family pictures! (taken by Jaime Richardson)

addi had a grrrreat time wearing mommy's heels!

my antique book collection

here they are! on my magical floating bookshelf. (: (: i've accumulated several more since this pic but you get the idea. it looks like an expensive hobby but i got almost all of them for twenty to fifty cents each. the most i paid for any has been two-fifty. my oldest book so far is from 1869, and my most valuable is worth i think around five hundred monies. my most very favorite is this beautiful book of poetry by Goethe given to me by my sweet mother, dated 1873.

my magical floating bookshelf is magical, and it floats.

THIS is Addi's organ. because 1.) she asked for a big wooden piano for christmas and she thinks they're the same thing, and 2.) it has blue striped carpet on it, and i loved it so much i would've bought it for my own christmas present.

this is the secret of my magical floating bookshelf. turn your head sideways, like this, (:

addi's new look

addi got a new look! first, she got her first real hair cut...

daylen got one too! but then, he always does.

she so pwetty!

she decided she was ready to get her ears pierced. look at the expression on her face here...

sparkles!

feelin' like a princess.

and she even got a sucker!

I took my kids on a treasure hunt! I took them hiking where i had hidden clues all over, and they followed the clues and their treasure maps to find the treasure. oh, and they also had to use a metal detector at the end! it worked perfectly. then they dug up chests of gold coins, 100$ each in gold dollar coins. i think it will be something they'll never forget. (:

they can't wait! the little neighbor boy really wanted to come so i buried a bunch of surprises for him, too.

so excited!

that metal detector ended up being so cool! thanks for the idea, russell!

wait, mom wouldn't give us real money....

the happy-dance.

my pirate-lass.

200$ in golden coins- a lot of money

the look on their faces when they find it- priceless.