A Thorn Among Roses

i was just being a good daughter, going to mom and dad's house to pick up their dog... and then, my brother came...with a puppy...and this is the part, where i think i started seeing everything spinning. he says, "brooke, you can take her as long as you want. you can even keep her." then, it happened...brooke did the whole screaming and jumping and well, hugging the dog thing...it seemed so not real...like a cartoon. it didn't just happen. then i got in the car, that i brought my 4 girls out in, and looked around. there were still 4 girlies, but now there were 2 dogs in tow and to boot, my bro kicked in a little plastic push car for sofie...who also did the screaming, yelling thing. i mean, the dog, which i named java, since that was my only note of decision in the matter, is really stinking cute. seriously cute. and brooke-ster really loves her...and paige and brooke are doing all the potty clean up around the house. {and, they have really gotten a work out} pai

Josie from " the poor college student sguide to raising a baby " asked this... If given a weekend to yourself and no limit on money, where and what would you do? first, i know it's gonna sound corny, but i would not take a weekend by myself if i could go with my hubs. i love him and we love to travel together, so i would def go with hubs. he's hot, i'm not gonna lie. well, i love the beach...so i would definitely toss some major fantastic beach time in. i might have a fun little drink with an umbrella in it on punaluu 's black sand beach in hawaii... since hubs always gets to be a world traveler, i would def go to paris...and i would wear my burberry scarf the fam got me for my july bday! i would have a baguette in paris and drink an espresso experiencing the eiffel tower, like hubs has done so many times. {hate that} then, i would totally make out, ok, kiss, my hubs in the classic 1940's pose right here...where he took this pic. of course i would g

sofia loves the slide...i swear, it's like her second home. we were at abby's house {the abby in the world, btw} and in the back yard is this old swingset and slide... guess who ran right to it?? the utter joy is amazing to me. {and a fab daddy to help out is awesome too} this is my favorite part...it's the "i love this, but i think i might die" part. the look on her face is priceless! alas, the fun has returned and there's a smile on her face even though her bumm is on the gorund. those slides are the best! it's wordful wednesday...and you can totally meet lots of new friends there!!!

i caught them...red-handed!!! i downloaded the little digital and i found evidence that those little sneakers were stealing the cam and shooting it up... clue #1...the finger in the left corner. ok, and the fact that there's a picture of the basement media room with grub on the table. apparently it was fun action too...check out jada's super awesome and joyful screaming face! and look...it's their "tent" they made...you know with my feather filled duvet. sweet kids, huh? and jada did take at least one shot...apparently the bad life got tiring, so b had to take a nap! and the piano...you can never have too many pictures of your piano, trash can, candle or artwork {that paige did btw}. ah hah!!! the mysterious foot...belongs to brooke. this is when having kids with different races pays off. this is def a white foot! booger! jada is dancing away...on top of my feather filled duvet. again, so sweet. and to end the fun, and bring me back to reality, the "inb

{{first...please pray for stellan and mck mama...stellan has been in svt for too many hours and they can't get the little guy out. stop what you are reading...and please pray.}} a few things me and the fam did NOT do this week... at my cousins wedding, brooke DID NOT dance the waltz with her cousin, ben. the DID NOT waltz the entire dance floor, adding twirls and doing the box step. brooke DID NOT point at and push into my mom's "chest" and say, "nana, i can see your breast right here" during the wedding. paige and gabby {fab cousin} DID NOT do the hoe down throw down for the whole place at the wedding... hubs DID NOT leave for another out of the country business trip...china this time. we are NOT jealous and are NOT missing him terribly already. sofia DID NOT look at me from across the room when i told her to come to me and say "no no" and shake her finger in the air at me. jada DID NOT yell 'santa!!' B DID NOT storming in the room runn

i love the beach...i love my hubs and kids more...but i love the beach. life doesn't get much more awesome than when we are all at the beach together. i heart faces this week is beach week...and i have roughly 4,361 beachy pics i could enter, but i had to pick just one. and here it is... the b-ster chilling on the beach...just taking in the awe and wonder of how awesome god's creation is. i remember when we were there, she asked if the ocean could be the ocean if there wasn't the wind and the water together. i had a great teaching moment... {don't get all caught up in the technical stuff...} i told her god is like the wind...we can't see him, we can feel his presence and we are sure he's there. we are like the water. we get tossed around and we never know where we are going. the ocean is way more vibrant and awesome with the wind in your hair. you can visit the ocean and do the ocean without wind, but it's way better with the wind in your hair and the

paige and i must have had too much sweet tea one night...we go photobooth happy!! this is our moose and fish face rendition...i think it's quite nice. my fav on this one...def paige's hole in her tooth! awesome! then i started looking thru my shots from the week and there were some really great faces...i mean, my kids are stinking cute, don't get me wrong, but i love the mixture of emotion... so here's a few of the faces from the week... no reason...they are just fun. happy saturday.

if you dropped by bloghopping...well, this is my life. i'm a SAHM for 4 girlie pies...have one super hot hubs...love jesus, coffee, adoption and lots of other things...the best way to get to know my totally imperfect life is to jsut look around and read...if you get behind on the names and faces, the sidebar on the left is a great reminder. so, here's my post for the day...can't wait to meet more of you!!! so we had fun and met some new boyfriends for the girlies...not really, but man, that kid is adorable! is he not so stinking cute??? i think sofie could marry him some day... and we had some major grub too! and on super fun plates and with all new wedding gifts. i was living vicariously through abby...it was fun, i'm not gonna lie. and because the girlies had looked forward to swimming, they were gonna swim, weather or not! jada actually said, "hey, i wanna go swimming in the ice cold pool." yeah, the swimming lasted about 10 minutes and then we moved on.