This is my sweet little Rae Rae.  She is the most ticklish little scrunch.  Sometimes when I ask her to do a job, all she needs is a little tickle to get started.   Notice I said sometimes..she's not perfect although she looks it.

This is Apollo and Nora having a little seance in the back yard.  It was neat to see those two paired up because it doesn't happen very often.  I love it when Denaras and Dave visit.  There is enough fun and love and cackling to spare.

So A friend asked me if I would paint a table for her as a job.  Haven't ever painted furniture for someone.  I've done murals and portraits and caricatures, but never furniture.  So I did it and it was soo fun!  Here it is!The trick is candle wax and steel wool.  Sandpaper is sooo overrated!

A day in a life of an 8 year old boy

This is how I found Apollo on the afternoon of his 8th birthday.  Reading one of the "Treehouse" series books.

The pic to the left I love with Apollo giving off his dreamy look and Mirae holdin' a pose all her own.

Apollo had a dream bday dinner with potstickers, for him and orange chicken and chow mein noodles for the rest of us.

Birthday cake and a crash right into the gate on his new bike..what more could a kid want, really.

She is my oldest scrunch-up.  Most gorgeous with her blonde locks and blue eyes.  However don't be fooled by her adoreable exterior.  She climbs into a poopy chicken coop every other day to gather eggs to wash and sell.  She has also bound and popsicle-sticked a scaly chicken's leg when one of her beloved chickens was found near dead after being attacked by a dog.  Her daddy even called her down to get a gardener's snake out of the  window well in his office because he had experienced a code brown due to the fright of it.  She loves animals and making crafty-things.  Her newest venture in crafting is making "Bobs."  You might remember him (Bob) from the Pixar film "Monsters Vs. Aliens."  She tried injecting a tomato with a dessert ranch sauce, but it didn't prove to work like in the movie.  What she did instead is mix half parts liquid corn starch and Elmer's glue, and a touch of blue food dye, and a little elbow grease.  There's no such thing as elbow grease btw, just stir it.  That's what elbow grease means.  Get your back into it as well.  You've really got to..no, 'back' is not an ingredient in the 'Bob' mixture, just stir it until nicely mixed.  Then birthed was her very own 'Bob.'

Going through the tunnel on a train at the zoo.

Mirae is one of my two beauties..her eyelashes are like nothing else you've seen.  She has dainty dotted freckles across her nose, and that hair...oh that hair.  I go through a bottle of detangling spray every morning on that hair.  It's..well, I would say it's almost like Hermione hair.  I can comb through it once before school but a minute and a half later, birds come swooping down at her as if they've found a nice place to nest.  Her hair is the color of honey (or agave) and her eyes are a rich hazel brown.  Quite lovely.  She also eats like she weighs 300 pounds, but is very lithe and active.  She is now 5 and reading what I thought was just 3 and 4 letter words.  But today she read the word 'cancel' which I thought was very clever considering the 2 different 'c' sounds.

I took the kids to the Hogle Zoo the other day and we had so much fun together.  Apollo's fav. animals were mos def the cougars (we're BYU fans).  We went on a hike the other day too at Zion's National Park and whenever I pulled out the camera he got into 'cougar position' on a rock and bore his fangs to terrify every living creature.  I saw the movie, "Blind Side" the other day, and the little boy (Sandra Bullocks son) reminded me so much of Apollo because he's like a little adult.  A mini trash talkin' adult.  Love him to pieces..