Black Raspberry... Mmmmm!

You are passionate, creative, and inspired. Black raspberry ice cream is an unusual color and flavor, so some people might consider it strange, but your exciting personality is what makes you so delicious. You bring a juicy burst of flavor to everything you do, and your life is packed with one memorable experience after another.

It's Official

I fear I've been rather haphazard in my use of the word "official" of late. In fact, this fear was confirmed this evening at dinner when, upon hearing my somewhat questionable use of the word, my husband replied, "I don't think you exactly understand how to use that word. I've noticed you've misused it quite a bit over the last few days. Perhaps you should go find a dictionary or a thesaurus and go make up a few practice sentences and then report back."

Her Baby...

Yes, that's right. She seems to think the puppies are her baby dolls...

SuperNerd!

Here it is: proof that I'm a nerd. I'm not sure how I feel about this. When I was answering the questions, I feel the ones I answered show I'm more "Internet savvy" than that I am a nerd. Yeah, ok, I'm justifying now.

Just some pics...

People keep whining about how much they need to see pics of my girls... I can't believe they don't want to read my dry essays... I mean, which is better? A picture worth a thousand words, or those thousand words? Or 3,000 in my case?.... Yeah, ok, you win. Here are a few...
Oh and just because this is such a long entry, don't overlook the last one-- it's also new.

Avril's 3rd Birthday.... (oh, the shame!)

the Birthday Princess

Yes, the shame. No, it was a darling party--- the shame is that it happened mid-July! So long ago I'll have to look up the date. I think it was the 12th or the 13th. I'm going with the 12th. Even so, it was a super fun party. We had it a little early (her birthday wasn't actually until August 4th) because all her little friends were going to be leaving since most of their daddy's were going out to their rotation sites the next week. In any case, we had a blast celebrating, despite the wicked weather (we were supposed to go to the wading pools, but it was rainy and slightly scary that day, so we just had it at our house).
Melody came over that morning and did a great job on Avril's cake. She mocked me for having a black cake for my three year old daughter, but I had the last laugh--- it looked wonderful and it was a perfect little butterfly! Anyway, here is a little slideshow of the party (and for those of you who came, thanks so much-- Avril had a blast and we miss all you who moved. Though I will take the opportunity here to rub it in your face that we still have cool people who stuck around PLUS new people who have, surprisingly, also turned out to be cool. So maybe you won't be missed as much as you hope.) (Ok, I'm only talking parenthetically now, but really that was just my angry, passive-aggressive jab at you people who moved. Yes, I admit it. I miss you terribly!)

A Girl and Her Puppy: Take II

Let's try this again. With a refresher on how cute this picture is, so there remains nothing to be said.