Saturday, December 21, 2013

catching up

Adventures during Fall Break

Tent sleeping in the Wilson's backyard
Campfire and s'mores in our backyard


Watercoloring during a nature hike at Nesbit Park
Football and thumb wars with Joe Hutchinson at The Grove

 skating siblings

 and a bunch of other random pics since then...

Lucy putting her arm around her best imaginary friend "Casey"
I love this picture!  Look how excited she is to have such a neat friend.

love these moments. i'll take a blurry old pic to try to hang on to good memories.
I see pictures like this all the time but this is my first and only it's ever happened to me.  Sleeping at lunch.

NERD alert!
Luke dressed up for nerd day at school.  If you ask me nerds are dang cute!  (Luke and his best friend Dillan)

Malan being Malan.  We all love her.
                                                                                             (maryanne's first pigtails)


during the Father/Son campout - we had a Mother/Daughter morning out (I just really didn't want to clean the kitchen enough to make a place for us to eat).  Their first time at a breakfast restaurant and Lucy kept saying "I love it here!"
playing at the mall.  Also, Maryanne with her new bff Aunt Kate.  When Kate is here, Maryanne won't come to me and cries and clings to her when Kate has to go.  Aunt Kate, the softy, sometimes just takes her home with her. 
                                                                                        (Maryanne's one and only time wearing the Annie overall that I wore when I was two - she had already outgrown them the first time I put them on her!)

Maryanne trying on my ring.  It looks good on those chubby little fingers

18 month check-up 
 (but she's acutally 19 1/2 months)
Weight - 27.8 pounds (85%)
Height - 34.5 inches  (95%)
HC - 48  (95%)
)

 Lunch with Luke cause he was Star of the Week.

After cleaning the church one Saturday morning we took the kids in their jammies to IHOP for some pancakes.  A guy stopped by our table and made AWESOME balloons for our kids.  It totally made their day.
 Luke requested a Star Ship
 Lucy wanted a butterfly and Maryanne wanted a "doggy!"


 this has been happening a lot.  Anytime these girls sit next to each other, they yell to me to hurry and take their picture.  It's funny.  I'm starting to get a whole collection of these pictures.

And Lucy singing cups ("When I'm gone") in 4 styles for your listening enjoyment: happy, rock'n roll, mad and sad.

 missmewhenimgone from katiehale on Vimeo.



Monday, December 2, 2013

Jake Songer - the artist

So my brother finally honed in on his calling in life as an artist and is creating beautiful paintings.  He went from Biologist to Loan Officer/Investor to free spirit in Costa Rica to building his own house full-time to ARTIST.  Truly he's always been an artist but now he's doing it professionally and it's so exciting!  Check out a few of my favorites.





His new website is http://jake.songerfamily.com/ with his current and archive oil paintings. Check it out!

Every story has a beginning...

Joey and Katie first met in Mr. Hawkes 3rd grade class at Valley Elementary. They became good friends in Jr. High and best friends in High School. Katie wrote to Joey on his mission in Tiajuana and Joey wrote to Katie later on her mission in Tokyo. Years later at the ripe old age of 25, these best friends finally fell in love... or maybe just realized they were already in love. They got married on January 22, 2004.

happy kids

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