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21
May
09

So you think you can dance

By Julie P. 2 Comments
Categories: Blast from the Past and Friends
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I admit-I can’t wait for the season premiere tonight on FOX!  We loved the show last summer and this summer it is even sweeter because we know one of the contestants!  And, I saw her last night on the promo for the show during American Idol (by the way-so pumped that Kris Allen won!)  Okay, so everyone who reads this and watches the show…when voting starts, if Melissa Sandvig makes it, please vote for her!

Click here to watch the promo clip.  She is the ‘naughty ballerina’.  😉

Back story:  I met her because I’ve known her husband since 2nd grade!  When we went to California last month, we all had lunch together and of course I got a picture taken with her (just in case she becomes super famous!  lol)

Melissa Sandvig
20
May
09

I always know it’s the end of May when…

By Julie P. 2 Comments
Categories: Julie

a Tuesday looks like this next week:

9:30-10  -Awards celebration for Ella at preK

10-11  -Splash day and then p.j. day at Ella’s preK (must go to take pictures)

12:30-2:30  -Rilyn’s field trip to Crowe’s Nest Farm (I’m a parent volunteer)

7-9  -community group

8:00  -moms for moms (church group) celebration night at La Madeleine’s

And, oh yah, it will be our 8th wedding anniversary that day too!

Can I be at all these things?  Probably not, (and seriously not when Asher goes to school!)  Some days, I wish I could just duplicate myself.

19
May
09

bounce baby!

By Julie P. 1 Comment
Categories: Family Fun and Kids

We were supposed to have a bounce house at Asher’s first birthday party, but due to lack of electricity at the park, we couldn’t get it blown up!  What a bummer for the kids, BUT we did get a raincheck!  So today, just in time for the perfect weather, the kids got the bounce house in their backyard.

Fake Mickey bounce house
boing boing
18
May
09

u.f.o sighting

By Julie P. 1 Comment
Categories: Family Fun, Family Pics and Kids
this is a swing!

James took the kids to a new park on Saturday morning (before all the rain!) so I could continue to scrapbook our Disney trip.  (Thanks babe!)

Wow, parks are sure changing these days!  James came back with lots of pictures, (seriously James, I’m trying to catch up on my scrapbooking!) of all these crazy looking structures.  He said the park was very cool and I’m looking forward to going this summer!  Here is the link for all my Austin friends-Mueller Lake Park.

not your average play equipment
James and the kids had a picnic under willow trees
biking/walking trail
Like ‘teacups’ that spin as you wobble around
like a merry-go-round except way cooler
17
May
09

80’s hair band or Snow White? you decide.

By Julie P. 1 Comment
Categories: Ella and Silliness
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Ella came down the stairs yesterday claiming she was Snow White.  Granted, this used to look like a Snow White wig when she got it at Christmas, but now…I’m not so sure.  And to make matters worse, she posed like a true punk rocker and it made me think of a certain hair band of the 80’s…

Ella as ‘Snow White’
Poison

or maybe she is pretending to be Gene Simmons?

Gene Simmons of KISS
16
May
09

graceful exits

By Julie P. 3 Comments
Categories: Asher, Ella, Embarrassing and Summertime
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I’m sure one day Rilyn will not be too thrilled that I posted these pictures, but it was so funny I couldn’t pass it up.  James took these shots the other day (note: I’m trying to cut back in my photo-taking this month, not James.)

From May 2009
From May 2009

This is what happens when mommy has left over swim diapers from last summer and you have two older sisters.

From May 2009
14
May
09

just a little temperamental

By Julie P. 1 Comment
Categories: Ella, Embarrassing, Julie and parenting
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I was just so fed up with Ella’s crying fits the other day, that the only thing I could do for my sanity was to video tape her and know that one day this would be funny to me!  If this is what she acts like during a simple ‘ball game’ then we are going to have a lot of fun during the teenage years!  (Pardon our white trash backyard, we had to put all the kids toys ‘up’ so our lawn guy could mow for the first time this year!)

*I love how Rilyn stands up for her sister and says, “Stop video taping her!”  What a mean mommy I am!

11
May
09

you’ve come a long way baby

By Julie P. 2 Comments
Categories: Blast from the Past and Julie

To make myself feel better about turning 30 today, I looked back at some old photos of myself.  Wow!  It was pretty brutal.  I feel like I look younger today than some of my photos back then!  Take for instance this one when I was about 12.

From May 2009

Look at me!  I have shoulder pads, an old lady dress on, pearls and a straw hat with some shrub growing on it! And this was Easter day, so I probably really took the time to make myself look good!  (Don’t ya just wish someone told you to pluck your eyebrows when you were that young?)  Ha!

My dear daughter knew how to make me feel good today.  Rilyn told me, “Thirty isn’t old mom because it has a zero in it!”

My mom thought it would be so cute to make me wear this crown, wand, and necklaceshe bought me!
11
May
09

happy mother’s day!

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Categories: Family, Family Pics and Julie

First, let me say Happy Mother’s Day to my dear mom!  I love you!

my sister, Jessica, brother, Jeff, my mom, and me!

For an early Mother’s Day/birthday dinner, we ate at The Melting Pot. The dessert was amazing! Dipping brownies and strawberries in chocolate and peanut butter is probably the best taste ever!

look at that chocolate dripping off of my strawberry!  Yum-O!

Here is Ella ‘toasting’, (and obviously she enjoyed the dessert as well!)

From May 2009

The kids all planted some flowers (ok, maybe not Asher…) next to their footprint stone in our front yard for Mother’s Day. How sweet!

From May 2009

The best part of the day was after church when James and Jeff Richardson took all 6 of the kids in one car and brought them home so Jen and I could go out to a leisurely lunch and shop! Wow!!! Thanks guys-that was the best ever!
I told James to take a picture of all 6 kids in the car so I could give him props on the blog!!!

Back row: Cole, Rilyn, and Ella.  Front row: Caden, Anna, and Asher
08
May
09

necklaces

By Julie P. 3 Comments
Categories: Family and Julie

For Mother’s Day, James asked me to pick out a mother’s necklace that I wanted on etsy.com

I just got it in the mail today and I love it.

But it made me think of some past necklaces that I used to wear 24/7…

From May 2009

I was the ‘st ends’ in this BFF relationship(I love ya Kristy)! What girl didn’t have this necklace growing up in the 80s?

And then, when James and I were dating, he gave me this James Avery necklace on my 19th birthday and I wore it pretty much everyday until I had Rilyn!

From May 2009

And then the kiddos came, and wearing things around my neck wasn’t the smartest idea unless I wanted to be choked or tugged at…
But I’m braver now, and ready to take on another necklace!

That is their birthstones above their names
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