Adventures in "StoryVeale": 2013

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

School Interview 2013: Mia

Mia, 7-years-old

Favorite Activity this Summer: Going to Texas

Field Trip You'd Like To Go On This Year: Ice Skating

Something New You'd Like to Learn: Reading.

Subject You're Looking Forward to Studying: Reading.

What Would You Like to Be When You Grow Up? A horseback rider

What's Your Favorite Book? Fancy Nancy

What's Your Favorite Food? Beef

What's Your Favorite Sport? Horseback riding

What's Your Favorite Toy, Game or Activity? My favorite toy is LuLu

What's Your Favorite Color? Green

Favorite Holiday? Christmas

Who Are Your Friends? James, Claire, Allie, Taylor, Tatum, Macey, Dawson, Declan.

If You Were Given $1,000, What Would You Do With It? I would buy a horse and buy presents for my horse and the dogs.

If You Could Spend The Day With A Famous/Important Person, Who Would You Choose? Uncle Geoffrey. Because he's important and some people say he's famous in making clay!

Who Is God To You? How Is He Important? He's always with me and I just like Him being in my life.

Do You Have Anything Fun or Special To Share? I like to play with the dogs and my favorite rabbit is Ginger.

School Interview 2013: Maggie

Maggie, 6-years-old

Favorite Activity this Summer: Painting with my cousins

Field Trip You'd Like To Go On This Year: Walking in the wood.

Something New You'd Like to Learn: A new reading lesson.

Subject You're Looking Forward to Studying: Ice Skating.

What Would You Like to Be When You Grow Up? A doctor.

What's Your Favorite Book? I think Where is Baby's Mommy?

What's Your Favorite Food? Spaghetti or Ice Cream

What's Your Favorite Sport? Soccer

What's Your Favorite Toy, Game or Activity? My purple kitty, Haiti. Singing!

What's Your Favorite Color? Blue

Favorite Holiday? Christmas

Who Are Your Friends? Claire, James, Caroline, Landyn & Dawson, Jack, Mia.

If You Were Given $1,000, What Would You Do With It? I would buy toys and sleepers so my Mommy won't have to buy them.

If You Could Spend The Day With A Famous/Important Person, Who Would You Choose? Daddy. Because he makes rabbit cages and sometimes rabbit nests and that's cool.

Who Is God To You? How Is He Important? He's caring for me and He's always with me, next to me and I'm just glad that He's in my life with me.

Do You Have Anything Fun or Special To Share? I like headbands and toys. I also like to sing - a lot!

School Interview 2013: Mikayla

Mikayla, 3-years-old

Favorite Activity this Summer: Texas Family Reunion, and the mall and seeing Mimi & Popi, Grandma & Grandpa and my friends!

Field Trip You'd Like To Go On This Year: Go on an airplane trip.

Something New You'd Like to Learn: A Christmas unicorn and heart.

Subject You're Looking Forward to Studying: My letters, like my ABC's: "ABCD, YOE."

What Would You Like to Be When You Grow Up? A grown up

What's Your Favorite Book? Purplecious. Because it has unicorns.

What's Your Favorite Food? Macaroni & Cheese and oatmeal.

What's Your Favorite Sport? Smashed potatoes and monster truck tag.

What's Your Favorite Toy, Game or Activity? A toy unicorn.

What's Your Favorite Color? Pink and Purple and Blue.

Favorite Holiday? Christmas

Who Are Your Friends? Caroline and Rose.

If You Were Given $1,000, What Would You Do With It? Pay money for a unicorn and a heart.

If You Could Spend The Day With A Famous/Important Person, Who Would You Choose? Rose and Caroline.

Who Is God To You? How Is He Important? I like Him and He's so good and that's everything I want to say.

Do You Have Anything Fun or Special To Share? I like shows that have unicorns and horses and Mickey Mouse and Doc McStuffins and my blankie with monkeys on it. And milk.

Friday, September 20, 2013

Maggie's Birthday Present

This is what Maggie gave me for my birthday in 2013 when she was 6 years old. It is her treasure... And it makes my heart melt!

Monday, June 17, 2013

We celebrated Father's Day yesterday because, well, Isaiah is an amazing father!

He has a strong stomach, which is exceedingly important considering I shrink away in the face of truly explosive diapers, circumcision, and any and all loose teeth. He's been a role model to me of patience, true acceptance, and intelligent parenting. Love that man!

Halfway through the day, as we were exiting Sam's Club, I thought - hm... it would be nice to get a photo of all of our children. Let's give it a shot!

We parked the cart against the brick wall - because the best backgrounds are free - contained the youngest two and gave clear instructions to the oldest two to stare at the camera and smile no matter what their siblings did, and started snapping.

This is what the camera caught:

I love our family. I feel like we're a constant slice of chaos, but it's as exhilarating as it is exhausting.

Happy Father's Day, friends!

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Easter 2013

Easter 2012

I absolutely love it when major celebrations sneak up on you unprepared... that's not true. That's terribly sarcastic, actually, and just the way I feel when I think about Easter this year.

We woke up Easter morning and I suddenly realized we didn't have our outfits together and our hearts weren't prepared for the memorial. So we got crackin'!

In the end we were able to have a great day and celebrate Christ's Resurrection with good friends. The kids had a ball posing for their photo opportunity and we vowed to be more prepared next year.

Here are some more photos of the day that I just love: