Fifth Year

DL | May 30, 2008

So it was our fifth year of taking the kids to our annual camp in Yosemite. We tell everyone we had fun, but the truth is that after two days of pouring rain, we gave up and packed it in to go home halfway through the trip.
There were a number of factors [...]

Rite of Spring

DL | May 29, 2008

Every spring we return to the forest, which I suppose our temperate ancestors were eager to avoid, if the brothers Grimm are to be believed. The uninhabitability of the forest makes it a wild place by default and anyone who goes “into the woods” encounters a strange fortune, according to such tales. All [...]

boyfriend-girlfriend

julianna | May 13, 2008

i never realized how young the craziness begins. here is a conversation i had with seth today. (names have been changed)
seth: mom, can i go on a date with jane?
mom: a date?
seth: yeah, she says that she wants to be my girlfriend and that we can go on a date [...]

laura’s temper unleased

julianna | May 13, 2008

so i am kind of anal when it comes to playdough. it is strictly an outside activity. the other morning laura asked me to get out the “pay-to” for her. Thinking she was saying “Potatoes” I set off upstairs to get the Potato Head box down for her. We get the [...]

Ring-bearer and Flower-girl

DL | May 5, 2008

Congrats to Casey and Maryanne - May 3, 2008
(Pictures get bigger when you click them)

My brother Casey married his longtime sweetheart Maryanne last weekend. They were married in the Los Angeles temple and then held a full ring ceremony at the Victorian Kellogg [...]

Ryan Flashback

DL | May 5, 2008

Click on a picture to see it big. :0)
Ryan being this little seems like a forever ago. I love my little guy who thinks he is a big guy.

(Please ignore the zippers turned outward on the couch…I’m a dork who likes the cushions to wear equally so when others aren’t [...]

Walpurgis nacht

DL | May 2, 2008

Keep wanting to celebrate this, but forgot this year. Anyone up for an all night bonfire next April 30?