For all those who come to this happy place, Welcome!

I let the kids use my computer to take pics of themselves in photobooth application last time we had a party. This is what they came up with. pretty cute boys cute girls  I don't get it?  This is normal for him.   see they do love each other  gross... saliva in the ear. Seth was being a vampire? I love the look on James face. This is just what I do all the time. Elle gets bugged with me sometimes. The tongue thing again? gross.  Yes. She is a dolly - doesn't she look like James when she smiles?

 James and Paige were recently recognized for perfect attendance. That is not a type-o, it's true. Perfection in attendance. I know my mom is flabbergasted reading this (considering I didn't really go to school my senior year) - I feel like it's proof we've kind of had a boring year... stayed at home a lot (Because of pregnancy and new baby) and we didn't have any cool trips to show for it. I feel kind of like a failure as a parent. Yep. My kid has perfect attendance because we haven't gone anywhere or done anything fun. Well, all that is changing. We are making up for good behavior and missing a couple days the end of this month to go to Disneyland. I will teach my kids school to reward them for good behavior...  We'll not be thinking of school as we ride on Indiana Jones and duck from getting eatin' but the enormous snake or sing along with the birds in the Tikki Room. Paige is an ace student, you know that old saying, "the apple doesn...

Since the kids were out of school for MLK day we decided to have a party - a cooking party. Carla, Paige, Tessa, Seth & James. I decided to make them all aprons last minute.  I made these two aprons out of dollar store dish towels with zebra trim and bias tape at the top. I had bias tape left over from old projects that I used to trim these aprons with. Paige insisted we make chef hats. I used card stock cut in half and taped together for the band with tissue paper for the poof. They turned out cute. Abbey didn't get an apron (I already have a few 2T aprons lying about) but she was serious about getting her own hat. Tessa's apron matched the boys and was made from left over scraps, rick rack, and bias tape.  This girl is such a poser. Turn on the camera and watch this diva shine.   "Y ou can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life See that girl, watch that scene, digg'n the dancing queen..." - that's Tessa. Chef Seth and Chef James set to...