BFF 4-ever

This has to be one of my favorite pictures of the three of us. (and little dave) I think this is Halloween 1987?
These are my real BFF's. They came out to visit me in little ol' Ohio. They have been so good to me ever since were were in 2nd grade at Cypress Elementary School. It has been 2 years since we have seen each other but it felt like yesterday we were singing Happy Birthday to Quinn.

I don't know how I managed to NOT get a picture of the three of us together. Maybe juggling 2 kids between 3 women was too much for me??? They were such a great help! I miss you guys already!

Ben was out of town for the week-end so we came up with the girliest thing we could think of: butterflies at the Franklin Park Conservatory.

We had so much fun together and my girls will never forget the fun they had with their new friends!
K. I. T.
Have a great summer!
Love,
Your Best Friend
Danielle

(p.s. bec, I hope we can be better friends next year)

Leap for the Ligars

We did it. We (maybe just I) relived my high school cross country years. My best friend Quinn was ALWAYS way faster than me. I always wished I could beat her. I invited her to a friendly 5k fundraiser for our Boy Scouts 12 years after our last cross country meet. Little did she know that all I wanted was to run her into the ground. I had been training for over 3 months just so I could smoke her at the race. It would have helped me if I have told her all these years I was holding a competitive grudge. Quinn didn't even train. In fact she has a slight stress fracture from her NYC Marathon from last year.

Here she is beating my home teacher. Go Quinn!

All I could do was maybe tie with her at the end of the race.
(Someone had already finished and decided to finish the race again with one of her best friends)

Someone here is a little too into this race!
Thanks for the good times!

Happy 4th on the 23rd

Ben's oldest brother Chad brought his family for the 4th of July! Coleman (who is Ben's 14 year old twin) really wanted fireworks. They live in Colorado where fireworks are illegal. So here in Ohio there were sure to be crazy amazing fireworks at Wal-mart. Here are just a few of the miracles we call "Ohio fireworks from Wal-mart."

Watch out, here come the sparklers! This just got us ready for the HUGE bomb, the biggest one in the package.

Brave Heart Coleman lit the massive box and stood way, way back. First we saw gray smoke. Then yellow... then more yellow. We then began to choke. There was soooo much SMOKE.

We then realized, the title on the box is....
"Double Eagle Smoke"
We had tons of smoke bombs. And they smelled GREAT!
Happy 4th! Thanks for visiting, we had tons of fun. We can't wait to live close to you guys.

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Pajamas For EVERYONE!

At church we have mid-week activities that range from play groups to craft stuff. This last week we learned to make pajamas. I happen to be incredibly impressed with myself. Abbey is posing and showing off her pocket. The pocket is my personal favorite.

I decided these were so easy that I am going to make matching ones for all my friends and family. Since I LOVE wearing my own pajamas that must mean, so must everyone else. And who wouldn't want to match me and my family.

So there aren't any buttons yet but that is the hardest part. And maybe the shirt is also the hard part so maybe i will only make pants for all my friends and family. And maybe the fabric isn't MAN friendly... when I say friends and family I mean all the girls. And since fabric is $2 a yard at Walmart maybe I will only make them for all the little friends and family I have. we are still poor, time starved students you know.

A Westgate Favortie

If you have ever been to the Westside of Columbus you know how 'good local food' is a treasure. Well the 'daritwist' is a timeless treasure that is super popular not just to Westgate residents but to all walks of life that live on the Hilltop. It's always an adventure waiting in line.

We took my sister and her family before they moved to St. Louis. We wanted to give them a late night on the Westside to remember.... After the drive-through car yelled some extra strong expletives to his friend and squealed his tires as he pulled onto Sullivant Ave, we had a great time.






Amelia was the first to get her sprinkle cone and I wished I had a video. She LOVED this cone. Everyone in line was noticing how much she was loving it.



















Abbey was happy too. She is just too cute.













Here is most of the gang (minus husbands). I think I posted this picture because it is the most flattering picture of me I have ever taken.

Aren't my nice and nephews soooo cute. We will miss you living so close!



~d

The Physical Toll...

When does it pay to have a surgeon in the family??? We always called him for things like, "my kid has a runny nose and is crying a lot... what should I do." I'm sure he rolled his eyes more than once at our calls... If I had to guess his favorite calls were the ones about strange rashes Ben had... all those rashes....

So again my question....
When does it pay to have not just a Dr. in the family, but a surgeon?

When you are helping your favorite big sister move and your baby girl falls on a dangerous metal moving ramp and splits the back of her head open. (blood everywhere--sorry no pictures of that) Only 5 free stitches later this is what Abbey had to say about it... for several days.... over and over..., "I got an owiiiiiies. Uncle Dayne fixed it." Then she would scratch the back of her head.

Even when their life flashes before your eyes, they still say the cutest things that make you smile!
~d