This post is for Laura Jeane, Jenn, Molly and Mary Kate specifically but others can read too:

Now you might wonder why I specifically posted to my daughters, Laura Jeane, Jenn, Molly and Mary Kate. They are our bio. daughters and all are married now or engaged... when we raised them we had some different methods of parenting... as we have had a second chance to do it all again with our second group of children we have changed our thoughts and ways a bit about some things... So my older girls will get a smile from these pictures of Luke, Mya and Ava.

When we first got married in 1976, we were hippies. We were all for "peace" and love and all that good stuff. So when our kids wanted to play with guns we said no guns allowed :) Now I know these 4 are at least smiling now.... when Ben was born we had the same rule... he would despite our no gun rule make guns out of sticks, blocks or his hand and fight battles... there was no way we were going to stamp that "normal" part of growing up for him. Even water guns were controlled by our pool . They were the only type of gun we allowed.....We also are still anti- hunting if you are doing it just for pleasure... to eat the meat is fine with us but to kill or maime just to be able to do it is not something we condone.

Looking at Mya and Luke and Ava the other day after they had dressed up and came into the kitchen to show me I had to laugh and laugh hard at how much we have changed since raising our first group of kids....

So if you are hanging around our place and surprise one of my "Ninjas" or as they refer to themselves "special agents"... You better watch out...They look pretty tough don't they :)