I don’t know how many people know this about me, but I have a thing for party dresses. I have a lot of dresses in my closet and if you give me an excuse to wear one then I will. My absolute favorite reason to buy a dress is for my birthday. It all started [...]

This morning I didn’t get out of bed until I finished reading “The Help”. Every once in awhile I pick up a book that I can’t stop reading and this is one of them. Once I got to the end of the book I didn’t want it to be over. The movie has been out in theaters for a couple [...]

We woke up this morning at JP’s parents house on Camano Island. The first thing Lily said to me after I got up was “Mom, did you look outside?”. It was late and dark when we got there last night so she had no idea that we were right on a cliff  looking over the water. Camano Island [...]

Here is Lily and the neighborhood crew getting ready to hit the streets with one goal.. a full bag of candy! Isn’t she so cute? Lily and Cameron pounding the pavement. Trick or Treat I stayed home and passed out candy in our scary yard. Check out this vulture. Here is what our yard looks like. [...]

Today I went through a box of photos that I have from when I was a kid and I pulled out all of the Halloween pictures that I could find. I did my absolute best to put these in date order. As far as I can tell this is my first Halloween! In 1979 Vanessa was Raggedy Ann, I [...]

One of my favorite things about our new house is the master bathroom. The first time I walked into the bathroom I said outloud “I can do a cartwheel in here”. I haven’t actually done the cartwheel but I am confident that I could. When you walk into the bathroom on the far wall there is a [...]

Lily and I went shopping after work for a dress to wear to dinner on Friday night. We looked at every single dress in the store and narrowed it down to 5 of them. Then I had her try on each dress and we narrowed it down to 2 of them. Then came the difference in opinion… [...]