Smiles in There: May 2014

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Basketball camp and Ethan and Leah's Graduation

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

May Stuff

Pa came and played music and made cotton candy and showed off how he can blow his hat up. It's hilarious.

I love Bay's face here.

The Museum of the Mountain West. SUCH an awesome place!

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Easter and Baby Elijah

Books I've read since May 2007: newest at top of list

Blackberry Winter
Heft
Shanghai Girls (2015)
Thankless in Death
Leaving Time
My Sister's Grave
The Shell Seekers
The Chaperone...awesome!
Big Little Lies (I loved this one)
If I Stay
Calculated in Death
A Secret Kept
Attachments
One Plus One
The Orchardist
The Lies We Told
Low Pressure
The Lies We Told
Freak the Mighty
The Midwife's Confession (loved)
Keep Quiet
The Haunting of Maddy Clare
Sleep Tight
Cress
Delusion in Death #35
Almost Always
Hidden
Intertwine
Alice Close Your Eyes
Precious Thing
A Stolen Life by Jacee Dugard
The Rosie Project (CUTE story!)
And Then She Was Gone
Hopeless
The Winter People
The Invention of Wings (LOVE!!!)
The Silver Linings Playbook
The Memory Child (wow)
Scarlet
Cinder
Only Time Will Tell
The Shining Girls
Burial Rites (LOVED!)
Finding Emma
Escape from Camp 14
The Storyteller
Once We Were Brothers
The Silent Wife
Overboard: A True Blue Odyssey of Disaster and Survival
The Boys in the Boat
The Mermaid Garden
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Necessary Lies (Awesome book)First Book of 2014
Celebrity in Death
Don't Let Me Go (good book!)
Always Watching
Life After Life
Between Sisters
Sharp Objects
In the Garden of Beasts
Joyland by Stephen King
The Husband's Secret
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
Reconstructing Amelia (loved this one)
Just What Kind of Mother Are You?
The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
The Firebird
The Hypnotist's Love Story
New York to Dallas
After Visiting Friends
Dark Places
Broken for You
A Northern Light
Into the Darkest Corner
Me Before You
Sh$t My Dad Says
Shoeless Joe
The Aviator's Wife (very interesting)
The Death of Bees
A Land More Kind Than Home
Calling Me Home
Holes (Audio)
Bridge to Terebithia (audio CD)
Castle in the Attic (audio CD)
Eleanor and Park
The One and Only Ivan
The Snow Child
On Crow Lake
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
Never Knowing
The Neighbors
The World As We Know It (lovely book)
Moon Over Manifest
Where'd You Go Bernadette? (LOVED!)
Between Shades of Gray
The Light Between Oceans
Someone Knows My Name (so good!)
The Fault in Our Stars
On the Island (2013)
The Round House
The Dog Stars
Savvy
The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Inside Out and Back Again
Silver Girl
The Beach Trees
The Play Date (Louise Millar)
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
I Called Him Dancer
Riversong
Wonder by R.J. Palacio (READ THIS BOOK!!!! NOW!)
The Kindness of Strangers (good read, hard topic)
The Woman Who Wasn't There (omg..read the entire book in one day!)
Mudbound (awesome!)
Arcadia Falls
Treachery In Death
Labor Day
The Devil in Pew Number Seven
Sweetie
Divergent
You're Next!
When We Were Strangers
The Good Father (GOOD)
Secret Lives
11/22/63
Undressing the Moon
Free Fall
The Little Known
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (only read half of it....may go back to it.)
The Rose Garden
The Hungry Season
Defending Jacob
The Shekinah Legacy
A Drowned Maiden's Hair
Little House in the Big Woods
The Good Sister (liked this!)
The Girl on the Stairs (about a witness to the JFK assassination)
Fifty Shades Freed
Madame Tussaud: Story of the French Revolution
Victim Six
Fire and Rain
Fifty Shades Darker
House of Thunder
Revolution (loved!)
Indulgence in Death
Fifty Shades of Grey
Wildflower Hill (LIKED)
Sing You Home
Dark Tide
Night Road (liked!)
The Widow's War (January 2012)
Eyes Wide Open
Roses
Doc (About Doc Holliday...Loved it)
The Night Circus
Miss Peregrin's Home for Peculiar Children
These Things Hidden
The Girl in the Garden
