Rejecting a pre-packaged life.

Had to share this article to those of you reading. From Sandra Dodd's site, "Rejecting a Pre-packed life." Go ahead, changing paradigms is an option!

Cocoa Loco

The cocoa loco party rocked!!! We played a game where the girls had to open a chocolate bar wrapped several times in wrapping paper with a knife and fork while wearing a hat, scarf, and mittens! Very challenging and hilarious. . .

Also some word scrambling games!

And finally, thanks to Elexa, we had a chocolate explosion, which made the night complete. She was playing with the chocolate fountain and lifted up the top which caused chocolate to spray everywhere. . .

The next morning Naomi had our traditional family birthday pancake in the shape of number eleven. Here's to an awesome eleventh year of life, Naomi! Love ya!

And now for the little sisters!

This post should be after the next post, Naomi's BFF's, so read that post first, and then this one!

Adria's 'lil sis, Elexa. . .

Naomi's 'lil sis, Jayda. . .
Rebeca's 'lil sis, Casey. . .

Naomi's BFFs

We had a slumber party at our house last Friday night. These girls have been friends with Naomi since first grade and come to her b-day party every year. We had a "coco loco" party. Naomi has a slumber party theme book, "Snooze-a-palooza" that she got a lot of the ideas from for her birthday party both this year and last year. The mini edible flower pots the girls have are courtesy of the book "Tiny Treats," another book from the American Girls collection. Naomi is a big fan of these books and has almost all of them.

Here's Lindsay:

Andrea:
Katie:
Beca:
Adria:

And finally, Naomi:

11 on 11/11/07!

My eldest baby turned 11 on Sunday! For those of you who don't know her well, she is a very interesting, sweet human with a great sense of humor and lots of talent. She is a very good friend and a great daughter. I love her and am so proud of her!

Trying to get caught up on blogging. . .

When I should be studying!!!!

This Halloween, we had a Charm School Witch, and Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.


And a devil/vampire (isn't he mysterious looking)!

Lot's of candy was had by all.

Poor Maggie even dressed up!

Hey Elise!

Hi Elise! Thanks so much for the letter and stuff! Naomi made a little pouch like the one you sent her. Here it is. She's also working on one for you.

For everyone else. . . my niece, Elise, is in St. Kitts which is an island in the Caribbean, serving with the Peace Corp. Check out her blog. . . http://bbdoesthepc.blogspot.com/

We love you and miss you!