Music

I grew up listening to oldies. I LOVE oldies. In fact I exclusively listened to oldies from 6-8th grade. I remember being in Mr Barrett's (AKA Mr Stinky Breath) (Jody, remember when that Lindsay girl wrote him a mean note and left a bar of soap in his mailbox?) class and someone asked me what radio station I listened to. I proudly said "Oldies 100" and when people looked at me like I was cray cray I realized that I was purr-itty lame. So then I switched to soft hits for a while. Nope not quite the ticket to cool town either.

Then my BFF, Camilla, introduced me to Deana Carter the summer after my freshman year and I was hooked. I was officially a country fan. Deana led to the Dixie Chicks which led to everything else twangy and now I am a bluegrass lover. I defitnitely love rock and emo and a lot in between but I will always have a special spot in my heart for a banjo and a fiddle. The thing that kills me about NYC radio is that there are NO good stations! I can get maramba music 24/7 on at least 3 stations, or pop hits on 5, but there are no good oldies or country stations. What a shame. If we had an awesome new 2013 Suburban we would have Sirius radio and I could listen to 50's on 5 or 60's on 6 to my hearts content.

Shoes

My good friend Elissa is super duper talented. She is also incredibly amazing. Her little boy Matthew was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, that had a 15% survival rate and had total bone involvment, about 18 months ago. They have been here in NYC going to Sloan Kettering for treatments for a year. Now Matthews bone marrow is 100% clear of disease. So many miracles have been shown through this amazing family. Anyway, she is SO talented in many ways and she made my kids these awesome shoes for Christmas! She painted them by hand with just an idea in her head of what she wated. No stenciling at all. I just told her what my kids liked and she went from there.

 

 

CT

We were supposed to take a roadie to North and South Carolina during Cannon's spring break but at the last second a whole bunch of work came up that he had to stay and attend to. I was pretty heartbroken as I was DYING to get out of the city so I called up my friend Anne and asked if the kids and I could stay in her gorgeous home in CT. The weather was freeeeezing but it was in a cute town and there was a hot tub!


Nothing bettern than the smell of a fire! And PS fires are dang hard to keep going!

Thankfully we had some visitors though they couldn't stay long because Mr X is a famous in demand model and he had to make some dough.

Mav is just 5 weeks older than Evan but talks and rides a scooter. Evan says "ba" and rides in a stroller. The stools were pretty high so K dawg rigged up this super safe baby catching device.

The kids loved the hot tub and the babies loved watching. I have more pictures of them slapping each other repeatedly right after this but they're not appropriate for the general public.

Elyse and the boys went on an "adventure" roaming around the yard and topped off with a picnic lunch. Levi got cold so just she and Xan ate. It was really quite precious.

 

Evan is obsessed with belly buttons as it is one of the few words that he says "ba ba". He loves to blow rasperries and the kids love to get them. I had a video of it but it disappeared : (

Elyse sings!

I was so proud of Elyse for learning this song ALL on her own! She performed at a homeschoolers talent show. Turn up the volume loud :)

Pardon the bad angle and lack of focus. I'm no pro :)