Where we are, where we been...

These are photos I took of the girls each week in March at our neighbors backyard. We love this time of year... watching things come up, making soup out of all the plants... but I am reminded in the midst of all this life that there is a death. They are connected, joined together. Maybe a better way to say that is Life comes after death. 

I saw a quote on a friend's wall and it made me think of all this beauty. "You have neat tight expectations of what life ought to give you, but you won't get it. That isn't what life does. Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition." 

The deer are back :) just when we thought they were gone, three big ones, eating tulips in our yard.

2013 Winter Break

This was us many mornings over break... ham and eggs, special piggy whisk, silly face ...and hot cocoa.

Corrie getting crafty with it. This was her ode to Colorado- camping, lake, mountains, etc..

silliness ruled!

2012 Christmas

Season of Wonder * * *...
tried to make silhouettes of the girls for a Christmas gift but I liked these pictures the way they are... and the two girls in them!

... seemed like we had a busy holiday this year :)

...and not much snow :(

But a visit from Uncle Petey and Aunt Cassie was just what we needed! love them...

2012 Veteran's Day & Thanksgiving

growing... going to school everyday, learning and loving!

Yankee-doodlers :)

jumping in grandpa Powell's huge compost pile... sorry decomposing matter!

2012 Halloween

Sorry, these are really late but I thought I would hit the highlights from the end of the year. Makes me realize how blessed I am and how much fun we do have around here :)

The October issue of food&wine magazine had some fun recipes to try... This is bug guts pasta which was really good but I also was introduced to red velvet cake balls, made to look like eyeballs of course. Dangerously good!

Cold Days

While our underground spring sometimes causes problems for our neighbors and their basement, we sure have enjoyed it's many uses summer and winter! Mary was not brave enough to try the ice-sled :(




*Update: After sliding down on our bottoms a few times Mary has decided she likes it :)

This week

Have a whole new perspective on this week. Corrie was home sick most everyday except Tuesday when she gave her biography presentation (which she nailed, smile). 

I can see   now   how being miserably sick was such a sweet blessing for me. What a wonderful week :) full of taking temperatures, games of uno and war, reading together, coughing fits at 4 in the morning, doctor visits, sleep, exhaustion... I'm so glad she was home.

I cannot begin to imagine...