JOY

A survivor for 25 years

Joy's new tattoo celebrating her 20 years of surviving and kicking serious ass to breast cancer.

JOY & D

Inny & D Train

This night she shared a story or two and a few tears as well. We love you JOY.

Doing my best Lady Ga Ga

OK so last night 22 ladies gathered together to celebrate JOY'S 20 year anniversary of doing a drop kick, a elbow to the chin, a karate chop you get the picture to breast cancer.

Who is JOY? Well she is my mom's BFF for at least 25 years. They met at neighborhood Halloween party and were the last two to leave therefore they have spent many Friday's going to movies, shopping, drinking wine, telling stories and solving all of the worlds problems. You know the kind of friend I am talking about. They are rare and when you have one you hold on tight.

JOY is like another mother to me and has been there for everything.

So really it was an honor to me to be in the room with all of these ladies last night as we celebrated our dear friend JOY.

The wine was flowing and the ladies got OUT of CONTROL. OK not really, but a lady brought a pink wig which has you can tell became the go to photo prop of the night. Lord knows I made the biggest you know what out of myself with it, but it was all in fun and all for JOY.

Cheers to you JOY and to all the women out there who have survived!

Stop Growing

Snotty nose and all I love this kid more then ever.
You TOTALLY have your mom and dad wrapped around your finger my little binky boy.
Whatever you want is almost always yours.
But seriously stop growing little man, it's just going to fast.

My Brother & Me

A few weeks ago we went to the Anacortes School District Art Show, where kids of all ages have their art on display.
Little did we know our dearest daughter was a ARTIST!
Her work has only been shown here in town, but we hope to get it to SAM by the end of the month:)

The title of it is, " My Brother & Me".

We love you Grace and your mommy and daddy are very proud of your masterpiece.

I need to do more stuff like this...

Happy St. Patrick's Day Family and Friends.

Drink a little green beer today, because we are ALL Irish today.



New Swim Suit

She is starting to get the idea of putting her head in the water and how to blow bubbles.

The best part is her belly jumps into the pool.

Love this kids enthusiasm for everything she does and just love her new swim suit.

POW, BAM...

What did you do today at work?

Oh yeah, well I was SUPER MOM!

No really I was. I held a Super Hero Class today where we made costumes, mask, went on a adventure to find the missing snacks and of course where we played Super Hero Bingo and I gave massive amounts of M&M's to toddlers!

I know right.

 I get paid to do this.

Playing & GrowingTogether

It's not like this everyday.
But.
Today it was.
Today they played together and it was just perfect.

Any Chance To Wear Pearls To Work

Any chance to wear pearls to work you bet I'll take it. I love a good dress up and to be quite honest ladies don't do it enough.

Today I hosted a work related "Fancy Nancy" Tea Party at the Senior Center.

It has been an fantastic day at work.



How did I miss this

Picked up my old camera and realized that Josh snapped some pretty cool pics of the kids in the snow last week during our snow days.

Love this, so I am sharing.

 Love these kids and yes don't judge Emmit still has his "baby" in his mouth. Do I need to remind the blog world that I had mine until I was 4.

 Poor Tug Boat he still gets put into the yard during the snow.

 Grace takes after her mum and can be in the white stuff all day and night.

Emmit is like Josh in that he is good with only 15 minutes of playing in the snow and cold.

Daddy Daughter Dance 2011

2011 Daddy Daughter Dance with my Dad

# 1 Dad Right Here

Grace and Josh entering the dance. ( Little did Josh know this was the last time he was going to see his daughter that night)

Grace checking the scene and keeping a look out for her friends.

Grace and Josh Daddy Daughter Dance 2011

Pat and Tatum Daddy Daughter Dance 2011

Grace's BFF from school Natalie.

Josh getting the one and only dance from Grace that night to Taylor Swift of course.

Grace was way more into dancing with her friends. Here she is with Reese.

Grace eating her 2nd plate of sweets...

Zinnia and Grace deciding if they should stay and do the chicken dance.



Pat and Josh father's of the year as well. Not only did they take their daughters to the dance, but the four of them also took the girls out to dinner. They all  had cheese burgers and fries and the dads took in a few pints!

A special thank you to all the dads and daughters who made this 7th Annual APRD event a special night to remember. A special thank you to my own dad who helped me cut cake, check the dads and daughters in and for dancing with me.

Josh didn't really get a chance to dance with Grace this year, but I think he still had a good time and of course there is always next year!