Happy birthday boo!

This sweet girl of ours is N I N E today! She brings me to my knees daily because I am so thankful for her. She has gifts of kindness, patience, love, sensitivity and so many more. She loves soccer but rather be at the beach, cuddled with a book or reading aloud to her sisters. She still wakes up and wants to be held and snuggled while I run her hot bath. Yea, she has me wrapped! Her favorite things also include dates with her daddy. Her hopes and dreams are to be a mama or a teacher. We love you, Bella Bean, booboo, Beaner, Bella-ru, Cinda-bella and the list goes on.

Rose Bowl

Why not wake up on 3 hours of sleep and go to the antique swap meet with little to no cash? 

Gotta love the overpriced pillows, so inspiring to me. Why you ask? Because a mom here buys the printed fabric, the linen and pillow forms from ebay, makes and sells them. Good for her!

This is the place for rugs. 

Need this large vase!

Loved these $15 baskets and the vintage trim was calling my name. I was imaging this wrapped around a lamp shade or around my uggs. To hippy? 

Kinda creepy but Lilah loved this picture of the old dolls

And this was the mother load of all things yummy. 

Till next time Rose Bowl we'll meet again and hopefully with some spending money.

Going Horizontal

Phase 1
This man is so good at all he does. He is the hardest working person i know and loves us so much. Im so thankful for him. Forced to redo our 10+ year fence and by making it more cost effective we kept the post's, sanded them and went horizontal.

We were inspired by the fence at the OC Mart mix and Uncle T is helping with the landscape. There's going to be a couple benches and some other surprises. Always fun to hang out in front yard while the kids bike and neighbors pop in.

So awesome having a hubby make our dreams come true. He even took Sofia under the house to do pipe stuff. I only wish I had a picture of the dusty duo.

We went through all the weathers and the girls loved it, especially the mud.

The rain came but didn't stop our great neighbors and Jeff's fam to come and help. Thanks Donny, Trent, Tim, Travis, Grandad and Filemon.

To be continued and I'm freaking out and excited with the plans.

Iphone Foto's

Do you ever got the feeling that your iPhone gets bombed by photos? Its a fact here. Since our kids don't have camera's or iTouch's they bomb mine. I kinda love going through them though.

I'm sure Bella took this pic of the lunches because she is usually my helper in that area. She must of been very pleased with herself.

I assume Rubi took the ikea pic while sitting in the baby seat of the cart while I was dreaming over the lamp which was out of stock. And Sofia took the picture of Lilah at Pretend City because I allowed her to instagram it. She is the best instagramer btw.

We are so blessed to attend the most beautiful parties. Besides Pretend City which all 5 of us were treated to, this Indian Princess party was so pretty!

I love this one of Sofia on key's at worship for middle school. Her life group leader sent it to me because Sofia asked me to not stay…tear.

And these again are from Sofia. Love her creative bug. How beautiful are the Heavens?!

And this LOVE here at day 2 of her life turned 4 today. Another tear! That new tender baby smell is locked in memory and I miss it. How can I even thank God for her the proper way? Happy birthday Lilah Dahl!

H e l l o F i g

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New Beginings

Summer came and went and all things new arrive. 

 Girls look forward each year for our "be prepared festival, partly because gifts are included, dessert, fashion show and this year a photo shoot was added. I love looking back through my phone to see the collages and pictures taken. To cute.

Nervous and excited about my 1/2 marathon. Its so much harder to run these days but I LOVE every second I am out there! If its so hard to start up why do I ever quit? 

This little Joy of ours stared kindergarden and It makes me so sad but so happy for her. She is PRECIOUS!

 H2O started up and Sofia's sweet gal pal, Maddi is right there with her. So excited for them. CMAC has been such a blessing for us.

 Fashion Night with some of my girly girls! Started at Umami Burger then went on to get our goodies at stores like Tory Burch, John Varratos and my favorite, Chloe. Who shops at these stores, wow! We ended our night at Anqui, sneaking into posh private parties acting very "established" and having the best food! Awe, what a night!

Yea for another season of soccer. Go Black and Blue Berries! Rubi and Harper are so fun to watch.

Harvest crusade is always amazing. Excited to say hi to David Crowder, our girls love his music. Who knew he was a Texas redneck? I leave wanting to share the love of Jesus to everyone! Next year, I want to fill up our van and bring tons of people! Who's in?

Busy Bee's

Art Class at OC Mart Mix.

Winery's, castle, beaches and family. What more can I say!

 Sofia loves taking pictures and she is gets real creative with all the filters. I love this "focus" picture. We had the best time together while gg and gpops watched the girls. Hearst Castle and the cities around were a sight to see. I can't wait to go back and take Jeff and Bella.

 Lots of camping over the summer. Many memories made with neighbors at Malibu, our church family from Rock Harbor, friends and cousins at San Elijo.