Summer Season.
'Twas a short one... but a good one too. I just realized that this summer nobody yelled at flies. My how much older they are getting! Still love being outside. Loved the baby goats at the zoo. Loved our first grade teacher Mrs. Cahill. Loved the movies! Loved the places we went to too... more on that in a bit. :)

Birthday-ness success!!!

This is parts one and two of the birthday. (And today was part three with pink eye and colds, blerg.) Celebrated up in Granger with mint chocolate chip cake (yeah, it tastes like what you're thinking!) and her doll. Grandma used scraps of fabric from things she had made the girls to make matching outfits for her doll. sweet!
And then we had a Golden Mystery Surprise party with some of her school friends. Favorite parts of the party were cheese balls, bubbles, clues- they were unscrambling the letters R-I-D-E to figure out the big surprise at the end and came up with "dire". :) Lots of fun, lots of girls and lots of love for this girl.

One week from today and school's out! Hooray!!

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!