nieces are fun !

My new Niece arrived on Sunday morning!
Ella-Jean....just a few hours old!

Two Birds

I also recently got to hang out with my other precious niece Lily!!!!
We had so much fun!

Cant wait to see you again in Hawaii Lil !!!

Our Fun Day!

Seth, Broaden, Stephen and I had a great day on our field trip!

Five Days A Week In the Classroom; Seven Days A Week On My Mind

Getting out of the city

I went away......to a huge house 4 hours north along the coast....

Relaxed....

Eric & Cameron cut the fields....

We went on daily walks...

pulled some massive weeds...

Then i remembered that we were in the middle of nowhere and I freaked out for the remaining 5 days....

So we had evening photo shoots

I feel pretty strongly that Tyra Banks would consider this one "Fierce"

Last Day of School

Last Day of School and Kindergarten/8th grade Graduation!!

The boys dressed up and transformed into little men

reaching an understanding

You know you have reached an understanding with the local cockroaches when....

I am putting cookie dough onto a baking sheet while watching a cockroach drink water
from a tiny puddle next to me on the counter.

I open the hot oven to bake my cookies, and a dozen cockroaches fall out of the oven door and into the bottom of the oven...still alive despite the 350 degree heat!
(my cookies are still safe to eat...)

Siblings on 3rd floor

My brother Eric recently moved into the room right next to ours, up here on the third floor!
He is the new official summer intern here at "City Impact"!
And the most magical part of it all is that the wall which separates our room from his, is actually a door...not a wall. So, in the mornings i can tap on the "wall" (door) and talk to him (without even shouting) while i get ready for my day or inform him that we have coffee brewing in our room. Absolutely magical.
Last night while we were SLEEPING, Eric decided to knock on our door a few times. Then he proceeded to call us on the cell phone. We thought maybe it was an emergency so we answered.
All he wanted to know was if the two of us were on a bike ride.....AT 11:00 AT NIGHT!
Again, magical.

Robert and I spent Monday at the ocean! We took a drive along the coast through Pacifica and Half Moon Bay. We stopped at the lighthouse and walked around the beach. We found some colonies of hermit crabs in the rocks and we found a lot of other creatures in a cave. The tide quickly came into the cave and Robert had to put me on his back and run through the water to get us out! I spent the rest of the day in my sweats and relaxing. It was a great extra day to our weekend.