just love this picture...

...and that's reason enough!!!!!!!!

blogging Lydia...

...it's great having her in my class! She's good too!

bowling, baby!!!!!!!!

The very fun, not-as-cheap-as-it-used-to-be, super bowl sunday,
birthday activity of choice for the Dreyers...with bumpers for the
kids to prevent gutter balls...however the highest score among us
was still only a 115!!!! A good time!

...and you gotta love the shoes!!!

happy birthday emmett!!!!!!!!!

today this great guy is six!!!!!!!!!!! we love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the first of many celebrations!

Tomorrow Emmett is 6!!!!!! Miss Morgan is the best!!!!!!!

food blogging...(for Caroline and Lauren)

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Caroline often has great pictures of food and recipes on her blog and Lauren is always talking about sharing recipes for quick foods that kids
like...well, my kids like yellow rice, black beans and pepper steak.
And for Emmett's b-day for his class I made banana bread...plain for Emmett and then with
Nutella cream cheese frosting for everyone else. Yes, I felt very domestic yesterday. It was a perfect day for it too. Silas slept, it was off and on rainy and chilly.
Today, no cooking!!
Recipe for banana bread...get the Trader Joes Mix!!
Recipe for the frosting...cream cheese and Nutella.
Recipe for the pepper steak...get steak and peppers and onions. Cook it.
Recipe for Rice... buy Mahatma Saffron Yellow Rice...follow directions.
Recipe for Beans...oh please.

name that baby!?! part two

#1-#7 answers in the comments tomorrow
(nana, you can't play until later...you know too much!:)

chalk drawings!

This guy sitting on top of the world is Julian Beaver. Check out more of his perspective sidewalk drawing at greensboro.com

first day of February 2007...

one of the most beautiful places I've been...

I have been thinking about this place over the past couple of days, and then I had a dream about it so I decided to share it. I visited Lamu, an island off the coast of Kenya, when I was 20 for a month or so and really loved it. I have wondered if it could remain so untouched, as it seemed then...apparently it has...still no mode of transportation other than donkeys and dhaus (a kind of sail boat).
the waterfront looks like this but the town is all narrow passageways

stayed in a place kinda like this on (a smaller budget!)

a surprise discovery...

www.plumtreepottery.com
I googled plum potter and came up with this...one of my all time favorite potters, John Glick. I guess we share the same aesthetic as well as a similar name. For some beautiful pots, look under "the work". I especially love the glaze surfaces of the bowls, plates and trays section. The cups are great too.

impromptu beach day...

...this is exactly how it felt...

mellow beachy Silas

this is an awesome sideways angel...


what a fun day with our good friend Benj

the next best thing to snow angels...

a change of plans...

...so, we were supposed to be driving to Idyllwild today with our friends but even colloidial silver couldn't prevent this sickness from delaying the whole adventure...Today at the grocery store I bought Theraflu, Cold-eze and the movie The Great Escape..."sick husband?" the lady asked... "yeah, how'd you guess?"
So now the kids are watching that movie classic for the first time with their pa while Silas and I unpack. But the great thing about California is that later I am taking the kids to the beach!
Feel better Isabel and Papa!!

Mac off to Paris, "Taxi!"

Mac got a bunch of cool stuff for her birthday and enjoyed posing for her European Adventure Tour with her new suitcase and her doll trunk in tow...new skirt, earrings, nail polish and attitude! An accent goes along with this persona.

a long video for a saturday morning...

gotta love these kids

happy 9th birthday mac!!!!!!!

This is Mac today on her 9th birthday...I can't believe it!
What a girl she is! Today will involve banana bread cupcakes with Nutella frosting at school (her favorite) and a surprise dinner. Her official family "party" will be Sat. night when papa can be home with us. We LOVE YOU MAC!!!

the unveiling...(its a bit dark but the audio is priceless!)

before...

We are giving nanas room a makeover. It has always been cozy but
she deserves more...She spends
most of her free time working in her garden, taking care of her pets,
playing, teaching, and
hanging out with her grandchildren... She is a giver...

...so we wanted to give back!!!

after!!!

Mom hasn't seen her new room yet...

I hope she loves it...

because she really deserves it!
Thanks to Megan and Christopher for all their help!
And without Emmett , Mama and Papa it just never would
have happened. We Love YOU NANA!