owl fly away

“Daddy, why is that enough questions?” Charlotte

little hearts

Charlotte: Mom, do you know how much I love you?

Me: No, how much?

Charlotte: I love you so much there’s little hearts coming out of my big heart.

This she says to me as I lie in bed with her waiting for her fall to sleep. Sometimes she knows just what to say.

fly on the wall

Husband: I have a confession to make, I like a Lincoln Park song.

Me: I have a confession to make, I put a Zac Efron movie in our netflix queue.

little Bobby Rhys

I’m stopping in during our vacation to post about the birthing of the wee Bobby Rhys by this lovely lady.  I have been lucky enough to witness two (other than my own) home births and both have been Carlee’s. Bodie, being the first, was so special as it was on Christmas eve, it was Carlee’s first home birth, and my first chance at partaking in a home birth while not being the one in the tub.

This second birth has engraved an equally strong impression.  I’ll leave it to Carlee to surmise the event, but must say that I cannot express in words what feelings have been evoked in me by these beautiful moments that I have been blessed to bare witness. Thank you Carlee and Bryan for having me be a part of these two special days and, if in case you find yourself with another, I’ll be there. :)

the fairy garden

A few weeks ago my Mom and I were spending a Saturday together, just the two of us, and she had the wonderful idea to do a “make a fairy garden” workshop.  Not sure how she found out about it but the class was provided by Cottage Home and Garden in the adorable Los Rios District of San Juan Capistrano.  After sitting through the instructional portion of the workshop we wandered around the nursery area of the shop picking out a container for our garden, the plants, and of course miniature accessories.  Being the savvy shoppers we are Mom and I decided to build one together because one could easily spend upwards of $100 for one garden. Here’s a few shots of what we came up with…

I especially love the overgrown structure that looks like it’s been forgotten and gone unvisited for a long time.  Oh, and little St. Francis is pretty awesome too.  I look forward to doing this again and next time I’ll attempt an all succulent garden and the time after that an herb garden.  As you can probably tell I would recommend this.  Designing, planting and even maintaining a miniature garden is very therapeutic.

*Oh, the girls love the garden too.  They’ve learned not to pick any of the plants or rearrange the garden but only at the expense of poor St. Francis’ head.  Within an half hour of having the garden home Charlotte dropped him and his head came clean off.  Thank goodness for super glue!

handy man time

Hmm, wondering if husband can do something like this for our little ladies…

*images originally blogged here by Design*Sponge