Rudy Ranch - rudyfam

IMG_8861.JPG
IMG_8861.JPG 2011-06-26

IMG_8861.JPG
IMG_8861.JPG 2011-06-26 Stacia age 2

IMG_9480.JPG
IMG_9480.JPG 2011-08-17

IMG_9570.JPG
IMG_9570.JPG 2011-08-17 Heidi age 4

IMG_9571.JPG
IMG_9571.JPG 2011-08-17

IMG_9654.JPG
IMG_9654.JPG 2011-08-17 Wyatt age 9

IMG_9750.JPG
IMG_9750.JPG 2011-08-17

IMG_9959.JPG
IMG_9959.JPG 2011-08-21 Talia age 7 months

IMG_9779.JPG
IMG_9779.JPG 2011-08-17

IMG_9800.JPG
IMG_9800.JPG 2011-08-17

IMG_9823.JPG
IMG_9823.JPG 2011-08-17

IMG_9587.jpg
IMG_9587.jpg 2011-08-22

IMG_9515-2.jpg
IMG_9515-2.jpg 2011-08-17

IMG_9580.2.jpg
IMG_9580.2.jpg 2011-08-17

IMG_9590-2.jpg
IMG_9590-2.jpg 2011-08-17 Cadence age 7

IMG_9750.jpg
IMG_9750.jpg 2011-08-17

IMG_9789.JPG
IMG_9789.JPG 2011-08-17

IMG_9811.JPG
IMG_9811.JPG 2011-08-17

IMG_9848.JPG
IMG_9848.JPG 2011-08-17

IMG_9852.JPG
IMG_9852.JPG 2011-08-17

Stacia turned three on Saturday, the 14th.  She was sure looking forward to that.  On Friday we went to Walmart to do a little shopping for her.  Mike and Wyatt took Stacia to pick out some boxed cereal for her birthday breakfast treat, while the rest of us went to get some gifts.  She got peanut butter Captain Crunch (my favorite), and the grossly colorful Trix.  Later she told me she got crunch, and Wyatt carried it for her.  The fact that Wyatt carried it for her was a big deal, as she mentioned it quite a few times.  I made some gift selections with input from the older girls, then went off in search of orange wrapping paper or gift bags, and orange balloons.  It's Stacia's favorite color, and I was hoping to get a lot of it for her.  No such luck.  I couldn't find any paper with orange, or gift bags, or even tissue paper.  The only orange balloons I found were in combo packs of multiple colors.  I settled on Mini Mouse wrapping paper, and some special balloons.  I did find a cone shaped bag of all orange Reece's Pieces packaged to look like a carrot.  It was $.50 in the half off Easter candy.  On the actual birthday, she got to open her gifts in the afternoon, and then for dinner we went to Big Scoop, as she requested.  We all got a dinner, then shared the Mt. Everest from the ice cream menu. It's 5 scoops of ice cream on a split banana with hot fudge, strawberry, and marshmallow topping, then covered in whipped cream, sprinkled with nuts, and showered with cherries.  We all left stuffed.  We came home, kids milked, we watched a movie and all the kids except Talia slept in the family room.  The next morning Stacia went to her new Sunday school class, and seemed to like it.  When Mike picked her up she had lots of stuff she'd done in class, and remembered the story about Jesus walking on water.  The birthday is past, but she is still quite pleased to remind us that she's three now.

It's been a tough month for the farm.  A week and a half ago our lean to had a fire in it.  Last Saturday the kids' little 4 month old calf died.  The turkey hen I was hoping was sitting on eggs somewhere has never returned.  I think the flood may have done her in.  Then, to top it off, on Wednesday night, Cadence's little doe, Rachel, went into labor 3 weeks early and lost the kids.  The event was actually pretty traumatic, and very sad.  Yesterday, Mike was checking on Rachel in the lean to, and saw that a pallet had fallen on a rooster, killing it.  At least that wasn't really a loss, as it had just happened, Mike went ahead and butchered him.  He's currently aging in our fridge so that I can make him into a tasty pot pie.  Hopefully that's the end of the negatives around here.  We had two days in a row when an eagle narrowly missed chickens.  They just managed to escape under the shelter of our covered patio, and in the playground.

