Definitely Soda

I came across this today and I thought it was funny and interesting. What do you call it?

Highlights from our week

our real shadow photos

we finally got some good shadow photos at the beach yesterday- sorry to bump the other post down

Happy Father's Day, DAD!

Thank you for being a light in our life!!! We love you!!

June 19, 1964

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad! We're so happy you tied the knot!

Gretta's Baptism

Sweet Gretta got baptized on Sunday at 5:00 and it was so nice. She was so excited and cheerful and not worried at all, which surprised me. Here she is loving Simon. Sweet girl..
..With her Dad

We asked mom to write a little talk that Vaughn read, and Sasha held up the pictures. It was so funny because V said she could just drop the pictures on the floor when it was time for the next one. So Literal Sasha would drop the picture from above her head and it would flutter down to the floor. There was a big pile scattered all over the floor by the time the talk was over!

Then Jonah gave a wonderful talk that he wrote all by himself. He was nervous, but did such a good job.

Here are the tasty treats we had. I should have made more! I talked about the Marshmallow fondant on WildMountain Foods.

Here is "the Fam". The picture needs to be cropped because the giant satellite looks pretty ridiculous, don't you think? But I'm in a hurry!

It was pretty hectic getting out of the house to the church on time and to make matters worse...there was Simon!! We are packing up stuff in the car when I look at Simon and his face is covered in white frosting!!! I wash him down in the sink and Jonah wipes down his onesie with a wet towel, then throws a shirt over the onesie!! As we leave, we see this nice little reminder that Simon left on the sofa! I let it dry and cleaned it up the next day. No sofa was ruined in the making of this mess.

And last of all.... Here is Gretta twirling in the backyard Sunday evening after the baptism.

She is a great girl.

We are so proud of her!

I would like one of each...Please.

I came across this amazing business called Get Back, Inc. through a blog I enoy, Handmade Charlotte. I am in love. Wouldn't so much of it be perfect for a house but also our dream art studio? Some day I want a giant wood table for lots of projects AND food!

Mah-ble Columns

Wasting time on hulu I found this SNL commercial. Scarlet Johannson is totally hilarious!

Wonder Twins?

I was trying to tell my kids about the Wonder Twins and came across this. It is not quite how I remember them. Luckily, we didn't watch the one labeled "adult swim"!

1968-1969

Here are more pictures from Grandpa's slides. Everyone looks so happy. I think Tina's and Nick's pictures sure look like some of their kids now. Mom, Tina, Grandma, Uncle Harold and Nick
Sweet Tina and mom
I think this picture looks like Adam when he was a babe.

Nick looks like Max in all these, with his cute red hat.

Awww...Grandma

love those squishy legs

Doesn't mom look stylin' here?

Cameron's First Year

So Cameron spent his actual first birthday on an airplane so we celebrated his special day a week or so later. Here's his cute tiny cake. I made it in a tin can with seven-minute frosting, thanks always to Steph for guiding the way I cook. Those are little candy coating dots that I make, also Steph's idea. Cute, huh?
He at first didn't know what to do...
...then he got the idea. Sugar!
We had the Wilberg's over to celebrate and to thank them for watching Jake and Sam while we were gone. Thanks again, Emily!
So within minutes of Cameron's cake face this appeared! I guess he might be semi-allergic to eggs (egg whites in the frosting). But the red splotches went away before bedtime. I've learned my lesson though!

He's a cute baby and I think we'll keep him another year.

Pick your own strawberries

Some of the kids were better workers than others but we went before it got too hot and didn't stay too long. Part 2 tomorrow we are going to try our hand at making freezer jam.

Hilarious

Who saw this on Pioneer Woman today?? Totally funny. I wish I could see the whole book!

1960, 1962, 1963

Well I finally found where mom hides her photos on her computer and I have spent the last two hours looking at lots of photos. There are some beautiful pictures and several files that Bill got from Grandpa's old slides filed by date. There are some great ones of when we were kids too. I thought you'd like to see a few so I want to post some occasionally for you... unless you don't like the idea...but I think you'll like them as much as I did!

1960 Mom and her niece Margaret

Janice and Margaret

1962 I thought mom looked cute here.

1963