The last week in pictures...

There are lots of birthdays in September in these parts!







Amber turned 11










Trevor turned 9!

Holly turned 9!

Tim had his 11th bday!

Abby had a tonette concert
After which we made 19 2 gallon bags of salt dough for the 5th grade
Soccer pratcie

Volleyball and Jr Girl scouts and there is our week!

Who would play you in a movie of your life?

For me I have the actress all picked out, like most people I think, I am picking someone who is prettier than I am but she does have a hollywood stylist and I don't. She has played in many movies and you may or may not know her. She is a lot like me, when her hair is not so blond. We even have the same dimple although hers is more pronouced. People have told me after seeing movies that she was in that I remind them of her or her mannerisms... so she seems the most likey choice. Because of course she talks with her hands! (which you can't see as I type)



She would have play the part of a small town girl who is wisked away from her family to a new place where she breaks out of her shell and has all kinds of adventures. She would marry young and drop out of college but she would always land on her feet some how some way. She would have two kids and then go through a divorce to again land on her feet and meet the man who was there waiting for her through a thread of comon people and places that just took time to weave it all together for the to find each other only to find thier lives were intertwined the whole time. She would have another baby who would be the apple of his fathers eyes. She would endure the devastating death of her father and comedy that ensues when they all move in her mother in her parents house. You would get to know her amazing friends who are the wale threads that hold the pattern of her life together. You would see the heartbreak, joy, the craziness that would be her life....hopefully leaving this place a little better than she found it...



Oh and to see who the actress is click HERE

So who would play you? Leave a comment and lets see who we need to get under contract... =)

Mertil and Edie go to CAMP SURF...

I know you are thinking who the heck are Mertile and Edie...Well here they are you might know them better as Holly and Abby....as they are pictured here in all the glory of their wetsuits!

They are THE best of Friends and maybe some times a little too alike and a little too comfortable with each other! We joke that they are like too little old ladies, you know just say what is on their minds, feisty ( a polite way to say bitchy) little girls they are not 9 going on 16 they are 9 going on 87! Sandra and I can envision them in the nursing home together, yelling "what I can't hear you.... " " You are not doing it right"

They will give the boys they meet along the way a run for their money! They both are opinionated, adventuresome, strong willed. The kind of things that some times make it hard to "mother" them at times. They are also the things that will make them strong women who won't put up with crap from anyone when they are older (at least we hope that is the good that comes out of it!)
We decide they should be called Mertile and Edie after our grandmothers who have great old fashioned names, and are also feisty women who speak their mind.

Anyways back to surf camp which I am glad to say I showed some restraint and only took under 200 pictures match that with about the same from Sandra, I will share some of them later this week.

The girls were really amazing, they got right in the freezing water and I though maybe they would last an hour if that. They were out there all day trying to surf , they both got up on their feet! They also spent lots of time on the boogie boards! In true Mertile and Edie style they were the first ones up by 6 each morning, we found them walking along the beach looking for shells and just sitting there on the beach chatting away and bickering about weather they should do their first 2 years of college in Australia or the last two and what school they want to go to here.....

I see a new photo montage coming on when I get all the pictures from everyone!