love these two.
a whole bunch.
annie was just eating a ham sandwich and shouted "MY TOOTH FELL OUT!!!"
ha ha ha
she is hoping for a thousand dollars from the tooth fairy….
the dreams big.
🙂
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i was planning on going to sean's football game but it was raining. i like this gum. a lot. also deoderant. weeeeeeeeeirdo. ……………………………………….. umm….i started the Jenny Craig program….for reals.
JUST GOT TO READING THIS POST. The puddle pictures were so awesome made me wish it would rain! I have deoderant in my purse too! and my desk drawer! You just never know. oh, sweet annie. she looks more and more like talby all the time!! LOLs Meg…you are such a funny lady 🙂 Great pics! And glad your breath always has the opportunity for freshness. You are getting the most fabulous shots!!!! Love all of these, especially the rain photos. Glad to know someone else is a freak about certain things. Mine is Carmex. I buy tons of it, and can’t leave home without it. 🙂 Great picks of playing in the rain. I’m also weird about B.O. and other smells. Especially in my home. I also cary deodorant because living in AZ, you always need it. Thanks for sharing those lovely family photos. These photos are LOVELY! Is that the gum with the “juice” inside? if so, I love that stuff! And Im the exact same way-deodrant and gum all the way. In fact, Ive carried my toothbrush and travel sized paste around with me before. Theres just nothing worse than bad body stink. 🙂 Looks like you live in WA state..haha. Love the rain for about 1 week (to water my lawn and watch the kids play in it), then it gets old. Cute photos. One day I want you to photograph my kids. You seem to bring out their personalities unlike me as their mom yelling “come on.. smile at the camera..just one more time.. i promise… come on… do it now… now i’m getting mad…”. haha I have a friend who keeps deodorant in her purse, I keep it in the glove compartment of my car. That is Ramona Quimby FOR SURE in the top photo!! I love the pictures! We just moved to Kanas this weekend while it was raining. wahahha! love how you just bought it all … i do that. if I’m shopping and I’m cold, I just go buy a jacket. pfffttt! I’m a freak when it comes to smells too, especially how I smell 🙂 I have to say, never heard of anyone keeping deoderant in their purse….hmmmmm!!!! I might have to try that! I have a friend who can’t leave the house without her toothbrush & toothpaste. Makes me laugh:). Also, the pics of Annie are so fun, & Lauren looks like a serious volleyball player. Awesome. Kids and puddles…it’s a magnetic force. Those puddle-jumping pictures are amazing! And I’ve never seen that gum before – now I’ll be on the hunt for it. Best of luck with Jenny Craig! I carry deodorant in my purse too! 😛 My fave gum too! Gum is a must! I feel the oh.no oh.no oh.no when I don’t have a drink with me. Not like a hard drink, LOL, but my iced tea or water when I go to jump in the car. That is not weird about the deodorant. I do it too. Except mine usually ends up falling out of my purse and onto the floor in my car and then melting because I live in Texas. So I am always buying deodorant. I wish more people did it too! I also have deodorant in my purse. And in my desk at work. Deson’t everyone? Ha! Stinker – you got all the rain they kept promising us in Topeka that NEVER showed. Poo! We REALLY need it! I absolutely can’t function without my gum. Deoderant in your purse? You are a genius! I have deodorant in my bag too!!!! HA! and I can not live without Chapstick. So basically, if I was stranded on an island, 2 of my must have items would be deodorant and Chapstick. I love the way you catch the water droplets as they fly in the air. Ethereal. Love the volleyball pics. I just took my baby over to a volleyball game. Totally forgot how loud they are. She FREAKED! Poor baby. My bad. Meg, where do you get your super cute fabric? I love the puddle photos! Makes me want to go jump in one! Every time it rains here in AZ, my kids get excited about jumping in puddles. Sadly, most of the time it “rains” for 5 minutes and then stops, leaving no puddles. Bummer! Im the same about diet coke and chap stick. they are my gotta haves but I am working on the diet coke habit…..it could get ugly:) Love those puddle pictures!! Ahhhh, how I miss Saturday volleyball tournaments! I loved all the rain this weekend! Splashing in the puddles is a must. My 8 year old is crazy weird about smells. I have to have lipstick before I leave the house. That and mu iPhone. It is like another organ to me. Great picture of Lauren hitting the ball over the net. Were you afraid of getting your camera wet taking the pictures of Annie & friends? Love Love Love the puddle pictures! LOVE! these are the best pics ever of Annie, and there’s been some good ones!! You take the most amazing pictures. Love Annie in the first picture. Priceless Love the photos of the girls splashing in the puddles! I can’t leave the house without lip balm and sunglasses…ever! That’s funny about the smells because I am the same way. I keep deodorant in my car in the console. And I always keep some kind of mints and never leave without the mint lip gloss from bath and body. my computer is acting up. so i sit here on the desktop computer that the rest of my family uses and i looked through iPhoto on here. and i think i may cry. i love that she chose that….it's so her.
and then there was talby…on her teeny pink bike….and her sweet baby face. when? look at my babies!!!
oh wait….i do remember something that i don't miss so much. but i would do it again in a heart beat. i just can't believe how fast it changes. i miss my babies being babies. let's all hope my computer gets fixed really quick because how many posts like this can a heart take???
