I love you more than strawberries

Happy Father's Day, Dan. I'm amazed at how you have loved our little girl through all of the changes of this crazy year. I love watching you with Felicity, and I'm amazed at the beautiful way God uses your relationship with her to show us how beautiful He is. Happy Daddy's Day to the one she loves more than strawberries...

Fluent Fliss

Today Felicity's teachers sent us this...

We are so proud of our little Arabic speaker. Keep up the good work Fliss so at least one of us in this family will really know this language :)
Ok, ok...maybe two...

And a shout out to all of our teachers...we could not be learning this crazy language without you! You are Tie-ar-ra!

And so it Begins...

Not sure Dan knew what a CoMmiTmEnT marrying a teacher would be...


He moved 20 or so boxes of my stuff from our garage into my new mobile...what you don't see is the additional boxes of previous teachers' sTuFf he moved out of my mobile so that our sweet custodian wouldn't have to do it. She was grateful and so am I. Boxes and boxes of books are NoT pleasant...


Unpacking and Organizing. Yikes!


And this my friends is how you cope...

Thank you to our new friend Jim for this FaBuLoUs mix. It made the sweltering heat and endless boxes much more bearable :)

After a week of this, I forgot to take an after shot. I just wanted to get out of there and take in what bit of summer remains...

I'm sure there will be more than enough time to enjoy the finished product of Mobile 5 come August 23rd, but until then I'm keeping my distance!

My Husband the Birder...

Bird Man Dan on the lookout for his new found ObSeSsIoN...

He BeCKoNs them...Come forth ye birds or the AiR...

Delving into to the DePtHs of many DuPage County Forest Preserves....

Taking note of the ExQuIsIte songs, colors, size, flight patterns, and markings of these MaRvEloUs winged creatures...

Satisfied with his findings for the day, this BiRd MaN leaves with a smile having enjoyed a delightful afternoon with his wife and new found FeAthErEd friends...

The End