More Maryland - Spring Break 2009

Maryland Science Center - Spring Break 2009

Hayley

Summer

Ashley and Adam

Ashley and Auntie Carey

Spring Break Maryland Trip - National Zoo

Carey was such a trooper, she went out on all of our expeditions with her three cute little kids in tow even when they missed their naps!

Carey, Penelope, Adam and Ashley

Spencer

All about Ashley - by Ashley

Hi my name is Ashley.

This is me and my Grandma Kay. We went to Grandma's on Spring Break and it was very, very fun. We drove to Seattle and I was sitting in the back seat and then we flew on an airplane to get to Newark Airport, then we flew on another airplane to get to my Grandma's house. On Monday I got my ears pierced.

We stayed at my Grandma's house to sleep. Me and Grandma slept in the same bed. We went to the mall and we ate lunch there and we saw really cute puppies that we wanted.

We got to see our new cousin Penelope and her brothers John and Adam were really hyper. We got to have crabs, I like those.

That's it for now.

Dance Video

Here is a quick clip of Hayley and Ashley's year end dance recital in June. See if you can spot the girls in it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1nuOuyH0Uw

You can't start anywhere if you don't start somewhere

In the age of digital photographs, busy kids and endless housework and laundry, photos haven't been printed and scrapbooks haven't been brought up to date for at least five years. I have had spurts of creative energy within the last year when I have neglected all else (no cooking or cleaning or laundry) in the pursuit of scrapbooking. Alas, it is impossible to keep this up and all paper crafting now involves card making (yes one day the cards will actually be sent... maybe). I am sad about this because the kids LOVE the scrapbooks. They frequently come to me and say "did you know...?" and quote something they read or saw in the scrapbook. It's funny because they are telling me about what I have written.

During Sharon's latest visit, she mentioned that blogs can be printed up and bound in book form. Wow, this could be the answer? The problem is that after surfing around and finding some really beautiful blogs I got a little overwhelmed. If I was going to do it, I wanted it to be really nice. With school rapidly approaching, I realize that is not a practical attitude, so I will start today, right now. It's not perfect, but I've started... I'm a blogger now and I am proud!!