I am so glad I am not the one who physically aches when they see pictures of the littles…I do the same (and my kids are only 5 and 4)–but I do miss the baby snuggles, the “need” for mom, and even potty training (a little). love it. *sigh* This actually made me cry a little. I’m going through that bang your head on the floor and cry stage. =) I love my babies to pieces, but sometimes they can be emotionally exhausting. And you just put it all in perspective for me. And now I just want to stay right here in this stage when they’ll still crawl on my lap and into my bed for cuddles and snuggles. And give me big huge bear hugs and butterfly kisses. Old pictures make me cry too, and baby J is only 7 mos old! But I feel like one day I blinked and he was instantly older. I wish I could slow down time just a little bit. I can’t look at old pictures. I have albums and albums and scrapbooks and all of that, and I can’t even look at them because I just get in an awful teary funk. Darn those kids for growing up! I am in LOVE with myservice.com to fix my mac. It’s so much cheaper than the apple store and they do a great job. My husband stepped on my laptop and they fixed the screen for HALF THE PRICE. I will accept that shirt as a hand-me-down. I visit often, but don’t comment much. However, I must comment today! I had the same thing with my mac book and I took it to apple. It ended up being a memory card. (Nothing was lost – I don’t understand too much about computers but when I here damaged memory card I think lost info but apparently that’s not the case). They said it just happens – no warning and it cannot be prevented. It took them 15 minutes and it was up and running. Hopefully that’s the same problem with your’s! Thank you for that sweet reminder today, Meg! I have a 19 month old and a 3 year old, and we are certainly in the midst of the three year old tantrums. Yesterday, it involved a fit pitched because “the couch wouldn’t move” to let her by. No lie. I want to pull my hair out on so many days, but this was a good reminder that these days will be gone before I know it. thanks for that. I have the hardest time looking through those old pics myself (my one and only baby just turned 19!!!)…yours made me cry, mine make me weep! The eternal tug at a mother’s heart strings, oh to do it all again. 🙂 sigh.. I have been in a bit of a funk since my baby went to Kindergarten a month ago… thanks for brining tears to my eyes, I am not alone in wonderful Motherhood. Now I think, maybe just one-or 2 more?…. What am I thinking! 🙂 Thanks Meg. ok. you need to stop this right now. and you are right – GREAT cut. definitely NOT 10 years ago. 😉 wish we could have chatted more, too. and we WILL meet again. before you post pictures of your kids from today 4 years from now. kim and i are on the wait list for craft weekend! REALLY, really hoping to make it happen. even in the snow. miss you, new friend! xxoo I love your hair in the one pic 🙂 I love flipping through old photos. Thanks for sharing. Memory lane is hard on the heart, isn’t it?! aw! I don’t even know your kids and I felt my heart get all mushy inside! I blinked and find my gorgeous girlie is planning her walk down the aisle next year. I love Annie’s chubby fist full of marbles. Life is in the details! I have to say I dont usually post anything on your board but I am always reading and enjoying everything you have on your site. BUT this touched me. My son is turning 5 in January and it literally makes my heart hurt knowing he is growing up so fast. I truly with all that is in me try to enjoy every moment with him. Often having mommy guilt for being a working mother but I am always looking for us to do things together after work or on weekends. He is my only son and I will probably not have any more so I am even more sad that I wont see that infant/toddler stage but I at least did once for a couple of years and when my son potty trained he picked a book when I took him to the store! It is so beautiful being a mother and I never even knew it would be like this. Right?! Julia is about to outgrow me any second and I am seriously not sure what happened! i am crying with you. my kiddos are 7 & 9. i long for baby/toddler days. they seem so much older than they should be. i am understanding everyday more and more why parents cry at graduation and weddings and births of grandbabies. okay, i’ll stop now. Awww so cute! I know exactly how you feel. My kids are 8 and 6 and I don’t know how we got here! It went so fast. Everyone always tells you to enjoy the time with your kids because it goes so fast. I always thought, “Yeah right. Whatever you say.” But it did, and it does. I miss my babies. Meg…oh how blessed we are to have the gift of seeing our children grow up…I wouldn’t want it any other way. But that doesn’t mean it has to happen so fast! 🙂 your kids are so beautiful. i like to see them grow up…makes me feel good. maybe i feel like that because they are only 4 and 1 1/2… I agree. It happens way too fast. Sad to report that it happens with the grandbabies too. So very sad. :*( Praying your computer is fixed pronto! 😉 I am getting teary-eyed FOR you! So sweet. I totally hear you…makes me sad too! I feel your pain! It truly is physically painful sometimes. I have 9 year old twin girls. And that’s it. They’re both going to leave me at once!! Oh my. I dread it already. Yes. Please don’t do this again…lol!! 😀 I teared up looking at your pictures thinking of how you must feel knowing I feel the same here about my son. I have a different type of longing also because our first child, a daughter, was stillborn and I always think of what could have been with her. I can never decide which is worse: knowing or wondering. I totally get you on the physical pain thing. Every time I go back through photos from our fiels, I end up in tears and just saying to Eric “how did our girls grow up so fast?!” Theyre still young (5 & 7) but seriously…just yesterday I was birthing them. Insert me bawling here… I have never commented on any post before, but this took me straight to my heart. I know how you feel. Sometimes I wonder what my purpose is, they don’t need me as much. How I miss those days. Great post! I took one look at that picture of all of you and thought “Meg needs to grow out her hair”! I love it long like that! Good afternoon… stumbled onto your blog while searching for “bunting” inspiration. I have to tell you this- *I* have a 3 year old who could almost be a twin to your Annie. I did a double-take. So now we ARE in the bang-your-head-against-the-floor-for-no-reason-only-because-I-am-3 stage. But your post made me pause and think… in a few years it will all be different. I do love the cuddles before bed and the innocence and the giggles. I will try not to take them for granted. Even when the next tantrum is about to start, in .. 