Talia started walking for real on her birthday, and is now quite good at it. It is her preferred mode of travel, and can go all the way across the house, with stops, starts, and turns, without falling even once. And if she does fall, she is very good at getting back up to her feet again. She loves being able to carry things with her while she walks, and will often hold something in her hand as she toddles from place to place. On Sunday afternoon she spent about an hour walking the loop around the hallway and through the kitchen, over and over, with quite a bit of commentary as she went past me. The other kids love it, and are used to her upright stature, so much so that they no longer announce to the world that she's walking. Now they try to get her to catch them. She also has a funny way of acknowledging Dad. Months ago, I tried to teach her to wave at him when he was leaving for work. She eventually picked it up, but now associates Dad with waving. Every time she sees him, she waves. When someone says something about Dad, she waves. It's cute. I don't know if it was coincidence, but a couple days ago she came down the hallway after being in our room with Mike, and when I asked what she was up to, she waved. She loves to wave, and does it with a great big smile. She's so fun.

I'm sitting next to Heidi, and noticed that it was smelling pretty awful all of a sudden. I asked, "Heidi, did you fart?" She nodded. I told her, "You need to say excuse me. That really stinks." Heidi says, "Excuse me. That really stinks."

     Today is Talia's birthday.  She doesn't really care, but the other kids sure do.  I made a rich chocolate cake for her, and we had rib eye steaks, roasted potatoes, and green beens for dinner.  The steaks were sooo good!  I took one of the biggest ones so I could give some to the three younger girls.  I didn't get to eat any of it.  When I was done giving one of them some pieces, another girl needed more.  Heidi wanted me to cut small strips for her, so that she could cut them into bites herself.  I think it made her eat more than usual.  She even cut some for Stacia.  Talia ate so much meat, I couldn't keep up with her.  Mike helped by giving her some of his steak, but even then, she was eating faster than we could supply it.  I think she ate half a steak all by herself.  Stacia probably ate half the quart jar of beans.  That was her favorite tonight.  Wyatt ate so many potatoes he didn't feel good.  Not unusual for him.  I gave Talia a few potato chunks, and took the last little steak for me to eat.  I was just dishing up some beans (not many) and potatoes for me, when Heidi asked for more meat.  Wow.  That dinner was popular with everyone.  When we were all done, we digested a little bit, then we gave Talia her gifts.  Each kid picked something that had been special to them at some point, and gave it to her.  It was sweet.  She got a few things from me and Mike, too, but really, what does the fourth girl really need?  She had fun, and everyone was excited to see her reaction to each item they had picked for her.  Cadence gave her a stuffed cat that had been her favorite for a long time, and it looks it.  It's very loved, and Talia gave it a big hug.  That made Cadence so happy.  The three older girls also made cards for Talia today to put in with the gifts, and Cadence put $5 in hers.  She's so generous, it's hard.  I told her she could take Talia shopping some time.  She can't wait.  After that, I made tea, and we had cake.  The cake is so rich it's more like a truffle.  Very good, and only a really small piece is necessary.  For the last couple weeks, Talia will take a few steps between people, and today, she would stand up, and start walking more purposefully.  Up to five steps sometimes, and she was doing it over and over.  Everyone cheered.  Then she clapped.  She is so loved.

Today is the day Heidi has been waiting for all year.  Her birthday!  She's so excited, and has been giving birthday hugs all day.  She wanted pancakes for breakfast, so I made them this morning with white flour.  Quite a treat.  Tonight is AWANA, so she gets to go to Cubbies on her birthday and say the special Christmas verse.  Luke 2:11.  The program cuts it down a bit, I guess to make it easier for kids to say.  She needs to learn, "Today...A Savior has been born to you.  He is Christ the Lord."  Wyatt said she should be able to learn the whole verse, and proceeded to luke it up, then read the story to us.  Luke 2:11  "Today, in the town of David, a Savior has been born to you.  He is Christ the Lord."  I think he's right, she could easily learn that much.  

