Super Rachel Zana's Spot

When you complain that everyone else has a headband, and you don’t, your aunt just might let you borrow one of hers.

When you take a crew of cousins (and a bag of towels and a pan of bars) to the beach, sometimes there’s so much going on that you don’t even know which direction to aim your camera.  It was a frenzy of activity!  We arrived for the blue hour, just…

There are so many more pictures from this trip to the beach, but I can’t share them because they include our host child.  It is sufficient to say, however, that a wonderful time was had, and our host child was caught right up in the middle of it!  There was…

Leaving to go anywhere with almost 20 extended family members all together takes time.  A lot of time.  Way more time than you think it would take, even when you tell yourself to leave a lot of extra time!  It’s best to just embrace it! I’m learning to play with…

My favorite part of “Cousin Weekend” (when a whole horde of wonderful relatives were sleeping at my house) might have been these dueling trumpets.  My niece is an amazing trumpet player, and while she was practicing, (can I interject another parenthetical expression to tell you that I LOVE hearing her…

  My friends came traversing across a state and a half to visit me!  We had such a good time.  When you put all of our kids together it looked like we had such a big group, but the truth of the matter was, we were actually MISSING 5 kids…

We’ve been finding so much sea glass this summer!  The Banana has quite a collection.  Inspired by someone from our church who makes beautiful art with sea glass, she has been busy creating with her treasures this week.

We discovered in the mini fridge not often used,  a crockpot that once upon a time held roast beef.  I took care of the disposal of the contents of the crock pot, but Mr. SP had the wonderful luck of washing the dishes that day, and when the lid came…