Picnic on the Porch

Admittedly, some of my blog posts are a bit of a stretch.  Like this one... there's not much going on and let's face it.  Jack was having an orange as a snack (it was not a picnic - but the title sounded better when I used 'picnic') so I took the opportunity to snap a few pictures.  Blog worthy?  No.  Our everyday life?  Definitely yes!!  

And these two are never far from view.  

I'm telling you -- Colt ALWAYS has his hands together like this!
So sweet.  

My sweet baby, Luke.  

Ugh... so I've finally started turning our blog into a book.  Whoa!!!  I mean, this IS going to be the scrapbook of my kids' lives (cause I'm not keeping another one..) so I feel obligated to publish it for them.  But seriously.  Has anyone looked at how much work is involved in turning your blog into a book?  Who has that much time??  Certainly not me.  I figured I'd start from my first post in 2010 and end with the one just before the twins were born for volume I.  Yeah... this "easy" software that supposedly does all the work for you has me burning the midnight oil.  I think I'm maybe 12 pages in and there's 300 to edit cause all the captions get placed wrong, the pictures are screwy, there's text to edit, etc etc.  My boys will be graduating high school before I'm finished with it. 

Then there are moments like this and I can't help but capture them.  I mean, he's the cutest kid, right??  And so proud of himself for jumping off the bench.   And I'm giggling and smiling and so thankful to be his Mommy.  He's polite, and funny, and caring, and considerate, and full of energy and teaches me new things everyday.  

And so, this is why I blog about the everyday events of our lives.  Because it IS our life and I want to remember the ordinary things right along with the extraordinary ones.  These are the days.  

There's a smile from Luke....
and Colt with his hands together.... again! :)