03…02…01…… :)jody I so avoid iPhoto. No way. Or archives on the blog. Sigh. I don’t mean to discourage you, but I’m actually the great-grandma of a darling three-month old…and I STILL tear up at pictures of my own babies and my grandbabies (who have had the audacity to become old enough to go off to college and one to get married.) Maybe that intense love is what keeps us praying for them year after year. oh my gosh…why would you do this to me!?! i’m already an emotional wreck, getting ready to moving across the country and leave all my friends and family…now this!?! 🙂 i think i need to go find my husband…we need more kids 😉 Awesome photos! I don’t even know you and those pictures had me tearing up too! I’m right there with you. Every time I look back at the sweet baby faces of my two, it has the same effect!! Glad to know that I’m not the only mom that this happens to. Thanks for sharing! I agree, how much more can we take! Stop it! You need to tuck it all away, otherwise you’ll make us all cry!!! precious photos! This post even made me sad!!! That picture of you and all your kids, they were all soooo little in that picture 🙁 I wish they stayed small FOREVER! Annie and Talby look so much alike! My heart hurts every time I look at my now 22, 20 and 9 year old. And my grandbaby is now 15 months old. What????? Enjoy every single minute of it. It’s gone in a heartbeat. Annie and Talby look so much alike! I’m dying everytime I look at my “babies” who are now 22, 20 and 9. My grandbaby is now 15 months old. What????? Just enjoy it. Every single minute of it. I think God broke you computer so you would be able to look back at these wonderful memories! So adorable. Now, let’s just hope he fixes it too 😉 Awww… Yeah, this one hit home. Your THEN is my NOW. So, is there one thing…or maybe a few things…that you might have done differently as a mommy when they were little? Or if the “seasoned mama Meg” could go back in time and tell the “new mama Meg” a few pieces of advice, what would they be? Love, A Mommy of Four Little People Who Sometimes Forgets Her Name 🙂 the only thing that upsets me more than my kids growing up so fast, is a computer with a black screen. I was just telling my husband that I can’t really remember the feel of my kids as babies anymore. It makes me sad when I think of that. The thing is we can’t slow it down so I am trying to embrace them getting older and focus on the joy of watching them turn into adults. I’m sure the joy will come AFTER the teen years 😉 I only have an almost two year old and an 8 week old. I feel like they have grown so fast and they are only babies. I am learning to treasure the now moments because they are gone so fast. Sweet, sweet photos. I miss my little kids, too – and they’re only 4 and 7 now. Seven was a hard one. Just happened two weeks ago. I told my husband that this all needs to slooowwww down. Isn’t it fun when you find a blessing in your broken computer? oh mommy! even I can see how they have grown and i’ve only been reading your blog for 2 years… they do grow up so fast. Oh my heart, Be Still. xxx Love your pictures! I totally feel the same way. My oldest 2 boys have both moved out now-they are 20 and 22. We still have the 13 year old and the’princess'(who is 11) at home, but the house is so much quieter now! We used to have a houseful all the time! Dinners were awesome:)! I miss the noise!!! Yes I said that! We still get them home for a dinner once in a while, but not always at the same time. They grow up way too fast! So glad I took as many pictures as I did! Every mother is like this, we miss our little ones, don’t we? I used to have baby and toddler pictures all over the house and always was commenting how cute she was. Then one day, she got all her guts up and asked me if I don’t like her as an “older” child (she was 14 then), since I only have her kiddie pictures on display and always talk about how adorable she was. I felt so bad, I had no idea how it came across to her when I was reminiscing…..I still do, but in private and all her pictures on display are current ones – of an adorable 16 year old teenager (with attitude *sigh*) Oh, you are breaking my heart. My 3 are still so little, and it makes me ache to think they will grow up and not be these little people anymore…i think I’ll go hug them right now!!! 🙂 The first few pictures of Annie made me smile. My daughter Abigail is the SAME way! Just the other day we were at the store and she picked out YARD SALE stickers! That was all she wanted, and she had the biggest smile on her face as we were walking out of the store with them. 🙂 Old photos are so hard to look at (and videos – can’t even go there!) Mine are twelve, ten, and two and growing up too fast. So many great pictures….iPhoto is a vault of oldies on my old computer too. It is has been forever since I dug around in there. I know what you mean. Time FLIES by. Hang on, it goes way faster the older we get. I have a theory on this. You can ask me about it some time. 🙂 wow. that made me cry too. i have an 8 year old boy, 5 year old girl and an 8 month old. on my hard days…i try to remind myself that one day they will be grown. i try to remind myself that cleaning and laundry can wait until tomorrow. i try to remind myself to just breathe and try to love the moment that we are in. thank you for reminding me of all of that today. that is what your blog does for me… it lifts me up…just when i needed it. i feel your pain, sister. and my babies are still 3 and 1! i look at their newborn pics and just DIE. I’m going to have to ask that you please stop posting these types of pictures immediately. Because for some reason it makes me go back to old pictures of MY kids and then I become a teary mess before I have my second cup of coffee. me too, me too, me too. My eldest is 18 in about 6 weeks. My heart hurts looking at the pictues with you. Like it was said before, I wish I could appreciate the moments when I was in them, as much as I do when I look back. I think I am gonna go look at some of our old pictures. HAve a good time remembering. Aww, mine are still babies (oldest in Kdg) and I already miss them being babies. My baby is 7 mths old and I hate the thought of no more newborns! I hope when we get to heaven we get to hold our babies again. It’s heaven and that would be heaven to me so who knows! Ahhh what a reminder. How does it happen?!?!? I had a little tantrum thrower, too. I used to put her to bed at night and feel the bumps on her head from throwing herself on the ground. And this morning as she rushed out the door to school….yeah, she’s still kinda like that. meg! i am weeping with you! love all these photos. such sweet memories!! my little guy will be three right after christmas. it feels like last month we were bringing him home from the hospital, adopting him into our family. i pray the lord has more children in our future! letting go of baby and enjoying the growing is such a tug of war! Meg: I absolutely love my six-year-old son, but I sure would love to spend some time with the baby he used to be. It’s such a bittersweet experience to look through old photos! Tricia I still have a three year