Building a garden, digging a weed..who could ask for more

will you still need me, will you still feed me,when Im sixty four.

While she not exactly 64 this year she getting closer.

Today is her Birthday and here are some things I love about my mom~

Everyone who knows my mom loves her. We are very similar this way...............

She is the greatest Grandma ever and I hope to be just like her in this way.

She is always soo happy to see my kids and makes a big deal when they come in the door.

She frequently asks for them to spend the night and frequently says yes when i ask.

The past 2 weekends I have been heading out of town and each time have had a kid get sick that day.

Each time I knew I could leave them with her just fine and truth be told they would probably be better taken care of.

They both quickly got better.

She makes the best whole grain pancake mix and shares bag fulls with all her kids.

She is very easy to talk to and we talk on the phone often.

She has cute puppies at her house so I don't have to own a dog for my kids.

She is a great example of attending the temple and does once a week and likes to call me while shes driving to or from.

She loves being outside hiking, gardening, walking and biking and looking for weird love birds

in her neighborhood so she can tell me about them.

I love that we are such good friends and hope she has a great birthday.

Love you mom!

There are a lot more things I love about my mom but at almost midnight our 9 o'clock church is not sounding fun so I'm off to bed.

Feel free to add to the list.

My kids ask all year long

When they can go back to the "sedona house", and I look forward to us going back all year long.

Hunter decided that every time he saw the camera he would do "action shots" for me.

Yep they all turned out this good and he thought he was hilarious as usual.

They loved having these nets up there and I will be sure to bring those again since they supplied hours of entertainment at the creek.

So I know Im backtracking big time but..........

when your house is spotless and you are caught up with everything in life, this is what you do.

The weekend after school started for my boys we headed to our favorite spot in Arizona. 3 days spent at Oak Creek was great as usual. The kids lived outside, bossed their cousins and grandparents around ( well only Emma did this) and begged to go on hikes. Despite the fact that they were really into catching snakes in the water or bushes I enjoyed the relaxing weekend with them.

What 4 year old girl is in love with wild snakes and has no fear in grabbing them out of the water?

Found these little pics from

back in August. I cant find them in my main folders of pics and therefore can't edit them at all but i thought they show small glimpse of how much she loves herself, because seriously, she does.

Im flattered

that anyone thought that I took these pics of my kids. If you have learned anything from my two blog posts this year, you should know that my kids rarely cooperate for me. For these I headed to Maricopa and met my sis in law Cindy from www.lilypstudio.com who is my favorite photographer and she was willing to spend her evening out in the orchards with my kids.

Ben had a major meltdown while we were trying to leave her house and she had to convince him to even get in the car, but he ended up not having a tear stained face like i was sure he would.

I may try to catch my little blog up from the past 6 months..............