Adele Madelynn

making soap today

I've been saving my empty laundry detergent bottles for a few months now, and slowly gathering my ingredients. Today I was ready to make my own! I used the ingredients pictured (plus water), and had a little helper. My kids thought the soap looked like cheese when it was grated. They liked that part. I'll let you know soon how it turned out. So far I know it was fun to make, but that's about it!

Living Room!

This is a poor quality photo I know, but I had to show you, I'm finally almost done with the living room! What a difference paint, curtains, a picture, and pillows can make! I think it was an $80 well spent. Do you?

22 week pictures.

Apparently I need lessons on how to pose for these kinds of pictures.

Ahh, finally figured it out!


I'm tired and Cathy is making sure we all know that she is not pregnant! Do we look related? She's my aunt. Sorry Cathy, I know you can handle funny pictures of you being posted on the internet.

Pictures from Sarah's wedding way back in November.

It can be hard to get a good family picture sometimes.

You know?

A funny thing

We got Cameron a set of Lego Duplo blocks. That evening before bed I told him to clean them up. He was being a little grouchy about it so I said "I will put them up until you get bigger if you don't do what I tell you." As I said this I noticed that he was about to drop a lego into the container but instead dropped it on the floor. He said "Ok Mama, that's fine." and stopped cleaning.

I think I must have stared at him for several moments before it dawned on me what had happened. "I will put them up until you get bigger..." he thought I had just offered to clean up for him until he grew up a little. Um...no.

It gave us quite a laugh and I just had to share.