Bedtime stories
Visiting dad at work for lunch.
I have no idea why I posted this one, I guess to show the cool swords we made at the Zambas birthday party.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
September has been a busy month.
We've been trying to pick all the apples and blackberries before they fall off and hopefully we'll get to make some cider and jelly this year.
Caleb has been helping me in the kitchen a little around dinner time.
We put new sand in the sandbox, pressure washed the house, finished painting the shed and tree house and got the volcanoe back out for some dinosaur fun.
The chickens are great and laid a couple of double-yoke eggs for me. The photo with 4 yolks below is only 2 eggs I cracked for my morning veggie scramble.
We also got to go out to Willow Creek for Nolan's best=buddy Cole's birthday party. Nolan has been fine floating around the pool alone with his lifejacket and even swam a few stokes unassisted for the first time. Major progress since before swim lessons where he'd just cling to us in the pool.
We've been trying to pick all the apples and blackberries before they fall off and hopefully we'll get to make some cider and jelly this year.
Caleb has been helping me in the kitchen a little around dinner time.
We put new sand in the sandbox, pressure washed the house, finished painting the shed and tree house and got the volcanoe back out for some dinosaur fun.
The chickens are great and laid a couple of double-yoke eggs for me. The photo with 4 yolks below is only 2 eggs I cracked for my morning veggie scramble.
We also got to go out to Willow Creek for Nolan's best=buddy Cole's birthday party. Nolan has been fine floating around the pool alone with his lifejacket and even swam a few stokes unassisted for the first time. Major progress since before swim lessons where he'd just cling to us in the pool.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Sleepy summer days....
OK it's not really summer, and there's no need to fall asleep on a ski boat, but Caleb finds a way to nap anywhere. As for the rest of the pics...
-Nolan is trying to learn to take better pictures. He got a real close-up of Caleb and I on the boat.
-We found a skink (reptile) in a bark pile at the house and the boys were very gentle.
Scruffy and Roscoe are turning into beautiful roosters and even had a decent (and persistent) crow now. Roscoe did a great job of alerting me to a malicious dog attacking Meg today by running wildly and squaking at the top of his lungs all around the yard while the beast was ripping feathers out of the poor girls (she seems to be OK, but i'm assuming she'll have ptsd and need counseling)
-Boxes make boats and plastic golf clubs make oars. This is why we don't invest in many toys. It's all about the 3 Rs at our house.
Cole and Carson came over for some fun in the sandbox.
-The boys used our peeler/corer/slicer to make some apple cake out of our apples.
-Nolan is very proud of his new Cars shirt from Grammy and insisted I take a picture of it.
OK it's not really summer, and there's no need to fall asleep on a ski boat, but Caleb finds a way to nap anywhere. As for the rest of the pics...
-Nolan is trying to learn to take better pictures. He got a real close-up of Caleb and I on the boat.
-We found a skink (reptile) in a bark pile at the house and the boys were very gentle.
Scruffy and Roscoe are turning into beautiful roosters and even had a decent (and persistent) crow now. Roscoe did a great job of alerting me to a malicious dog attacking Meg today by running wildly and squaking at the top of his lungs all around the yard while the beast was ripping feathers out of the poor girls (she seems to be OK, but i'm assuming she'll have ptsd and need counseling)
-Boxes make boats and plastic golf clubs make oars. This is why we don't invest in many toys. It's all about the 3 Rs at our house.
Cole and Carson came over for some fun in the sandbox.
-The boys used our peeler/corer/slicer to make some apple cake out of our apples.
-Nolan is very proud of his new Cars shirt from Grammy and insisted I take a picture of it.
Friday, August 24, 2007
There are pirates in our house! The boys are definately in a pirate stage now. Spiderman and hotwheels are still around right now, but pirates are the favorite of the month. We've still got our pirate treasure (although Nolan dumped most of it in the sandbox-fun to treasure hunt in there now) and our pirate costumes. They haven't seen the movies yet, but they know who Jack Sparrow is. They're both really into their bikes and scooters and painting etc.
My friend Aimee and I went to the fair and we had a fun time on the rides and looking at the animals. She sent me these shots. I know my hair is at an ackward stage, but hopefully it will come out of it soon. I tried to layer it and it never works out. Like the bangs though and it's finally getting longer-yeah!
We also went to a really fun party at our friends (The Zambas-isn't that the greatest last name!) Niko and Maya were celbrating their birthday and they had a fun treasure hunt and great pirate games. We painted swords and threw darts and had a water balloon canon fight with ships and everything.
It's been great to have the deck and we're almost done and ready to landscape. I had to clip the chickens wings because they've been enjoying the deck the most and it's really not fun to share with them. They've been confined to their own yard now.
My friend Aimee and I went to the fair and we had a fun time on the rides and looking at the animals. She sent me these shots. I know my hair is at an ackward stage, but hopefully it will come out of it soon. I tried to layer it and it never works out. Like the bangs though and it's finally getting longer-yeah!
We also went to a really fun party at our friends (The Zambas-isn't that the greatest last name!) Niko and Maya were celbrating their birthday and they had a fun treasure hunt and great pirate games. We painted swords and threw darts and had a water balloon canon fight with ships and everything.
It's been great to have the deck and we're almost done and ready to landscape. I had to clip the chickens wings because they've been enjoying the deck the most and it's really not fun to share with them. They've been confined to their own yard now.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
A few August shots. (Summer is almost over....)
Nolan's friend Sean came to visit and he really like playing with the chickens. Dad made us a portable chicken coop to keep the chickens safe (and to keep them from hiding their eggs and destroying my garden). We had a lot of fun going to the school to ride our bikes.
We also got to go camping and to the lake. Since dad was there we got to go wakeboarding and inner tubing (no photos of that yet, but the boys had fun)
While grandpa was in town he couldn't keep still as usual so he helped us out by building our back decks for us so we could pass finally. All the guys worked on it. Nolan even helped a bit. The chickens followed grandpa around the whole time he was here and thought it was pretty cool when he was digging around.
Nolan's friend Sean came to visit and he really like playing with the chickens. Dad made us a portable chicken coop to keep the chickens safe (and to keep them from hiding their eggs and destroying my garden). We had a lot of fun going to the school to ride our bikes.
We also got to go camping and to the lake. Since dad was there we got to go wakeboarding and inner tubing (no photos of that yet, but the boys had fun)
While grandpa was in town he couldn't keep still as usual so he helped us out by building our back decks for us so we could pass finally. All the guys worked on it. Nolan even helped a bit. The chickens followed grandpa around the whole time he was here and thought it was pretty cool when he was digging around.
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