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Merry Christmas!!

2009-12-22T13:28:00.000-08:00

My BAD

2009-12-15T07:50:00.000-08:00

YIKES - geez it's been almost a year since I've been on here! My big bad! Blame it on Facebook where I seem to be spending most of my non-work related time these days! I will update this blog soon... I promise! ;-)

Wards Creek Elementary Chorus

2009-01-14T08:07:00.000-08:00

Once again, the Wards Creek Elementary School Chorus performed Christmas music at the Landing in downtown Jacksonville!

Last year, the weather was perfect for this outdoor performance! This year not so much....
But you can bet that a little rain didn't dampen the mood - after all these kids are on a field trip - away from school!! What's not fun about that?

Of course, it was the only rainy day that week!

Trick or Treat!

2008-11-02T12:35:00.000-08:00

It's that time of year again... more candy than we need or could ever eat!
Here's our little trick-or-treaters - this year we have Juliet, a Chinese princess, and a Storm trooper, although he refused to wear the helmet!

Also joining us were Cleopatra and a little black cat!
They all had fun and of course, got way too much candy!

Like ... Totally!

2008-10-27T09:42:00.000-07:00

This is not a very good picture, but I just had to post it! This is Saturday - before Halloween and some friends in the neighborhood are having a Halloween party! Can you guess the theme? Yep, 80s! I didn't take my camera 'cause I was told after the party last year that NO cameras would be allowed. Apparently, things got out of hand last year and the photographic evidence was somewhat incriminating! However, there were several cameras there and hopefully I'll get some copies of the more mild pictures!

And don't even think that we're done with Halloween... not in this neighborhood! We have another big party on Halloween night, so there will be more pics to come!

John, Cindy, Lachlan, Kristen, Mitch, Kelli, Greg and Me!

Our new hobby...

2008-10-27T09:33:00.000-07:00

Now we've found a new hobby! Rock climbing - of course here in Florida that means indoors on a climbing wall, but it's still fun. Jake was invited to a 'rock climbing birthday party' and that was where we got our first taste. Now I try to go at least once a month and Sara has been begging to go too! Jake's not too sure about it, but had a good time at the party!

Back to School!

2008-10-27T09:27:00.000-07:00

Yes - I know it's been a looooooong time since I've updated this site! Too long! And I don't know how it happens... since I don't have a real 'paying' job, but I always seem soooo busy! So now the kids are back in school... that should help, but then again maybe not. I still seem to keep busy - trying to stay fit, walking the dog everyday - running on occasion, and I've been totally book-obsessed lately! But enough about me... this is the 'livelykids' blog afterall! So here they are! Ready for a new school year, even though they had to start a day late because of Hurricane Fay! Sara is in 5th grade, Anna in 3rd grade and Jake in 1st grade. This year is actually a little sad for me... this is the last year that they will all three be at the same school. Sara moves on to middle school next year. Can't stop them growing up!

Horse Camp!

2008-10-27T08:49:00.000-07:00

OK - I never would have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes! My girls wanted to go to horse camp this summer! Thanks to our great neighbor, Cindy, it worked out perfectly. So Sara and Anna went to horse camp 8:00 - 5:00 everyday for a week and they absolutely LOVED it! They never once complained about the heat, about the dirt, about the smell, about the work they had to do or even about scrapping the horse poo off the bottom of the horses hooves! MY LITTLE PRINCESSES SCRAPPED HORSE POO WITH A SMILE! Unbelievable - so now I guess this is something we're going to have to do...

Anna loves Trudy!

Sara rode several different horses during the week! Both girls did fantastic!

Brownie Invasion at the Nick Hotel!!

2008-07-10T12:58:00.000-07:00

the Nickolodeon Hotel in Orlando hosted their annual 'Girl Scout' month in May (giving special discounts to girl scouts). Our ever ambitious Brownie troop took a weekend and went to check it out!

Seven Brownies and seven moms (and one big sister, Sara) checked in on Friday and had a weekend full of wet, wild fun!

We started around 9:00 am - and we were practically the only ones at the pool!

Of course by lunch, we had been joined by hundreds more!

New Beach, Old Friends

2008-07-07T18:00:00.000-07:00

Some of our dearest friends from Idaho were in Hilton Head, SC recently! When friends from Idaho are that close (relatively speaking) - you gotta go visit them! This is the first time we've seen these guys in over three years! So we drove up and barged in on their family reunion!

