Matani is officially 4! He is so proud of himself for turning 4 too. He brags to people about it as if he just won the Pulitzer Prize. These are half of the kiddos from his playgroup at our friends house. All of us mommies met when we first had our babies. They all have the birthdays within one month of each other so we do a joint playgroup birthday party each year. This was his favorite present of all. He puts this on daily. He is so attached to it he insists on wearing it when we go to the

I'm pretty new to this whole blogging thing. In fact, just 6 months ago I had no idea what a blog even was. I have already spent countless hours linking from one blog to the next. 10 blogs later I'm reading about some stranger's children's first day of school and have no idea how I got there. I'm hooked and bordering obssesive. I would rather sit at my computer and "blog-stalk" then go take a shower after going to the gym. Gross! Anyway, I've got a good list of blogs saved in my favorites

Several of my favorite blogs have been talking about Stephanie Nielson and her husband Christian who were in a private plane crash on August 16, 2008 in Arizona. The two of them were accompanied by flight instructor Doug Kinneard who later died. They are still in critical condition. Christian suffered burns over 30% of his body and Nie over 80% of her body. They have not seen their children or each other as they are in the burn unit in an Arizona hospital. They are in for months of recovery.

We've have a tradition of taking family photos on the boys' birthdays. We've been working with Michelle and Dave of Rasmussen-Harvey Photo for the past 4 years and they are excellent! Since they both have their birthdays within weeks of each other it made it easy. Click on the this link to check out a sneak peak of a few photos from our session. http://www.rhphoto.typepad.com/

I've blogged about James Saavedara author of www.decorfellow.blogspot.com before. Well, he debuted his new online magazine which is fantastic! Eat your heart out all you design junkies...you're going to love it. Anyway, he came upon my blog and saw my entry way hall pictures and thought they were super fab. We exchanged emails and he has featured my little project in his "Fellow Friends" section (a section dedicated to inspiring projects by regular, do-it-yourself, wanna-be designers, such as

I have been searching high and low for just the right table to fit in the entry as a landing place for keys, cell phone, purse, etc. It had to be just the right length and width. After months and months I finally found one that would work at...Walmart of all places! The color was all wrong and the hardware pulls on the drawers were nothing to get excited about. So out came the paint and some new sleek hardware and viola!...new table that I love! Add some lamps and a mirror (painted that also)