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That last photo…sweet girl. So cute what she said. Oh, those tears! So sweet. I still have to remind myself not to do things at 38. We never learn. I hope she feels better. Poor Annie…flip flops are a big deal for little girls. You have a big family like mine…I beat you with 8 of us here. My older girls don’t usually like family time together and the zoo is totally out of the question. So glad you were able to spend it together. Have a blessed day. So cute! Running in flipflops is dangerous..the amount of times i’ve nearly had a fall. Looks like a great day out : ) Just to let you know I linked to you in my blog…hope this is ok! This is like literally 3 minutes from my new house! I can’t wait to visit and take my 4 kids! I’m so excited to hear good things about it! I am so surprised to see Lauren! she is so beautiful, glad to see her in some pictures 🙂 lol! lauren’s dress is ADORABLE. where did she get it? isn’t it funny how with your fist you’re all on top of them when they cry…by number 5 (3 for me) you take a picture of it! When mine cries I usually turn to whoever is next to me and say “doesn’t she look cute when she cries?” How could you NOT pet the lemurs??? When they were so close?? How unfair. And oh the tears. Nobody cries quite so well as a little girl after a long day. I think if we could, we’d have a lot less problems in our lives. Just get it all out and then go play. looks like an awesome field trip! Yeah, running in flip flops is danger, danger, danger. Aww, you’ve built great memories! You seem so good at that – being intentional about good memories for your kids. Annie is sweet! Does she get more upset when you try to take her picture in that state or is she just accustomed to having a camera around? My neice HATES it when I take her picture. i’ve been reading your blog for a while and i love your spark and color. i found your annies preschool blog through yours. i am an elementary education major and i hope that i can create such a fun, learning environment that she has for her preschoolers when i get my own classroom. you’re very lucky to have someone care about annies education so early. oh that looks like so much fun. I love Annie’s dress, I bought the same one for my niece. Annie crying breaks my heart-running in flip flops is definitely a bad combo 😉 We love lemurs! Ever since Madagascar my daughter who is only 2 1/2 loves them. I found a cereal for her called Leapin’ Lemurs from EnviroKidz (great organic cereal by the way) and we just love them – wish we could go to a Lemur exhibit too. Poor Annie – big hugs to her. Awww Annie looks so sad, Flip flops are definatly not for running in… Toe scrapes… Owwwwie!!! i can sympathise with her pain. I was just going to pop in and pull up pictures of your kitchen to show my husband, but when I was scrolling down, sweet Annie’s tears made it impossible for me not to read and comment – that girl is the SWEETEST!! The lemur exhibit sounds awesome! My kids always want to go into the zoo exhibits, especially the monkeys, so they would love it. How NEAT!! Love these! Oh, precious! Cute! All those lemurs remind me of Madagascar. awww, poor Annie. That is such a cool place, though!! How awesome to be able to sit right in there with them! we are wanting to go to tanganyika sometime soon. sounds like so much fun. love the share You got to pet Lemurs!! That is so cool. I’m going to go google right now and find a place near me to do that too. Megan, I love keeping up with the kids as they grow up. Talby is just “mini-you”! Love the striped shirt and lemur tails photo – hilarious! So fun! Our family has been wanting to go there too but haven’t made it yet! That is so cool to be in there with the lemurs! Thanks for showing us pictures of it! How nice you got out will all of the kids– I can’t believe how big they are all getting. Thanks for sharing!! Awwww 🙁 That picture captures it all!!! Poor Sweet Annie 🙂 What a great place though!!!! This is unrelated to your post. I am hoping that you and your children will make your summer poster this year. And when you do, will you link to your last ones? It will be here before we know it! Thanks, Meg! Hey Meg, I love how close you could get to the Lemurs. Big hugs to you, it is hard when a child wants to distance themselves. Good on you for insisting on holding onto family values. They will be thankful for it one day. xxx How in the world did they resist petting those cute little boogers! That picture (Annie’s tears) is priceless. I’m going to have to remember to try and get some of mine crying. LOL Thanks for sharing the good and the bad, Meg. It makes me feel so much more human (and every mom needs that). xoxo The flipflops comment just made me laugh out loud – so much like my son! They learn but its oh-so-hard! Such a cute picture with the tears – heart-breaking x OMG! I can’t you were allowed to get so close to the lemurs! How cool!!! Hope ALL of you had fun…even though it’s not COOL to be with your family! Love them all, but I have to say Annie is so precious. What a doll! Wondering if she gets mad when you take pictures of her crying?