Sara and Maddie - boogie board babes!

Anna and Sydney

Jake and Conner

All these kids and I still didn't get them all in the picture - missing about 4 more! Talk about a FULL HOUSE!
We had a great time and I have decided we should make this an annual event! ;-)

More Swimming!

2008-07-07T17:47:00.000-07:00

Thanks to our wonderful neighbor - we have some more great pictures from swimming!

Super Dad - serving as a volunteer timer! (Dark shorts, straw hat)

Anna doin' the backstroke!

Jake and Carly

I have become a swim mom! Yikes! (that's a bad angle...)

More from Jake - and when I say more... I mean more.

One place in Florida that stays cold year round...

2008-06-17T19:02:00.000-07:00

That's right - we went ice skating! Well, I shouldn't say 'we' because there was no 'me' on the ice!
Sara and her buddy Jenna decided to have a combined birthday party since their birthdays are only ten days apart! So they invited all the girls in their class plus a few and of course, their siblings!

Sara and Savannah - through the glass - not a good way to take pictures!

I was surprised how well Sara and Anna did - they definately didn't get the ice skating gene from me... so that must mean Greg has done some figure skating that I don't know about!

Waitin' for the zamboni to finish...

Happy Birthday Sara and Jenna!

WHAT A DAY!!!

2008-06-17T12:58:00.000-07:00

Saturday June 7, 2008 - What a crazy day! It started out with the first swim meet of the season. All three kids are on the swim team - so we were up and out of the house by 7:00am. Our swim meets typically last til around lunch time! So we finished up as quickly as possible and Greg had to leave with Jake to get him to his last baseball game of the season that started at 1:00. The girls and I were about 1/2 hour behind, but we made it in the middle of the first inning. Jake's games last around 1 1/2 hours so as soon as his game was over, Anna and I left to go horsebackriding with the Brownie troop. It was a long hot completely FULL day!

This is Anna about to take off in lane 4. She's wearing green goggles!

This is Jake in lane 4 - he's also wearing green goggles! He won his heat - swimming 25 yd freestyle for 6 & under.

This is something we may not see again for a while! That's Sara and Anna at the far end getting ready to swim a relay together. Sara swims with 9&10 year olds and they had a freestyle relay but one of the swimmers on their relay team had to leave early. The coaches asked Anna if she would swim in place of the girl who left. Even though Anna swims in 8 & under she did great! She held her own and their team finished in second place! Unless she's asked to fill in again - the next time they might possibly swim together on a relay team is when Anna turns 13!

My little mermaids!

All three kids are doing fantastic at swimming, Greg and I are very proud of them.

So next we move on to the final teeball game of the year. Jake refuses to call it teeball - so I should correct that and say the final BASEBALL game of the year. Jake's team is the Phillies and they've done pretty well this year. Of course there's no official score keeping, but every parent at every game knows who's winning! Even though it's teeball, the coaches pitch to them - the rule is they get 2-3 pitches and if they don't hit a pitch, then they hit off the tee. Jake has been doing great and most of the time hits pitches. He sometimes plays pitcher (he doesn't pitch the ball, just plays the position...) and will stop grounders and make great throws to first base. His only problem is catching the ball - guess we can work on that during the off season!

He looks more like a soilder...

What a cutie!

Here's a video of Jake... gettin' a hit and makin' it to first base! That's my boy! And yes, my big mouth can be heard loud and clear!

On to the next event of our marathon day... Horseback riding with the Brownies!

We had to split the troop into two groups - we chose the group that started later for OBVIOUS reasons!

My little cowgirl! I had a video of her riding - but I think it's too big to upload. Anna will be pissed!

Visitors!!!

2008-06-16T13:30:00.000-07:00

FINALLY! We have had our first visitors! I should qualify that 'cause we did have some friends stay with us one night and that was nice, but this is the first visit we've had where our visitors stayed more than one night! One of my best buddies, Lisa and her two kids Chloe and Tucker stayed with us for a week! We had a great time - hope they did too!

Anna, Chloe, Sara, Tucker & Jake

The kids got to swim with the dolphins for FREE! Chloe and Sara also had a wildlife encounter with a manatee!

Anna and Jake did some snorkeling!

The kids enjoyed having friends stay with us and were extra glad they got to take a couple days off school!

