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my mom and i treated the kids to IHOP.
talby pulled on my arm and whispered in my ear
scott was happy too.
sean ordered a cheeseburger and fries.
my niece playing in grandma’s yard.
they all like the natural history museum on the KU campus.
scott could hear as well as a bat.
our second annual picture on the jayhawk.
That picture of the dog is hilarious! yes, i think annie is taking after mama. you can tell she is with you while you are taking your beautiful pictures. she is a natural. i love all the t-shirts in your pictures – we aren’t there yet but it gives me hope that warmer weather is on its way. Love the Annie pics….I am counting the days until I can give Moses a camera…I feel like that will be the closest I will ever get to knowing what is going on in that mind of his! while at my parents’ we went to the nature center.
i dont’ know how smart this was…
lauren caught a teenie little frog.
she’s has always been awesome at catching slimy things.
oh that’s nice. Holy cow, that was creepy. And that frog, what an amazing closeup of his MOUTH! Seeing the kids enjoying the outdoors again is so wonderful. It reminds me that we will need to reserve the Hesston College cabin again this summer and have a campout together – how many snakes do you think they will find this year? and hopefully the pond will have a little more water in it. Snakes and frogs and freaky birds—eeeew :)! I’m a little squeamish–but glad you’re a cool mom with brave kiddos! once again, beautiful pictures. and the snake pix – awesome. i love kids and nature such a wonderful mix. These women who have commented about yucky snakes never went on Audobon Campouts, did they? I will send the picture of you holding the snake and see if they really freak out!! I’m so jealous of your beautiful weather! I can’t imagine you miss Chicago too much with the milder temps earlier in the season way over in Kansas! :o) Great pics – looks like a fabulous day! We tried going for a bike ride today and turned around four houses down … windy and cold cold cold. Ugh. Why do we live here again??? Your picture of the close-up on the snake’s head with the out-of-focus face in the background is great. I really love it. HEEEBY JEEBIES! Wow. What a brave chic. Everytime I read or look at your blog it reminds me I need to LOOSEN up!!! I probably would never have allowed them to be over by the water doing that but WHY NOT? Who cares if they get a bit wet or dirty? Its spring break…not heading to church. Wow you are a great Mom I could never deal with the snake, frog maybe but they kinda give me the creeps as well, even though we have an african frog(which is really a fish as it is always under water), that is really mine because I feed and clean his stuff, of course , how did I get stuck with a frog?? LOVE your blog – your photo stories are so wonderful. I look forward to all of the color in them. Nice to see that smile on Lauren – I too am a critter lover. slimy or not. After all they are all God’s Creatures. eeewwwww! Now i totally have the heebie jeebies! Definitely what nightmares are made of for some of us! LOL! Sooo happy for Lauren though! haha! okay, that’s just creepy. and to think… you kiss those same lips good night. gross. last week i saw some love
these 2 were sick last monday.
another morning annie said "sean sit by me"
she’s feeling better by the way…. ******************************************************************************************** i am at my parents’ house for the next few days. i have nothing for easter baskets as of friday at 3:00. we’ll see what i can pull together in 24 hours. glad to see i am not the only one who shops last minute! Happy Easter! I have Easter stuff. In the trunk of the car. 9:42 pm Saturday. Can I pull it together? Will the Easter Bunny deliver this year? He better get hopping! I have nothing for Easter baskets as of 12:50 Saturday. I need to get busy. how sweet. it’s great when you see the love between siblings. cute curls on talby. have a wonderful easter. If they did sweet stuff all the time we would never appreciate it, your kids are so cute. I had to rush to Target today to fill the basket! They never let me down! Also, I love those pictures! So precious! I thought it seemed rather quiet across the street. Your hubby’s been outside working hard though! Happy Easter to you! I took half of my stuff for my sons basket out of our own food cabinet…cheerios, gerber puffs. 🙂 Love those precious moments of sibling harmony! as a mom to 3 aged 10, 11 and 19 I always got VERY excited to see THE LOVE!! when my 19 yr. old was at home and giving his much younger sisters the time of day I just ooooozed with joy. the girls are either totally into each other or wanting to rip the other apart..lol…so all moms know when you find those tender moments you just get sooooo HAPPY. annie likes target almost as much as i do.