Everyone looks so happy! Now I want 5 kids!!! Ok 4 would be ok! My husband insists that we are done at 2!! They are young but they are still each others bestfriends! =) Talby is getting so tall!! annie’s smile in the 4th one down just put the biggest smile on my face. pure joy in her eyes & smile. Love the photos! The bonds that sisters have. I always wished I had a sister. I will settle for that cute waffle though. Just send him my way! He truely is part of the family. So sweet. awwwwwwwwwwesome! oh Meg, where oh where did you find that huge bottle of bubbles! was that here in town?? i’m out of bubbles and the grandkids are comin’ this weekend! Your blog is very sweet, I love visiting. I’m new to blogging, someone just gave me the “sunshine award” and now I’m giving it to you. Details are on my blog at http://tamaramodernmommy.blogspot.com/ Ah, yes…I still love bubbles… Those pics of Talby and Annie together are precious! look at them! that is the good stuff. maybe i should rent a couple little ones so i can play and have fun like that. Annie is starting to look older. Your baby is growing up. It happens fast doesn’t it. I hope someday that I can take photos as good as yours, Meg. It helps that you have the cutest kids on the planet! You have such a gift for capturing the emotion behind your shots. I’m all signed up for Karen’s The Photographer’s Workshop and can’t wait for my first lesson! Oh, and I LOVE Waffle too – he’s just the bestest! SWEET! Great shots of the sistas playin’ nice and loving on each other:) Cute one of your pup too. I forget his name. His hair cut is just perfect now. How Fantastic… as I drifted through your pictures completely lost in your perfect little moment. I realized I was rubbing my big ole pregnant belly!!! I can’t wait til my little man is old enough for bubbles… they’re just so magical I was w/ my youngest two kids at Walmart and couldn’t pass up the bubbles, chalk, jump ropes, and bouncy balls. Spring fever! Great job at capturing it! What a glorious day. Your pooch has such personality. What breed of dog is he? Sping Sunshine/Daughters/Bubbles nothing gets better! So refreshing after driving through snow this morning…I love this. There is nothing like the friendship and love between sisters…lovely to see your girls learning that! do you KNOW how much talby looks like you?! she even stands likeyou! oh we had just a hint, a tease of sunshine last week, but the past couple days have been freezing and rainy. boo!! Love your shots capturing the sweet sister relationship. 🙂 So cute! Your girls are adorable and can I tell you just how envious I am (in a very healthy way, of course) of you because your house is just DREAMY!! Yeah!! Happy happy day! You can’t be anything but happy when you have a full bottle of bubbles to play with! Happy Spring Meg! My mother always said she took the most pictures of the oldest and then took less and less of each kid down the line. I noticed you take a lot of Annie, and I feel like I take the most of my youngest child (I blame this mostly on the invention of digital cameras!). Just wondering if you take more pics now than you did before? Or were you just as into photography when your first was born? what pretty, pretty light! Sweet, sweet sisters! Love it! The good stuff includes your incredible photos! Wow~ those are quite the bubbles. 🙂 Ah, bubbles….one childhood plaything i have truly NOT outgrown….still love them soooo much. enjoy your kids! 🙂 they are beautiful. We’ve had much the same weather as you guys this Winter and it has been sooooo nice to get out and FINALLY enjoy the sunshine!!!!!! I bet Waffle was IN HEAVEN chasing bubbles 😉 I love that first shot. Looks like a fun day. So sweet! I love the fun kids have with bubbles, any age and they have fun! Oh yeah. REALLY good stuff. I love how you have such an amazing ability to capture the moment. simply, beautifully. Love that 2nd picture, the sun is in the perfect spot! new bottles of bubbles are a so great! meg…your pictures and lighting are amazing! but more amazing are the memories that you’re capturing 🙂 Those bubbles are amazing! I LOVE the picture of them looking at each other…I know you must love it too!! its so much easier to let the kids be messy….outside.
look out world…meg knows how to hard boil things now. mom of five for almost 29 years, and NEVER did it! before you have me beheaded, i always had a sweet neighbor (sans kids) who loved to do it! bliss! i babysit a darling little korean girl who grew up loving to gut the pumpkins at halloween~kept her busy and me happy for many years! i thought all of these photos were wonderful, but the one that really cracked me up was where you could see the dog looking longingly out the screen door! oh my gosh. i forgot to dye eggs this year!! how did that happen??? these look perfect! i love the really bright ones! 🙂 Hint for next year, for younger kids, slip the boiled egg inside a wisk and they can hold the handle and dip into the dye. I could come steal that daisy bowl. Oh Meg, you crack me up!! I love reading your post 🙂 And dying the eggs outside…. totally brilliant!! Why didn’t I think of that?! OK, I must be weird because I have made egg salad about a thousand million times since I was a teenager. I have to pull out my Red/White checkered Betty Crocker cookbook to look up the directions each time too! i had to google how to hardboil too! i remember watching a rachael ray show when she was joking with a guest about, “oh but i’m sure you can at least hard boil an egg!” and i was thinking how glad i was that i wasn’t the guest b/c i would have had to say “actually….” and i thought for sure she would just give the two step directions but she didn’t! I love your daisy bowl. don’t feel so bad…the first time i tried to hard boil eggs for my daughter i boiled all the water and then carefully dropped the cold eggs into the boiling water…went back to check 5 minutes later and had a pot full of shells and boiled egg guts…ha! My favorite picture is the one with Waffle in the door in the background! it’s fun to let the kids make a mess! we love doing our eggs too! hope you had a beautiful Easter! Found your blog through my friend Jody and I must tell you that I too had to google hard boiling my first time. I LOVE dying eggs and I even buy the clearanced out dye so we can do it anytime we want. It makes for great colorful healthy snacks for the kids. Glad it all went well for you. you make a regular thing look so inviting! i took pics of my kids outside too, but not like that. Ha ha, I recently had to google how to hard boil eggs too! We did our eggs last night – out of a dozen only 8 made it after dropping and cracking while boiling! Happy Easter looks like you guys are having a great time! My kids decorated eggs too lol. Ah!!! Love Waffle peeking out the door – gosh, that looks so perfect…we were inside, with pouring rain and 30mph winds howling. Pink lemonade, to boot…like a picture postcard. With dyed fingers 🙂 Happy Easter! I did it by myself with my two girls and our baby tonight. I was so nervous but it went great! I gave the baby a lollipop (ha!) to keep her happy in her high chair and the girls and I just went to work. It was the cleanest and funnest egg dye I’ve ever done. I used gel food dye colors mixed with vinegar and water and we got the best colors! Even better than pink lemonade! 