old, but when I see pictures of my older girls that little I cry. I cry every time. My husband just shakes his head and says. Forget it, your tubes are tied and we are not having any more babies. Oh well. I love to look at the old pics! I could so use that tantrum shirt! There’s a Mumford and Sons song (“After the Storm”) with the line: “There will come a time with no more tears and love will not break your heart.” It always makes me think of my kids – how much I love them and how much their growing up and away hurts. I can only hold on to the hope that there is a day and a place in store for us where love won’t make us cry. Awww Meg! Hope you cheer up a bit 🙂 Wow! This post made me choke up. I am the mother of a 2.5 year old and a 5 week old. Sometimes I find myself wishing them older just so I can have some time to myself. Thank you for reminding me to live in moment and enjoy these little ones while they are little. FIX THAT COMPUTER!!! I am a sucker for things kinds of things. I can’t handle it. My only child just turned 2. I started crying in the hospital about her growing up when she was only 2 DAYS old!! I just took my son to get new basketball shoes… size 10 1/2 is what he needed!!! When did THAT happen? He was my little boy, the one that I had as a young girl… I never dreamed it would go by so fast. His zit covered forehead and deep voice make me angry sometimes. Oops!! I meant I have THREE daughters!!! I am glad for one thing.. that I am not the ONLY mother that hurts SO much and gets tears in her eyes when I look back at pictures – and I mean HURT. I am a mother of four… I have 2 daughters ages almost 15, 12, 10 and a son who is 7. My daughter started highschool this year, and my Sarah is in middle school – how did this happen so quickly?? My son doesn’t call me Mommy anymore…I am Mom to even him now! I look back at when they were babies or little tikes and it DOES hurt.. it really does… and know I am glad I know that I’m not the only one and sounds like you understand. And when I was in the thick of taking care of them all when they were babes, I didn’t realize HOW much I would miss it!! Don’t get me wrong… it is wonderful to see them grow too…but boy I miss my babies!!! My baby just turned 3… and it pains me too to look at pictures when they were younger too. It was an exhausting time, but much simpler… tantrums and all 🙂 My laptop is on the blink too! My husband is good at that sort of stuff though. He has run about a gazillion scans and they all have found something different!!! I’m using his laptop now. I had a moment this morning like your “picture moments”. My nine year old son was lying in bed and for just a mili-second, his face looked like it did when he was three. It took my breath away! Oh how i wish we could just freeze life sometimes. Wonder if that will be what Heaven will be like, frozen perfect moments. Over the weekend, I did the same thing – old computer, old photos. I may have shed a tear or two myself! It goes way too fast! I hope your computer gets fixed today!! all i can say is… I KNOW!!! why oh why cant i really treasure those moments when i am in the thick of them? only when i look back do i really, clearly see the wonder?! maybe thats why grandkids must be so amazing? hug!!! I am the same way when I look at the babes from the past. Where did time go? I think it is a good way to be reminded how quickly it speeds by. I need to press pause a little more often to really soak it in! 🙂 oh gosh Meg! Me too! We met our high school daughters boyfriend the other night and all I could think was wow, were we that goofy at that age!? oh my gosh. looking at YOUR photos made ME cry! what the heck! off to look at my own “days gone by” {thanks}
what a full month this has been already so far. what if i trip? what if i say the wrong word? i am wearing some fabulous shoes…. and right now….that is all i know about the entire trip. i picked up my barn treasures this weekend that i bought last week at craft weekend….. so true. i went to see The Help AGAIN. i had pictures last night. hope your monday is fabulous.
……………………………………….. our hallway is done! i want to share each of our CRAFT WEEKEND sponsors with you. gatorade is teaching me about being a sports mom…. 🙂 ………………………………………..
i spotted your shoes at kohl’s today and thought of you…and prayed for you. blessings from afar. Everyone needs a bright red chair in their life…it just gives you energy looking at it. Might just be the BEST family photo ever! It speaks volumes and I.Love.IT!!! i loved catching tiny baby frogs in my grandparents yard when I was younger! If they still lived there I would go and catch some. Kelly Love your barn finds…have you seen “Picker Sisters” on Lifetime? Fun show…http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/picker-sisters BLOG SUGAR! I wish I was heading to southern CA… It’s where I grew up. I think you are gonna do great speaking. Anytime you speak from your heart it will be well received! And I’m jealous of your fun chippy paint finds. 🙂 love…………………the shoes i would kill myself wearing them 🙁 I’m a little in love with the white chippy paint – I am a chippy paint kind of girl, too. THE SHOES FREAKIN ROCK!!!! WHERE DID YOU FIND THEM??? As almost everyone else said; glitter shoes go with anything!!!!! I would wear any solid color with them. Meg I love, love , love your blog but what is Blog Sugar? I go up to The Pocono’s for my craft weekends and it’s sooo much fun, but I didn’t know anyone else did them. I’m glad to hear there are others around. sharon Meg! That family picture is fantastic!! So excited for you and Blogsugar…I live like 10 minutes from the Rose Center…you could stop by and I will style you up….you will be the chic-est one in the entire place…that I can assure! 🙂 Have fun…cant wait to see pictures!!!! That family photo is adorable!!! I think you need a really great black dress, that is all. Let the shoes “be” the accessory. a sparkly bracelet and earrings and you are good to go! Oh, and a little clutch. I have glitter shoes almost exactly like that (Mine are the kate spade Charm heels. LOVE). I usually wear mine for evening events. If I were to wear them during the day, I would wear black skinny jeans, a white shirt, a solid shrug or cardigan or a colored scarf. Let the shoes do the talking. You’ll be great! Your sunflowers look so happy! I tried to bring some in and they were covered with aphids! I would think glitter shoes would match anything. That family picture at the end is priceless!!!!! Would LOVE to have a photo like that of my family that captures the family dynamics and personalities. Are you kidding me? Glitter shoes go with everything! You always look wonderful, you will be amazing! You WILL find something to wear! Love your new finds of old-paint-chipiness. So good. And I love the painted hallway. Great finds! Especially love the old cabinet and glass knobs! i just bought those shoes too … they go with EVERYTHING!!! i asked my friends when i could wear them, they all said, when CAN’T you wear them?? good call. 