Rachel and Allison on separate coasts

Ladies--waiting.

Rachel is waiting (pictured here with Heidi) to hear if she is accepted to grad school in Montana. All her eggs are in this particular basket so I think she will be moving there(Missoula) no matter what happens.

How many weeks along are you now Allison? Would that be 28 and officially the 3rd trimester?
...and with the boys thrown in for good measure.

David Leaves on a big scout prep hike tommorrow. It is spring break here. He is preparing to go to Philmont this summer!

Dan is filming on a big shoot for school.

Dan is looking tough so David won't think he can take him. Gotta maintain the big bro image for as long as you can.

Maybe that applys for sisters too? I don't know.

More of Four

--more of My four

Yes! I have four Children!

When I moved here and we stood and had our records read in as new members of this ward, and neither of my girls was there, I wanted to shout,"There are more of us! It's just for some silly reason we are not all attending here right now." Wait! (looking around) There really are more. They must be here somewhere. Really. I have four Children!

I have been thinking the past few days about me as a Mother.

It has slowly dawned on me that am no longer considered a young mother. I am not the Mother of four young children anymore either. (as evidenced by the above). duh

I went to lunch with a great new friend- free makeup and lunch at Paradise Bakery--great stuff. Anyway, next day, I ran an errand with another new friend (I call them new 'cause they have been my friends only since I moved here five years ago) both are way younger than I am, Well, their oldest children are Seniors in high school. Somewhere in my brain I thought we were in the same boat, relating to each other due in part to our similar circumstances in life. Nope.

The first picture is when my oldest was in High School. From the looks of things that is not now.

I had just gotten over the fact(maybe) that I am no longer of child bearing age. Now this!

So, I am feeling the need to post pictures of my kids, all four together.

Now I feel the need to find pictures of all four together when they were young. (meaning me of course). Stay tuned to see if I manage to get any on here.

No Jack-o-lanterns

I am a little sad. This is the first year in, I don't know how long, that we haven't carved pumpkins into Jack-o-lanterns.

If you look at my kids, I guess it follows true to form.

It is the end of and era.

Philadelphia PA

Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly love, brought these brothers and sisters together again.

This is my favorite photo that day. (note the line in the background to see the Liberty Bell.)
Here are my children from left to right.
David "Harry" Harrison, Allison Cutler Kelly, Rachel "Liberty Bell", and Daniel, aka Elder Cutler!

Among other things, Danny, while skateboarding into a bank somehow managed to bend my new Ipod almost in half! (remember I got it for a present, hadn't used it yet, so he borrowed it) How you bend a little solid thing like that I don't understand. It was in his back pocket if that explains anything?(a hard bottom?) His luck holds true.

We walked where George Washington and Benjamin Franklin did (He fascinates me). We visited Federal hall, where the nation was conceived, Betsy Ross' house, a Quaker church, and, as touted, a "real Quaker".

Maybe we as Mormons ought to try that approach, "Visit a Mormon church with a real Mormon inside!" The sign could also boast something about 1st Amendment rights used right here!

The very first thing my children did was find an old abandoned building near our Hotel. Danny found it with David in tow and came to get the girls. Immediately after Breakfast they went to explore it. (Some things never change!) Allison, true to long time tradition, while trapsing around upstairs broke through a floor board with one leg. Thankfully, she wasn't hurt badly, so no trip to the hospital this time. (I have lost track of the times with that child.) Ian, downstairs, was certainly startled, when a leg came crashing through the ceiling right by his head.

Oh, and in the Best Cheesesteak battle--we vote-- uhmm-- Pat's!

Randomness for tuesday

I have no idea why my big children were standing on my living room furniture. I decided to take a picture just to elaborate on the "randomness". One is still young enough I guess to look a little sheepish at being caught, the other -well-just look at her. Not sheepish, muleish?

Sunday Nite

Dad and Dave gettin' cozy for my Abinadi narrative in our nightly prayer and scripture study. (Dad's legs are sore from being forced to hike 10 miles farther than planned on a scouting activity but he doesn't know how to stretch. apparently during gym class in high school, he was too cool. sorta like how I imagine the Fonz would be in a gym class episode, if there was one.)

Speaking of cool (Dad, the Fonz) here are David and I following suit. Uh, so it actually started off with me wanting to capture on film my hair, that I curled, with a curling machine that I bought. This might be the sixth time ever, post short hair rock & roll high school. Naturally, I thought it should be memorialized. And the dirty specks all over David's mirror just up the ante.