Back to School!

Back to school time! Emma is a big second grader now. She is so grown up I can hardly believe it! She has two members in her class, which is really great and her best friend from kindergarten.

You can tell that she is as much of a morning person as I am (hahaha) and really doesn't want me to take her picture.

How to be a Supermom when you aren't a morning person!

I grew up with fantasy's of perfect momdom. Cheerfully made up and singing me flipping pancakes. Ha ha ha. As if ! I am such a night person!!! I have come up with a few tricks to still take care of the kiddos in the morning even if I am more of a supergrouch than a supermom in the am.

1. Lay out clothes before bed
2. Make huge batches of pancakes, muffins, cut fruit, etc and freeze or refridgerate them so that Emma can have a healthy breakfast before school.
3. baths at night, always
4. Know where my clothes, shoes, and car keys (especially car keys) are before bed

These are huge guilt relievers for me.

Initiative Update

The doorknocking didn't kill me. It was a worthwhile cause and I am glad I did it. Most people were for gay marriage and 1 person even called us bigots. Mind you, all we did was knock doors to ask people how they might vote. We didn't ask to lecture them or anything. There were a few undecided folks who we left info with. It was all a bit disheartening, but I know Humboldt is extra liberal and I still hope and pray that we California voters can pull this thing off.

Nerves!

So tomorrow morning I am going door knocking with my stake to help support the marriage initiative in California. For those of you who don't know I live in Humboldt county. Humboldt is extremely liberal. We are talking a sister city to Berkeley and San Francisco. I have no idea what our community will think of a bunch of conservatives knocking on their doors to ask them how they feel about gay marriage. Not to mention the size of my town. Small. You just know everyone here. I guess this is a chance for me to not hide my light under a bushel and let my community know where I stand.



I am feeling really whimpy. I know I knocked on hundreds of doors during my mission, but it was in another country (definately not my own neighborhood). This is such an important issue!

Carrie Mary, superstar!

Our long awaited visit with Carrie finally came! We headed for the beach

Rachael is ready for anything, as usual!

Emma loves her time with Carrie, just catching up.

Rachael sets up house.

Here's my bathing beauties!

Do you love my photography skills here?

Emma and Carrie looking for treasure.

Lazy days of summer

It's getting to the final days of summer vacation. Here's Rachael after a hard days play. She is cuddling with her frogs. No baby dolls for this one. Notice the chocolate cookie crumbs on her face and lack of clothing. This is Rachael nirvana.

Emma is so amazing! She announced to me that she was going to do the dishes for me. She told me that she had been really crabby today and wanted to do something nice for me because she was feeling better. She unloaded the dishwasher, loaded it and started it up. She is growing up so fast!
School starts in about 2 weeks and it's time to try to get back into our daily routine. It will be hard to go to bed and get up early. My girls are like me! They are real night owls.

Mini Me

Rachael decided her bangs were getting too long. She found the scissors. When I found her she had a total mullet. I decided to finish her haircut. She now has a cute bob haircut. It suits her!