Just a little over a year ago, Emily started orthodontic treatment at the office where Amanda works. Here she is at the start of that appointment back in May of 2007. She looks a little apprehensive above, doesn’t she? Emily doesn’t really like change and she didn’t think she needed …

Ack. Poor Em. She has gotten the short end of the stick lately in regard to blog posts. We’re clear into November now and I haven’t posted a thing about her summer like I did the other kids. Sadly, now I don’t even remember anything about her summer except that …

…and I’m not talking about the Rule of Four custom that permits four of the nine supreme court justices to grant a writ of certiorari preventing a majority of the court from controlling all the cases it agrees to hear. Nope. I’m talking about the mathematical Rule of Four…. Emily …

Earlier this summer we purchased a small, 18′, above ground pool from Costco. This is a trial run to see if we can really keep up a pool during our already busy summer months. So far so good. We are considering putting an inground pool in this fall or next …

I will do a few smilebox pages from the park day soon, but I wanted to highlight a couple of my favorite pictures from that day. I’ve been reading a few photography books and a few scrapbooking books on photography and so I spent the day trying to capture moods …

Since I’m on a flag themed roll here and I’ve recently cleaned out my scrapbooking room I happened to know right where this cute little flag was filed! Amanda and Emily each made one of these *MANY* years ago… probably when Amanda was in 1st or 2nd grade, but of …

This spring our homeschool co-op brought in Missoula Children’s Theater to put on a theater week for the kids in our co-op. It’s always an awesome experience. I’ve played in over a dozen now and never tire of it. This year Emily was cast as one of the main characters …

I realize that I already posted about Em’s birthday a few entries down, but I wanted to post these photoalbum pages since I think they turned out SO CUTE! She hasn’t seen this yet, but I don’t think she’ll care if I post them. These are all self-portraits that she …

Ok. I KNOW this is a little late, but it’s so cold and rainy here today that I decided to work on our ski pictures from this year using some really cute layouts from smilebox which I blogged about a few days ago. The “Winter Thrill” album is like a …

Emily turned 15 the other day. As always, the years go by FAST and this one wasn’t any different. I wish we could slow time down. We celebrated her birthday by having lunch with the grandparents and Amanda. While we were in town we ran some errands and then we …