Happy Birthday Megan!!

ok, I have officially known you as many years as you were alive when I met you. get that?...you were 11...ok, not the best riddle...ok not even a riddle at all. (whatever!)
we love you!!!

p.s. And you should be totally impressed that I got my act together on time to even post this b-day best wishes...sorry Caroline, and Lauren and Lydia and...everyone. I am pretty lame usually. Just ask bebe and pops...every year a week after their b-days Matt and I are smacking ourselves in the head! Basically, if you don't live IN our house and specifically put in an order for chocolate cake...well, we forget 'ya. I didn't even know that Camis b-day was in May at all until Finley was born!!! So Meg, thank goodness, for more reasons than just that, that you are here all the time!...and Again with the love!!
p.s.s. I hope you don't hate this cropped picture of yourself. I like it! I tried to find one of the eleven year old you...so cute. Maybe tomorrow on the second day of your 23rd year... old lady. ha.

just look at my neice...

...isn't she just ridiculously sweet and edible!!(I just had to steal this one from Cami and Craig's blog because, well, just look at her!
and she reminds me so much of another baby redhead...while being her very own self!

It's awesome getting to watch these girls grow...from the very beginning!

no cottage cheese, thankyou...

Summer is coming to a close...

...and I just hate that. Even though all the stuff to come is great, I really love summer. I love everyone home, even when it drives me crazy. I love that in just 3 months our family can read out loud two Harry Potters, Inkheart, and 7 Deltora Quests. I think it is divine to go to the beach on a whim and not so bad when you have to spend three hours running errands because there's time afterwards to go checkout the petstore just to look at the turtles and then go to Soup Plantation...or whatever...
This summer has been full...a great vacation, lots of outings every where and tons of creative home projects. (Right now "The Daily Blabbity" , Mac and Emmetts newspaper, is in the works.)And having Silas around has made it new again. He has started talking, (duck, bird, mama,ball, by-by,up,papa,nana etc) at least the kind of talk that the immediate family can understand, and that makes all the difference for me. He's really fun and funny and has a strong personality that all of us are discovering. It's so amazing to watch the relationship between family members develop. Emmett is starting to enjoy Silas, which makes that baby SO happy, and that makes Emmett happy and the circle continues. Mac, as usual, feels like the glue for all of us. She helps us all.
And now summer is over and I will miss the togetherness. WAAAAAAAA!
...but now having written all that...the feeling is passing. I look forward to school and hanging out in the classroom...the friends there and the garden plans (Amy!!)...time to work at the studio...(ha!)...OK its not sounding so bad.
Hello Fall, Hello Back to School...and the beat goes on.

Emmetts favrite things by emmett

every morning when i wake up there alway there to greet me.
and do the swim around the tank. there are some of my favrite things in the world.


my dad and my brother a fun bunche.every time he leaves i always hug him.
and on the other hand silas very anoying,but i still love him.


a sculpture of a living room, not that much ey,but when i tell you the story, you'll want it.
me and my mom made it hand maid glaized and a lot other stuff.

my dog mayble my favrite pet of all.i love her soooo much she like my older sister.


my sister and her friend bella. bella might be strange but she comes over so often she like my sister.mac my real sister she is so great i almost explode with love!!!!!!!

a suker a useful item to use with screaming baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if nana were here i would take a picture of her!!!!!!!
don't you think i'm lucky.

tilt and freak...

this is sooooooo dumb but after Lydia and Sean's party I thought it hilariously hysterical...and now I can't stop singing this..."these are my tiny moves...tilt, tilt and freak"

summer of love...

first there was the 70's party...now for the 60's...

I know, I know, I don't look any different. But check out Megan!!!!!!!

Lydia and Sean throw a great party...and "the revolution will be live"!!