instafriday

here we are again on friday! PHEW! I’m linking up my small squares at life rearranged again. so fun! I love seeing what everyone else posts. check ‘em out! share your own! do what you want to do! but thanks for stopping by.

so here we go:

sunrise. the fires on the other side of the mountains have ‘gifted’ us with some spectacular sunrises lately. orange and red… totally awesome.

day 15: first thing you see. {my sweetheart}

playing ‘pass the pigs’ with my kids.

doing her best to blend into the carpet.

some sunshine in the downstairs bathroom. gorgeous! and don’t you love my mom’s vase???? I’m ~~indefinitely borrowing~~ ‘babysitting’ it.

day 16: strange. {this was my dinner. I needed to do some shopping and didn’t have a lot of dinner options. I wound up making myself a quesadilla out of corn tortillas, cheddar, and taco bell fire sauce. totally awesome and well-balanced, I know. but I washed it down with a glass of gewurztraminer, so that makes it okay…}

flat layla sighting in the closet!

day 17: in my fridge.

flat layla strikes again!

I love to stand and watch micah play when I come to pick him up from preschool. it usually takes him a while to notice I’m there. the sandbox is HUGE, and it’s his absolute favorite place.

day 18: price {how about free? fresh green beans picked moments before dinner. YUMMY! I love my garden. I love this time of year.}

I don’t even know what to say about this one. layla and micah made up some checkers-style game involving marbles and this random piece of a metal shelving set… dave decided to get all geometric with it, I guess.

a funny find in layla’s lunch box. I named it “pants carrot”.

but wait… it gets better! meet “back-of-pants carrot”!

day 19: under. {wherever I am, she is near by. LOVE.}

day 20: man-made. {hello, my dream house! yes, I get to live here! still pinching myself about it, though!}

shane, the blue ninja. apparently this is how they looked at cross country practice yesterday… so, for those who live in the neighborhoods surrounding the school, if you see a bunch of teenage ninjas running down the road, don’t be alarmed. or maybe you should be…

day 21: sometimes. {sometimes, I get to sit for a few minutes, in the dark, quiet morning. just me and my coffee. totally awesomeness.}

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