• Here you will find the chronicles of our family of four. More pictures than words, I am most at home capturing our life with a still camera. Photos help me recognize the beauty and awesomeness in both the phenomenal people I live life alongside and this breathtaking place we live, planet earth.

    I am a child of God. I am the wife to a wonderful man, mother to two amazing little people. I am both daughter and sister. I am a runner. I love to travel and read.

    I often title this season of our life's adventure, The Continuing Adventures of Mallory Girl and Mark Boy. The photography is mine (unless otherwise noted.) Questions are always welcome. Thanks for reading and adventuring alongside us.

dreaming

I am longing for WARM sunny climes.
I am totally done with winter.
I want to play outside and not freeze.
I want the sun to stay in "my" sky longer.

I found this post and can’t wait to go.

    

love this

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I love the idea of this book. Amanda (the author) has a cool blog that I love to read. She also has a website and is just finishing her second book….I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of this book.

I want Mallory to grow up surrounded by love and grace and creativity. I want our home to be a place where fun ideas and projects and play are the norm. My nephews are pros at "Secret Game." It’s the imagination game, it can be whatever and whenever you want. I can’t wait to hear more about it when they visit next month.

What do you do when you want to be creative?

    
Sharon Campbell - February 27, 2008 - 9:09 pm

cute! Please fill me in on secret game. The boys do “imitations” where we all close our eyes and they try to imitate Yoda, R2, Darth Vader, etc. Also, we do “questions”. Would you rather be a potatoe, a strawberry, or a pea?, for instance. LOL! Kids are fun!

Sharon Campbell - February 27, 2008 - 9:10 pm

cute! Please fill me in on secret game. The boys do “imitations” where we all close our eyes and they try to imitate Yoda, R2, Darth Vader, etc. Also, we do “questions”. For instance, “Would you rather be a potatoe, a strawberry, or a pea?” LOL! Kids are fun!

still reading

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We have gotten hours of reading from the Karen Katz books. Mallory loves them. Other favorites right now are, Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, Where is Mommy’s Valentine also by Katz, Sandra Boynton’s Moo Baa La La La, and Eric Carle’s From Head to Toe.

    
Dawn - March 4, 2008 - 10:16 am

Oh! The Boynton books! Those were a *huge* hit with my daycare babies. If I sat down on the floor, there was inevitably someone plopping down in my lap with a Boynton book, and the other seven would pile on as soon as they caught onto the fact that one was being read. =)

storytime

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday our library has story time. Mallory seems a little young to go, but she loves her books and it’s another way to enjoy them. Each week there is a new "theme." The stories and poetry help illustrate and after time on the story rugs, there is a craft of some kind. Crayons, markers, glue sticks, stickers and construction paper play heavily into craft time. Last week, we met the Whaley girls and enjoyed some pre-Valentines card making. There was naturally lots of time for reading before and after the program.

I love that she has other people reading to her.

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Julie Whaley - February 22, 2008 - 5:10 pm

Thanks for the pictures. We look cute!