A great black Friday with Nina and Pops!

A Happy Thanksgiving!

Nina and Pops are here!  Woohoo!  We have an almost full house.  But there is a little void in my heart without my German girl home. We miss her especially on holidays and especially when we gather as a family and she is missing.  Can't wait to see her in 4 days in her lovely German city!  Hurrah!

One week from today I'll be with my German girl!

(In Germany!) and I'm taking along Nina for the Nutcracker European adventure! 

Yippee yay yay!

I don't blog much anymore, but I thought this was blog worthy.  :)

Cannot wait!

So proud of my Dyl!

Winning an award at the UN and a trip to NYC!

Happy Rainy Halloween!

Happy Halloween from soggy Bloomy!  Here's our lively gang...Llama, Shelb, Fire chief, Loggy, Basketball net, Dyl (he's about as tall and skinny as a hoop these days!)...and the awesome FL Flamingo, Ash!  (Plus Firetruck driver, Hays, hiding out :)) 

The rain actually ended up stopping and we had a lovely night (minus some complaining from a testy llama...and a deflating flamingo) 

Fall Break

I miss blogging...and I wish we'd had a restful fall break....instead we finally cleaned up grad party mess from August.  Hopefully one of these days I can add pics to this blog.  My computer is toast.  Life is full.  Those are my excuses. :)

Ash is (was) DOUBLE DIGITS! (yesterday)...crazy bday day...but so fun!

I totally ran out of time to post yesterday in the midst of double digit melee.  But boy did our bday girl have fun...especially at our last minute boat bday bash with her friends at the lake/pool.  Yikes, those girls were crazy and I got very little sleep on the floor of the boat with Loggy.  Can't believe my baby girl is 10!  Woohoo!  It's become a bday weekend now...today we celebrated more and tomorrow we celebrate even more...never even had her flamingo cake yet.  Love you, Bday Ash!  You rock!