pup luv

silliness with his doggy...

Good old Peanut Butter.

Again, I'm posting old pictures! I don't even remember how long ago, but it was on the camera, so here ya go. Shae helped his little cousin Hailey make peanut butter pinwheels. Who knew something so easy would be so fun & entertaining?


The gooey finished product.


And then somehow they appeared, wearing silly hats and socks on their hands. Military style crawling across the house. Something about aliens, I think? Lots of giggling.

hot shot?

This just in! Healthy Vegan Kids exist!

Well of course they do! We know that. Why wouldn't they? Death by vegetable isn't something you expect to hear, after all. Vegetables are healthy right? It's well documented that vegetable-based diets are perfectly healthy.

Nice to see the media actually being positive towards veganism though!
Oklahoma City family finding vegan lifestyle benefits in many ways

shae and his buddy three! shae's grandma gave him three three as a puppy on shae's third birthday, hence the name. notice shae's long hair.

and poof! shae's gone punk again.

more summer fun!

yay! all caught up! this picture was taken yesterday at home, shae's buddy jacob was over playing. he's getting a blog too i think! go jacob!

more from our stay at the condo:

this is shae's all star team! getting ready for lots and lots of practices and 2 rounds of tournaments.


shae's cousin and favorite person, hailey, had her 4th birthday party out with us on the beach.


here's shae, birthday girl hailey & mom-mom (my mom! their grandma)


and here are the vegan cupcakes that my awesome sister made for the party!!!!!!! yep vegan cupcakes from a non-veganer. GOOD stuff! and super yummy too!


in his new all star uniform:


shae getting all serious on the field in his first county tournament. which they WON! by a landslide.


and a messy, but FUN video of one of shae's hits! it's sooooo hard to record this stuff cause we get so excited cheering for the kids.

beach & baseball

we spent the rest of may in a condo on our beach (panama city beach, oh yeah) and loved every minute of it. beach, pool, beach, pool. that is the life!




we spent alot of time while we were out there driving up home for baseball. shae finished up the regular season, his team came in FIRST PLACE! woohoo!!!!


and he was chosen for the all stars team! a huge deal!

no more pencils, no more books! no more teachers dirty looks!

haha. yep, it's summer! school let out on may 18th, so let's just pretend i posted these pictures back then.

shae had a end-of-schoolyear ice cream party! 4 of his friends rode the bus home with him. here's elijah, shae, zachary, jacob & amanda.


this was just too cute not to post. jacob, all zen-like...


and everyone enjoying their totally vegan ice cream sundaes! everyone happily downed these, with no complaints.


and all the of the supplies: yep, all vegan, folks! we aren't so weird afterall, dontcha know!


oh yes, and this is when drawing with chalk on the porch turned into making chalk-smoke under the jeep hardtop. nice.

toothless herbivore

okay, quick everyone! email herbivore and beg them to remake this sticker! we've had them on 2 of our cars for 5 or 6 years and now both of those cars are gone! i miss that sticker!



i won't mourn this sticker, cause i much prefer the newer version "veganism is for lovers"



check out toothless, here! lost his 2 front teeth in one week! the new teeth are pushing there way in by now, won't be long.

mothers day, over the years

happy mothers day, to me!

see my little garden of mothers day love? every year shae's classes have made a flower for mothers day gifts. the first year- kindergarten, he loved the idea so much, he convinced his daddy to take him to the craft store to make something for mommy- acted as if the idea was totally his own because he wanted to make another one HIS way, apparently he wasn't able to use up all his creative energy on the school project! the flower all the way on the left with the cutesy polka dots & his picture is the one he made in his kindergarten class. the striped pot next to it was the one he made at home with daddy. he choose 8 different wooden pictures of things i like to glue around the pot, filled it with pretty stones and used a textured material for the stem. the red flower in the teeny pot is from his first grade class & it's a pen, so cute! this years addition is the sweet little pink flower, also a pen. i love that they used mostly recycled materials this year! they have been learning about the environment & conservation. and that toothless little boy? all mine. lost his third tooth a few nights ago and is working up the nerve to pop out the other front tooth, it's hanging from a thread! the new tooth is peeking through, all ready to fill the gap.

secret cookies, pets, grandmas, books, and play clay!

baking secret cookies for a ppk swap!











they're in the mail and hopefully close to the recipient- soooo these are (half of the cookies sent) peanutbutter chocolate chip cookies from soy, not oi! we really, really love these. they make HUGE batches though. about 4 dozen. mailed some, froze some, ate forty billion and still more cookies!


and speaking of cookies! long ago(about 5 years ago), in a care package swap on the old vmb (r.i.p!), my partner included a book for shae that became one of his favorites.
Mmm, cookies! by Robert Munsch
it's a super-silly book full of onomatopoeias that kids LOVE, it's just the best family bedtime story. this storybook inspired shae to make some play clay over the weekend. all by himself, of course! you start off with salt & water in a pot on the stove and stir & stir. then you take the pot off the stove, add cornstarch & cold water and stir & stir. a few drops of food coloring and OH YES! more stirring! finally it thickens up and cools down. then the kneading. the fun part!








































































































































whatever you do, don't eat it! BLELCH! PLAY CLAY!

wet doggy! three smells soooooo much better now.













karma loves water. can you tell? LOVES it.















grandma cat is visiting! we all missed her after not seeing her a few months. shae loves to cuddle up with her and watch animal planet.