your forgiveness is requested...

hi, my name is erika and i am an unfaithful blogger.  oh how noble my intentions.  oh how pathetic the results.  all i can say is i think that i just found my head and am in the process of reattaching it to my body.  pending a successful reattachment i think that i'm back.  i hope.  so here i am, asking for your forgiveness for my long absence.

moving on: just because i haven't been posting does not mean that i haven't been thinking about the many different things i want to share with ya'll.  so, just to lure you into the all-too-fascinating world of "the grimmer life" here are a couple titles of posts to come:

*  an introduction- i believe that a proper introduction is necessary of all the babies and hubbies (let me clarify, there is only one hubbie to introduce) that i ramble on and on about
* the buttons on the fridge- a short story of how the frustrations have become blessings
* where you at- an update on B, her development, her seizures, etc.
* shameless bribing- somewhat self descriptive

hope that encourages you to come back... and holds me accountable to actually posting those in a timely manner.

so, i will leave you with pictures of what occupied the remainder of our summer- a trip up to illinois to visit the hubby's side of the family.  fun times had at birthday parties, in the pool and at the playground. love visiting family!

did NOT like the fountains and the splashing water and the sheer scariness of baby pools...

ok, maybe i'm ok if GG is here...

um, thinking about it, and...

yeah, i love it

b, on the other hand, loved every minute of splashing glory

backyard photo-op

really mom?  another picture?

so maybe i was going for the whole peek-around-the-tree-senior-picture-pose.  maybe.

i cannot, for the life of me, get a great picture of the two of them

uncle steve & aunt paige

grandpa g and grandma g (gg)