janine: the laundry fairy

Whenever we are visiting my parents home in

California, like right now, my Mom, Janine always

does our laundry hecka fast. Like I barely get the

girls out of their clothes and I turn around and she

has them washed, dried and folded! So, I made this

little picture for the shelf in her laundry room.

janine @ sundance

My Mom, Janine performed up at the Sundance

Summer Theater for many summers while in BYU's

Masters in Dance program. She always tells us of

the time they were rehearsing and 'Bob' (or Robert

Redford) would watch from a tree back behind the

seating area. He would be checking to see if things

were up to par and so on and so forth.

janine lambert

This is my mom, Janine, in 1974, she was 21. My Dad took this groovy

photo of her on a trip to Southern Utah. I think he liked her just a little.

It's like that 'DreamWeaver' part in Wayne's World when Wayne sees

Cassandra for the first time...

christmas in california

in cali for 3 weeks- going to be lazy and not post much...
Happy Holidays to my 'blogging' friends and family!
love, Marianne

myka krystianna

I thought I had lost the disc with these pictures

of Myka in the move! O gosh! So happy to have

them! (They were taken by Vanessa DeHart of

Va Ness Photography in Spanish Fork, Utah.)

myka's friend aislyn

This is Myka's friend Aislyn. They have a fun and
imaginative time together. On Thursday they played
Princesses and Dragons, so they dressed up in long gowns
and carried bags full of toy animals all around the house,
'rescuing them from the dragons in the tall mountain.'






I'm so glad Myka can have Aislyn as her good friend!

costco on a saturday

It is chaos trying to shop alone with the girls, so we brave

Costco on Saturdays as a family. Today went rather smoothly,

we loaded up our cart quickly and then grabbed dinner at the

food court.

Haily Jane! Pick up the pizza! Yikes!

Myka has always loved the 'purple drink' at Costco.

As we made our way to the Jeep, Haily was

entertaining us with this face while saying,

"Ah-Haaa!" over and over again.

Ya, she knows she's funny.

We thought about going to downtown Tacoma

where the Dicken's Christmas Fair was taking

place but it was sooooooooo cold, we decided

to head home, do baths and drink hot chocolate

in front of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas,

the cartoon, of course.

Ho, Ho, Ho-boy did I need a bath!