a rare picture...

of me! Ok, well sort of. This is me giving a thumbs up to myself for being so clever. You can also see my new short haircut if you squint!

Lots of fun yesterday and loads of pics to go through. More swimming and fun on tap today for Father's Day. My girls are out swimming with Dave now which is just so awesome. He loves the pool, always has and now finally and he has two little swimming adventur-ers to enjoy with him. I am more of a cool off, but don't get your hair wet, type pool user :)

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Yesterday's Dinner

This photo is from the Kraft Foods website, the recipe is here : recipe. I thought this was delicious and could not have been quicker. Next time, I think I will make a bit of pasta to put it down over. Yum!

Easing into summer slowly here. Olivia began swim lessons yesterday. She is a great swimmer but became totally overwhelmed when they moved on to diving instruction. Hopefully tomorrow goes better.

I got a very interesting book from the library yesterday: Bend the Rules Sewing. I am so inspired by some of the projects, I just packed up my sewing machine to seek out somewhere to give it a little cleaning and overhaul. I am so BAD at reading patterns but hopefully I can figure one or two of these out.

And for the most exciting news, I am officially enrolled in this online course: Now We're Rockin' with Photoshop. I cannot wait!! I hope to dedicate the time I need to really learn over the next month and I think this is the perfect avenue and format to do so. Pin It

where has the time gone?

It's not that I try not to say that on here but I just realized a week (nearly) has gone by since I posted. A lot of that time has been spent close to the pool, sometimes in the pool, other times hanging over the pool...plucking this one out of the water. She has the desire to swim. And most of that time is spent underwater. It seems yesterday she must have ingested ALOT of pool water though...let's just leave it at this: what goes in, must come out...alerting me to the fact I need to watch her even closer. If that is possible?! Today she actually was able to retrieve dive toys out of the shallow end of our pool, that's how great she is doing. And did I mention she is motivated to swim, swim and swim some more?!

We are also adjusting to our new summer vacation lifestyle. More on some of what is keeping us busy, organized and motivated to be on good behavior!

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A Tyler

A combination of my current fav picture of them, coupled with her cutesy quote about "A Tyler." Credits here.

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a milestone

Just wanted to get this memory down. I am really in the mood to scrapbook yet not finding/making time to do it. The details of this layout can be found here. As always, click on the image itself to make it BIGGER, and in this case, readable. Below, to watch the video, click on the arrow.

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