autumn days

scream creek time!

maya's 9th birthday

so i hear maya calling people inviting them to her costume party...i ask, aaaand when is your costume party? she say's on her birthday silly mama!! um ok that's in 3 days. oh and she's going to be a puppy :o)

great papa & granny decided to be puppies too

checking out her puppyface



when there's no time to pipe, throw on some candy

to match my little puppy girl

her feathered friends

how these girls love eachother!

puppy maya & peacock cora

you can tell who has her heart,

she calls her great papa every morning to check on him

she seemed to really understand what cancer could do to someone

and how a simple good morning, i love you phone call could do too owlet wyatt in his mama made wings

gretchen also made maya a pair of wings to match,

she swooping around in the yard right now as a matter of fact!

you are so loveable

our full house

could you be any cuter

my little party planner

happy birthday sweet girl

we love you

rewind...

let us play catch up shall we :o)cold weather isn't keeping us from our favorite trailsor our stomping grounds as we wrapped up our study of fish and earned this cute patch

the art museum continues to bring us together

and teach us

as does the symphony

e..hem

as also do friends

almond cookies for chinese new year

and Valentine Day Cookies too...

chocolate heart shaped cookies

filled with buttercream frosting

rolled in crushed peppermints

and a spiffy banner made by mamahow lucky are these 4 children

to be so close to their GREAT-grandparents!Maya is still my nature nurturermeet spunky and hopscotch

she feeds them a steady diet of worms and snailsKobe is still taking guitar lessons

he'll have his 1st concert this friday!

along with his new look...soon to be postedMeg is still dancing her heart outshe was a mouse in the nutcracker this yearMaya learned to blanket stitchand we shared sweet conversation

while stitching this little owl togetherour yard has never seen so much snowmy handsome sonturned 10 this year!we had plenty of indoor projects

while we lived in our jammies!this cold winter was especially tough for me though those eyes of hers never failed to warm me I've been on a quest to bake bread everydaywith the help of this cute little kneaderon a new years eveand a new years dessert togetherour Solstice was full of new goalsand holiday traditionour morning spent with new toysunder our tree of homemade gingerbread starsand angelswhere the night before these cookies were placed

(and eaten) gingerbread did fill our home this yearas well as the love of friendshipsrehearsals became our everyday there for a while!although time with friends stayed top on my list

hi sara! xomy new hobby, to repurpose wool sweatersand then i just couldn't stop :o)i stocked up on marshmallows

for hot cocoaand honey for snow on cold wintry daysonly recently littered with leavesand a playful daddy with his boys

sharing the joy of this season

now I'm buying jellybeans and eyelet pillowcases for spring!