cottage charm....

Oh glorious, glorious!!! If I had an endless pile of money....I'd build my very own cottage and fill it with antique shop and garage sale finds~

in daddies shoes....

It started out with Blaine wanted to wear his dad's shirt. When I looked up again, he had put on his daddies shoes too. So cute!

helicopter mania....

lil helicopter

balloon helicopter...he was fascinated...

Blaine's been obsessed with helicopters lately, he even sleeps with one! Truth be told, I kind of encourage it :).

Can you believe that I have just finished reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy? Me, who loves everything science-fiction and fantasy, not having read it until now?!? Shocking. The Hobbit I'd read some years ago and loved. Having seen the movies first, I was afraid that I would walk away from this experience either hating the movies for not being more like the books or vice versa. You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!!! I'm sorry....I've just always wanted to say that, haha! Truthfully, I don't like one better than the other. The books are amazing in detail...the language is so rich, the characters are fascinating the storyline is imaginative. There is no, and I mean NO, way that everything in the book good be turned into a screenplay. The writers included what they could (without it being 40 hours long) in the motion picture and the result is awesome. I think JRR Tolkien would have been impressed. The costumes were great, the actors you believed and you know I loved the music. So what I'm really trying to say is that both the movie trilogy and the book trilogy are mind-boggling and inspired pieces of work that could stand on their own for the rest of all time!

(Do you think this was a little over the top? No? I didn't either!) :)

sophia....

blaine's curious...

mother and daughter

trying to wake up...

Michael's sister, Rebekah, had her baby last week. This weekend we drove up to see the family and they are all doing well....congratulations!