The Little Red Hen

2008-04-15T10:34:00.000-07:00

This was too cute! Jake, along with all the other kindergartener's put on a show recently.
The Little Red Hen! MOST of the kids were chicks. So here is Jake looking completely terrified on the front row fourth from the right!

Now here we are "in costume!" Front row, third from the right.
They all wore these little chicken masks on their heads.

It was so cute!

Yes, I know!

2008-03-29T18:57:00.000-07:00

Ok so it's been MONTHS since I've posted anything! Sorry about that! We've been busy - mostly with just life! Seems the kids always have something going on and I've been trying to paint the house - trying being the operative word. So far I've painted ONE whole room, but I'm still not completely done! It's Anna's room and there's still some decorative stuff to be added. Hopefully, I'll have some before and after shots posted by next year! LOL! At any rate, between Girl Scouts (thank the Lord cookie season is over), teeball, chorus, homework, holidays, birthdays etc, etc, etc, blogging has taken a back seat! Besides - it seems that I haven't been taking very many pictures either - most of these posts are from last year - (be sure to watch the videos). But it is a new year and perhaps, maybe I can keep up with this a little better - or not! Love to all!

Jake's Birthday

2008-03-29T16:05:00.000-07:00

Jake celebrated his 6th birthday in February!

What a dude!

A day at Daytona Speedway!

2008-03-29T15:28:00.000-07:00

The Girl Scouts sponsored a special day at the Daytona speedway so we thought that would be a good time to visit! We were fortunate enough to be there while they were doing some test runs. The cars were REALLY fast and REALLY loud as you can tell by the kids covering their ears! We had a lot of fun!

Christmas Music!

2008-03-29T14:00:00.000-07:00

Each kid had a show this Christmas! All the second grade classes put on a "Winter Magic" show. Anna's class did a dance with snowflakes! She is on the right with her snowflake over her head.

Front row, third one from the left with her hat on!

Sara joined her chorus group at school and they put on a performance at the Landing in Jacksonville, which is sort of a mall type area right on the St. Johns River in downtown Jacksonville.

Jake's class had a reindeer party and put on a show for the parents! It was way too cute!

I really wanted to add a video of Jake singing, but it was too big and he said he was too embarrassed!

Brownie Sunday

2008-03-28T16:12:00.000-07:00

Anna's Brownie troop has been major busy! This was back in October!!

They invaded St. Augustine and had a special Brownie ceremony, then made friendship bracelets for each other at a local shop called the Bead Chick, visited the Fort where I took them on a tour, played at the park, ate dinner, AND then went on a ghost tour of St. Augustine with another parent/tour guide! It was a long day, but everyone had a great time! This was a family activity so lots of siblings (including Anna's) attended!

Soccer time!

2008-03-27T19:11:00.000-07:00

These are some great pictures one of the other parents took of Jake. Too good not to show!

Gettin' down - he loves being goalie!

This is one of my favorites!

I like this one too - that's a tattoo (temporary of course) on his cheek!

Merry CHRISTmas!

2007-12-17T14:00:00.001-08:00

Wishing you WARMEST Christmas greetings from Sunny Florida!

May the Force be with You!

2007-11-27T04:38:00.000-08:00

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...

Actually, it was just last month on Halloween!
I'm not sure how this happened, but all the kids decided to be Star Wars characters!

Sara started this whole thing with Princess Leia. She's become this Star Wars fanatic lately - so she and Jake have something to talk about.

So Jake was Darth Vader and he walked around saying things like "Your powers are weak old man." It was hilarious!

But I have to say, my greatest shock came when Anna said she would be Yoda! That ugly little creature that speaks in backwards sentences! Anna thought it was great having her face painted green. School pictures were THE NEXT DAY - so as I applied that green make-up I said a little prayer that it would all come off! Prayer answered! That night, she carried my ipod with an external speaker and they marched around all night to the Star Wars theme and the Imperial March (that's Darth Vader's music!) - everyone loved it.

Halloween gets scarier every year!

2007-11-27T04:03:00.000-08:00

So... our great neighbors, John and Cindy opened their house to friends and family and hosted a Halloween party. I've said before that we have great neighbors... but honestly, sometimes they scare me.

Mitch and Kelli - stuck in the 70s!

Our hostess, Cindy had a small problem with some crows...

And here is Cindy's husband John - the dead guy in pumpkin pants... and our beautiful Greek goddess, Jo, whose husband could have come to the party as a Greek god, but instead...

chose to come as mustard. I'm still trying to figure that one out! ;-)

And here we are... and I can say without a doubt - this is the last time we dress up as cave people!

