So sad...but all too true, AND funny!

Princess Ella

My girlfriends daughter had her 1st birthday this past Saturday. I snapped a few pics with the fun new camera I got from the boys for Mother's Day. I have this fun new program (thanks to Angie :) that allows you to handpaint B&W photos. Cool stuff!! Check it out, you can save $5 on the program by clicking on this link http://www.magicsplash.com/index.php?id=MS106736

hApPy bIrThDaY ELLA!!!

We have a breakthrough...

Mr. Greyson Jax finally has a tooth!! I just disovered it this morning, at 8 months I was beginning to wonder. Some say it's normal and even later, but Levi had his first tooth at 3 months. Poor Greyson, always being compared to big brother.... ;)

Sunshine makes me SMILE!!!

So I along with every other Washingtonian (I imagine) have been LOVING this weather. We spend our days outside soaking it up. Our plants, trees and flowers are in bloom (finally). The boys love it...Tia loves it, I LOVE it. I get especially giddy when I see our wisteria bloom. I've worked diligenty to have to wrap around our porch and have trained it to eventually go over our garage. Each year it gets fuller and fuller. For this I am especially proud of. I'm not a great gardener, or one at all for that matter. But I still try. It kills me to plant things year after year. I hate buying all these flowers that will only die in a few short months. So I'm a bulb & periannual girl. Maybe that's why I get so excited when I see that my wisteria actually comes back to life each Spring. We also have some beautiful Lilac bushes and an incredible snowball tree that were planted by the previous owners. I just love the shape and look of the flower blossoms from this tree. The blooms start out as a pale apple green color and turn white as they fully bloom. They make beautiful bouquets which I put together every few days. Well Levi saw me cutting some branches the other day, he saw the clippers in my hand and said..."Momma, those owie." I agree with him that yes, they were in fact owie and just for Mommy to use. He ran off into the house and emerged back outside with his tool box in hand. As you can see above he is searching for the perfect tool in the above picture...
I can only imagine what was going through his head...'yep these plyers should do the job'...
I just giggled and let him do his thing. I just love that he always want to help or do what Mommy's doing. Makes me think he thinks I'm kinda cool and I'll take that as long and I can! :)

R.I.P. Paci...

Praise the Lord, Levi FINALLY slept without his paci last night! We've slowly been working towards this. For the past 6 months or so, he's only had it for naps and at night. But I had finally had it, the darn this was so gross! So I told him yesterday that paci was all gone and he was a big boy (all the while Josh laughed and said "yeah right, you'll cave, I give you til 10 o'clock tonight!" thanks for the support honey. :) He went down without a fight, he asked for it once, but I just told him the same thing. We found one of his soft cuddly bears for him to sleep with for comfort along with his blanky. He's all about Mr. Bear now.

Paci OUT - Bear SO IN!!

Lady Killers

Well it's official I've got a couple of lady killers, Greyson and his charming, darling dimple and Levi's gorgeous long lashes. Which I occasionally use to sweep the floor! ;) Don't you just want to eat them both up...oh I just love them!

Alki

The sun peeked out for a little fun in the sand at Alki.

How can two brothers look so different? Levi so fair and strawberry hair. Greyson has a more olive complextion with dark hair. Makes one wonder what more would look like... :)