Crazy Love Gamble-Style

 We had a fun night celebrating Hanukkah with our good friends Yafit and Sophia.    Check out that classic Norah pose!!  I brought all the stuff for the girls to make cookies together, so fun!   Norah loves hamming it up for me.  Such a sweet little thing.  Sophia refused to let me take her picture, Yafit said, fine, I will take one with Ava instead.  :) Love our sweet friends!! 

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 ...

We ran off to the beach Thursday night as Ava didn't have school Friday.  We brought our friends Yafit & Sophia with us, so fun! The weather was amazing, blue sky and no clouds.  Of course, much of the time when it's this pretty, it is also quite windy. (Ok, the sky might not have been THAT blue, but it was close.)  We attempted to go down to the beach and hang out, but it was just too windy for anyone to enjoy. So we packed it up and moved on.  We headed over to the lake, where the weather was pretty much perfect.  It was lovely!   First the kids played at the park, which they loved.  Then we moved down to the "beach" area, which was a huge improvement over the actual ocean.   This fisherman was so nice, we got to see him catch several small fish. ...