Yep - this is Greg with hair - pulling mine!

Anna's Busy Brownies

2007-10-29T16:29:00.000-07:00

Anna's Brownie troop has been busy! They meet once a week and usually have 2 or 3 other activities a month! In October, they visited a farm with a corn maze, Great Harvest Bread Co. - where they learned how to make bread, and the local police station where they learned about safety and that policemen and women are our friends! (That's if you're not speeding! ;-) )

Anna and Jillian, children of the corn! Scarey!

Anna, my little goat-girl!

Anna, Jillian and Jarod - lost in the corn maze!

At Great Harvest with Baker Steve and awesome bread!

At the police station getting safety tips from Officer Clifford!

Can't get enough of Disney!

2007-10-17T17:51:00.000-07:00

Here we go again...
I know you're probably tired of seeing pictures from Disney, but HEY - we live in Florida - two hours away! Ya Gotta GO!! And anyway our annual passes expire soon and we had to make sure we got our money's worth!!

Here's Sara doing her imitation of a Pirate Pear - yeah don't ask... it is Disney after all.

Jake - he's all boy! If you look closely you can see that Greg's shirt is wet - we had just gotten off Splash Mountain - yeah we got SOAKED!

Anna got to ride a horse...

Hard to beat Eeyore! He's too cute!

Soccer Star!

2007-10-13T06:57:00.000-07:00

Another season of soccer for our little man, Jake. He is doing very well and having a great time with his team the Fireballs!

In this particular game, he scored 2 goals to help with a 6-3 win!

Back to School ;-)

2007-09-08T18:58:00.000-07:00

"It's the most wonderful time of the year!"
Did you hear those angels singing?

Of course, I'm only joking - kinda! School has finally started back and this year all three of them are heading off to a brand new school! We met the bus the first day with some of our wonderful neighbors!

Beach Trip

2007-09-08T18:47:00.000-07:00

I know what you're thinking... yes, we live at the beach and yes, we took a trip to another beach! We traveled to Myrtle Beach, SC for our second annual beach trip with our friends! (Friends who lived or live in Idaho - where we all met!) With five moms and eleven kids we had a full house and a fantastic time!

Swim Team

2007-09-08T17:38:00.000-07:00

Aren't they sweet?
My little swimmers!

Just When You Thought it was Safe to go in the Water...

2007-07-05T11:19:00.001-07:00

This is probably the only sport where all my kids are on the SAME team!
So here we come... the Heritage Landing Hammerheads!
For some reason, I managed to get pictures of all three kids while they were competing in backstroke! I'll try and post some more pictures soon...
Anyway, this first one is Jake WININNG his heat in the 6 & under 25 meter backstroke! He was so proud of his ribbon and showed it to anyone and everyone who got near him the rest of the day!

Next we have Anna ready for her 7&8 year old, 25 meter backstroke... she won her heat too!

And Sara - ready for her 9&10 year old, 50 meter backstroke! She has to go down and back! She didn't win her heat, but got first place overall because there was a disqualification!

The kids are all doing super in swimming - all three could use a little more work on their diving, but that will come with practice. We have a great program (and lots of wonderful people who volunteer their time) here in our community which makes for lots of team spirit! There's over 80 kids on our team and it's really neat to see them cheer for their teammates!

Jake's Preschool

2007-07-05T10:44:00.000-07:00

Jake has had a great year at preschool!
He attended Turning Point Christian Academy and loved it. He made lots of new friends, many that he will see again next year in kindergarten!

They had several visitors including some baby rabbits and an alligator!

They even came to visit me at the Fort!

The graduation ceremony was really nice, the kids sang and quoted scripture. There was a slide show set to music and not a dry eye in the house!

I totally lost in when they played the 'graduation march' as the kids walked down the aisle to get their diplomas! Isn't he just the cutest little graduate you've ever seen? I think so, but then again I may be a little biased!!

A Grown-up Day at Disney

2007-05-10T11:44:00.000-07:00

Last week was our 14 year wedding anniversary and to celebrate and to take a much deserved break... Greg and I went to Disney World for the day! It wasn't easy to coordinate with three kids, but thanks to our great neighbors and friends we were able to make it happen. If you ever get the chance to go childless, I HIGHLY recommend it. Now don't get me wrong, I love my children more than life itself and I thoroughly enjoy taking them to Disney and having them experience all that fun and magic, but it was a refreshing change to be there without the whine-factor (well except for Greg). We hit all four parks in one day and rode all those rides that we never get to ride with the kids!! Thanks to Greg's long arms we were able to document our trip in pictures - of course they all look rather similar!

