Where am I?

Popping Luke

Dad Stressing Mom Out

Ducks

Today I miss my little kids. I miss having you all here around me -needing stuff, being busy and giving me hugs. You are without a doubt the greatest project so to speak I have ever had the privilege to "work on" - the greatest gift my Heavenly Father has given me. The gift to be mom to each one of you. Know today and every day that you are constantly loved, constantly thought of, constantly prayed for and accounted for by me. Although the days are long gone where it seemed I was endlessly counting up to 5 as I made sure that you each were still in eyesight...I still do mental counting to 5 as you will always be in "heart sight.". It was a challenging Sunday with all the emotions of the past couple of weeks and I am so grateful that you are each safe and untouched by this tragedy...add that to the beauty and peace of being in the temple yesterday as the Drumm family was sealed. Wow - a lot of emotions for this Mom. It brought back so clearly the day when our family was sealed - and how much it meant to Dad and myself. What an accomplishment of a life time goal - to be on the road to an eternal family. Keep doing all the good things that you each are doing - keep making good choices, keep focused on the most important things in life. I love you so much. Mom

A better shot....

Do you know all the inside jokes???

Way Cool

Best thing I've made for our family in quite a while:-)

In the Leafy Treetops

The view from my hammock!

Don't you wish you were at a Board of Review?

My Hammock

Yay! My birthday hammock arrived. It is divine. I think I might live in it.

EFY

Got Luke and Matthew in the wee hours - that 7 am pick-up is killer - hated to crawl out of that bed in Columbus at 4:45 am! Dad and I walked around Short North area last night. We had ice cream at the famous Jeni's in Columbus - shared Riesling Poached Pear and Wildberry Lavender - yum! Sorry Mitchell's:-). Then we went to dinner, almost went to a steakhouse but seemed too heavy so we went to the Japanese steakhouse where we went with the kids last year for my birthday. Steak, lobster, shrimp and chicken - no complaints. Luke had a great time at EFY, met a kid from Indiana who he says he will room with at BYU. That has worked out well in the past so that's great. Luke is thankfully driving right now - and we are stopping in Mansfield to say hi to Poppa and Grandma and pick up Sophie and Maggie who spent the night there:-). I love my family.

Mom and I are in Columbus

It is a great day, Mom drove down to Columbus to spend the night with me before picking up Luke at Xavier in the morning. We are setting up for our big trade show down here. I loved getting calls from both Luke and Jack today - it made my day and I am very happy. We are now going to have dinner together and enjoy Columbus for the evening. I love you all! Dad

Concert Night

Fun night at a concert w Styles - Styx and REO were great - but we had to endure the opening act - Ted Nugent. That part was painful:-). Other than that it was nice tripping back to the eighties!

Sophie's new do(:

New highlights!!

Look I'm Blogging!

So do you ever have one of those days where you're stomach really starts to hurt? Not like nauseas but just a little pain and grumbling. So you start to go in this silent (or vocal depending who's around) dialogue with your stomach, first starting calmly with "what's the matter with you?" then, as it persists into a growl (like Moses meowing for food) you start to get a little more and more frustrated until finally (once again vocal or silent depending on the setting) you begin firmly scolding, almost yelling at your stomach. You say "what did I do to you? Don't I treat you well, don't I give you nourishment, I do sit-ups for you, I feed you. By golly, the last time I fed you was..." Then suddenly you realize that you haven't eaten anything all day, you got too distracted with work and other random things. Then, shamefully, you pull out a lame apology to your stomach and walk to the kitchen, finally realizing how to please this mini-you. Then you eat, your stomach's happy, you're happy, and you find yourself with a lot more energy. You know what I mean by those kind of days? If not sorry, you just wasted a good three minutes to read this monologue. Probably time to go on to your next activity. Don't forget to eat though, your stomach sure as heck won't forget it.

Love, Sam

The Amazing Spiderman

Was AMAZING!
Go see it
Love, Mom

Mom

For the record - you are each individually accounted for several times a day by your mom. The Fourth was hot hot hot but we had a great breakfast and parade here in the morning - all the little kids loved getting lots of candy. The day was spent at the beach with Carlsons, Sue and Mark Hogya and Gail Smith. Tonight Luke is at mini scout camp - 2 nights at Findlay State Park. Dad and I have a meeting at the Club for this ridiculous law suit. Probably go see Spiderman tonight - love every one of you. Mom