Making Lemonade

I'm a mom of 3, happily married and working part time. We live on a tight budget and I like to find creative ways to make it work. I like to post about my family, my crafts and my random thoughts! Enjoy!

Saturday, September 23, 2006


Sarah and Jeremy's Wedding.
They have been married for one week now! The wedding was so fun. It was outside with Tiki torches and hay bails and peppermint patties..( Rach and i enjoyed that the most I think).
Here's Sarah at her wedding. Doesn't she look gorgeous.


And some pcitures from Olympic National park.
Ward and Becca.
They are so awesome and fun. WE stayed with them while we were in Tacoma and they were wonderful hosts.
They are so cute as a married couple too. They just celebrated their 1 year anniversary.








To celebrate their anniversary, they wore matching t-shirts...just kidding. They just wore matching t-shirts anyway!!
We went to the Janpanese gardens in Point Defiance. It was very peacefull and pretty.
This is from the top of the Storm King Mt. trail in Olympic National Park.
I almost made it up to the top, but it got to the point where you had to use ropes and sramble around and it just wasn't safe with the baby...
Also I was prettyout of breath. I'm not so fond up hiking when it's straight up like this!! Going down was hard too. I ripped my favorite jeans!








Over those mts is Canada!
It is a lovely view, eh! !
This is us on the Pudget Sound in Tacoma.












We met up with our friend Josh who drove down from Vancouver to visit us.
We hiked up part of Mt. Rainier but no pictures yet.
Grandma Petersen got to sneak a visit with Esther before she headed off to work. it was a short visit but it wa worth it.
We ended our weekend with a photo shoot with grandma and grandpa. They stole my camera and filled it with shots of them with Esther!!

Thursday, September 21, 2006


Cody's parents let him play with guns, so he tries to hide it in his pants so the cops don't see it.
(tricky...since it's plastic and bright blue!)
We saw most of grandpa ciccarelli's siblings (Esther's great aunts and uncles). It was so nice to have them all together!

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Cody and Esther pose













And we caught a hug....or a tackle. Cody means well, he's jsut too strong for his own good!!
Cody entices Esther to a tasty snack of "the remote".
He doesn't ever share though

Esther and Cody had yet another adventure Labor Day weekend.
We went to go visit our relatives in N.H.
They had a great time together
Esther has been pretty busy these last few weeks. This picture was taken ont he way to visit our relatives for a family reunion.