At Animal Kingdom we rode Expedition Everest! What a great coaster!

At Disney MGM Studios we rode the Tower of Terror and the Rockin' Roller Coaster.

Of course it wouldn't seem like Disney without a quick stop at the Magic Kingdom! Greg's big head is blocking Cinderella's castle!

And last, but not least, we stopped at Epcot for the "International Flower and Garden Festival." Really great displays with lots of the characters created out of plants. (You can see a bit of Captain Hook and the Crocodile in the background.)

We had a great time and plan on doing it again sometime - only next time we're taking more than one day! ;-)

Springtime means...

2007-04-11T09:02:00.000-07:00

LOTS of AZALEAS

and HAPPY EASTER!

Lordy, Lordy, look who's 30/10

2007-04-11T07:40:00.000-07:00

Yeah - don't say anything...

For my 40th, my fabulous friends from the 'hood' and I had a "girls day out!" We shopped and shopped and they made me try on these really fashionable hats!

Me with Jo and Kelli.

We also had a fantastic dinner at the Cheesecake Factory!

Kelli and Cindy

We had a load of fun and a great time and decided not to wait for someone's birthday to do it again!

Jake's Voyage

2007-04-11T07:22:00.000-07:00

OK - so I know these are pictures from before Christmas, but I just got copies from my neighbor! Jake's friend Carly invited him to sail with her family on the schooner ship Freedom during the Christmas Regatta. The theme for the ship was the Polar Express - and I'd say they did a fantastic job!

Of course Jake and Carly had fun on the ship, but they also enjoyed themselves afterwards playing in the plaza.

Grown-ups Night Out!

2007-04-10T08:19:00.000-07:00

Greg and I are very lucky to have such great neighbors! We always have a great time with them and every once in a while we all get a sitter and go out without the kids and then we act like kids...

John, Me and Greg. (Incidently, that's not my martini! I had to hold it for Cindy while she was playing photographer!)

Me and Jo

James, Jo, Me, Cindy and John - what a crew!

Horsin' Around

2007-03-11T08:32:00.000-07:00

Sara and Anna both say they want to take riding lessons. Before we decide to fork out all kinds of money for that, we were lucky enough to be invited to some friends house to 'test drive' this idea...

This is Beauty - she got a good brushing that day!

All the kids did fantastic! I guess we're going to have to seriously look into some riding lessons!

Happy Birthday Jake!

2007-03-01T10:16:00.000-08:00

We 'hit' Disney again to help Jake celebrate his 5TH birthday!!!!

We made it to Animal Kingdom and the Magic Kingdom - rode rides, ate great junk food, got a couple of souvenirs - the usual! We were only there for the day, but we had a great time!

Sara and I celebrated Jake's day with a ride on the "Primeval Whirl" - which they should call the Primeval Hurl 'cause it spins way too much for me! She can ride that with Greg from now on! The little kids are not tall enough for this one, but we rode plenty of other rides!

Jake - the soccer star!

2007-02-26T13:32:00.000-08:00

Jake had his first soccer game last Saturday! He did fantastic considering he'd never played before and his team, for one reason or another, has only had one practice! He ran hard and kicked hard and ended up scoring a goal!!

Jake is the second blue shirt from the left in the picture below.

WAY to go JAKE!!

KABOOM!

2007-02-10T18:15:00.000-08:00

So this is what I like to do in my spare time... dress up like an 18th century Spanish soilder and fire cannons!! That is me (in the picture below) lighting the cannon at the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument. There are a few dozen volunteers who participate in historic weapons demonstrations every weekend at the Fort. It is such a blast!!

On this particular Saturday, we had enough females to have an all-female cannon crew - the first in the history of the fort! (L to R) Jill, Me, Melinda and Erin

Winter Luau

2007-02-05T10:30:00.000-08:00

More from our great neighbors...
Mitch and Kelli hosted a Winter Luau to celebrate Madison's birthday and John's birthday which were only a few days apart. So we all dressed in our 'tropical' best and came ready to limbo!! Of course, we're having a slight cold spell here in Florida so it ended up indoors!!
Greg, Mitch, Kelli and Cindy all ready to party!