and why wouldn’t she?
super shopper as always. Thanks, Meg, for directing me to your Nov. 9 post. My husband has bought a lens from b&h as he is somewhat into photography. I’m just now getting the photography bug. 🙂 Oh Target!! I, too, don’t have one near me, but am going to Bangor, Me. this spring. You can be sure Target will be my first stop!! i have that umbrella. : ) Your photos are gorgeous as always! Love the last one of Annie jumping. I’m glad you see you raise your daughters right… every woman should love Target. 🙂 Annie reminds me so much of my younger sister when she was little. Makes me smile every time. What kind of camera do you have? Great pics, as always! I love Jelly Belly’s at Target. They are the secret reason I go there instead of Wal Mart. 😉 i can’t stand it… look at those monkey plates! they ARE fun! can i some how make a monkey fit into Easter? 🙂 I LOVE TARGET TOO! Who doesn’t very cute pictures! we don’t have a fill your own bag candy aisle in our target! Nor do we have a REstoration Hardware anywherre but via our catalog. I’m feeling a need to move to Kansas! I am inspired to head to Target today – thank you. Do you ever write about your camera/photos? Do you photoshop them before you post? etc etc. The colors are AWESOME in all of your pictures! i must take my camera out more often!! I can’t believe how mild it is where you are, the snow banks here are up to my eye balls , seriously, I am so craving spring, and sweaters . I love Target too!! Now I am inspired to take my camera next time I go! Great photos!!! Those pink boots are the greatest, I want some! i was resting (zoning in and out of sleep) on the couch.
photo booth uses the web cam to take your picture. here are a few of her self-portraits.
there were 62 pictures in all. That is way cute! Perfect for scrapbooking! that is great. my youngest would be doing the same thing if we had it. good reason not to. lol. HA! You know that doesn’t end when they are teenagers. I have photos all over our computer that look exactly like that but with 16 year old faces. Can you imagine the fun we would’ve had as kids if we had all these toys? We’d have much better pictures of ourselves too, instead of those blurry ones 25 feet away. That just cracks me up! Hey there, O my goodness that is tooo cute! i love it. 🙂 Kids are wonders at computers. No fear of screwing anything up! She is a cutie …love the mean face!!! i can’t stand it… she is the cutest little toot ever! precious! Thank you Annie for making me laugh today! I love the second photo in this post most – maybe because you can’t quite tell if she REALLY feels grumpy, or because she’s working so hard at LOOKING grumpy when she’s not. That is so sweet! Naughty Baby is also a Funny Baby!! Oh my gosh that it so cute, and funny, I wonder what she will be when she grows up , a scientist maybe ? she just has to try everything for herself, fearless I love that . Oh my gosh, that is tooooo funny! I think I’d have to make a photo album of all 62 pictures. :o) LOVE LOVE LOVE it! Now that is the cutest thing ever!!! After your post yesterday about the over cooked bread in the microwave, I’m beginning to think Annie loves to get up to mischief. Those photos are hilarious…I love them!!! I have never heard of Photo Booth before, but I would totally buy it if I got pictures this great! I think those are just about the most candid, honest photos a kid could take of themself! Precious! I love the way she had all the Little Einsteins lined up along the front there too–and the Memory game–all too cute!!! 62 pictures!! WOW…shes just adorable!!! She will either keep you young or make you old..lol 62 pictures of that little cutie. you hit the jackpot. that is too funny! I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time!She’s so funny. Where does she get this? SO precious!! I LOVE it!! 🙂 Hope your day is sunnier than ours has been!! 🙂 This has got to be one of my favorite posts so far this year! Absolutley hysterical. And I love the one where she’s not looking too thrilled with her photo results. Just like a woman. And notice how she has to show us her toys? Just like a blogger. But then there’s always the kiss to greet us Hello! I love it! Those expressions are priceless. What fun to be a kid.
