Seeing The Fingerprints

So I'm avoiding the dishes pile that happened and really needs to be cleaned up before our company comes for dinner.  Unsure how my kitchen just about exploded in the past few hours, but it did.  I guess when your kids go in there and bake cookies to sell up the street and you start dinner preparation and decide last minute to make a dessert....yes that is how my kitchen explodes into full on disaster zone!  I'd bake all day every day if I never ever had to clean a dish!!! Since we've returned from our trip to the Netherlands a lot of things have happened around here!   This girl got to go on her very first over nighter field trip.  She explored the wonders of the good old days in Barkerville.  She came home with some gold flakes and many good memories.   This girl decided that once again we should celebrate her birthday!  She didn't make a cake request this year and gave me the privilege of surprising her.  Unsure how I liked ...

Everyone once in a while I have the privilege of using my camera for some fun photoshoots.  Here is my beautiful niece and her fun friends.   Actually truth be told I wasn't fully expecting to take on all the friends for this photoshoot at first.  I was ready to take photos of my niece and snap away....but last minute I agreed to help take photos of the friends.  It was a little crazy organizing such a big crowd, but they were ok with me bossing them around and cooperated mostly well :)  They all threw their cell phones at me on the first picture....should've took a picture!!! I had to remove the biggest distraction right?  I hope they're all enjoying the summer of their lives!!!

100 years young Recently my adopted Grandmother turned 100! I was given notice that there would be an open mike for the evening and I thought it would be nice to share our story. So here it is. A few words for the lovely lady in the room!  First off, some of you may be wondering who I am?  I hold the bragging rights of being the guest of honor, Grandma first granddaughter!!  When I was a little girl I had only one biological grandmother alive in a far-off country and she passed away when I was 8.  When those grandparent’s days came around at school each year it was a bit of a sad day for a little girl.  My mom decided enough was enough and figured there had to be a lovely lady who would visit her daughter on this special day.  You know what?!  She found the loveliest grandmother of all!   Grandma, I want to thank you for coming each year after that to see me on grandparent’s day!  It made my heart sing that someone special was ...