"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes, The rest sit 'round it and pluck blackberries."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Playing hop scotch with a 1 year old.

Step One:  Draw your hop scotch and then throw your hoppy taw (sp) to begin.


Step Two:  Try to convince your brother not to touch!


Step Three:  Try to jump over your brother while he holds the hoppy taw.


Step Four:  Just keep jumping!!


Step Five:  Ignore the fact that your brother has rolled the Hoppy Taw away.  Again.


Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Shoe Shopping

Anyone who knows me is well aware that I'm not much of a fan of shopping.  Justin needed some new shoes a while ago, and for some reason he wanted to invite the hordes.  We're just so fun to be around.  Anyway, while he looked at shoes, we checked out these excellent hats.  Spencer eventually screamed us into submission, since he didn't get to do anything but sit in the stroller and watch.

















Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Only Child

Recently I ventured to Lowe's to buy supplies for my performance scenery.  Meg and Grant were playing at a friends, and Spencer got to be an only child.  He was especially overjoyed when he was given four paint stirrers, and immediately set to whacking me.






Monday, May 6, 2013

Family Home Evening

Let me tell you, we've got our priorities straight for FHE.  Treats, treats, treats.  







Saturday, May 4, 2013

Spencer becomes obsessed with looking at himself on the phone camera....







Why are narcissistic photos of small children so cute?  I don't know.  But they definitely are.

Friday, May 3, 2013

April Phone Photos

Watching General Conference:



My punishment for going downstairs to change the laundry and leaving Spencer behind:




At first, I thought Spencer was eating his corn.  (Since he is a horrible eater, I was delighted I'd found something he liked.)  Turned out he was hiding them in his overalls.  Yum.


Family Lego Time:


Around the House:



Food?  Who needs food?


Finally walking to school again!


I cut off Spencer's mullet (Justin is sad):


Ellie starts a list of fun things for the summer.  That girl has interesting taste.