I Am Momma - Hear Me Roar: DIY Subway Art for under $7

I Am Momma - Hear Me Roar: DIY Subway Art for under $7: Remember when I made the giant newspaper article for Rex's room ?  Well, ever since then I've wanted to do a Subway art version, using the M...

Home at last and hanging out at our favorite summer spot!

Water play anyone?

I love to see them smile!

Katie striking a pose even when she is dripping wet!

The best place to cool off all summer long!!

NOLA Children's Museum

Eye check!

Katie getting ready to check Abigail's eyes.

Under construction!

Load up the cargo faster, we have a schedule to keep!

The aquarium, the river and snowballs!

The girls with Jeremy's parents on the riverfront by the aquarium in NOLA.

Da Zoo in NOLA!

This way to Komodo Dragon~that way to Roman Candy! Yes please!

I have pictures dating back to the time Madison was in preschool of my kids climbing this tree in the zoo.

Trying to cool off in the water fall on Monkey Hill=Fail!! The water was as warm as bathwater!

The Dino exhibit was a new one for us. Madison is clearly getting tired and hungry here!!

Family shots~sorry I did not get everyone!!

I love the look on all three of the girls faces!

The Texas Garcia family!

The originals!

The siblings! How I love these clowns!!

Family photos in July in City Park = CHAOS!!

Here we have Josh trying to escape the madness of it all!!

Claire has clearly had enough and does not want to take even one more picture!

Vincent, Iris and Josh are clearly fed up with this whole picture taking thing!

Expressions=PRICELESS!!

A few candid shots in City Park during Photo Shoot

Katie striking a pose for me!

About two seconds after I snapped this picture Gabe put his face in the water!! Sorry I missed that shot but this is one of my favorite pictures from the whole photo shoot!!

Love, love, LOVE this picture of Madison and Claire!

The expressions are priceless in this one!

Ship Island

More summer 2011

My sisters and all the kids we had along for the trip. Getting ready to drive from Carthrage, IL to No where Mississippi!
Just us girls!

Me and my crew, can we go now?!

Here comes the ox cart, oh how slow, it's pulled by and ox of course you know.....

Katie standing by our slow and steady oxen and our guide.

Katie REALLY loved these smelly beast! But then again we were smelling pretty ripe ourselves after our handcart trek "f.a.i.l." that morning!

A picture of these strong and steady animals, hard to believe their ancestors pulled people across the country to Utah isn't it?! Aren't you glad we have things that go "vroom, vroom" now with four wheels and nice air conditioning!

How many relatives can one ox cart hold?! Nine in this load and then a friend of the family, so ten people all together on this ride and there was not a seat left anywhere!

Shall we play in the creek or scrub the handcart?

Oh, yeah these are the real handcart pictures for sure!! RIGHT?

"Great, another rut in the trail! Madison pull your weight and stop running me into the freaking bushes over here!"

"Mom stop taking pictures please!"

Almost there! YES!

One last hill, then we can wash this thing off and get rid of it! Lower it down backwards nice and slow now!