To the left, to the left...

It cracks us up when Cassius jams out to the Tootsie Roll song. Daddy totally eggs him on too!

A Pinkalicious Day

Gabs and I shared a mommy-daughter day and headed out to the Pinkalicious musical performed by a troop from NYC at the Bloomington Center for Performing Arts. She was super excited to wear her twirly pinkalicious petti.




If you know me well, you know I can be a last minute sort of gal and scoring these tickets was no exception. I lucked out though! They must have released a handful of tickets because we ended up in like the 5th row, right stage...just perfect.

Gab's friend and her mommy went to the show too, so we hung out for a bit afterward. The girls even got their pink crayon souvenier boxes signed and their picture taken with the cast!


From left to right: Pinkalicious, Peter, Madelon, Mr. Pink, Gabs, Mrs. Pink, Dr. Wink/Allison

Bye Bye Curls.

They're (mostly) gone! I was just about in tears when Corey brought him home from his cut. But he's still my handsome little man. He just looks like such a big boy now!

The most cottony fluffiness I've ever seen.

Gabby: Mommy look at that sheep in the sky!!


It would've been impossible not to notice this beauty when driving home last Saturday evening. We pulled into the garage and then walked to an open clearing a couple blocks away to get a better view and score a couple pictures. This has got to be the most amazing cloud I've ever seen. It looked so close that you'd have thought we could reach out and touch it.

A new friend...

Gabs got her first American Girl doll, Julie, from grandma and grandpa Willis for Christmas. She was super excited and still hasn't put her down!

Grandma Patti and Aunt Aysha watching Gabs open her presents.

I don't know about this guy...

I ran across this and had to share. The expression on her face was crackin' me up. It's like, "don't get too close buddy!"

A Door County Thanksgiving!

So, I realize it's February and I'm just now getting to November happenings. I've been slacking...bigtime!

I think this was our 4th annual Thanksgiving trip to DC, WI. This year, it was just grandma/pa and our family, but we had a blast! During the annual Holly Days celebration in Egg Harbor, we took a horse drawn carriage ride, Gab's shopped for xmas presents with help from an "elf," and we attended the tree lighting ceremony in the town square. We also had a traditional Thanksgiving dinner on Thanksgiving Day at the clubhouse in my parent's community. My parents have decided they may be selling the cabin so this was probably our last annual Thanksgiving trip to DC...so sad. We really looked forward to this. Guess we'll have to find a new tradition!

Gabs and Cash-man strike a pose in front of the big tree after the tree lighting ceremony. This is such a fun tradition. It was FREEZING, but you get to drink hot cocoa, munch on cookies and sing Christmas carols. What more could you ask for?!

Hanging out and playing!

On Thanksgiving Day...

On our horse-drawn carriage ride. It was coooollllldddd! But fun...we had a good time singing carols. Gabs was jammin'!