🙂 have a great time, you’ll be AMAZING! Fabulous shoes! With something so sparkly, you can go basic black on the rest of the outfit. Skinny black pants or a simple black wrap dress. Good luck! okay..you can’t go wrong with a very fitted black dress with pencil skirt style and then add a super colourful cardigan with some of your cool accessories.Your shoes are awesome! what you mean….orgasm? THAT would have made people smile. wear a black sexy dress. it will make your beautiful shoes pop!!! post pictures too!! I read that all you were going to wear was the shoes. Oops, you said that all you knew was the shoes… big difference! that video (nervous but excited) made me laugh. Just found your blog. LOVE the shoes. Glitter shoes, go with EVERYTHING!! it sure is a FULL month for me too! The shoes are fantastic! You will be AWESOME! Love the shoes, love the hallway… think your glitter shoes are fabulous!!! Black pants… cute tank in ivory or winter white (like this… http://www.target.com/p/ME-Fashion-Tank-Assorted-Colors/-/A-13353739 or this http://www.target.com/p/Mossimo-174-Women-s-Racerback-Bib-Top-True-White/-/A-13138248 or this… http://www.target.com/p/MEC-Clarrisa-Slvls-WVN-top-Asst-Clrs/-/A-13348963… with a cute cardigan…and the pretty shoes will pop! Love them! Have fun, can’t wait to hear all about it! Love your pictures. LOVE them. And those shoes. Amazing. Are you kidding? *Everything* goes with glitter. You could wear them every day! Please tell me where to find these SHOES!! I LOVE them!! I agree, go with black and let the shoes steal the show! Everything goes with glitter! bought those shoes at kohls,love them:)))) Let me echo the sentiment that simply everything goes with fairy princess glitter shoes. That’s the whole point of them! A black dress with those sparkly heels and you are sorted! Ooooohh you found some great stuff!! I just got a giant sideboard on craigslist that I’m pretty excited about. my heart nearly STOPPED at your divine treasures! love them…you MUST show where they end up! you sound like a busy busy girl right now. blessings to you in this busy/stressful/full month 🙂 Fantastic shoes! Have a wonderful time at Blog Sugar Meg!! You will do great and you will find an outfit for them. :0) I love the treasure you picked up, can’t wait to see what you do with them. I missed the “big” craft fair this year, but I’m so excited for the Hesston Barn Sale coming up. This will be my first one and I’m so nervous I won’t have enough stuff. Have a wonderful time! Wish I could attend Blog Sugar! Maybe, someday. My cousin wore those same shoes in a wedding. The dresses were deep purple and they looked awesome!!! So maybe wear a dark purple top???? Love them! You will rock it! I cant wait to see those shoes in person in just a few days!!! Pray for me: I hate flying:) And I’ll be flying alot to get there. The glitter shoes are too much fun to drab out with a black dress…why not try royal blue or hot pink? (knee or tea length). Yes to the glitter shoes! Everything goes with glitter shoes! Have fun and wear the shoes! glitter shoes, I would imagine, can be treated like animal print shoes…”because they go with nothing, they go with everything.” I think a black dress would look good with the shoe(slimming too, not that you need it!) :), and maybe some colorful, rainbow-y jewelry? Glitter goes with everything!! oh those shoes…… those shoes!! divine! what a fun, awesome september you are having, and you still managed to fit a run in? wowza! :)) xxx I consider glitter to be neutral, the new black you could say, it goes with everything. As long as you don’t pair it with something like a hot pink feather boa, you’ll look great!! EVERYTHING goes with glitter shoes. Break a leg. Just be your AWESOME self. 🙂 Love your shoes!!! I have a pair that are very similar, just no peep-toes! I think glitter shoes go with anything! I feel like cinderella when I put mine on!:) I’m sort of hoping that you have a Freudian Slip and say “orgasim.” I for one would laugh my head off — not at you, with you. Because it would be so funny, and you are someone who could pull it off. Honeygirl, EVEYRTHING goes with glitter shoes! Don’t be afraid of showing off your blogger badself! oh…..glitter shoes go with anything! First love the shoes, those rock! And that cabinet, I heart that cabinet, what an awesome find. Annie has so much wisdom! What a girl. My husband has taken me fishing so many times. So far I’ve caught a tree, the dock, some seaweed, a bush and the side of the boat. A fish has to be next, right? I love the shoes! wore them as a bridesmaid in a wedding 2 weeks ago! We had solid purple dresses on. Honestly- I think any solid will look great! So what’s your favorite color? go with it! The material we wore was shiny, I think that helps. How bout some fantastic leopard print ensemble to go with those glitter shoes! Love the shoes! I would go with a little black dress. Looove the shoes, looove the antiques, looooooooove that family picture. Wow, that really just captures it all! 🙂 Great furniture finds and those glitter shoes are FAB.U.LOUS darling!!! Love them. You’ll do great! I love white chipped paint…love love love it. I wore shoes almost exactly like that for my wedding. They looked fabulous but felt terrible. I’m just warning you, girl: BREAK THEM IN!!! Yes, chippy red paint is awesome! Here’s the plan: if you screw up while giving your presentation at BlogSugar, I will burp really loud and put all the attention on me. I love you that much. Looking forward to meeting you and burping for you this weekend. Now, I seriously need to go find some better shoes. You will find the right thing to wear – glitter shoes will go with “whatever” else you find that you like. It will match because the same creative spirit that inspired you to buy the shoes will inspire your vision for the rest of it. Glitter shoes go with EVERYTHING! I love the furniture, and cannot wait to see what you do with it! I think almost anything would match glitter shoes. Especially a nice pair of black slacks or a cute black skirt. Keep the bottom simple and your sassy shoes will POP big time! So fun! I saw the glitter shoes recently and almost bought them, but decided that nothing would go with them! ha! Cant wait to see what you come up with! My heart skipped a beat over those shoes! They are fantastic! I could never wear them though,I’d fall flat on my face! I think black might accentuate those awesome glitter shoes! Just so you know, I was in a bad mood on Saturday…and read through every one of your Waffle, the Wonder Dog posts…and they lifted my spirits. He really is a Wonder Dog! I love that cabinet and all it’s chippy paint charm!
we hosted our second annual outdoor movie party this past sunday night. we provide the toppings and each family brings their favorite kind of ice cream to share. it's super fun.
the plan was for them to swim but it the weather changed the day before and we even needed blankets!