We've had quite the wind storms the last few nights.  On Monday night (actually early Tuesday morning) the wind kept me awake for a long time.  The gusts were so violent.  I got up late, after 8, I think, because when the wind died down, I finally fell asleep and stayed that way until I heard little voices.  I was relieved to see the playground was still standing, and still had all the slides attached.  I looked out Talia's window and saw the A-frame Mike built for calves had collapsed.  Looking towards the garage, I observed the calf hutch (home of pigs and goats) sitting neatly behind the truck next to the garage.  That was not where it was when we went to bed.  It had blown a good 150' I think, without taking the fence down.  I wonder what that looked like?  It was even sitting upright.  The clothesline was down too.  The post at the corner of the yard was busted off at ground level.  Bummer, because I had hand picked the log for that job, and really liked the rustic look of it.  I'll have to look for another.  I packed Talia into the backpack, and took Wyatt and Cadence outside for the goat milking and such.  (Mike was catching up from a 2 or 3 hour sleep after his last shift, which brought him home 4 hours late)  After milking, I went with Wyatt and Cadence to look for missing buckets.  We saw the blue tub used to water the beef cows far to the north, way into a neighboring field.  Wyatt and I went after it, while Cadence stayed at the gate.  On out way out, we found two buckets still on our property.  We continued on to retrieve the blue tub.  The swale was really full, and moving at a rather moderate pace, not real fast.  When we got the tub back to the cows, I figured I should fill it by dipping the smaller buckets into the swale.  Wyatt figured he could raft across the swale in the tub.  I think it's something like a 20 gallon tub.  He was warned by me that it could easily tip, but wanted to give it a try anyhow.  He made a good attempt, and didn't tip it.  He was pleased, and I told him the tub touched bottom when it tilted.  He got out, and I went to get the little buckets to fill.  I heard a big splash.  Upon turning around, I observed Wyatt's head and shoulders, and the heals of his boots, sticking out of the water.  The rest of him was submerged.  The outdoor temperature might have been 40.  He was a good sport about it.  I guess he wanted make another attempt at rafting across.  I told him to go ahead into the house, and I'd fill the tub.  I made something like 3 trips with water (Talia was in the backpack, and made the buckets harder to carry, so I opted for more trips over too full buckets) and started back.  Wyatt should have been close to inside by then, but was taking the scenic route through the giant puddle Mike has hunted ducks in over past years.  He was cold, but the allure of all that water to play in was too much to pass up.  Amazingly, Cadence was still waiting for us, and went in with Wyatt ahead of me.

We got our first snow on Friday morning. Very exciting, as I drug out all the cold weather gear that I packed up not so long ago. It was a very wet snow, and pulled a lot of fences down. I let Belle and Cherry out to graze in their pasture, but they just wandered out over downed fences. I had Cadence unplug the fence while I went around and shook the wires free of snow and snow laden grass, then tried to get the cows back. I thought it would be easy, but it wasn't. I came around the back of the house to find them, and saw Belle n the back patio. Why a cow would want to go up there is beyond me. Mike got up to help get the cows back, chasing a very rambunctious Cherry from way out towards the road. He finally got them to follow him carrying grain. Then he went back to bed. It thaws during the day, then freezes again at night, so we now have crusty snow. And the giant puddle freezes too. This morning before church, Cadence was playing on it after milking her goat, and fell through when she slipped. That's a cold, wet start to the day. Cadence and I went to her soccer team party recently, and she declared it to be really exciting, one of the best days of her life. There was swimming in an indoor pool, then food, then she got a trophy, and a scrap book her coach made up for each player. Her coach put a lot of work into them. Very generous. Wyatt and Cadence are both looking forward to playing soccer next year.

The cost of propane is staggering. Every year, we fill the tank more than we'd like. Every time it's filled, the bank account is drained. It's an inverse relationship, and I think we were losing ground. We have a big house to heat. Mike wanted to get a wood insert for the fireplace in our family room. I was always skeptical. How could that heat the extremeties of our rambler home? We tried saving propane by burning a fire every day, all day, in the fireplace. It kept the main loving area warm, but we went through a lot of wood. Mike priced inserts, and figured, if it worked as advertised, we'd pay for it the first winter in propane savings alone. Plus, it should burn and heat so efficiently, that wood would last a lot longer too. He finally placed an order after lots of comparison shopping. We installed it ourselves, mike doing almost all the work himself. I helped a little. I was able to climb up on to the top of the existing chimney to make the changes necessary, and put the new liner down the flue for the insert. I was also able to cut out the damper from inside the fireplace with a saw, as I am small enough to fit. That was a very dirty job. The saw rattled loose all the soot that the liner hadn't. Mike had to make some on the spot modifications to the stove to liner connection, as the supplier didn't send the right length of stainless liner. It all world out, and we are now heating our whole house with wood, just like Mike thought we could. I'm so glad he went for it. What a smart guy. We have used so little propane the last few weeks. Big savings. Soccer is over for both kids. Cadence has an end of the season party in about a week, and Wyatt had one earlier this week. He was voted little player with the biggest heart. He seemed shyly pleased with that. His last game alone would've earned such a title. He headed the ball, and blocked some shots with his body, being in the right spot at the right time. He was even knocked down a couple of times by the ball. He got hit pretty hard, but we all cheered and told him good job, so he smiled and kept going. He was starting to see the payoff for the pain. I hope he wants to play next year. He was enjoying it more every game, and improving quite a bit too. Cadence is sure she will play again next year. She absolutely loved it. Heidi is all healed up, and doing great. She has a small bump where the break was. The doctor said that will get less over time. Now she has a shiner from walking into a gate while going to get pumpkins out of Grandma and Grandpas's garden. She needs to live in a nerf world. Stacia now says her own name. Just last night she said, "Stacia" when we asked her who she was. That's so much better than saying ,"Not Joe" when asked. She does that on occasion. It is funny, though. Talia has been caught standing for short periods of time, although its not a regular thing for her yet. She is eating a wide variety of foods. She especially likes spaghetti, grapes, and milk. And ice cream. She's still in that age range where she'll try anything.

