best friends

these are sienna's best friends at school.  every time i pick her up she is running around with one or both of these sweet little girls.  she prays for them many nights and talks about them most days after school, telling me of all the fun things she does with them.  i remember my first best friends....do you?

record keeping

i can't help but laugh at some of the things my sweet girls say.  sometimes i'm not laughing at their *ahem* words, but then there's the other times. 

like when chloe says, "shmooz me".  yes, that is "excuse me".  and i would love to shmooz you chloe!

or when sienna complains about wanting to have "sleeps up, not sleeves down, mom!".  meaning, she can't stand wearing, and most times refuses, to wear long sleeves.  this includes sweaters of any kind.  if she had her way, she would wear shorts and tank tops every day, no matter how cold it is outside.  it's a constant struggle.  cause everyone knows, if mom is cold, then everyone puts warmer clothes on!

another great one...without me even implying that something that is going on is not a great idea or something that i don't agree with; chloe will say, "not okay, huh mom".  where could she have heard that?  hm...i wonder?  do i really say it that much?  i think that became a regular phrase i uttered while potty-training her; trying not to get too upset every 30 minutes, when i would step on another wet spot on the floor in any random part of the house.  ahh, boy am i glad that's done for now.  two kids, both potty-trained.  feels so good that i'm thinking two kids is just the perfect amount!  but then, there's still way too much estrogen in this house.  a son would be great...hm...

in the hair department, nenna will protest most every do i try to make work with her shag, unless it's a pony tail.  for some reason the girl is attached to them horses.  easy enough for me!  but oh so boring after months of the same thing.  i guess that's one of those battles i'm just going to stop picking with her to keep the peace.  no more tears please!

great friends

you meet some really wonderful friends in life.  at some point you know that your time being that close will end; especially in our case, being students.  then everyone moves away wherever jobs take you.  you are happy for the good times you had together and hope to keep in touch as best possible.  sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  it doesn't change the fact that it stinks to not hang out anymore. 

our good friends, the earnshaws, will be moving in less than a month.  so soon!  jack has been accepted into a two year training program to be a pilot for the military.  for the next two years they will be moving from here to there to another place until finally, they will land in pittsburg, pa...and there they will probably stay.  i am so happy for them and their new exciting adventure.  they are both the adventurous type, so it suits them, i think.  even though it hasn't happened as often as i would like over the past 6 months, i will very much miss our long nights playing settlers, super balderdash, watching movies or lost, crafting (obviously not stephen and jack), yard sales, trying out for jeopardy (let's not even go into the fact that i answered maybe one question of ten correctly), conspiring up new entrepreneur ideas and making jam.

so what i'd like to say is that i'll miss my good friends, the earnshaws.  it was a good run...nay, a great run!

my cute friend lori (right) had a birthday yesterday, so a few of us went out to celebrate her coming of a new age.  we pigged out to cheesecake factory, poor us.  you feel sorry for me, don't you?  uh-huh.  yum, yum.  i will be nice and not reveal the new age, but will say that she's still quite young!

me and maria

all but me.  it was a great dinner with all kinds of crazy and interesting dinnering topics. 

h a p p y  b i r t h d a y  l o r i !!!!!!

mid-terms

while daddy studied for his upcoming exams on saturday, the girls and i decided to get out of the house and hang out at the gliderport again.  it's always so beautiful up there and there's so much to look at.  i love that it's just down the street and i can stop by whenever i please.  i sure do please, a lot.  one of these days i'm going to be the one flying around the la jolla cliffs.  i'm totally serious!  i've always been into doing that kind of stuff.  i still regret not having become a professional sky diver.  i guess it's never too late, right?  i went when i was 21 with my dad and brother, just before leaving on our missions.  it was beyond amazing!

this is not the best picture, i realize this- but, this is a partial view of la jolla shores and parts of the cove from the gliderport cliffs.  keep in mind, i stayed in the car with the girls during most of this, because it was very cold and windy and they were wearing tutus, slippers and tights.  i myself had slippers on.  we ate lunch and watched the handgliders and paragliders do their thang.  just beautiful!

later that night, nina and i made these.  so easy to make and so worth it.  anything chocolate is worth my time, i say!  the salt really adds to it.  a new favorite!