Here is the only group picture that we have so far...We are at Krispy Kreme somewhere down in tourist land near Disney...

 

The reason we don't have more group shots is because the boys are being less than cooperative about having their picture taken...

 

This little man is LOVIN' the "goduts" though...no worries there!!

 

 

What's in a name??

My friend Laurie tagged me with this fun little quiz!! She thinks she's unique....I'm either extremely unique or I'm dead and so are all of my relatives!! While there are over 200,000 people with the first name of Sally, according to this there are 0 people with the last name Datria. Except I know of at least 5 so that can't be right...it is really unique though, we've done some family history searching and there are less than a dozen traceable sources of the name Datria in the United States.

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 0 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

A few more wildflowers...

Here's a different orange flower that grows wild in our little dirt lot...

 

 

 

This one grows in HUGE fields on the way up north towards Flagstaff but here in town we get little bursts of bright yellow here and there...

 

More Spring pictures...

 

I apologize that this picture is blurry, I had to blow it way up so you could see the hawk. I watched this hawk fly over my school several times today. Some of the kids said they saw two of them.

I think they are right. I think they are nesting in this bush. As I drove away from school today I saw this beauty on his perch and had to stop and take a picture!! I took a few flying but you can barely see him on the pictures. What an amazing blessing!!

Here are a few more flower pictures (can you tell the kind of pictures I LOVE to take??) I even caught a bee gathering nectar on one of them!! There are clusters of these growing wild in the empty lot next to my school. I will be very sad if that lot ever gets sold and built on!! For now, it's my little piece of heaven during the busy work week!

 

 

 

This picture is a miracle!!

 

This picture is more than a picture!! It is a miracle. At some point after this picture was taken, my camera was lost.

I thought it was stolen because I looked everywhere. I cleaned out the car and checked under every seat.twice.(probably more, and Tim checked a couple of times also).

All that to say I'd written the camera off as gone. The last time I saw it for sure was January 12th. At Josiah's birthday party...

This morning my husband came in shooting pictures on my camera.

It was under the front seat of my van.

I think Sarah had the best explanation...she told me (in a five year old matter-of-fact way) "Mommy, the angels must have found it and put it back where you last had it so you would find it..."

No kidding, I checked under that seat probably 100 times.

I've had something like this happen to me twice before in my life (at least twice that I realized). The first time I was just a kid. I don't really remember it but my mom loves to tell the story.

My mom and I were on the 5 fwy in California and her car stalled in the middle of the freeway. A bus stopped behind her and the driver helped her pull off to the side of the road and then left...when she turned around to wave thanks he was gone, and so was the bus, nowhere to be seen.

Another time, when Tim and I were just dating, we went to a movie. We stopped to buy candy at a store and Tim pulled out his wallet to give me some money. Later, he used his wallet to pay for the tickets. When we left the theater we stopped to get gas in his car and his wallet was gone. No wallet. We called his mom from a payphone to let her know we'd be late because we were goint back to the theater to look for his wallet. We went back to the theater and an usher even took us into the theater with a flashlight to look. We called his mom to let her know we hadn't found it...and she said she had looked in his room and it was in his backpack!

I am fully convinced that angels walk among us!!

One of them found my camera!!

Spring in Phoenix...

People who think that it is always brown and uninteresting in the desert have never been to Phoenix in the spring. Especially a spring after a particularly wet winter. The flowers are just beginning to come out, but the weather is beautiful and everything is GREEN!! Here are a few shots I got (I didn't realize there was a fingerprint on the lens until later so a few have a big smudge in the middle, but you can still see how pretty they are!!)

 

 

 

 

I PASSED!!!

For anyone who is interested....I passed my state teaching exams!! WHOOOOO!!!HOOO!!!! That's all I have to say on the matter, I'm going out to celebrate!!!

The Final Transformation...

I took my tween queen down for her lowlights today...we kept it very subtle which keeps mom happy and she is thrilled!!

 

 

Now I'm really going to have to lock her up!!

Not to be outdone....

The little girls got haircuts too, and they're going to be SO MUCH easier to take care of!! Especially my littlest bear!!

 

 

 

 

Where did she get the wavy hair??