🙂 Too funny, because here I sit at nearly 9pm to google how long to cook the eggs. Hoping to dye with my munchkin tomorrow b/f our family comes for dinner. 🙂 Looks like you created everlatsing memories & lots of eggs! Happy Esater! The lemonade story is priceless. I used to have to have things a certain way…then I had my third…I’m learning to go with the flow too. Oh Waffle…i bet you would have loved to be out there and make a mess out of it all!! One year, as a preschool director, I hard boiled over 300 eggs. I learned the hard way that the same rules don’t apply for cooking eggs at that volume. They dyed just fine but one child dropped an egg out of his basket on the way out the door and we discovered they were not cooked but still runny.We had to quickly put a warning sign up for the rest of the parents,” eggs are not to be eaten, just decorative”. Everyone has an egg story. I have been hard boiling eggs for years and just when I think they are perfect I crack them open and they are either raw or the shell won’t come off! (not to make you paranoid or anything) I put my eggs on to boil today, began talking college choices with my daughter and burned them. They look alright but I’m sure they aren’t inside! ah well, the dogs will have a happy easter! confession: I have been a mother for nearly 8 years and this is the first time I have dyed eggs with my kids by myself. I had to call my mom to find out how to hard-boil eggs. Fabulous. 😀 Next year try dyeing brown eggs, Our Western magazine called Sunset showed a picture, so my grandchildren and I tried it the eggs come out a deep rich jewel tones, do have to leave them in the dye a bit longer. Glad you learned to boil eggs!! I’ve got a few cool kids of my own (20, 17, and 11), who frequently don’t feel like doing what I’ve planned. I try to enjoy whoever shows up, without being mad at those who don’t. Not always easy. I’ve noticed that when my oldest is home from college, she seems more eager to do things with the family, though. I guess there’s hope! Hi! Congratulations! That is a huge accomplishment! Congratulations on learning to hard boil eggs! 🙂 meg you should of called i would of decorated eggs with you girls! (: they are beautiful… p.s. LOVE Waffle looking out the door… TOO cute! LOL! no way! really?!?! i never woulda guessed you hadn’t done this. but remember, you do so much OTHER stuff with them. and now you have done THIS, and had so much FUN, right? {get out your craft stuff… glitter, bits of fabric, buttons, ribbon, all those neat things, and let them fancy their eggs up… regular glue works, or tacky glue, or your hot glue gun thingy… my grandkids LOVE doing that} i totally googled it too… I’m a stalker and former super-mean-to-my-mom teenager. I sure hope that kid isn’t being too hard on you. I could just kick myself when I look back at my nasty attitude. Too cool is something we all regret. Wishing you love and kindness for your holiday weekend. I did the same thing. Thank goodness for Google. We’re just about to do the same thing now! We’re going to try rolling the eggs in a mixture of olive oil and food colouring after their first dunking this year. If it works I’ll post the results, if not well I’ll try and show willing! You are not the only egg Googler out there…I had to do the same thing yesterday. 🙂 Am I the only one that noticed Waffle in the background of the one picture? I bet he was wishing he could join in the fun! 🙂 Too cute! Toooo funny about putting your egg in her lemonade! That really makes me laugh! Your egg pictures turned out fantastic! I can’t stop laughing (out loud, mind you) about the pink lemonade… and then the picture of the afterwards. Oh, HOW FUNNY! And that’s not good, considering I had the stomach flu two days ago and my ribs HURT. But I laugh anyways, because that is soooo funny! I can totally see myself doing that. I have been reading your blog for a few months now and just love it so much! Thanks for sharing your beautiful images and thoughts. It is funny as I was dying eggs yesterday with my boys I thought about you because of the rainbow of bright colors – I thought: I bet she LOVES this! So I had to laugh when you said it was your first time to do it with the kids. LOVE that you put the egg in the lemonade. LOL Funny how things don’t turn out like how we have them in our heads, but they always turn out, don’t they? All I have are brown eggs…how do you think they will turn out:-) I love that you dipped your egg in her drink…so me. I can’t believe you’d never hard boiled an egg! You are so funny. Those were great pics. We do ours tonight. It’s one of my fav things to do. I did it every year growing up and it’s just one of my best memories. Happy Easter to ya Meg:) In her lemonade! Ah that is TOO funny! Happy Easter! C is 5 and has never dyed eggs before. It always gets away from me. But this year, I took the plan one step further and bought the dye tablets and an extra dozen eggs! Except…tomorrow is the Big Day and the eggs are still white. Looks like you had a lovely time 😉 i have to look up how to hard boil eggs EVERY single time I make them! 🙂 I love the picture of the dog looking out the window at you & the kids dying eggs. so sweet. Love the eggs but I am most impressed with your hard boiling skills! I am 50 and I have been hard boiling eggs for 40 of those years and I have never had a perfect batch…EVER! I am off to google this right now. Have a happy Easter! I woke up this morning wondering whether we were going to empty the eggs or boil them. Mine always crack. So now I know I can google it and the decision is made. Thanks. Wish it were warm enough here to do it outside. Still snow in the backyard. The Easter Bunny always has such a hard time of it. awesome!!! oh yeah we dyed 7 packs of eggs yesterday and we all have colored hands. 🙂 Have a VERY happy Easter!! Fun stuff I miss dying eggs – we did it almost every year growing up. And in the south you learn to hard boil eggs as a youngster – I think that deviled eggs are the admission ticket to potlucks. Love all the Easter egg decorating pictures-I did that with my kids for years-they are grown now and I miss it. I especially love the picture where the dog is in the doorway looking out-to cute. What a great family you have-God has blessed you! this is just funny stuff. love it. I couldn’t hard boil eggs until last week either! How nuts! We just never needed them…if we did my mom always made them. my family will only eat eggs if they are scrambled, so i have to google how to hard-boil eggs every easter, too. so you’re not the only dork! and every year, my mom cracks a few and i do not. i’m so glad i learned how to boil eggs from google and not my mom. So cute! That looks like a lot of fun for the kids that were there. 