Recipe for a great birthday

Choose your favorite donuts from Dunkin Donuts.

Chocolate sprinkles are always the best choice.

Open an American Airlines pin from your Great Grandma. Wear it and call your self Super American Airlines as you rescue stuffed animals in trouble.

Read the world's biggest book on Airplanes.

Spend an entire afternoon building a LARGE Lego airplane with your dad.

Enjoy your tarantula birthday cake with friends.

A great day for a great boy!

Just add water

We are so ready for our vacation to Florida.


We may wear our swimsuits all day just to remind ourselves that it is warm and sunny somewhere.

pants are not an option

Although pants always seem to be optional at our house, they are not really even a remote possibility for this little girl. Stuffing my baby into a pair of pants seems cruel. Especially when you take the pants off and you can see the pocket and stitching imprinted in her skin.

So we are all about dresses, skirts, tights and leggings at our house.
(I know, doesn't she look exactly like her dad if he were to wear a denim dress with turquoise leggings? The Shelton genes are strong in this kid.)

Speaking of her dad, look at the love she's sending him in the form of her smile and bright eyes. It's nice of her to do that once in a while since I am her clear favorite most of the time.

Looking forward to a summer of sundresses for this little one.

Good Buddies

Found these pictures when I was uploading the recent batch. These two are good friends.

Row Row Row Your Boat

The kids played with this box for days and days.

Wyatt came up with the idea to make oars.

They rowed around and around.

Good Morning

Look what I did

This room was on my to do list during the winter break. I wanted a space for the kids to play and to sleep that was inviting and functional.

So I spent all day Monday painting the walls and the furniture while my kids played with friends and Ryan, suffering from a stomach bug, snuggled and fed Ella. It was exhausting but by the end of Tuesday the room was put back together and looked like this . . .

Jack helped me assemble his dresser in his closet by tightening every screw except the one that he let Addy do herself. He loved being a part of his room makeover.