The kids had a good time... of course they have a good time just about anywhere!

John and Cindy got friendly with the totem pole.

And then John got friendly with the poster...
Happy Birthday John!

Anna and Cassidi ready to hula!

Christmas Parade

2006-12-09T15:58:00.000-08:00

This was, of course, before Christmas, but I hadn't gotten around to blogging it...

Sara with Madison and Carly.

The girls and Greg got to ride on a trolley in the Christmas parade along with our neighbors! Jake and I had tee-ball, but met up with everybody for lunch. They all had such a great time so we are definately in for next year.

Anna and Kelli!

Jake, Carly, Anna, Sara and Madison!

Merry Christmas from the Livelys!!

2006-12-06T10:29:00.000-08:00

To all our friends and family...
We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful new year!

Christmas pictures at the beach!

2006-12-03T10:37:00.000-08:00

This is what happens when you try and have Christmas pictures taken at the beach!

The kids run all over...

Jake has to do his action figure pose...

It was cloudy and windy, but we got some good shots!

Special thanks goes to our great neighbor and photographer Cindy Stavley!!

Anna's Big Weekend

2006-11-19T17:15:00.000-08:00

Not only did Anna celebrate her 7th birthday on Saturday at DISNEY WORLD...

She lost her first tooth Sunday night!!!!

Way to go Anna Banana!!

Anna's Disney Birthday!

2006-11-18T17:28:00.000-08:00

Anna and Sara had a big day on Saturday. First they had their hair and makeup done at the Bibiddi Bobiddi Boutique in Downtown Disney and then off to a special luncheon with Disney princesses!

Disney - November 2006

2006-11-17T17:19:00.000-08:00

So here we are in Disney again! This time Dad came along...

We had a great time and helped Anna celebrate her 7th birthday!
We had to ride "It's a Small World"...

Sara and Anna flying with Dumbo!

With Lilo and Stitch... Stitch is one of Jake's favorites! Greg and I have noticed that whenever possible, Jake does some sort of action figure pose... He is such a boy!

Behind Jake (in yet another action figure pose) check out Lightening McQueen and behind him is 'Mater!

Jake's T-ball

2006-11-14T13:43:00.000-08:00

Here's our little baseball star... "little" is right! Jake is the smallest on his team - the Yankees, but he plays as well as most of the others! He's the one on the end nearest the camera.

Made it to firstbase!

He doesn't always play catcher - which is a good thing 'cause the shin guards cover his whole leg - (I'm exaggerating a little)!

Maybe I'm biased, but I think he is the cutest Yankee around!

Halloween 2006!

2006-10-31T07:12:00.000-08:00

So this year we had Sleeping Beauty, the Green Power Ranger and a Diva Witch!

Greg even got into the spirit...
Our neighbor, Mitch, was supposed to have an afro so he could be Dracoolio?

We have great neighbors.. Mitch and Kelly and (below) James is the Cat in the Hat!
We have too much fun around here!

At the Playground

2006-10-29T07:08:00.000-08:00

Jake is all boy! He loves to give me small heart attacks!

Anna turns my world upside down!

We took some girlfriends to the park too...

Even I had fun...

Disney October '06

2006-10-20T17:09:00.000-07:00

The kids and I took a quick trip to Disney recently...

My buddies Cindy and Stacey were there with their kids. We met up and had a great time together at the Magic Kingdom.

We got to see some great characters at MGM!

Greg's Palms

2006-09-19T09:29:00.000-07:00

Greg's new hobby is palm trees! He is turning our backyard into a tropical oasis!

Sara's been busy!

2006-09-19T09:13:00.000-07:00

Sara has been very busy lately...

She's playing soccer - her team, the Lima Beans (don't ask me...) has won every game so far even though we don't keep score! HA! (She's the green shirt in the background and on the right side of the picture below.)

And she was recently selected to participate in the groundbreaking ceremony for the new elementary school that the kids will most likely attend next year. She said the hardhat was too big!

School daze!

2006-08-13T14:16:00.000-07:00

Here we are with our new friends - ready to catch the bus!

Myrtle Beach Trip

2006-06-20T14:55:00.000-07:00

We had a great trip to Myrtle Beach in June!

Our house...

2006-05-18T08:10:00.000-07:00

FINALLY - we moved into our new house in May!

the Livelys

2006-03-18T08:17:00.000-08:00

Here we are!

the girls...

and the boys...