Sunday, February 03, 2013

happy birthday to our 12 year old boy!!!!

heart bomb
musically motivated
nut, in a good way





strategist! enthusiast! friend!


Emmett, you are 12 and quite a kid. We love your wide range of interests and passions all carried by your empathy and kindness. happy day to you full of love! xo

YES!, under that stack of Unshelved "What Would Dewey Do" comics, inside the *intellectual freedom fighter* mail bag, wrapped in magic card boxes...his very own cell phone! we had to call him 3 times before he realized it was HIS phone that was ringing.

Friday, January 25, 2013

sticks branches and twigs


 january and february is all about promise



Thursday, January 24, 2013

Mac is a Hipster

what's not to love about this room.

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Happy Birthday 15th Birthday Mac!!!

we love 15 year old you!!!

birthday measuring...she grew 3/4 of an inch this past year ( but almost 4 inches between 12 and 13!)
 she said, "i think the growing is over. good-bye height chart."

before school birthday coffee treats
xoxoxoxooxoxoxoxooxoxoxooxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxooxoxoxoo

Friday, January 04, 2013

family adventures!



you bring me peace and, with it, joy!










merry making






idyllwild is just amazingly beautiful

blankets of snow

 O WORLD, I cannot hold thee close enough!
Thy winds, thy wide grey skies!
Thy mists that roll and rise!
Thy woods, this autumn day, that ache and sag
And all but cry with colour! That gaunt crag
To crush! To lift the lean of that black bluff!
World, World, I cannot get thee close enough!
Long have I known a glory in it all,
But never knew I this;
Here such a passion is
As stretcheth me apart. Lord, I do fear
Thou’st made the world too beautiful this year.
My soul is all but out of me,—let fall
No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call.
stellars jays know that when the sky looks like snow...a storm is coming

natures popsicles


...and hello new addition to the family, Merlin the ShapeShifter




thank you friends, for everything










2013 resolution: speak well and practice kind magic! ;)




Sunday, December 23, 2012

Christmas Moments

this year our christmas tree is decidedly fluffy and skirted. we love it.
a sleepover game night, battle of the gods
a quiet moment making christmas presents
the lovely chloe and dapper emmett
silas at his christmas show with his good friends rocco and nathan
nana and mac spend a morning wrapping






good bye to our old faithful and slightly smelly minivan SilverLining.

...after a fortuitous rainy carpool morning fender bender and some decent insurance money, we say goodbye to the SilverLining and also thanks for years (10!) of service. We will seriously miss this car. It has seem many  a car picnic, gone on countless family road trips and outings and has been privy to every kind of conversation, joke, giggling fest and rock out moment.  Bittersweet.