🙂 This post is incredible- I love it! Just stalking your blog thanks to “between you and me’s” post on you today. Your family is precious as is your home and your blog. I’ll be back… love this post. it is simply beautiful. can’t believe no one asked where those super cute sunglasses were purchased. you have fabulous style. always enjoy your blog. I just started checking out your blog. I have to say I love your randomness. (Hence your title, right!?) (((sigh))) I live this post. dear lauren: This is real, this is typical, this is fun, laughter and treasured memories. i’m tired just looking at all of these!!!! it looks like you had a fabulous day! this was a fun post! you’ve given me a great idea 🙂 Love your family! What recipe do you use for your cookies? They look so lovely!!! Seems like only yesterday you were just MY friend. 🙂 This was a great post. You see everything so creatively. Looking at the pictures (which I loved by the way) made me tired. Was that all in just ONE day? No wonder why you are tired. I love this. I just absolutely LOVE “day in the life” type pix! my fave kind! these are awesome!!!!!!!!!! it’s like a story book. 🙂 so so so cool. love it! great idea. 🙂 reminds me of this awesome artwork i saw on etsy the other day: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=38579404 i just love “the basics” of the every day. 🙂 it’s what makes life OURS. it’s what is cozy & familiar NOW. but it’ll look different all too soon. thanks for sharing! What a sweet family. Love how you posted pictures of your family!!! The dinner option list is just to cute! I just LOVE your blog!! What wonderful pictures. I love the butterfly quilt on your couch. You know have you tried the market place pantry cereal at target?? My kids love it and it saves a lot of money:) Looks like a busy, fun, perfect day! and what a life! looks life fun! You will miss all this when you go to Africa. Loved looking at the pictures! Do you have a recipe for these cookies!? 😀 loved how you share your family life! Your Talby reminds me of my Michaela. She even has that same fleece, and wore hers today (the 18th). 🙂 I love that you captured all the moments…sweet family. I LOVE this! And what a neat idea!! This is a fabulous idea for a post! What a busy, but joyful day! Inspiring without saying a word! Hi, will you adopt me? 🙂 I like the butterfly quilt! And I’d like to eat the straweberries please. Kelly Great day! an absolutely beautiful day in a beautiful life This is an awesome post! I don’t know how you do it with 5 kids! Looks like you enjoy your action packed life with your family! The dinner idea is great! a sweet life! I absolutely love doing ADITL’s! We try to do one at least once a year. You are golden. And I want my son to marry your daughter. She wants to move to Seattle, right? Then we’d be related 🙂 I love this..I really really LOVE this… It has taken a little time, but I must say that I am REALLY enjoying my ordinary days so much! I am so happy to know that you are too! We play on the bed before bedtime too…well daddy and kids do while I watch! Great snapshot of your life, Kim my four year old was watching me scroll through your pictures and as I pasted the close-up of talby he said,’whoa, stop. go back up. that girl is cute,no…she is bootiful!’ too funny, i had to share. love the photos btw. what a crazy blessed life you lead:) A lovely day, a lovely life! Great post!! Really….it resembles a day in the CK house. I love this! I’m definitely going to do this soon. Can I come live with you? …. 🙂 This is such a beautiful post! You have such a gift for mothering + documenting. And Talby’s handwriting? My goodness it should be a font! I am reading Crazy Love with our small group and I am really loving it. The author has video clips that really bring the book to life. the photos of the back of annie’s head could so be my daughter’s. in fact, my husband caught a glimpse and said “is that abigail?” um, no! wrong blog. 🙂 though i’m sure her and annie would hit it off! I totally have to do this! Mind if I nap the idea? I’ll let you know if I post it. Lauren’s bangs are adorable. LOVE it! My little boys favorite thing to do is wrestly onour bed too…with me or my husband! My husband usually ends up getting hurt! 🙂 Thanks for sharing! aww this made me so happy. Love this! What a beautiful family! love this! love seeing your “a day in the life”. Love 🙂 Ugh- I’ve spent the past two days with a stomach bug. But, it has given me the time to finally get this up and running: awesome post! i think i’ll do it and link up to you ; ) what a great day, what a great life ; ) Oh my goodness, I so LOVE that quilt and quilt-top pillow on your beige couch!! Handmade? Antique? New? these pictures make me want to move it! 🙂 love this! It’s inspired me to do one of a typical day at our house. …might be scary! I have one of these planned for next week…don’t think I’m copying if you would ever check out my blog!! Sometimes we bloggers are on the same wave length. Awesome post! I love it. I feel like that’s my life (without the extra 4 kids…just one over here), and I push “Replay” every.single.day. But that’s (usually) a good thing. Ah, it looks so much like my days. Including the very same coffee jar (would not make it w/o that coffee ;), the Dora on TV (far too often for us), and the wrestling. Yeah, except my kids aren’t so good with the dishes getting into (much less out of) the dishwasher. 😉 I love “day in the life” posts. I do one each month on my little guy’s birthday day. So important to capture the “day to day” life. Mel from the Larson Lingo turned me on to 10-on-10 and it’s the same idea. If you haven’t checked out her posts on the 10th of each month I highly recommend them. 🙂 I LOVE your day in the life pics! Every single time you post I think- “now why didn’t I do a post like that? Such a good idea!” great post! I love love love the picture of annie and waffles’ feet!!!! Love this post. I might copy it and do something similar…if I can think to pull ou tmy camera and capture the little moments. The things you captured are things that your children will love remembering because they are the everyday little things that make your family life unique. That was sweet to see. I love seeing other people’s “real life”. Love these shots! Great job of capturing the every day at the real levels too! how funny, we had spaghetti for dinner yesterday too 🙂 Minus the meatballs…Lent 🙂 Love it!! Especially the feet and dog paw! LOVE this… just PERFECT! I think I am going to challenge myself to capture a day in our life real soon! Awesome post! I am trying so hard to remember to value the everyday things & not just let the day get away from me…this a great reminder! (my favorite picture is your daughter & the dog “holding hands”!) You have a beautiful home and a beautiful family. Such blessings and this post made me so happy. I LOVE Waffle…wanna squeeze him he’s so cute! “plain macaroni and with cheese” That’s my favorite too. 