Golden Boy

Golden for the following reasons:

1. Gold colored hair (RIP shaggy curls; you are no more).

2. Gold star athlete!

3. You are the only boy in our family-need I say more, I think not.

4. Golden because you have 9 lives.

And last, but certainly not least:

5. Today is your GOLDEN BIRTHDAY!!!! 23 on the 23rd...

We love you, Chase! Happy Birthday!

(chan and chase at the family birthday party)

Picture Perfect

A pic of Pea that Chandler took last night at the family Birthday party-Princess Pea...

Don't Rain on My Parade

The Lang Grangirls were asked to be in the 50th annual Des Moines Parade with Grandma and Papa on Saturday night. I was MIA, but Ty took Pea and they all got to ride in Papa's 53 Chevy Truck, below are some cute pics!

Wedded Bliss

Last night was a super fun family wedding up in Snohomish-it was beautiful and I'm putting up some of my favorite shots from it. Yes, we may have cut into the ice cream cake a bit early, but all in all a wonderful evening! Sorry there are so many pictures...I just loved them all.
Congrats Zach & Melissa!

17 Again

Forewarning: the following week/weekend in this Bell family's life is straight crazy. We've been doing VBS camp at church (shout out to my crew-best little 4 & 5 year olds ever!)...
Add to the mix the following ingredients:
-Family coming into town from Illinois and California
-A wedding to attend
-A girlfriend's bridal shower to rock
-And last but certainly not least: Uncle Chase and Aunt Chandler's birthdays! (My brother/sister)
It makes a busy life: Serves 3-bake at 350 (number of things I have to get done before Friday!)
Today is actually my sister Chani's birthday so I'm putting up a photo montage of her!
Chase, I'll hit you up on your birthday next week.
Chandler, can't believe you're seventeen! That makes this older sister: old.
We love you! Happy Birthday!

Dancing In The Dark

When I was a little girl just about Pea's age my dad had (moment of silence for this Way-Back-Play-Back) Dancing in The Dark by Bruce Springsteen. I absolutely LOVED it. Come on! Born in the USA? Good Times. He would play it at night before I went to bed and I would "dance" to the record being played. Yes. Record. Awesome.
And by dance, I actually mean running (full sprint) in a circle around our living room in my PJs which were essentially my dad's old T-shirts. Love this memory and I believe somewhere, somehow, my dad might have this craziness on video.
This video of Pea dancing with KVB cracks me up (sorry I can't figure out how to flip it) and I thought you'd want to catch it. Yes, KVB is a bit unhappy, but no animals were hurt in the making of this video (and neither was Pea).

Hood Rats

While driving to the sprinkler park yesterday with Pea and my two nieces, my sister-in-law Andrea made a great point saying (with no pride whatsoever), "Auburn is our new stomping grounds these days..."

To which I replied, "Yeah it kind of is..." thinking we need to find another sprinkler park.

Upon arriving at said park, all of the sprinklers suddenly turned off and we waited for about 20 min for them to come back on. The girls were "playing" in the drainage ditch until they finally did and when they finally got into the sprinklers some 6 year old boy started peeing at their feet on the ground! Shut the Front Door. It was beyond my capacity for grossness and so we decided to take off mostly because the girls weren't that into it.

Instead, we decided to go to DQ behind the sprinkler park to get treats. Besides the fact that there was a disproportionate ratio in favor of people wearing mullets while NOT wearing shoes (I guess right now Pea qualifies in this category) to people who had normal hair cuts and shoes ON; it was a big hit! As you can see...