Happy Father's Day Dad!

Happy Father's Day Alec!

Bright Like Sunshine

Rosie Posie Video

Endless Beach Video

Camp Grandma 2009

Camp Grandma

The Hills are alive, with the sound of music....

At the library with my grammy!!

I'm not getting OUT!  I want to drive...

No, I'm going first, No I'm jumping in first!!!

Cinderelly:)

Little Lover

A Look Back on Little Lover {maddie-ann elizabeth matthews}

I sneak in to Blog because my little Lover (Maddie-Ann) is starting pre-school on Monday.  She could have started tomorrow but I could not be that unprepared to let her go.  I feel guilty with splashes of failing her not being able to do a "Mommy & Me" class everyday together but she has been asking to go to school since December.  Maddie even remembered the school and started hopping as we came up to it and she saw all the slides and motorcycles they had to ride outside.  She is always shy at first but then opens up.  The kids were having quite time with the lights off and laying on little beds to rest. It really is preparing for kindergarden and its nauseating.  The fact that she is not a baby anymore, that she is her own woman and I just want to protect her and shelter her from the storm and fight all her battles and make her Happy.  So happy because her laugh and Morgan's laugh are truly the only thing that make me happy in this entire world.  Is a business really worth all the time it takes away from raising your children? 

Some Maddie...

the space between

~the space between, 

the tears we cry, 

is the laughter that keeps us coming back for more~

-dave matthews

Who knew having two little girls so close together, they would be so different? But when they meet in the space between and play and laugh together it all makes sense. Yesterday, Maddie climbed in Morgan's crib and held her and kissed her feet and said "ah, I love you morgan" and she kept kissing her and hugging her. 

I felt so happy.

Caity comes to dance

~Did I mention The Women Love Anthropology~

~God Bless our America~

The farmer's market is beautiful. It really is a gem of a little place. Usually we avoid it like a plague on weekends. The massive amounts of tourists, and it can get so crowded that you can hardly move but who knew it was 2 year old dance-a-rama on Saturdays? Aunt Caity was in for the weekend and she wanted to go on saturday night so the women (Maddie, Morgan, Caity and I) packed up, found a great spot to park and went in. There was live music, and who knew? A field of 2 year old dancers with proud parents of all kinds. Maddie danced with a little girl in a princess outfit, and ran around with the boys. Morgan was into it for a second then decided that the Micheal Kors store was way more interesting. She kept running up to the glass doors begging to go in. Of course, the 2 guy associates of the fashion persuation said I must be so proud that she has taken a liking to Kors already. But when I went in with Morgan to give a quick lookie, everything was made in China, Sorry Micheal Kors, not going to support you anymore now that you have taken your manufacturing off America's Soil:(

Maddie the monkey, turned Peacock

So, I used to think Maddie was a monkey but after her encounters with the peacock, she might be a bird of a feather... that flow in front of waterfalls, runs in green fields together.... Morgan loves to eat dirt. Alec loves to climb to get us fruit.

~Do you see the monkey in the tree?~

 

  

The Arboretum has koi ponds, a marine garden with lilly pads and minnows with small waterfalls, a rose garden...

 tons of trees, a bamboo forest and a tropical forest. Check out their website at: www.arboretum.org.