happy saturday!   August 17, 2008

i truly LOVE our family time. the days when it is just the FOUR of us. with emi starting school in just over a week, i want to hang onto the carefree feel of the summer, for as long as i can.
this morning, we spent a few hours at a local park. this past may, right before school got out, we were at the park, just mari and i with some of her little friends. one of my friends’ daughters, who was mari’s age [21 months] at that time, got up to the slide by herself and would just whoosh down! i thought to myself, wow…that will take mari a long time to GET. boy, was i wrong? what was i thinking? we’ve spent about one day a week at the parks this summer, and until today, the swing and teeter totter have been her favorites, with the slide coming in second, only if assisted. . . going up the stairs using the rail, and then on my lap going down the slide. well, today, emi and i were on the swings together, and i look over and see miss mari flipping over and tumbling off the end of the slide with this AMAZING look of PRIDE on her face! oh, how i wish i had my SLR! yet, a moment like that i’m glad in a way that i got to just take it in, because then i would have been all about the camera and not in those few precious moments! she then proceeded to walk/crawl up those stairs and literally F-L-Y down that slide for the next 20 minutes!!! my dh and i just looked at eachother and smiled with pride. so excited for her! after lunch, we caught up on some of the olympics we had missed from friday night [ since i got my scrap on... here] once it is scanned, there’s some i can show you, and some you’ll have to wait for:) suzy will be teaching in brazil for MLS, so excited for her!!! her classes are goin to be rockin!!! and did some drawing with miss emi. after naps, we headed out to see the circus! ringling bros. didn’t disappoint! mari actually sat through almost the full 2 1/2 hours! highlights included the super fast tiny dogs, super silva, the tigers, fireworks, and the girl’s faces watching and taking it all in! after dinner, i ran some errands, and then we settled on the olympics again. since we were caught up on tivo, we watched this mornings’ episode of scrapbook memories tv show, on PBS. they announced it was their first episode of their new season, and i noticed the products wendy smedley was using were recent from american craft’s new release from CHA. it was episode 1301. next week’s episode will be 1302, which will be featuring helen chu, our amazing friend and owner of MLS. one of my layouts will be featured as a step out, so i’m looking forward to seeing helen shine! the episode will air, saturday august 23rd at 9:30am on PBS. add it to your tivo, it should be good fun!

and last but not least, here’s some photos i stole from suzy’s blog. they are from our girl’s night last week, enjoying the tunes of mamma mia! these girls just bring me such joy. suzy, angel, janice, pattie, wei, and steph- so thankful you are in my life!!! and po- we missed you!

happy saturday!
happy weekend!
happy last days of summer!
blessings,
erin