And thank you Nana and Pawpa aka Dad and Brooke!

loving my extended birthday...

Mama's birthday extended by a day!

thank you Gramdmommy!

Francesca with Tower at Tabor Space

really quite excellent balance

Slide! Sun! Fun! (pics taken pre-injury, obviously!)

Kids helping mom recover from back injury

and by back injury I mean back going out in the parking lot of Freddie's- for no good reason other than I turned 45 today!

Frolic in the sun at Buckman

Birthday mama

early morning birthday morning

Francecsa poses with the hyacinths she and Blaize
got mommy for her birthday today! So beautiful
and they smell so good! A great way to start a birthday !

happy birthday to Mommy!

Blaize drew this, from his dream

it is a picture of a a green guy who is also purple and
pink and that is both a boy and a girl. and who flew
and chased him around. And was scary.

how did she get to be so freakin SWEET??

it keeps getting sweeter

and again

this gal has flair, big time

Nighty night camp out.

Blaize in the rain

This is outside the gymnastics-dance studio, we have about 20 minutes before Francesca's class ends. Sometimes we play outside, sometimes we go to Starbucks, next door, sometimes we do both...

Trees! Parks! Sun! Kids! Friends! Heaven!

kind of adorable

Ablaze speaks loudly and carries a big stick.

This is worries Francesca. The stick is deposed shortly hereafter.

Park time!

New Foam Pit foam!!

another take on the same view

(And a better look at the fairy princess dress!)

Fairy princess and brother show off completed dinosaur puzzles!

Frosty and Blaize

Suh-MILE!

Princess Keili and two of her cutest subjects

Siblings Rule

Quite fetching, no?

King of The Bubbles!

Sweetness

Francesca, psyching up for jumping face

Beautiful New Year's weather.

Blaize is reveling in his purple hat at newly purpled snow boots!

If these blue eyes don't pierce you, nothing will...

Francesca, Ken, and Sandy in Yamhill on NYD

Happy!

We are at Ken and Christy's in Yamhill for New Year's Day!

Happy Gorgeous New Year