Grace and Camille Turn 5!

Camille and Grace turned 5 this week, I can hardly believe that these short years have resulted in such old and wonderful girls.

Camille blowing out the candles on her lemon pie "but no white stuff, that's yucky."

Grace eyeing her cherry upside-down cake. Unfortunately the wind blew out most of her candles.


Whack!

tap

tap

Okay, that's enough

scatter!

I feel so blessed to have so many wonderful friends for my kids, whose mothers just happen to be my wonderful friends. I think that next year will be a little different once the girls start school, but this was a great birthday for all of us!

People often ask me, "which twin is more outgoing?" Or, "which twin is the bad twin." I guess that there must be twins out there who are more obviously different, but with my girls the differences are kind of blurred (to me- you are the outside observer, so perhaps things are more obvious to you). They are definitely different people, but both are so lovely, cooperative, happy, and sweet, that I can't say one is this and the other is that. I'm so thankful for my girls. They have been an amazing blessing in my life and help our family to be so great!

Goldilocks

Usually Clark's hair looks like this. Curly and a little clowny. I can't bear to cut it yet, because I think that for the rest of his life...

...it'll look like this.

Indian Summer?

I'm not sure where you live- and actually, after the last 6 months, I'm not sure where I live (this is a weather joke, not an amnesia joke), but I'm pretty sure that you didn't spend your election day doing this.

Sweet

If you're running out of ideas on how to use up the rest of the big bag of candy that you got at Costco (besides throwing it out (which I should do)), I suggest making s'mores in the following fashion:

1. Place graham on plate
2. Place mallows on graham
3. Heat in microwave for 10 seconds
4. Remove from microwave and blast mallows with kitchen torch until toasted
5. Top with reese's peanut butter cup
6. Eat.

For Sarah

I know that I kept you in suspense with the Halloween costumes, but there wasn't really anything suspenseful about them. You could have guessed what they were without even seeing my kids, if you knew them. Clark was a clown (leftover from when the girls were almost 2). Grace was a ballerina- wearing what she wears every Monday to ballet, and Camille was a butterfly, wearing what she wears every day at our house to play. It was a very easy year, which I was thankful for.

It's kinda hard to get a group of kids to do what you want and take a decent picture.

This was the best of the night, amazingly enough.

Clark crying for candy. I let him have some and then offered him a little bag of pretzels. When he discovered that the pretzels weren't candy he got very upset.

PS. I like these pictures of you and Clark from last year. Good times.