The Mill River Recluse
Three Wishes
Stolen Lives
Secret Daughter (liking this one!)
Falling Home (ok...not my fav of her)
Still Missing
Fever 1793
Winter Garden (awesome!)
Before I Go To Sleep (liked!!!)
The Last Town on Earth
Kindred in Death
Sarah's Key (awesome!)
I'd Know You Anywhere
The Girl Who Chased the Moon (cute story)
The Mountain Between Us
The Winter Sea
The Girl Next Door (don't read if you have a weak stomach...it's a brutal book)
The Castaways
The House at Riverton
Fantasy in Death
Think Twice!
The Last Time I Saw You
Unbroken (LOVED!!) by Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit
An Irish Country Doctor
The Murderer's Daughters
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Full Dark, No Stars (great Stephen King!)
Island of Lost Girls (loved!)
Shiver
Crossing Oceans (Jan. 2011)
Every Last One...awesome!
The Year of Wonders
On Folly Beach
The Forgotten Garden
Room
Honolulu
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
A Bad Day for Sorry
MOCKINGJAY! (Loved this series)
River of Doubt: Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Tainted
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
The Official Book Club Selection by Kathy Griffin
Catching Fire (great book)
The Language of Secrets
Look Again...I liked this one!
Little Bee
Perfect Woman
LAdy of Milkweed Manor
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
Summer's Child
The Hunger Games
Somebody Else's Daughter
The Kitchen House
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel (good)
The Last Child (good book)
Thirteen Reasons Why (good book)
I am the Messenger
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
Time of My Life
Nefertiti
Heart Shaped Box
The Graveyard Book
Shutter Island (another great book)
Promises in Death
Pieces of Happily Ever After
The Girl on Legare Street
On Mystic Lake
The Book Thief (read this book...awesome!)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Eat, Pray, Love
We Need to Talk About Kevin
The Lost Hours
Jingle Bell Bark
The Lace Reader
The Heretic's Daughter
The Doctor's Wife
Columbine (great book...sad story)
Julie and Julia
Breaking Dawn
The Help (great book)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Secrets She Left Behind
The Weight of Silence
Into the Wilderness
The Glass Castle (great book)
Salvations in Death
Dead Until Dark
The Memory of Water
Isabella Moon
Godmother: The True Cinderella Story
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The House on Tradd Street (I liked this one)
The Courage Tree
Pandora's Daughter
Distant Shores
The Wednesday Letters
The Secret Between Us
The Year of Fog
Before the Storm
Inkheart
The Friday Night Knitting Club
Veil of Roses
Firefly Lane
The Shack
Loving Frank
The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes (good book)
A Thread of Grace
Eclipse (Twilight Series)
Starvation Heights (non-fiction)
Invisible Prey by John Sandford
Gossamer by Lois Lowry
Escape by Carolyn Jessop
New Moon (part of the Twilight series...good quick read)
The Nature of Monsters (okay...but didn't finish it)
Dreamland (hated it...didn't finish it)
Peony in Love
Devil in the White City
Strangers in Death
Barefoot
A Walk to Remember
Love Walk In
Garden Spells
Then She Found Me
Twilight
Moloka'i
The Dark Queen
Tall Grass
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Water Witches
PS I Love You
Come Back
Chosen by a Horse
Change of Heart
Jesus Land
Creation in Death
The Double Bind
The God of Animals
The Fourth Bear (didn't finish this)
We Are All Welcome Here
Family Tree
At First Sight
Promise Not to Tell
The Things They Carried
The Thirteenth Tale
Three Cups of Tea
Talk Before Sleep
Running with Scissors
True Evil
Miracles on the Water
Innocent in Death
The Year of Pleasure
Summer Breeze
The Art of Mending
Pope Joan
The Husband
A Dog Called Kitty
Nineteen Minutes
A Bend in the Road
The Worst Hard Time
The Constant Princess
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Promise Me
Water for Elephants
Inside the Kingdom
The Tale of Despereau
Mad River Road
Bringing Down the House (movie is called 21)