Photo fun by Kelly and Emily... and a few of Kirk!

Funny, really. Glad they can let loose a little now and then. You can click on a photo to make it bigger, sometimes bigger is better!

Kelly newest joy.........

Kirk ended up with this BB gun at the Christmas exchange, and it had just been sitting in the closest until AFTER the van window got broken and the sun came out. Kelly has always been interested in FIRE and GUNS... so we have let her shoot. When I got home from work on the very wet Sunday she had a work in progress going on, she was making herself a target to shoot.
Today she took it out on a test run and was surprised how good her old Mother was, she had no idea I could shoot, and do it well! :) I love surprising my girls!

Resurrection Sunday 2011

Another Easter has come and gone... unfortunately I had to work!!! Girls were really disappointed and I did my best to get out of the shift but just couldn't. I have to say I was really happy that Kirk and the girls took the time to take photos. This was the first Easter I have ever worked, not bad 1 in 16.

I have a very good looking family!

The sun is out and so are the girls...

Heard the water running for awhile... now I know why, the Polly Pockets need to swim after all the sun is out and it must be 50 degrees on the deck.

The yard....

So we did it! We actually spent the money and had some one else clean up all the bushes, trees, and that darn IVY! It is still a bit of a mess, but my mom will be home soon, and I know that she will help me get some perennials in and make it look so much better.








I always thought that this house had great light in the living room, unlike the little house, but now with that huge redwood gone it is even brighter.


It was really hard for me to write the check out for the work, but I am sure that this summer when our family has few days off together we will glad that it all won't be spent on the yard. Thinking of maybe s'mores in our newly found fire pit!

Bad day to say the least....

So last week we had our van parked up in front of the house and sometime in the night it got two BB gun wounds, not really a big deal the van is old but we really aren't in the position to replace it right now, we'd like to get a little more time out of it. Yes the BB marks were ugly but we could still safely drive it. Kirk and I talked about parking in the back of the house, but felt like the stupid people most likely weren't going to return to the same area of town. Well we were so wrong!

Yesterday at 8:10am while I was getting ready to take Em to HC the doorbell rang, it was the police, my heart sank, Kirk had gone to work but I had not heard from him so I thought that maybe something terrible had happened to him. So in a way I was thrilled that it was just our van. Some stupid teens, one would assume, shot TWO holes in my van window! What a mess that kind of glass makes. It is safety glass but yet it is very mess. I am not sure how it happened but there was fragments of glass in the back row. It took me over 2 hours to get it all cleaned up, and $200 for the installation of the new glass.

We were not the only people with their windows shot out, there were 8 cars on our street that I personally counted. It even happened on our old street to Jon and Dawn, they had the back truck window shot out. I think we were one of over 100 people who had that done. It makes me so mad. I am hopeful that the police will catch the people who did it. With the amount of damage that was done they will spend time in jail!

Swimming....

This was a very fun meet, in fact this is the girls' favorite meet, it is fast, there are lots of relays, and very little pressure. Emily has won her age division 3 years running including this year.

Kelly has always made the top five, unfortunately this year she earned second place by 00:00.02, two-one hundredths of a second! To think how many of those I have wasted in a life time!

Emily with a smirk and Kelly with a smile, why is it so hard for them to BOTH smile?

After 41 days of rain... spring has sprung

Kelly lastest project

Kelly put together some blankets to be taken over to Japan for some of the children there who are currently misplaced and cold. It was a great project and something we would like to help out with again, it is always good to serve.

Swim Awards April 9 2011

These are the 4 swimmers who earned team towels, Kelly earned one for being a great cheerleader, she got the Spirit Award. Last year Neil gave out 15 towels for the Seniors/Junior team. Coach Neil, Ethan, Lauren. Kelly and Ciara.

These are all the swimmers who earned team records for the 2010-2011 season! Take a look both Kelly and Emily are there! Well done

Lucas, Jerrin, Ciara, Ethan, Kelly, Laura, Emily, Taliah, and Josh. 9 out of 156 team members earned team records, 2 0f 9 were Huffers! Very exciting, Emily has set her eyes on a few more for the long coarse meter swims this summer.

She is 5 1/2 today!!! April 12th!

Hard to believe that she is already 5 1/2! I am so glad that she is part of our regular life, I will miss her next year when she is attending Kindergarten. I am hopeful she will always remember the Tuesdays spent with us! We love you Riley girl! :)