hey, does this cup make me look weird? confused? that’s actually an inside joke between my family and the kelley family and since inside jokes aren’t nice when everyone listening, or in this case, reading, isn’t on the “inside”…i’ll explain. we were having dinner at the kelley’s home a few years ago when my then, very tiny gabe, was drinking out of an ordinary, solid color plastic cup, spotted some way better cups with characters on them and decided he’d rather have one of those. i suppose in an effort to avoid seeming too needy he decided to find fault in the plain old ordinary cup. that fault was, apparently, that it actually made him look “weird”. hysterical laughter broke out when he stood in the kitchen and asked “does this cup make me look weird?”. 

this is corey and cameron, the youngest of the kelley clan. i have to give thanks to these two super, extra-special kids for always hanging with my two oldest kids, who are younger and probably sort of well, you know how it is when “little” kids wanna hang with you. cameron actually holds a very special place in my claudia’s heart…claudia would have never made it through her first summer at camp without cameron. i have the sweetest and at the same time, saddest picture of the girls on the last day. cameron has a sweet little smile and claudia’s poor face is swollen and red from sobbing all day long because it was time to say goodbye to cameron and hop a flight back to phx.


the whole crew, kevin, cari, corey and cameron…actually, not the whole crew. the kelley’s have a fantastic dog named lucky who didn’t join us for pictures. lucky was probably at home lying on the dining room table.

i love these next two, they seem so reflective of the kelley kiddos.

this was the BEST tree ever! huge and glowing orange and yellow. it made everything and everyone so golden.

this image screams kevin and cari.

i miss you guys. i’m so glad we got to hang out, even if it was to “work”.