Here are some recent pictures of the farm after grading.

Working on the farm!! Grandpa came to help us put in a french drain. The boys did some manual labor and had tons of fun playing too. Cooper got a haircut. I used the giant weedwacker and Caleb and Audrey show their box skills on Bob

A few summer photos...

The boys have been enjoying sleeping in. Some mornings they'll wake up early and want to come snuggle with me. I can't really sleep next to them, but it's so cute to see them sleeping quietly in the same bed. If only the days were this peaceful...

We've also been doing plenty of fun things during the days....Playing Wii with friends like the Parker brothers, doing swim lessons (both boys are swimming great!), boyscout activities like the Pony Express Parade in McKinleyville, having friends over for playdates and jumping on the trampoline/dressing up, finding treasure, feeding pigs/goats and sheep and rounding up baby ducks. We've also been camping more and spent time walking around Patricks Point. Here is a funny picture from the end of school I had on my phone of crazy hair day back in school.

Here are a couple of pictures from the Reader's Theater that the K-2 class did recently. There were two different skits. The kids painted the themes and acted out the skits. Very cute.

Here is a picture from inside the new Explorer. It was so fun to pack it full of friends!Here is one picture from the kinetic sculpture race last weekend. I didn't get to go with the boys, but I did skate in it and this was one of my favorite sections along the Bottoms.

We went camping two weekends in a row. First time was on the North Fork of the Trinity with some kayaking friends. The next weekend we attempted to get to the Salmon but ended up just outside of Willow Creek. We ran into the nursing school graduates from HSU and they were fun to hang out with. The first weekend we took Ethan and the second weekend Micah. My camera battery was dead for the second weekend, but here are shots of the North Fork Trinity. I lost my keys for most of the day and finally found them in my sleeping bag! Cooper went with us for both trips and loved snuggling in the tent. He did his best to keep up with the boys in the water.

Took the boys to do some more work with the CNPS plant growers. This time the venue was Samara Restoration. The boys mostly played on the tractor (see last photo). My bees keep trying to swarm. I finally did a split and they appear to have stopped for now. We took a trip up to Washington for Presidents Day week. We drove through Bend and stopped by the High Desert Museum, picked rocks in the field with Grandpa and went to Cabela's (of course), did laser tag, mini golf and water slides in Hayden Lake and got a puppy. Stopped by the falls on the way home and also at a store that had the largest cinnamon rolls I've ever seen. It took us a couple of days to eat that one. Oh...and I made the derby team and got my uniform. We compete against Emerald City Roller Girls in Eugene for my first bout and it was really fun. Took some goofy pics to share.