🙂 loved your pictures and was inspired to do it at my house and scrapbook it someday…..when all my 4 girls still at home are grown and gone……:) I seriously want to clone Waffle!! So cute! I am totally going to do this one day… more for myself than anything, to see all that I actually do! (I’ll make sure to plan it on a day when I’m not lounging around drinking coffee and reading magazines like I am today!) This was great. I love seeing daddies and their kids. Just when my boys have had ENOUGH of their mommma (and vice versa), daddy walks through the door and everyone gets a second wind. You got a package in the mail!! Was it something fun??? That was fun 🙂 what a great memory to have. enjoyed hanging out with you today. love the pillows. love waffles. LOVE a long way gone. love that talby has good taste (mmmm ramen noodles!) love little girl and doggie toes. love that boys like to read. love me some daddy time. and audience participation after a meal?? i LOVE that!! can i come live with you? i love all this family & fun! what awesome pictures of true home life 🙂 …and i would LOVE to hang out on the couch with waffle. he is just the cutest thing ever! lucky annie 🙂 Great peek into your daily life. Looks like a life full of love:) Cute sunglasses!! I can’t believe you have the will power to make chocolate chip cookies and not eat any…you my dear are super woman:) Is that a moth quilt on your couch? It is beautiful! If someone made it for you (or you did) I’d love to learn more! love this…and now i dont feel so crazy!! Love it. Your days seem so peaceful and happy. You are creating wonderful childhood memories for your children. God bless you and your husband….and your children. 🙂 I loved this! Thanks for sharing your day with us. 🙂 love love LOVE this. so beautiful 🙂 love it megan! thanks for the inspiration to catch an ordinary day around here in pictures too. i just saw a great video this week about this very thing… watch this with a couple of kleenex and then bookmark it for those rough days of mommy hood! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olSyCLJU3O0 REAL! Love it..No Words needed.. What a beautiful, loving family you have! You’re such a lucky lady!!! one of my most favorite posts of all time. What a perfectly wonderful snapshot of your life. Someday your kids will look back on this and thank you for recording it. Because they will forget what it was like in February 2010. FAB-U-LOUS. But missed your pretty face which is clearly behind the camera! Love this so much. Love it! Have a colorful day Meg, I’m off to make myself do LOTS of housework. *smiles* You and your family amaze me. Y’all seem so together. I love seeing the smiles on your kids face. I enjoyed experiencing a “day in your life” through pictures. Thanks for putting a smile on my face today, I love love love your blog! Love this!!! Sweet day with all your gorgeous children!!! I love this!! What happy memories. =) Ah, those precious “everydays.” 🙂 i love how you have the gift of making the simple ordinary moments of the day seem even more magical & grand!! It’s amazing how many times we load the disherwasher at our house. I glad we’re not alone. Thanks for sharing. Loved it. Wow that’s one day? I got tired just looking at the photos. How do you do it all? That’s great post! What a happy, joyful, family! Beautiful photos, as always. Love this post. I loved this! What a great idea. Your family seems like such a fun loving classic american crew! and don’t even get me started on your beautiful teenage daughter… yikes for you. Ok you have crossed the line… you have polka dot sunglasses too! You didn’t even put those in your post about polka dots… but that’s ok I still loved seeing them this morning. There is just something about polka dots; I even love saying polka dots…. I tried on a pair of prescription glasses that had polka dots on them and I thought does Meg own a pair of these too? Love this post! What a great idea – it’s the simple things that make up a great life! Thanks! so my kids are not the only ones that dont put the cap back on the toothpaste! Love it! it shows it all. lots of love and fun. what a great life. what a blessing. Talby’s list made me want to reach right thru the screen and squeeze her. Especially the part about mashed “potadoes”- like you can hear her saying it or sounding it out. Sweetest thing ever! 🙂 a day in a beautiful life…i need to do this…:) Whew Girl 🙂 I’m tired just LOOKING at these pictures 😉 Loved this post 😉 and of course I loved Annie with her big smile bringing in the mail 🙂 That’s it right there! Those pictures shout happiness and love…something to be thankful for! I LOVE your blog! Have a fantabulous day! well….that was a good weekend. i am sending in for my visa in the morning. i was running/walking on the treadmill this morning and everything felt like it's soooo heavy.
Meg, you’re awesome! I just checked out your Whatever Shop and had to buy the typewriter print. I also featured it on my blog http://www.simple-e-design.com in hopes to drive more traffic to your blog and etsy shop. Hope it helps w/ funds for your Africa trip, but more likely you’ll be the one helping whoever is reading, like you do for me! Can’t wait for my print 🙂 It’s soooo cool. Thanks for keeping me sane everyday! xoxo, Lisa I am LOVING your blog! So freakin’ cute! :^D my 4 year old, Autumn Grace, and i were checking out your pictures this morning. she loves to look with me. anyways, she had a little something to say here and there… like things we have that are similar. when we got the the picture of your son she said “well i dont know who he is, but he’s REALLY cracking my out”… that means cracking me up around here ;). thanks for all your beautiful pictures, you totally inspire me!!! hoping one day to have a good camera and take beautiful pics like you 🙂 i always love your randomness…. fruit loops have never looked so good I love all the pictures. I wish I had your creative eye. Why is it when one woman speaks “mom” (my kids would rather have a frozen dinner than me cook, or the laundry pile is so high I can’t see over it) we all can give a collective, “UMMMMM, HUMMMM.” The human expereince is really more the same than we think I suspect… Love, Love the sock monkey tee! Monkey with a bow? Too cute!! my favorite picture was the one of your daughter and her ‘baby’sweetly sleeping under her blanket:) You wanna know why I love you? Why I so totally enjoy looking at pictures of fabric, and yogurt, and children I do not even know? Your laundry pile is about as big as mine. I just can’t keep up with it & I only have 2 kids. I can’t imagine how out of control it would be if I had 5 kids! did you make Annie’s