i love pictures

since the arrival of "the smart phone" and the strange antics of my camera (that of course acted just fine when i brought it into canon last week) there have been more and more grainy, funny filter pictures in my life.  and i love them.
last week the girls and i went to California.  it was great.  it was a surprise.  no one knew but brynn. the girls didn't even know till the day before we left.  we got in to los angeles late and arrived at my parents house later.  the girls surprised them and it was so fun.

brock said this one was good enough to blog

"UNCLE BROCK!!!!!" is here.

hair cuts, beach, smoothies,

and an unfortunate last name.

image pile up

why do these nasty fake teeth never lose their novelty?  they just never get old....

lola is in that i need to feed myself my food with a spoon phase.  it's awesome and messy.  this day i tried the "maybe if i put her yogurt in a cup and give her a straw it won't be as messy" approach.  didn't really work.

lil ones

last wednesdays fruit and veggie co-op take homes.  yummmmm.

my new primary class.  a few were missing too, it's a large group (there are at least 3 that were not there that day) and they are super funny.

how lola looks anytime there is a bathing suit laying around.  i love when she dresses herself.

i got some new app that you can edit pictures all fancy like.  velz and ivy did these ones their selves.  i think they are hysterical.  the little things in the corner of velzy's kill me.

@ the park

i realized the other day that lola has only played at a park playground a handful of times.  tragic, right?  so after her sisters went to school she and i walked over to the park to play.  i think she liked it- she collected 3 cigarette butts, walked through broken glass and slid down the slides. now she is sleeping peacefully and our house is so quite.  i should be working on the 57 things i have written down that i need to do but i am slacking.  the washing machine is going so at least someone around here is working.

christmas break

i know there are lots of moms who just want school to start again but i am dreading waking everyone up tomorrow for school, packing lunches and prodding sleepy monsters to get their teeth brushed and get out the door.  we have not had the best weather (don't hate me if you have snow on the ground at your house), but it's been nice enough to get to the beach and have some fun.  i really don't know what our family would do if we were not able to go to the beach together.  i love to be there with my family.  taking velzy and ivy out surfing the last few weeks has been some of the funest times ever.  and even lola has had some great little bodyboard rides with luke.  she sits on the front and laughs as they ride waves in.  it's  so cute.
velz and ivy like to go out on the soft top with me and play on it.  we paddle around, knock each other off, jump off, practice balance and laugh.  seriously one of my favorite activities of all time.  i love the ages that the girls are at right now.  even if they try to say they don't want to go to the beach they have so much fun when we get there.  and i am really impressed with how good they are in the water.  velz has been catching some waves on her own and also with me riding on the board behind her.  the other day she took a wave in and "buttons"  was on the inside and he was all stoked on her surfing and told her she was doing awesome.  velz- stoking out the old pros.  haha.  of course i have no pictures of the girls surfing or anything, we need a good waterproof camera so bad. oh, and i failed to mention that on that last wave luke was on it coming in from the inside, so they shared the wave.  when she go to the beach she was telling her friends "i shared a wave with my daddy!" so cute. sharing is caring.