Love this girl

Love this girl, she's a little under the weather right now but already on the mend.

I have the greatest husband....

.....and he is the sweetest dad. As I work on a Tues and Thurs mornings Eric takes Kate to school on those days, last night (Thurs) he said to me "I was thinking that I might take Kate to school in the morning" he is so proud of his girls and loves to be involved in their lives, it melts my heart to see them both going off together in the morning.

Proud Parent of....

a kindergartner!!! We dropped Kate off for her 1st day of kindergarten today, wow how time has flown. And oh! boy do those backpacks seem big!

meet kate

This is Kate, she is 5 yrs old

This is Kate's foot

and boy is it bothering her right now, she is having a hard time walking today...


This is all due to her Epidermolysis Bullosa or EB for short. EB has been called "THE worst DISEASE YOU NEVER HEARD OF" its rare and we are very, very lucky that Kate's is mild but occasionally she still suffers. If you shop and Ralphs you can help by linking your Ralphs card to the community contribution program, (if you have done this before you have to re-sign up every September). Ralphs will then donate a % of what you spend to research for EB. You may be able to just click here and enter your ralphs card # to sign up, the organization name is EBMRF and the NPO # is 81963, if that link didn't work for you here is step by step:- Just go to http://www.ralphs.com/, and click on Ralphs Reward Card in the top right corner. Then click on choose your prefered store enter your zip and choose your Ralphs, when you click on 'make it my prefered store'you should get a page where one of the options is community contribution, click on that, then on enroll and you should be able to enter your Ralphs card #, the organization is EBMRF and the NPO # is 81963. If you want to sign up and have problems you can always call ralphs at (888) 437-3496.

This is life with EB, the good, the bad and the ugly....

Only in Utah

I admit to feeling a little mean but is anyone else with me on this? This is taking the big bow/flower thing to the next level!!

If it is actually your thing you can buy one here.

I'm, back!!

I'm back, from nowhere in particular, just the abyss of summer and we've been up to nothing in particular too, being home, running errands, going to the beach, swimming with cousins and friends, going to the park, until it got hot about a week ago anyway. School doesn't start for another week and 1/2 so we are just going to enjoy these last few days, probably take another trip to the beach, we just went out to mothers beach and we had a blast, usually Zuma is our spot, its beautiful and you really feel like your out of the city but I decided to change it up and try something new. Usually I avoid the 405 like the plague (and it sucked on the way home) but my girls loved mothers beach, the best way I could describe it to you is that its like being at a lake, the water is still and that is what my girls loved, being able to get in the water, its shallow too, even when Kate waded far out the water still only came up to her waist.

splashing in the water and the girls walking on their hands "doing the fishy walk"

Kate made this island, she worked on it for a long time and was very proud of the finished product.

Sara loves to get the sand all over, at one point she would put her head down and just rub it around in the sand, she was one sandy mess by the time we headed out.

Whilst shopping for some new school clothes for Kate I found these cute dresses at The Children's Place on sale so I couldn't resist.

This is one reason I'm sad for Kate to start school, one morning a few weeks ago when the girls woke up it was pretty overcast outside, Kate was sure it was going to rain (it never did but I thoroughly enjoyed those summer days) and got herself and Sara all dressed for it.

Hope your enjoying summer too, its over for some already, I don't like the triple digit weather but its good for home made popsicles, Sara loves these things, frozen berries, plain yogurt and a little powdered sugar.