Mom & Dad

This is how I want to always remember my parents. They live to dance together.

Thanks for the picture text, Edna.

My Favorite Beast!

With the move of the Jared Lemmon clan, means the loss of my favorite beast. Brutus is heading to the north country this weekend. I get to have him for his last few days here in the wild west. He's a little camera shy, but don't let that fool you. He's gorgeous.

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes!

Jared is taking his family to Washington. We will miss them greatly. We have been spoiled having so many cousins around for so many years. We will miss Naomi and Lexi. Patty and Tom hosted a goodbye/birthday party for their family. Lexi will turn three this month.

I took pictures until the battery died. Unreal. I'm getting more and more like my mother every day.

Horse Show!

This is Sydney's last show as a junior showman with the exception of the fair. Next year will mean some big changes for her and her partner Katy Be A Lady.

Katy tripped in the ring and went to the ground, but Sydney stuck things out so graceful and quiet. She made me proud. Katy is fine, thank goodness.

Both Elana and Syd did well this show. Lots of purple ribbons! I took tons of pictures but made myself narrow things down.

Mr. Roboto!

First grade at Mesquite always has a robot family project. We use the word "family" loosely for these types of projects. We all get to put our input in, and we get asked what we think about this or that, but for the most part Bobby runs with the assignment. The best part is how he dreads it all week long and drags his feet, and then the night before he becomes this creative machine. I guess I'm not the only one who works best under pressure. I was going to take pictures of the actual creating of the robot, but Strider was more into it than Maverick.

When I was in sixth grade, we had to write a poem about space flight. I went to my dad for help. He is quite a poet. He told me to write anything down I knew about space flight, and he would then help me. I came in with a few little sixth grade ideas written down, and that was the last we spoke of it. The next morning, I woke up to a beautiful poem called "The Last Frontier Known As Space" by Sabra. Typical sixth grade title, right?

Ahhhh, yes...Family Projects...

Watch out second grade pirate ship project!!!

Toothless Wonder.

"I wonder where the time has gone." My grandmother would say it. My mother would say it. It seemed like something only "old" people said. Now, I'm saying it.

My boy is growing up. The loss of a first baby tooth is a big moment. It's the beginning of the end of childhood. I handled his first two baby teeth down below just fine, but this top, big tooth has got me thinking.

This boy is the reason I started blogging. He has spray painted my car, busted Mallory's glasses into tiny pieces (multiple times), popped hundreds of holes into a new leather chair, destroyed my bedroom with a bottle of ketchup, hammered holes in the exterior of our home, and so so so much more. I constantly wondered what I was doing wrong.

Life moves faster the older one gets it seems. Now, I wonder where life will take my boy.

Enjoy each moment. Life is full of wonder.

Lem(m)onade Time!

We gather lemons from Grandpa and Grandma's trees each year around this time and make lemonade. This year, Mallory came to me asking if she could help make the lemonade. I agreed. Next thing we know, we have much help.

Smile for the camera!

What was really happening.

Many hands make light work.

The next day we bring out the lemonade for dinner, and the pitcher gets dropped. The pitcher broke, and we had lemonade everywhere. Fun!!!

Joan's Visit!

Joan came for a week. For some reason I only have two pictures. They are both of her eating. Weird. She brought Shawn, and we had some good laughs.

Bob cooked for us one night. Good stuff.

The Happy Chef hard at work.

Some serious gaming.

Sisters' Retreat 2!

My sisters and I were able to hang out all together a couple of weeks ago. This has not happened in four years. We had a blast, and it went way too fast.

I'm so grateful for fabulous sisters.