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Good thing I know that God has placed me right where & when I am for a reason. Just in the right time in history & with all the right people I need to reach out to. But this was fun anyway & pretty right-on if you ask me. You Belong in 1958 You're fun loving, romantic, and more than a little innocent. See you at the drive in! What Year Do You Belong In?

Well Dawson of course! He's just at that fun, photogenic age I guess. We got Dawson a little scooter for his birthday. It came in the mail a few days after his birthday, so that's why the pictures weren't with the rest of his birthday photos. So now he's a big boy & matches his older siblings! What a gang of fun, huh!? Oh & blueberries are good for your health I hear, but not so good for clean skin & unstained clothes! Say cheese!! He's so good at that now!

I guess this is called a "splash park". Fun stuff. Great for a summer play date in AZ. The kids loved it. There was lots of running & slipping & sliding. We met up with an Internet friend of mine. Our first face-to-face meeting. Savannah was very excited because her & the 8 year-old boy have been writing each other for months now. It was neat to see Savannah & her pen-pal meet. I think it's cool that Savannah got to practice her writing skills while making a friend.

Yeah, I can't believe it, Dawson is already 2 years old. It seems like I just had him. Look, here I am & he's in that big 'ole belly of mine. Can the time have passed so quickly? I must be getting old. Anyway, there was of course the parties & the ice cream which I don't even think he had a clue it was all for him. Though he did enjoy it all, as you can tell by all his smiling & laughing. ( ok , that was sarcastic). My in-laws made him kind of a whole Thomas the Tank themed party. Here's Savannah reading him his Thomas card while it plays the " choo choo " sound of Thomas & Friends. Tim's sister did a good job with the cake. And every single gift he received from them was something to do with Thomas. Poor kid even got a toothbrush that plays the Thomas theme song & toothpaste that is "training toothpaste". Get it, Thomas the TRAIN - TRAINing toothpaste. oh well. We did have to swim of course, since here in AZ in August i...

Or the 3 days we stayed at my sisters, felt like forever! ok, just kidding, they didn't. I love that I can go to my sisters for days at a time & we still get along. It's so neat that when my kids grow up they'll have lots of memories of times spent with their cousins & they'll look back & say "wow, my mom & Aunt Candice were such great friends". That's the way I imagine it anyway. So we still got schoolwork done & my sister still got laundry done, so life really went on kind of normal-ish (yes I'm making up words). It's really quite interesting to cook meals for 7 kids & 4 adults. Here is Candice putting in a little of this & a dash of that to make our from scratch pizza sauce to put on our homemade pizzas. But it is nice, that there is alot more help to do it as well. I love the part where you kind of have to guess how much food you need, like how hungry is everyone & what are the normal appetites of each kid, et...

Time again for one of those painting/decorating pangs to hit me. I put the kids down for naps & knew that I didn't want to do housework or sit at the computer or anything else that I normally would do with this quiet time to myself. I did however feel the definite urge to do something creative, relaxing & with paint involved. So I casually go out to get the mail & then... bam ! Those of you who know me, may have guessed what came next. I can't just have me & everyone else just look at a boring 'ole black mailbox everyday. That poor mailman/ mail lady ! He/She (we have both) will thank me for it I'm sure. See, here is my poor dilapidated mailbox prior to 1pm. It was in bad need of a new coat of black paint, the bird poop washed off & some screws to hold it up straight. It's so ashamed it can't even hold it's head up high! But behold the beauty of the newly restored mailbox! A new look along with all new screws. It can hold its head up hi...

Well I had to start a whole new scrapbook. I'm on my third family one. They fill up quicker the more stuff we do & the more kids we have. Anyway, here is my intro. page for my new one. My hubby bought this one for me & the outside is black with white stripes. Very cute. The b&w photos came out nice. I'll go back & finish in the dates that it goes thru when the book is complete. The picture doesn't really do it justice, but you can get an idea.