this is what bread (zweibach) looks like craig…it’s time to get those smoke detectors up! i am so glad those are zweibach. OMG! i thought for sure that was HAMMY in the microwave, my stomach quickly returned when I scrolled down to see it was only bread. whew! Oh-oh. I had a naughty baby this weekend too. He pulled a lamp down of a table in his room, took off the lamp shade and the bare bulb burned a hole right through the carpet, pad and all. Luckily he wasn’t hurt, that’s the good news. Bad news: carpet has to be replaced before we sell. It’s really, really ugly. oh gosh… the little lessons of life! nice. at least it wasn’t silverware in there to cause a fire!! our microwave has burn marks in it because of that. First of all..I love your microwave…very nice! I think all kids have done that, kinda surprised it hasnt happened already. For us it seemed to take FOREVER to get the smell out. I was wondering how those low microwave location workout with little kids, they need a lock. Imagine if it would have cooked the other 91:03 minutes! Oh my… lol I think it’s time you start calling these part 1, part 2 and so on :)! This picture gives new meaning to the word “zwiebach”. There may be others that know the tradition better than I do, but I believe that zwiebach were eaten fresh the day they were baked but toasted the second day, thus “twice baked” which is what zwiebach means. Since these were made on Saturday, Annie must have known that they needed to be “toasted” to be good on Monday. |
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Lauren - Wonderful! Adorable!
I was JUST THERE last Sunday with all MY kids and we were doing almost the SAME THINGS you’re kids are doing here! How funny is that?!
I posted three photos of my kids eating at IHOP on MY blog – is there something in the water Meg? Or can we just chalk it up to “great minds think alike”?
Take care!
meg duerksen - kristin…i don’t want to oversell IHOP. i just like breakfast out not necessarily there. but it is very kid friendly.
eryn – thank you for your new blog addy…and loving on talby.
crsytal…i started on yours too. i am so excited for our swap. i will finally be part of a blog swap thing…it’s a first. 🙂
jen- how funny would it be if you actually went into IHOP wearing helmets!! and then explained to the manager why. maybe then you would get a free meal. that would be hilarious. be sure to take pictures if you do.
Jennifer P. - You always manage to catch your kids in perfect kid poses. Love that one of Lauren and the sideways glance!
we went to IHOP not too long ago and the waiter dropped a whole plate of pancakes on my 3 year old’s head. Not only was there very little apology, there was no complimentary ANYTHING. We haven’t been back since. but you’ve made it all look so tasty, we might strap on our helmets and try it again ;)!
Crystal - meg….I have not forgotten you! I have already started your swap goodies based on what I “know” about you through your blog…maybe if I tell you I will answer those questions tomorrow then I will actually do it… 🙂 We will see not won’t we?
Have a great night!!
Crystal
eryn - I love the pic of talby…she’s so darn beautiful! I LOVE french toast…there’s no shame in that! I order it almost every time I go out for breakfast (the like twice a year it happens).
ps, changed my blog url to snapshotsofmymommymoments.blogspot.com
Blanca - I love me some IHOP too. I always order French toast with a side of hash browns and bacon. Yummy.
Blanca
Laura T. - Great pictures —
My son LOVES IHOP; however, we don’t have one near us in NJ. Whenever we travel to Ohio, we make sure we stop so he can have his IHOP fix.
chris - I too love a nice breakfast out, but can you believe we are so deprived and don’t have IHOP, but Denny’s is good too, my oldest child always orders chicken and fries for breakfast when we go , without fail.
we haven’t been in a while, we must go this weekend, thanks for the reminder.
traci - i haven’t been to an ihop since i was very young. i loved them. i might have to find one – your post made me hungry. i would have been like sean – i would order lunch food for breakfast. thanks for the memories.
kristin - will you believe that i have never been to ihop?
and it always sounds so cozy and nice…i will have to go.
amy - I love Scott’s face in the one with he and Lauren!