Thursday, July 26, 2007

happy summer



So far, so good!!! We are really enjoying our summer together. although I can't even believe this is that last week of July already! We went out with Kristie and her boys yesterday. First we took the kids to a cool used book exchange called "flipped pages". The kids put so much thought into their books and ended up making great choices; Emy chose the lion the witch and the wardrobe, Tiara chose a new animal ark book (I have been reading a chapter with her every night and these are great!), and Kaiella's is a fun story too with great illustrations; called Trupp. We went with our friends from there to go swimming for the rest of the afternoon. Emilea was a little fish as always, and Kaiella was determined to swim by herself ( life jacket on of course) even though she had the worlds biggest diaper-bum LOL! ( crazy how they expand with water) It took her a little while, but my sweet Tiara was so very proud to have found all of her bravery and decided to join in too! good for her. She even got this mask and a snorkeler out and spent some time with her little head under the water. Such a big big step for her. I spent last week in Chicago for CHA, had TONS of fun! You can see lots of pics from my trip on my CK blog. We are planning a camping trip for the first week in August, good old fashioned tenting and camp fire cooking. Really looking forward to that. I wish summer could last all year, the warm glow in the evening, extra outings with family and friends, the smell of sunscreened little people running around full of chalk and sand. But you know I say that about all of the seasons I guess. I am just happy to be taking it all in and cherishing the day fully. Have a good one.

9 comments:

Amy said...

Loved seeing all your photos, CD! Looks like it was a blast! I hope to be able to go one of these days! Who knows - maybe the next one!

Mika said...

Like the pic's and the blog.
Hope to see you at sometime on my blog. Enjoy the holiday. Mika
www.mikascrap.typepad.com

susan opel said...

I LOVE The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. FANTASTIC choice, Emy!

Anonymous said...

HELP, CD!....going into remission here! Still waiting for that August update. Was sooooooooo cute.... and your page on CK is ...sob....blank!! See? If you weren't so good and fun to look at... it'd be no problemo!!!

God bless.
Kathi Townzen
kathitownz@yahoo.com

Anonymous said...

bonjour!

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Anonymous said...

I agree with Kathi up there. The public demands more CD! I, the ambassador of the public, has spoken!

Anonymous said...

You're just such a cutie!...and so is your family!!! Still wanting to see all your August stuff for Creating Keepsakes! I think that album is just sooooooo cute! Buggy, huh? ...and I'm the QUEEN OF PROCRASTINATORS!!! I just get such fresh inspirations from you and am TRYING desperately to leave a little white space. Think I left 1/4" square in one of them!!! hahahah! giggle! Well, just wanted to say "Hi!" to my favorite scrapper!....sooooo HI!
God bless!
kathi (kathitownz@yahoo.com

Anonymous said...

Where are you? You have vanished from cyberspace! Come back, darling CD, come back! Miss you!

Anonymous said...

Okay, it's been a whole month since you've blogged or posted any juicy layouts. Come baaack!!!! Don't make us elect a vice-SOY to act as SOY in the event of your absence! (;