craig found the screen and projector on craigslist.com. or maybe one with a campfire and LOTS of blankets in a month or two! ………………………………………… we are painting the hallway with the help of Glidden Paint. come here and leave a comment to win a lisa leonard bracelet i am talking about being a "sports mom" over here and not sure i am too good at it …………………………………………
[…] tasting//friendsgiving//ugly sweaters//barbecue//pajama//birthdays//half birthday//pizza//ice cream and a movie//potluck//soup//picnic//new year’s eve//cocktails//fondue//s’mores//tapas//beer […] Great stuff the children were enjoying very well it looks awesome the parties all are cool and would have a great fun in those parties thanks for the blog to share a lot of things…:) Wow, that’s an ice cream party at its best! Those kids surely enjoyed this day. And the place is great too! It definitely made the event livelier. Cheers to this! cool stuff…you must have a great camera…visit my blog please 🙂 Recently discovered your blog and am loving the craft ideas! We do movie night in our drive way 2-3 times every summer (for the last 3 years). It’s is so much fun and the kids LOVE it! We just project onto a big sheet hung on the garage door and it works out quite well but I may have to keep my eye out for one of those screens on craigslist. 🙂 Oh my gosh, how fun!! So fun! What movie did you find to keep all ages happy? hai meg, can i ask you for some advise? my daughter, who turnes 17 this month, wants to go to america to study for one year. Ofcourse there are lots of organisations trying to get us in, and we do orientate us, but i would love to here the experience of guestfamily’s. do you know some? HOW FUN!! i wanted to do an outdoor movie night, but couldn’t round up a projector. i found a cool old roll up screen at a rummage sale, but no projector 🙁 gonna keep looking tho! Me too, Michelle! I’m in melbourne and thankfully my local small IGA sells peanut butter m &ms and a few other US snacks!! Do you know how many of those scrumptious toppings and ice cream flavours we Australians are deprived of? When we were in Hawaii last November, I loaded up a duffle bag FULL of Reese’s pieces/sauces, Hershey stuff etc at Walmart. Coming back into Australia, the customs officer opened the bag, grinned at me and said ‘I can see you have a sweet tooth. And great taste!’. Oh how I wish the USA were closer to us 🙁 We love the pic of Jobie! Thanks for a super fun evening! anna’s looking over my shoulder saying, This looks like so much fun!!! That looks like SO MUCH FUN! I think it’s great that everyone was cuddled under blankets. And Despicable Me is a fantastic movie. I watched it while I was sewing one afternoon – see, not just for kids 😉 Hi–Stumbled on your blog and posted with an FYI for you or those following you. I hope, with all the people you had attending, that you acquired a public performance license for the movie(s) you showed. Movie Licensing USA and Motion Picture Licensing Corporation between them hold licensing rights for most of the major studios, and offer either one-time licensing or umbrella/blanket annual licensing for the studios with which they contract. Though it’s not likely that they will investigate local movie parties like this, if they do, they jump on “offenders” with boots on (and posting about a movie night online makes it more likely they will find out). Looked like lots of fun, and I hope you enjoy many more! I love Caribbean Sea! we just use a sheet, too! our favorite is to watch scary old movies with the grown-ups around halloween. we use lots of blankets! now that looks like a good time! I have been dying to plan this for my neighborhood in our cul-de-sac. A ‘drive in’ (bikes and trikes) movie so to speak! Cute! that little boy in the osh kosh sweatshirt is so adorable you should’ve eaten him instead of ice cream. precious. This looks like a blast! I think you should definitely do this in the later Fall months, pick a good Christmas movie for everyone to watch, light a fire, eat popcorn, drink cocoa and just enjoy! We do the same thing and love it! No fancy screen for us, just a sheet tacked up against the screened in porch. Ours is coming up in a couple of weeks, just might have to steal the ice cream pitch in idea! We have a neighbor who that the same thing a few times every summer … it’s a great way to visit with fellow ‘Fall Creekers’ and the grandgirlies love it! We have a neighbor who that the same thing a few times every summer … it’s a great way to visit with fellow ‘Fall Creekers’ and the grandgirlies love it! We do this often in our backyard with a white sheet clipped to our patio cover. The kids love it! Our cousin has a huge inflatable screen that we have used in the past for movie parties. They are so much fun! So fun! That looks like alot of fun! Oh how fun! That projector looks amazing! That’s what I was thinking, no need to wait another year! Looks like a great time. Hot cocoa & popcorn + blankets & a fire, you would be all set! What a fun time! What a great neighborhood, almost makes me miss the midwest.
we have 10 days left before school starts. but i will miss the water….the tans…..the heat…..kind of the heat…..and sleeping in. only ten more days.
oh to be young again! my son starts school in 2 days!!! wow….hes gonna be a 5th grader…scary! on a side not i used your cheesecake recipe in a jar! thought you might like to see it: I keep reminding myself of the lovely spring we experienced here in the mid-Atlantic. The summer, Blistering. 🙂 I am counting the days til school starts too 🙂 Oh,, that photo of your daughter jumping into the pool is just amazing. So cute. I’m sort of sad to see the end of pool trips coming so soon, for us tomorrow! Ugh. Summer goes too fast…or does it 🙂 Wow, that went fast! How did you make out on your summer fun list? Not that you are counting or anything. 🙂 I know EXACTLY how you feel. I completely understand. School starts back up for us next Monday.. and I’m looking forward to it to be honest with you {as I’m sure my kids are too}. This summer went by so fast, I feel like I didn’t get to do as much with them as I had hoped for 🙁 Yup, we start two weeks from tomorrow(girls and I). Most schools around here dont start until after labor day though. Its rough at the end of the year when they dont get out until mid-late June. By then it feels like summers already been going for weeks for others. I wanna be jumping into that pool…this orlando heat is ridiculous. I always felt like doing cartwheels in the front yard when the school bus drove off. Is that bad? i am also loving the pool, heat, and sun way too much this year! so not ready for it to be over. for us, we have about 30 days left of it. gotta pack it all in. it flies by too fast. Man I wish I was jumping into a pool! I can’t believe there are only ten days left, where has this summer gone too?! I’m not ready!!!! Crazy my son does not start until Sept 21 . . . . It did feel like a loud summer. And so hectic this year. I don’t remember last summer feeling so hectic! I’ll be counting down your 10 days with you! Our school starts Monday… It seemed to go by faster than ever this summer. Can you believe summer is almost over? Wonder how many ‘heat’ days we’ll have? 🙂 10 days!! We have another month! We start the summer vacation late though. It’s nearly July by the time the let the kids finish. Get off just in time for the 4th and back just after Labor day. It goes by too fast. Enjoy it! Thinking of back to school, I was browsing lunch box ideas. This rainbow bread made me think of you! you can still have the heat and the tan…just minus the kids;-) did you put annie in swimming lessons or did she learn on her own?? i’ve got to put my almost 4 year old soon! Love your photography. Just catching up. Looked like a great vacation. Too much fun. Meg once school started here I switched over to “Im ready for fall” mode! I will miss the summer fun, but we have had some great saturdays the last couple of weeks since school started! Lucky you!17 days for us … 😉 10 more days? holy moly y’all start school early! enjoy your little kiddos, but enjoy your time alone too 🙂 Wow, only 10 days? We have about 3 more weeks of summer. I have very mixed emotions. I, too, am ready for quiet, but since my husband works at school, I know how crazy busy the school year can get. I am not looking forward to school starting yet. I will have to go back to school too, as a teacher. I really need just a few more weeks to catch up on a few more household chores! I just got my fridge pulled out and vacuumed behind! I will miss it all this year. This is the first 100% enjoyable summer I’ve had since having kids. It is always bittersweet to have them go back to school. I am looking forward to school starting, it means I will also be back to work! But I am going to enjoy this last month! We start back on Sept. 6. My college girl goes back on the 19th of August. It is my baby’s last year of high school. This will be bittersweet! Enjoy these last few days, before we know it the snow will be flying and we will all be complaining about the cold! 🙂 most evenings….the sunsets into the water right in front of our bluff/cliff.