Here are the pictures of Heidi at the hospital.  She is healing really well.

Surprise surprise, guess who broke a bone? The Hug Bug. Heidi. We really thought it would be Wyatt to break a bone first, but Heidi gets honors for that. It actually makes sense, as she's the one who runs into things at random and falls down the most. She was running in her socks, and around the corner where it transitions from carpet to tile, her feet went out from under her. She cried pretty hard, but finally managed to quit. I was sitting next to her as she lay on the couch. I was talking to a visitor, and noticed that Heidi was crying a little bit, silently. She was holing her arm still across her body. She was sensitive in very specific places when I touched her lightly. I suspected collar bone. Mike came home shortly after that and visited with our company for a bit, then I told him what had happened. He examined her as well, and came to the same conclusion. Our visitor left, we asked Heidi if she wanted to go to the hospital. "no!". We convinced her, and Mike held her while I drove. Dr. Examined her, ordered x-rays, came back fractured clavicle. Mike took pictures, so I'll try get those loaded here from his phone. Heidi did great, and left the hospital in a figure of eight brace, and a sling. All the kids were so well behaved, and complimented for it by all hospital staff they came in contact with, Mike bought everyone lunch at Jack in the Box. We had AWANA that night, and we went. I think the thing that made her saddest, is that she can't hug with both arms. Mike worked an overtime shift last night, so I Had Heidi sleep in my bed next to me, to make sure she could sleep ok. She needed help lying down, and moving on the bed, but she slept like a log, and never had a problem. I think it's good she normally sleeps on her back. Today she saw our regular doctor because insurance required it for the referal she would need to see an orthopedic seurgonnthe hospital recommended. Seemed like a waste of money to us, but jumping through hoops is what we do for GHC. Dr. Luther said she's doing great, he'll see her in two weeks, and don't bother with the surgeon. Waste of time and money, he says. He said he's never seen intervention for this kind of thing help, but always causes more problems. Heidi is handling it really well, but had a hard time going to bed in her own bed tonight. I had told her yesterday that sleeping in my bed was going to be a one time thing, but maybe she was hoping it would last longer than that. It hurts when she first lies down, I think gravity or something, being horizontal distributes the weight differently and it takes a few seconds for her to get used to it. She refused the offer of medicine, though. She was given some at the hospital, and had some here this morning, and that's been it. I could tell she was hurting a bit this morning, so offered it to her, and after thinking it over a bit, she decided to try it. I could tell that about 20 minutes later she was feeling a lot better. I am glad, though, that she doesn't want motrin much. I don't want her to hurt, but I don't want her to be a sissy, and want something to ease minor pain if she can handle it. Less likely to have problems in the future, and already learning to tough it out. I leave the medicine up to her, at this point. She will have to wear the brace until she goes back to the doctor, but the sling is optional. She likes to wear it during the day, then take it off in the evening. I think it helps her not use that arm too much.

If you call what we had Summer. Mike is back to work after vacation, we're canning all we can (made possible by some very generous family and neighbors with extra veggies), and soccer is in full swing. Practices twice a week for both of them, fortunately on the same days, at the same place, unless Cadence has a game, then it's a bit more complicated. Her game days are pretty random, throughout the week. Wyatt's are always on Saturday's. Neither one of them has a real good idea of what they're supposed to be doing o.n the field, but they are having fun. Especially Cadence. She runs around the whole game with this great big happy grin on her face. In her first game she was a bit too polite, not taking the ball from other players very well, and she stopped chasing a ball to help up a boy from the other team who had fallen down near her. It was sweet and funny all at once. She is improving every time she plays. Wyatt is struggling a little more, as the boys In his age group are more competitive, and more experienced. I think he'll catch on in a couple weeks. I hope he doesn't give up on it out of frustration. He doesn't appear to be yet, but I'm afraid it could happen if soccer doesn't "click" relatively soon. He is having fun, and has a patient coach, so that's good. After I get most things canned, I think we will start school when the weather gets ugly. I'm in no hurry, and really don't have time right now for the book learning type academics. We'll be starting slowly.