sock monkey shirt? LOVE it! My Kate would LOVE that! You should list those in your shop! Thanks for showing your laundry pile. It makes me feel better. Is that your picture that just made it into the first group finalists on Pioneer Woman? The cheerios picture up above is awfully similar to one in today selection. Great photos, Lauren looks so grown up., That awesome that your shop sold out Congrats, hope you get the $ you need towards your trip! ooh and love the fabric shot Okay, so you wash my pile that high, and I’ll fold them! Laundry’s everywhere. what great photos, i could relate to the pile of laundry 🙂 and a few others. we have a basketball player too! have a great week! susan Meg – Your pictures are so pretty! The bowl of fruit loops look really good at 1 am. BTW I just awarded you the Sunshine Blog Award. You can check it out at http://www.smallburst.com. Just add it to your umpteen awards! LOVE your honesty.. LOVE your heart. Glad to know a few other gals space out every so often. haha two thoughts…that you don’t have to reply to. 🙂 the mountain of laundry made me sigh. now that it’s just the hubster and i, i STILL look at my paltry little pile and avoid it. Is that your “cool new phone with texting”? Ha! 😉 Okay, now I have to go get chalk paint and paint a wall. I love that!! I love your random photos. Now THAT is real life! Some of them are just plain ART. And your kids are adorable. what parallel lives we lead! Looking at pictures of your kids makes me want to drop out of college and have a BABY!… but then I realize I only have one semester left and though babies are SO cute… the responsible thing is to just wait a few months… ah! You’re kiddo’s are cute though… that was the main thought. 😉 Meg, Love the posts where you just ramble and show random pics. Feels like I’m a fly on your wall:) Those were great! That one with your oldest and your sweet dog…just beautiful. She should go into modeling…gasp:o Cute pics, cute post…ugh I hate those laundry piles and “skin goggles” totally made me smile 🙂 Your photos are great!! Your mountain of laundry made me laugh out loud. I’ve been right there. {grin} Love all the pics! Skin goggles! Baaaaaahahahahah! Love the pics. We live in Kansas now…so question: Why do they say Rock Chalk Jayhawk? Thanks, Heather R. Love that pic with the tucked-in stuffed animal in the foreground and Annie in the background. Precious! You certainly are a BUSY woman! And going to Africa, too…aMaZiNg!!!! I love that your everyday life pictures are worth sharing….we love them as much as you do! love this post…we could be friends in real life. Favorite pic….Annie in the background coloring and her little kitty cat (?) all tucked in nice and cozy 🙂 HOW sweet is that????? love the everything pictures. just life – so great : ) Just discovered your blog via TaDa Creations… Thankyou thankyou for showing your laundry. I have a huge mountain in my house. Yours looks prettier somehow. I have a dream of someday having every bit of wash put away every sock matched, every bin empty. A crazy dream, maybe unatainable but it gets me through the day! Laundry totally multipies doesn’t it!!! Lope the pics… those all the fun colors you always have going in your house. Annie is adorable… love how she tucks in Micha… my girls do that too 🙂 Lauren is VERY beautiful 🙂 I love her hair, she is a total cutie! i love the glimpses you give of your life…..it’s so real! Seeing a little “ROCK CHALK” helps too! 😉 lauren is absolutely gorgeous. & i love hearing the tidbits of annie’s conversation. ha, sounds and looks familiar – i think i washed 7 laods of laundry this weekend and i am avoiding folding the last three loads cause i am worn out. i checked out the shop on saturday afternoon and it was almost gone even by then – how awesome that it sold out! i went to honduras last year all by myself – left the kiddos and husband at home – and it was so amazing. crazy hard and life changing. i pray that your africa prep continues to go smoothly. I love that you shared a pic of your laundry pile!! Mine looks the same way after a day of washing! Oh to be a fly on the wall when Annie is engaged in conversation – how cute it would be! I could look at pictures of your kids all day long! (Is that creepy? I don’t mean for it to be!) The picture of your oldest daughter is beautiful – the one with the dog. Look at those eye lashes! All of your kids are just adorable. Loved this post! Thanks for sharing a bit of your lovely & colorful life!! I can’t believe how much Waffle looks like our sheered-back Old English Sheepdog Gideon. Makes my heart melt looking at these two fellas. and you dropped your hat in the parking lot, it’s hanging behind the desk at the WC. Love your pictures!! Where is sweet Talby at? I love Annie’s tie-dyed dress…very cute. If I ever have a daughter I will make her a tie-dye dress 🙂 Thanks for giving us a snapshot of your weekend – I love the chalkboard wall! what a precious family!! Such a beautiful family you have, Meg. Such great pictures. The random everyday ones are the best. rock chalk, jayhawk. Um, those red and white curtains??? Did you make them? I am in love. How about posting some of those lovelies in your shop? 🙂 If you bought them, please tell me where they are from. I love your blog send ticket = someone to fold your laundry Skin goggles – love it! I have to ask again, because I’m a stalker like that. What kind of camera is it you have? I sooo need a new camera. then saying yes to making a cake isn't the best idea. while it cooked she got out all the things she wanted to put on the cake. i think they must have done it at sunday school or preschool…because we haven't ever done that. That’s so cute and she did a really good job! I love her cake, great job! WOW that is such a sugary cake– hehe! It does look yummy though- Annie did a great job 🙂 it’s like a gingerbread house…on a cake! so cute! great job for saying YES! AND for resisting the sugar. you are doing better than me! Jesus certainly would love it…and Annie is so very adorable! Yea for Annie! Great job! Kelly annie did such a wonderful job on decorating the cake who knowns she just might be a cake decorator when she growns up!! blessings. I don’t have kids of my own, but you’ve inspiring me to let my students be creative with more than just paper, scissors, and glue. Oh my gosh – Annie is so totally adorable and you are the very best mommy ever! I wish was I was more willing to allow my kiddos to be free to create. I’m going to get with God on that one. This is so awesome! We love singing happy birthday to Jesus too! Great post! That is awesome. So wonderful that you caught it all on camera! What a sweet day. Thanks for sharing. Still giggling about the Charlotte comment. 