it was beautiful. school enrollment today. ……………………………………….. you can enter to win a $100 visa gift card from Degree motionSENSE how is your summer list coming along???
I am a native of Northern Michigan,and still live in the same town I was born in. After seeing your pics, and reading the comments, I am reminded of how very BLESSED i am to live in “God’s Country” Mario B., Michael Moore, and a few other well knowns have now made this area into home…you should come for a visit! Our summer list is about half way done. Only a few things left on it and some of those just aren’t going to happen! HA! love your pictures…the “golden hour of photography” makes everything look so perfect and dreamy! Oh, it all looks so dreamy… And the weather… Sigh… 🙂 Thanks for the reminder about the summer list. Ours has been sorely neglected. Maybe we need to do a fall list. 😉 Long time lurker, first time commenter… I feel like I know you even if you don’t know me. 🙂 Just wanted to say that I love your Michigan posts – I am from a suburb of Detroit, and I so love my state (despite all the bad stuff), ESPECIALLY Western Michigan. Heaven. talby is beautiful. I love monarch caterpillars too. That picture of Talby smiling on the beach looked so much like Lauren. And…the beach is our favorite. Texas lakes do not have beaches like that. Crazy, awesome, huge lakes…God is so cool. Such wonderful pics. WHAT A LOT of STAIRS. You got to do cardio every day. Awesome. 🙂 You are making me want to go to Michigan so bad!!! Those stairs remind me of a lot of things. Most of all, they remind me that God has so many blessings and good things planned for our lives. Sometimes we look at the things that He asks of us and are like, “Are you kidding me?” and the work to get there seems tremendous. But the blessing at the end of it is SOOOOOOO great! Enjoy the rest of your summer. BTW…this is my official delurk post:) where is waffle? Ahhh Michigan. We like to savor our summers here too… because come winter we’re itchin to get back outside and see some sun! We are rockin’ our summer list! Thanks for such a fun idea! We’ve checked off about 2/3 of it, and with a few more weeks of summer we just might do it all! Love the monarch caterpillars, all butterflies are just gorgeous! WOW!!! The tourism dept for the state of MI should contact you and GET those release forms signed and pay you top dollar for these photos. . .who doesn’t want to visit the beaches of northern MI after this post???? I would post these *everywhere* in my house to remind me of happy, happy days on even the crummiest and cold winter ones. You are a blessed momma, Megan. We only have 2 things left on our summer list! It’s a catch 22….I’m so sick of my kids that I can’t wait for school to start, but know I will miss them terribly when it happens. Glad you enjoyed your vacation! I really love reading your blog. Wish I could be as calm and laid back as you seem with my 5 kids. Also wishing for a Lake Michigan vaca, now, too:-) very nice. i love your ‘i-love-being-in-this-place-so-much-and-i-don’t-ever-want-to-leave face’!! go black meg..would be stunner with your eyes!! We have one week left and have gotten through about 1/2 of our summer list. As much as my kiddos can make me crazy, I LOVE summer with them, and I am not ready for school to start back up. Every time you share your pictures of Michigan it makes me want to vacation there. Even with all those stairs! 😉 Really beautiful pictures. I love those stairs…in theory. that is quite the set of stairs…bet you’ve got some toned up legs after that vacation! our summer is list coming…just not ready for school yet. 🙁 we homeschool, but i have TONS of planning to do…TONS! These pictures make me want to abandon my declaration of being done with summer. I’d go down (& back up) 223 steps for some s’mores & that sunset! 🙂 I’ve never been to Michigan but you sure make it look like an awesome vacation spot … you should contact their Board of Tourism, show ’em your blog, say “You’re welcome”! LOL 🙂 I’d go down (& back up) 223 steps for some s’mores & that sunset! 🙂 I’ve never been to Michigan but you sure make it look like an awesome vacation spot … you should contact their Board of Tourism, show ’em your blog, say “You’re welcome”! LOL 🙂 Wow, that all looked like so much fun! Wish I was one of your kids! Although I think you are a year or two younger than me! 🙂 amazing photo of ur talby on the beach. ah.mayyyy.zing! Hi Meg! I totally get the “I love this place and I never want to leave” thing. It’s how I feel on the gulf coast of Florida. It’s why we’re going back May 2012. It’s why I have a hard time when we plan a trip elsewhere. The fireworks shots are great! Love that you’re sharing your trip with us. Looks like such a fun time. That is a lot of steps but so worth it. What great pictures! Those are some stairs. These photos really show that you had a great vacation. Those photos and memories are treasures that you & your family will dip into for years to come – so beautiful! And the steps? I can see that one would have to eat a lot of s’mores to have enough energy to go back up. On the plus side, all of you probably slept so well after the glorious fresh air and exercise! What a divine trip. I would love to create a family tradition trip like this. Wow looks so amazing, a bonfire on the beach sounds like heaven! 