I should totally get an award for this.

Yesterday Anna says to me, "But Mommy I want a dinosaur cake."
Yikes, it may be your birthday Miss Anna but, you are asking the impossible.
Well, unless your a super mommy like me.


Anna at her spotlight.

My super 5 year old.
I didn't know I could love someone so much.

Happy Birthday Annie-Bananie

She's home.

My little love, found her way home. She had wandered about a half mile north of my mom's house. Luckily, an older gentleman, also with a little yorkie found her and gave me a call. SOOOOOOO glad to have her home. Thank you all for your help. I kept hearing from all my sweet friends that they were looking for her and sweet Rekehl and Brynlee found another missing Yorkie and ran her right over to my house. You are all awesome. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

I will post the whole long story soon, including the anger and tears. Love to all

(picture is of her sitting on my lap, where she should of been for the last 60 hours)

Where, oh where has my Marlee dog gone?

Four pounds of pure love. We are all a lot heart sick today. We hope she finds her way back soon.

How impressed are you?

My very first batch of homemade bread.

I have always been afraid of yeast, it's something I inherited from my mom. However we have both overcome our fear thanks to our new Bosch mixers and bread making class. Yeah us!

Addie wasn't so impressed

It's my party, I can get a tattoo if I want to.

At least, she colored on herself and not my walls this time.

Happy Birthday Addie!

A little nip here, a little tuck there.

UPDATE: I finally found a better picture for this post, see the smile, this is obviously pre-op.


So a week ago I had what they (those pesky docs) call a bankart repair on my shoulder. Different from a rotatory cuff since it involves the glenoid. I have had a bum shoulder since the first time it dislocated at the age of 14 playing basketball against my best friend Amy in church Region basketball. Anyway, Dr. West laughed at me that finally after 20 years I came in to get it repaired. I told him it was affecting my volleyball game. To which he laughed a little more. Okay, I get the irony of the middle-aged, overweight women who is worried about her ability to play church volleyball. Anyway my shoulder had been getting worse to the point that it would dislocate when I reached up to pull the shower door shut. Time to get it done , I suppose.

Shoulder surgery sucks. Let me clarify right shoulder surgery sucks. I have however, realized I don't make a bad left-hander. Except for vacuuming, I could not for the life of me figure out how to vacuum with my left hand. I am in a dilemma, obey the docs and not use the shoulder at all but, my shoulder feels pretty good and it is almost down right impossible to get anything done with my old lefty?

Anyway, I am tired of pain killers, tired of my sling, tired of not being able to go anywhere because of the painkillers, tired of not being able to run (running can get me of these pity parties I like to hold for myself).

So enough of the negatives on the positive side, I do not or cannot play ward basketball this season( love to play, hate the dramatics of dealing with uber-competitive Christian females who too often forget they are Christians at all), and next fall watch out for my powerhouse serve to return in volleyball.

Anyway, I remember that about a year ago I wrote a post about being in funk this just might be a January funk thing too.

TIny Dancer

Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand

Hold me closer tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
you had a busy day today

A wave and she's off.

TA DA

First Position

Our Tiny Dancers, Emma and Lexi at their dance recital, aren't they beautiful. ( I had to post this picture so that you could see that the Romeril family is up to something, you would never know that from that pathetically unupdated blog of theirs :) )

Don't I have the prettiest little girl?