🙂 You need a like button for things like this. Super cool of you and her! She is so cute and you are a great mom. Very good for you about the sugar! That last photo is perfection. What a beautiful blessing God has given you. What a darling cake.. You are just an angel to sit through that and not eat the whole thing.. Loved the sweet smiles on her face.. That was a load of sugar in its self. Whewwwwwww, I can FEEL that sugar all the way across town! LOL! We don’t do a lot of sugar ourselves… but we let the grandkids do that when they are here. I’ve never been one to take much to sugary things, and amazingly, my own boys didn’t want lots of candy or stuff like that when they were growing up. i absolutely love your blog, so i nominated it for an award (over on my blog) I’ll bet someone has already said this (sorry, didn’t have time to check), but I know of a few people who make birthday cakes for Jesus on Christmas Eve or Day. They use white cake and white frosting (purity)…but the same idea your daughter had. Sing ‘Happy Birthday’, read the story of His birth, remember why we celebrate Christmas. I’m actually crying. How precious is that face?! And what a cake! She didn’t hold anything back, did she? 🙂 LOVE!! That girl ROCKS! Plus, it looks like she’s helping you out by getting all the sugar out of the house! LOVE this! This post cracks me up because I did that one year ago, and only made it until my daughters birthday. I baked her a wicked delicious birthday cake and as she stared at me with adorable 3 year old eyes saying “Mommy want some cake?” I caved, hard. But the exercise in self control really did make a difference to the cravings, both physically and mentally. I understand the whole sugar thing…but for me I’ve gone vegan and must leave the room when the cheese is out! Yes, happy birthday Jesus, He would love it…sugar and all! Kim oh. my. Goodness. Love, love. love it. This year we started our own tradition and sang Happy Birthday to Jesus and ate cake for breakfast before we read some children’s books about the true meaning of Christmas and then we enjoyed our stockings and presents. Our eight month old simply played along, but our three year old truly enjoyed celebrating Jesus’ birthday…who can say no to blowing out candles and eating cake when you’re three. I also wanted to thank you for your link to Rachel’s beautiful speech. I immediately linked my friends and family to her speech via our family blog and have scheduled it for viewing at our women’s bible study this week. I am so excited to watch it for the second time and absorb everything she has to share all over again. I like you have her voice in my mind and keep saying “I am here to serve with joy” over and over again. God bless you Meg. We are on a sugar holiday of sorts at our house too and it is BRUTAL! I wanted to share a little something I found that helps take the edge off. (I even sound like an addict. And don’t get me started on caffeine.) Have you tried “organic Raw Blue Agave”? It is low glyvemic and won’t spike your blood sugar like the good ol’ white stuff. Perfect in things that you need a little sweet…oatmeal, grape-nuts,tea, etc. My kids even eat it on pancakes. (My mom gave it to them and they didn’t know the difference.) fantastic. beautiful. Annie is so cute…cake was lovely…and I wish I had your will power…cutting back on all things bad for me…slowly but surely! Good Luck! What a sweet girl!! Love her fun cake, and singing to Jesus! That is truly the cutest thing ever! Annie is just about the cutest girl I have ever seen! And what a wonderfully creative cake…..I love it. We love to make cakes at our house, too. I need to learn to be a bit more hands-off, and I think I can do it after reading your post. I just can’t stand the sound of sprinkles crunching under my feet for the rest of the day 🙂 I love your blog!!! We sing happy birthday to Jesus every Christmas morning at breakfast. This year we sang 4 times in a row. It’s fun! I love Annie’s cake, and Jesus would love it too! :o) My girlies made a jesus cake for christmas, it is so much fun. I am amazed that you have all the lovely candy goodness in your cupboards, uneaten and waiting to be used on cakes. It would be gobbled up in my house. I have to do special runs to the supermarket when decorating calls. Loved the Rachel link. There should have been a kleenex alert before viewing. Great message. Great job staying away from the cake (& one finger lick is NOT a big deal)! I am new to commenting but definitely not new to reading. My sister in law is the one that made that cool scrapbook paper wall that you featured on your sidebar. Anyway, LOVE your blog! Oh yeah, and I made your crescent chicken yesterday and it turned out GREAT (and you’re right….no leftovers). I am a “mac n cheese” out of the box kind of gal so it was nice to find something so tasty that was super easy to make. Keep doin’ what you’re doin’! Laura’s comment is funny…”Jesus gave up sugar too”! Did she eat this cake after she made it? It looks way too sweet to actually eat! “But there was nothing else to do”???? She is just the cutest thing ever! Love the cake! A friend of mine did a “cake for Jesus” with her kids when they were little, so sweet. Love this post! She is an absolute doll. Seeing kids be imaginative & creative is the best! Good for you on the only licking your finger once… impressive!!! WOW!! She did an amazing job. I love your reference to that Sex in the City scene, so funny!!! I feel ya. I’m doing a no sugar thing too. I would have done the same thing. You are one strong chick to even stand that close to the cake, just the smell would do me in:) i absolutely love this…what an awesome memory for her… It’s perfect. 🙂 hi meg! quick and silly question for you. i think it was on your blog {in the sidebar} that you linked to this colorful canvas someone did that listed out their family goals. i can’t find that link in my bookmarks. do you know what i am talking about and if so, could you pass along the link to me again? thanks SO much!! Too sweet. 🙂 There is nothing like the precious heart of a child. Thank you for sharing! HOW AWESOME IS ANNIE!!!???? Well, we allll know that answer 🙂 Sweet Sweet Annie!!! I’m serious, I’ve said it before….my littlest guy will turn 5 in March….please let Annie marry him!!!! And then, I, too can have a Happy Birthday Jesus Cake made by Annie 🙂 (But we would make her go to OU football games!!! 