🙂 We’ve had tons of fun with our summer list! But sadly two of my favorites won’t get checked off this year…we sort of missed the window for them: catching fireflies (why, oh why are there none around our home? next year we will SEEK them out!) and picking blueberries at the berry patch (apparently the robins beat us to them this year!) But we still have a few fun activities to carry us through the end of the summer…and then we start our Fall List!! Totally think it’s my fav season…pumpkin patch, carving pumpkins, apple orchards, football games, hot apple cider…ahhhh! WOW All those steps!!! School is comming way to fast. gorgeous. a campfire on the beach sounds wonderful. The vacay looks so peaceful. The stairs are lovely, I think I’d get a bad case of vertigo on them! I have been reading your blog for a few months now and have never commented. I really enjoy your wit and outlook! We have almost completed our entire Summer List. It was so much fun to be able to do all the fun activities with my girls. Only three weeks left till school starts. What great pics, Meg. Love the one Talby took of you. 🙂 Summer list is almost done = 🙂 and 🙁 Summer List: have a baby Since we start school in two weeks I was just thinking last night of making a FALL List. We never actually made a formal summer list. It seemed everyone else but us made them. But we seized the opportunities that came at us each day and made the most of our summer. Its been amazing and I cant believe its almost over{sniff sniff}. But we’ll be moving on to new things, the changing seasons and cooler weather. Lots to look forward to:) Almost done with our Summer List, but we only had a few items on ours… just a 3-year old and me, plus newborn, so we don’t get too far! Still have to have a Poker Nite for daddy and his friends. Love your blog… next year’s list will include finding time to come meet you! What a gorgeous place =) our enrollment is next week!!!!!! We are sooo ready!! Can you believe school starts to soon?! Forms, forms, forms… that has been my week! Ugh! I’m loving these Michigan posts. Gah… I need a vacation. Is that possible with a 3 yr old and a 1 yr old? Do people even do that? I’d love to go there someday..it looks like such a get-a-way! Meg you look sooooo relaxed! And I love the last pic of Lauren, so cool. Looks like you had such a chillaxing time, Kerry x our summer break ended last week but we got a ton done! Do you make your older kids help fill out paper work for school? I totally do! ha! |
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Diana Dickert - They’re one good couple! LOL! Your dorks are adorable. And it’s funny that she shouted that her tooth fell out. Hahaha!
kids T shirts - Love your pictures,I miss my doggilie it’s my dog’s name.Since I work in the city I need to left him in my mother’s house.Miss my doggilie so much.
Connie - Ok, I am in love with your dog. Yes, I have a wonderful dog of my own… but there is just something about Waffle that makes me want to let him lick my face, something I never let Spooky do! =)
Jill - LOVE her brown eyes! DREAMY!
Waffle is adorable too.
Ummmm, think I would PULL one of my teeth for $1000!! Okay…NOT really…
Denissa - Cutest dorks ever! 🙂
Julie - Something about Annie reminds me of Ramona Quimby. Remember that Beverly Cleary book? She just seems like she has a lot of spunk 🙂
deborah@applesinwonderland - FYI, “dork” means whale penis. I still use that world everyday– and I’m not a marine biologist. Just useless information that is taking up way too much room in my brains. 🙂
Anna Marie - She is really starting to look like Talby 🙂
Sugar Mama - awww… they are like my labradoodle and daughter together 😉 So cute, sweet, playful and funny… a perfect pair!
jamie - i {heart} waffle. he has such personality.
Leah - Tell the Tooth Fairy to stop here if she’s giving out $1,000. And my dogs are looking at this blog post, so jealous of Waffle right now. They can’t understand how he gets candy corns and they don’t.
Valerie@Chateaualamode.typepad.com - Love the pictures of two very adorable dorks!
Tracey - awww what cute dorks!
leslie @ topofthepage - i’m glad to see someone else uses the word “dork” as a term of endearment too. they are both super cute.
brian - what a cute pic a girl who loves her dog!
Kate @ Songs Kate Sang - She does dream big! Yay Annie!
Mindy Harris - i love seeing your globes in the background. i have 7 now!
Anita - Is it weird that I LOVE Waffle? just saying
Brandi - Wandering if her pants are from Naartije? You need to check out their girl stuff, it’s dreamy. Oak Park in KC has a store. Great pics.
Heather - You don’t want to hear this, I know. But…..Annie is looking older. Something about her face is changing. So adorable!
happygirl - Wow, my kid is 24 and for that kind of loot, I’m afraid he’d get a pliers and start yanking. 🙂
BriBedell - Seriously. The cuteness! Btw, do you have instagram??
Shannon - they are so cute! i need to show our doodle Maverick, these pictures. seriously, these two might be siblings! 🙂
karla @ bluegrass jewelrydesigns - I’ll definitely be pulling some teeth for $1000.
TinaM. - Once my daughter lost 2 teeth at the same time and I told {I mean asked} the “toothfairy” to leave $5.00. “She” left $ 5.00 per tooth !!! Yikes. p.s. we have a new mini goldendoodle.. you should check him out 🙂
Jenna@CallHerHappy - Crossing my fingers for Annie 😉 My uncle once left money under my cousin’s pillow in a sleepy moment. My cousin ran downstairs yelling the next morning, “The tooth fairy left me 20 bucks!” oops.
Jenna
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Kimberly - What wonderful dorks you have!
Jodi @ The Un-Soccermom Blog - cutest dorks ever!
$1000?? If that happens, let me know.. . I’ll pull a tooth and be right over!! ;o)
denise - ah, I just posted pictures of my dog too.
Mary Susan McConnell - Soo cute! Love these pictures!