Easter Flowers look like Edible Wowers

We have made it...only I hesitate to call it too soon. With 10 months of complicated day-to-day survival work behind us, Annie and I may just have made it to the finish line of summer with most of our sanity intact. I say most because I know I lost it a bit this final week. May I sum it up with one word: Moving. We begin this summer of moving with 4 scheduled moves: My dance studio, my classroom, our house, & QM's stuff. If we have our sanity now, we better enjoy it while we can. And since I've been positively overwhelmed to say the least these past 2 months, here's some back-blogging. I've got to at least get Easter up before Annie & I go to Disneyland next week.

It's safe to say this was the last calm before the storm of May. Vacation please.

...And now to Annie: our great love in life!

Bet you can't guess what she loves to do with flowers:

April 24th, 2011

She is starting to crawl but doesn't have much chance to progress. We never put her down and fight over holding her.
She loves dogs, singing whenever there is music, pointing, & babies.

She hates: Her old car seat, any baby food that is cheap or on sale, bows in her hair, & teethers.

Here is her Easter bunny outfit.
We went to Hurricane for dinner & Annie loved being sung to.

Annie loves touching flowers... but she loves eating them more.

HOUSE UPDATE:

Annie, Q, & I stopped by the office before heading to our new house for yet another day of renovation. Status: It's coming. Our floors had a flaw and so, 1 month behind schedule, we can expect them to go in 2 weeks from today: FINALLY! It's quite a long wait for engineered chocolate walnut. New ETM (estimated time of moval): July.

Please talk me into this:

I have been searching for a chandelier and rug FOREVER. It's got to be livable contemporary. Something I might find in Domino or Anthropology. I'm so picky. Everything makes me gag, really. I hate most lighting and rugs. But I finally found this Robert Abbey in patina bronze that made me stop in my tracks. It even has a fabulous name: Lucy. I want it so bad... but it's twice my budget and if I get it, we have to keep eating at my mom's for another month. Quick- someone talk me into it!
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RING RING: "Hello? Mrs. Hadley? Where are you and why aren't you in your classroom?"

Playing more catch up blogging:

Last month I woke up to a phone call that went something like: RING RING: "Hello? Mrs. Hadley? Where are you and why aren't you in your classroom?" Not the best way to wake up. Turns out it was an early day and my entire 3rd period had been waiting for me in my room for a full half hour before they finally sent someone to the office to find out where I was. And where was I? HOME! My worst nightmare come true! Just a few days before I was bragging to myself about how good I was for never having been late to work in 4 years. Bad, bad, double bad. No time to go to the babysitter. I threw Annie in the car and she enjoyed a day of teaching the 9th grade with me as she rode around in my sling for 4 hours of middle school and faculty meeting. She was perfect, thank heaven, and the kids even got some work done. Sheesh! I did NOT plan on bring-your-baby-to-work-late-day for sure. Disaster.

April 22nd, 2011
Which means I am officially 31. Yipes. I think 31 was a bit more difficult to swallow than 30. 30 is still a novelty. 31 is the real deal. So this was the first year in over 5 years that I didn't have to go to school on my birthday. Responsibility wasn't too far away though because I did have my cloggers perform at the Arts Festival in the morning. After that though, we were free to fly to SLC for the day.

Annie LOVES flying in my dad's plane. She loves any movement that doesn't involve a car seat.
...And let me just add how much more WONDERFUL it is to fly to SLC as opposed to driving.
It made for a lovely day trip, not to mention a nice birthday mini-getaway.

The real reason we flew to SLC was to go to Matthew's architecture showing.
He graduated from the U after many long painful years of study.
I have to say, when Dad texted me a pic of Matthew's graduation last week, I cried.
I mean really, how many people get to say they did it- they achieved their dream, they became what they said they would when they were little and people asked what they wanted to be when they grew up. Matthew did it. He is a real architect... actually, he's one of the best:

Matthew's art work is really amazing. I mean, really REALLY amazing.
When he was presenting, the judges stopped and told every other student in the room to take a good close look at Matthew's renderings because they weren't computer generated and are what real artists do. Did I mention his project won BEST project out of the 45 grads?! I wasn't surpirsed. In fact, I was expecting it so I perched myself in prime viewing position and readied my Nikon for a photo.

We were impressed with how many of the fam turned out for the event.
We have the BEST family in the world!!!
I thank the good Lord every night for my amazing extended family.
They are my best friends and I admire them so much.
I basically want to be with them ALL THE TIME.

Annie is funny. Even though the twins are identical, she preferred Abby all evening long. Whenever I tried to get her to look at Liv, Annie would try and pull herself back to Abby. Isn't that something? Annie is completely fascinated by the twins! We look at pictures of them all the time and I would bet money on Annie recognizing them as soul mates.