😮 How cute! The way you are with your kids is so inspiring to new momma’s like me! The Charolette scene (and what followed) was great!! And the cake looks yummy! So sweet! You’ve inspired me to go on a sugar detox….I was getting so out of control. I haven’t had any in four days. Really, I can’t believe how much better I already feel. I do have to say, that is some real self control on your part! So sweet! That is the most darling cake I’ve ever seen. And your reference to Charlotte in the shower just made me laugh so hard I snorted. I showed this photo to my 4.5 year old. She said she wants to be Annie’s friend so she can make cakes with her. seriously? she is such a cute girl! that is one precious little girl. and one awesome mama. i love that you let her do it all. how special for her. and rewarding. and you didn’t go back for a second lick? impressive I don’t know hat was more beautiful her or the cake… Yes Jesus would love it it is fit for a KING! Happy Wednesday to you and yours. Beautiful! And the Charlotte comment had me cracking up – I’m pregnant and did that with raw cookie dough the other day – and I thought about the SAME exact thing! I hear that Jesus is off of sugar too Her bangs/haircut just kills me. She’s so freaking cute. And your sugar boycott is inspirational, although right now, I’m cutting sugar vicariously… I feel ya on the sugar thing. Attempting to cut back my ridiculous coffee consumption right now. It’s making me cranky with a capital CRANK! That is darling! So cute! I would eat it up though, good self control! Oh my goodness!!! You are the front runner for mom of the year! Not only did you agree to bake a cake while doing no sugar, but you let her frost and decorate it too!!! I really need to loosen up and just let the kids create! Love how loaded the cake was! Reminds me of our Christmas cookies with and inch of frosting and twice as high in sprinkles! (Serious kudos for only taking a lick…I thought letting the kids get schwan’s ice cream cones was hard!) I never had the nerve to let my children do something like that in the kitchen. You are such a great mom to do that. Sorry I missed out on such things. OMG…way too yummy!!! How cute! Better than I could do!! Very cute! Reminds me of yesterday…minus the cake. My six year old asked me during lunch if I knew how to find “the place for poor people to live.” I replied that I could find out, why did she need to know? She explained that she was hoping we could spend the afternoon shopping for clothes and shoes and toys….all for the poor people, then we could take them there. I agreed that it was a very thoughtful idea, but wondered what made her think of that. Her reply: “Because Christmas isn’t about getting gifts, it is about giving them. It is about love. It is about what Jesus would do.” Great post, Meg. I love to see Annie in all her glory. I thought of you yesterday while we made sugar cookies and let the kids go to town with cutters and sprinkles. Steve and I were both silently cursing the dough that wouldn’t cooperate. I said, “We’re making happy memories for them, remember?” He just laughed at me. It was good. It was a “Meg moment.” Cheers! xoxo this is the cutest thing I’ve seen and heard all day! So precious. such a beautiful cake!! That is the sweetest thing! And wow, is she creative! What a perfect kid cake. absolutely precious! well done annie! Gorgeous cake! Of course, once she added all that candy, I wouldn’t have been able to eat it. Well, okay, but just the bottom two layers. 😉 Annie – the cake is beautiful! Great job!!! HOW PRECIOUS and SO SWEET! She is such a cutie pie! P.S. I, too, am trying to give up the sugar habit – it is like crack to me! HA! Good luck and keep up the good work – you can do it my friend! Big hugs! :o) Every time I look at your pictures…I think I wish I had the “gusto” to be so patience…not concerned about the “mess” etc….your kids seem to be “kids”…. Gorgeous cake Annie! I could never give up sugar I’m just too weak! She’s precious! I love how kids come up with this stuff all on their own without any prompting from us. That’s awesome and it did make Jesus happy 🙂 Don’t you know that, that cake made her Father smile!!!!! How precious she is to you and Him! Thanks for sharing! these pictures are ridiculously cute. i need to squeeze that kid. I’ve done the “spit out” thing when I’ve been on sugar fasts in the past, too. It’s rather comical! Loved the photos, and the commentary. So sweet. I just love this post. Well done Meg with the sugar. You are to be commended! As for me I ate one and one-half cinnamon buns yesterday…before bed…it would have been two whole ones but someone caught me. It was a weak moment for me. Annie is so cute. Love the bangs. It is a beautiful cake! As for the sugar thing I am the same way with caffiene right now. Funny thing is that I have given up a lot of sugar by giving up the caffiene. I am starting to think I may survive it also,lol! oh He does! Go Annie! Good for you, I don’t think I would have been so strong to avoid sugar this long! You are inspiring 🙂 Jesus would love the cake! That is so sweet! OH MAN! That’s unreal. I really really love it. 🙂 She did such a great job just like her momma would do. Both are so creative! |
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Kimberlee J. - Love the earrings you’re wearing in that last shot.
Christina - Those first pictures with your younger son (I think that’s right) are so funny. And Talby is looking so like you! What a sweet face!
Happy Mother’s Day.
karen - Happy Mother’s Day Meg!!
Melanie - I love the photo of Talby. She is adorable!
Erin from Skoots and Cuddles - i love the photo of you and your pooch! it truly is the good stuff. thanks for sharing!
amy jupin - please move to alabama and be my bff. pretty please!
Jennifer - Wonderful, happy pictures! Especially the ones of you all terrorizing some indoor pool. HA!
We did a family cannon ball (Mom and Dad too!) on our cruise back in December. A family was allowing their kid to be VERY rude, splashing my girls terribly with no regard at all. So before we left, we retaliated. Great lesson for the kids, no?
Sixty-Fifth Avenue - Looks like so much fun! All of it!
We are starting swim lessons next week for our 4 year old…I hope this year she has more fun in the water.
Have a fabulous mothers day!!
Carrie K - good stuff for sure!! love the pool pics the most…
and that one of you and waffle…haaahaahaaa…that made me laugh LOUD…at WORK…whoops…haaahaahaa
Caroline @ The Feminist Housewife - Such priceless photos! I’m so glad I found your blog. I loved the guest post at 320 Sycamore!
Staci - Fun times 🙂 And I love Waffle’s “mean dog” face 🙂 I love it that you have to help him be mean 😉 Happy Mother’s Day Meg!!!!!!!!
Sue K. - oh ya, i forgot to say, it hard to make a doodle look vicious, even when you try too!
Sue K. - love waffles haircut – looks just like koda used too sniff sniff… and oh my goodness, talby looks just like you!!!
Molly - Looks like fun!!!
Molly
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Jesse Peak - My little ones just started taking swim lesson 2 months ago. We are loving it. Can’t wait to let them take off and swim this summer.
P.S. I have been thinking I might try to make an at home photo booth and duplicate that look. I think it would be fun! Happy Mother’s Day!
Gemma - Your pictures are lovely!( As per usual lol)
Yummy doughnuts 😀
Gemma X http://musings-of-a-gem.blogspot.com/
seriouslyahomemaker - stop it with the cute kids. its not fair to the rest of us! 🙂
angie
kelli - please have a drubers giveaway! 🙂
Dana Banana - This is the 3rd post I have seen today about Drubers. Makes me REALLY want donuts!