’s my usual routine to be a little late to daycare. Not that makes it okay, but I’d hate to throw off their routine of being late to get to their families, due to my late arrival at daycare.

As I was just getting out of the car I felt this strange and depressing familiar sensation….

You know that Always commercial when the girl is getting off the elevator just to discover that her skirt is tucked into her pantyhose and the tag line is….

“A leak would be worse.”

…well lets just say I can completely relate to this tag line. Me and my lovely cream colored pants walked sideways and used strange things to not so discreetly keep my backside away from the view of the daycare staff. Did I mention that this was my second day in a row of my being relate to that lovely little tag line?

So anyway, I picked up the boys and due to my little “situation” my plan to drop by the grocery store was out of the question, without a quick trip home. So home I went. I had planned a quick zip in the house and out, but of course Cammy who had been wheezing the whole way home had to have a snack, so in we went to take care of my “problem” and get him his watermelon cubes and his breathing machine.

Off to the store we went, setting up the breathing machine as we bounced down the driveway. But wait!...where is the thingy we use to plug the blasted thing in?...Where you ask?...not in the car that’s for sure.  So off to work we go to find two of the thingy’s in my dear hubby’s car….(a shaving emergency caused him to grab the one from my car….lovely!

So, I picked up thingy, and got Cammy going on the breathing treatment. We hit the grocery store and then went home to cook dinner.

I got the ground beef cooking, and turned the water on to boil for spaghetti which is where the insanity continued. It went something like this…

1. Somehow the flame for boiling the water got switched off which I didn’t discover until a while later as the gas streamed into the room. I open the window.

2. Next I preheated the oven and opened my crescent rolls which sat unrefrigerated for too long and were now unable to be separated into six triangles and were more like sticky blobs that I rolled into various shapes.

3. Then later as Jamison played in the pantry I looked down to see a huge mess of sage all over the floor. It’s amazing what those little cans can hold.

4. The house begins to fill with smoke due to something going on with the broiler.

5. Fire alarm goes off; I run to fan it with a towel.

6. Vacuum up the sage

7. Fire alarm goes off; I run to fan it with a towel.  I open the french door.

8. I begin to realize that maybe the smoke is not due to just to the broiler, but my burning crescent rolls.

9. Remove burnt crescent rolls from the oven.

10. Kids eat

11. I eat

12. Camden tells me one of my burnt crescent rolls looks like a whale.

13. I do story time

14. I put kids to bed

15. I type this post for your amusement and reading pleasure.

I’m going to bed now. Thanks for letting me vent to you…all four of you.  Good night.