Crazy Love Gamble-Style

We heard that Emma & Alayah were up at Grandma's house for a visit, couldn't pass up an opportunity for a little play date.   It's so hard to drag my kids away from my mom's house, they just love it there.  Having the cousins there that day to play really was the icing on the cake! 

Ready for random?  Let's start here... Here's a little group shot from day trip we took to Kah-Nee-Ta to visit Linda, Kim & Abby.  The girls loved it there!!  This picture captures so many things for me; the sweet littleness of my girl, her brave, adventurous spirit, and how my family teams together in support of my kids every effort with love & outstretched arms. They are all such a blessing to me!!! It takes a village & I couldn't be more grateful for our little village! Thank you Kim for capturing this moment!  Ava swimming with her friend Sophia  We love Sophia!  Summer sleeping  Favorite friends. On Norah's half birthday, I took her to the store with me in the morning.  While we were out she mentioned how she was sure the house was going to be all decked out for her party (there is no party for her half birthday, we just like to pretend like everything we do that day is special) so I text ...

 Life has been busy. I am so far behind on my blogging that I'm just going to do a little phone picture dump, in no particular order...  This is from a recent beach trip where my mom and her siblings got together with their cousins.  It was really fun.  We had dinner over at a beach house down the street and it's garage was stocked full of fun things, a pool table, ping pong, air hockey, darts, you name it!  The kids loved it!  We rented a kayak on D Lake and a big group of us got to go out together, the kids loved that too!  Check out all the fish!  We got to meet up with Gail for s'mores too!  The kids were a little crazy and emotional but we still had a good time.   On the way home from the fire I was carrying Norah when she said to me "You know mom, some people don't have legs and they can't walk." I smiled at her and said "Yes, and some people do have legs, should they walk?"  She thinks on t...