precious faces

allison just made up our bed.  the child has finally faced the light. granted, she just smacked her irritating brother two minutes prior.  he deserved it.  she said he squirted her with a water gun.  um, okay.  just keep making up our bed and you can get away with a lot more.

i'm having a hard time believing that summer is over half done.  where does the time go?  now, i have to scurry around and make sure all registrations are in order for school and fall activities.  because when we get back from the beach, school will start, playschool will start for allison, her birthday will be around the corner, and round and round we go.  father time, have mercy on me.

these kids are growing up WAY too fast.

ka-ciao

disney.  how do they do it?  the first movie is always the best.  sequels have hard acts to follow.  but, whatever the movie lacked to it's predecessor in storyline, disney made up for it in animation and creativity.  i loved the international themes and references to two of our favorite cities, paris and london.  and was i the proud mama when my kids even pointed out to the whole theatre they knew their international landmarks and monuments.  hey look big ben!  the london bridge! the london flag!   double decker bus!  london taxi! a beefeater! the queen! the london eye!  the eiffel tower! the atlantic ocean!...i flew over that! yes, the whole theatre heard.

prior to the movie screening, we all met for photo ops and body art application.  distributed VIP treats and found our seats.  after the film and sugar consumption, the kids headed straight for the race car games in the video arcade room.  once, we herded them outside the theatre, it was time for a game of gas can tag and spy kids.  all the kids behaved wonderfully!!

.....until we all got home.  all moms agreed.  we left our well-behaved movie critics at the movies.  but they all acted great in public.  that's all a mom can ask for.

dreams do come true

six years ago zach and i got married here. big celebration for big plans ahead. didn't know those plans came in little packages. didn't know then exactly when those packages would arrive. especially so close together.

davis and allison have always seen pictures of our wedding, pictures of the church and so on. it was so much fun taking them to see it in person. just wish taking pictures with them would have been a little more fun.

.....you'll see what i mean.

walking out to the river....

these are the typical shots for the day ....

best cute shot i could get:

watching the crabs below:

we are siamese if you please

ba dum dum dum - we are siamese if you don't please - da dum dum dum

these kids were born 15 months apart but do everything the same at the exact same time a lot of the time. it's uncanny.

we're back from a ggggggrrrGREAT! vacation at the beach. so many wonderful memories going back. so many new wonderful memories made.