Birthday Time!

Can't believe it's been 2 years! I was remembering this morning exactly what was happening two years ago on this day. Here is a little slid show of Clare growing up fast as ever.
We love you Clare! Happy Birthday!!!

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Christmas 2008

Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme
TodaysMama and Provo Craft are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.

1. What 5 items are on your holiday wish list this year? Jogging Stroller Rain Cover, Cold Weather Jogging Clothes, Cutting Matt, A Good Book, New Running Shoes.
2. What is your favorite handmade gift you have received? an Apron
3. What handmade gift have you always wanted to tackle? White Chocolate Popcorn
4. What was the best Christmas gift you received as a child? A Little Red Play House
5. What items are on your kid’s wish list this year? Bath Toys, Clothes, A Few Good Picture Books...
6. What is your favorite holiday food? Pie!
7. What will you be hand-crafting for the holidays? Not Sure Yet, Maybe Some Applique Children's Shirts
8. What is your favorite holiday movie? A Christmas Story
9. Favorite holiday song? Let It Snow
10. Favorite holiday pastime? Putting a LARGE Puzzle Together with Family

October is Orange

Maybe you've been out to our back pattio and seen the HORRIBLE siding that the past home owner either put up or left up. (See the picture below.) I think it was once a nice cream color. It's turned black and brittle in the sun so I took it down. That created a three foot drop off onto our driveway.

And wouldn't you know the very next day after I had taken it all down Clare fell off.
So, here are some pictures of Clare and I painting the new trellis we are putting up to stop young ones from falling off and give us additional privacy and shade.

Fun story. Clare is very observant. I wanted to take some pictures of her helping me paint. So I put the camera on timer mode and snapped a few shots. I continued painting, she started playing around behind me. I heard the camera go off, she was playing with it. I picked it up to see what she'd taken a picture of...
Here it is Clare's first self photo. I have about five pictures she took the same way. She pressed the button and then stood right behind me as the camera took her picture. SO CUTE!

Of course she got paint on her hands and had fun rubbing it around. I put her in the pool before she could get it on anything else.

Family Pictures!

Amazing how a family can change in just a year.
Kami Hall took them for us at Wheeler Farm. Kami's Blogspot site is Scarlet-photography.

Why We Fight CF

Oh My!

I dumped some items out of my purse onto the couch last night on our way out the door. We were leaving to have family pictures taken and I didn't wasn't to carry things I didn't need. This morning I walked right by the couch without looking (or thinking) and got Clare breakfast.

When Clare finished breakfast I let her play. She went into the living room where the couch I mentioned is. When I came in after her I realized what a close call I just had.

I guess it's a good thing Clare has watched me put lipstick on because she didn't get any on her hands or the carpet or the couch. She wasn't even eating it. She was carefully applying it to her lips and around her lips.

What a cutie! I had to take pictures. Then I had to take it away and wipe her face again.

2 Reasons to Spred Awareness: Cystic Fibrosis

Our goal is to spread awareness and raise $10,000 by October 31st.
we've raised 2,700 as of today. This is remarkable! Thank you!

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disease that causes the mucus that our bodies naturally make to be too thick and sticky. Like rubber cement sticky. Because it's so thick and sticky people with CF can't get it out of their lungs and digestive system the way the rest of us naturally do. This causes a couple different health problems mostly in the lungs and digestive system.

The research sponsored by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is incredible and can give people with CF a whole new life. Approximately 30,000 children and adults in the United States have cystic fibrosis. An additional ten million more—or about one in every 31 Americans—are carriers of the defective CF gene, but do not have the disease. (Most of these carriers don't know they are carriers.) CF is most common in Caucasians, but it can affect all races.

Read our story / make a donation http://www.cff.org/LWC/RichardDavis