We camped at Fort Flagler for 3 nights, in the best campsite.  The weather was great, and since we started camping Monday night, the campground was pretty empty, therefore very quiet.  To get there, we drove around Puget Sound, stopping at Cabela's along the way, of course.  I always love that drive up highway 101, and this year was just as beautiful as always.  Setting up camp went smoothly, and Mike started cooking pretty quickly.  He cooks all our food on vacation, and we eat really well.  

We've slowly started canning. Before our fruit quest I canned 15 pints of blackberries, and 4 quarts of blackberry pie filling. First time for me canning filling. I'll have to try one before I do more to make sure it's worth the effort. We only did a few quarts of peaches and pears so far. They just aren't ripe enough yet. Today I did do 14 more pints of blackberries, though. I need to get some half pint jars so I can put blackberry jam in them. Another turkey dies the other day. Wyatt found it lying in the pen, and brought it to the house. We couldn't save it, so I'm sure we've lost more than half of outré turkeys. Dumb birds. We'll be camping Monday through wednesday night next week, so that's something to look forward to. Mike's vacation starts on Saturday. Very exciting. Wyatt got his soccer uniform today. He sure looks handsome in it, like everything else he wears. Cadence starts practice next week. She'll actually miss the first couple because of our camping trip, which is too bad, but life. The good news is that a boy we know from church is on her team, so at least she'll know somebody. Wyatt's games will be on saturdays, and Cadences look to be weekday evenings, which could be a problem on Tuesday's. That's when AWANA is. Talia is all over the place, so mobil now. She even pulls herself up to standing sometimes. She is making a lot more noise now too. Baby talking. Ba ba ba ba ba. Smile. Laugh. Ba ba ba ba ba. Squeal. Ba ba.

We just got back from our fruit trip. We had a good time, but it didn't go as planned. I'll explain. First- We left our house around 8:30, only 30 minutes later than Mike wanted to. One of the reasons we left a little late is because he had to fix some fences that had been pulled down by some large animal in the night. Buttercup's fence was strung out all the way to the neighbors clothesline, and the treated 4x4 post we had in here pasture had been shorn off. We'd heard coyotes in the night, quite a bit, so thought maybe they'd chased something big through it. Mike suspected elk, as a few of the farmers have had problems with them. We were about 20 minutes from home when we got a call from our neighbor that a cow was out. Which cow? Buttercup. She'd gone crazy and ran through the fence. Mike called Jan, who said he'd put her back in. Later he called and said she was crazy, wild and nutty, basically. We were about 45 minutes away, and turned around. Jan and Cherri had actually fixed all the fence for us, so we just got Buttercup into the lean to with the calves. She had calmed down by that point. Apparently she had tried to climb the wood pile, Mike's car, gone in the chicken coop,acted like she was going to charge people, that sort of thing. Mike parked the truck in front of the lean to, so Buttercup wouldn't even be able to break herself out. Then we were on our way again. Because we were now leaving at more like 11:30, we didn't stop in Leavenworth, but pushed strait through to our hotel in Wenatchee. 

We've been spending as much time doing summer things as we can, because we just don't expect the weather to hold out for a long time. Last year I didn't take full advantage of the blackberries while they were ripe. Not going to make that mistake again this year. Cadence and I already made a couple pies, and I canned 15 pints. Hopefully it's just a start, as the berries are just now starting to produce. I expect loads to be ripe in the coming week. I'm going to try canning pie filling this year, and at least one batch of jam. We don't eat a lot of blackberry jam, but some. I just have to get more jam jars. Tomorrow we leave on our quest for fruit. We'll stay in Wenatchee over night, and buy our fruit on Monday. Kids are super excited to stay in a hotel. Talia is really getting around, crawling all over the place, exploring everything she can get to. A friend gave a bunch of princess dresses to the girls. They love it, but outhouse is so full of sparkly pink fluff it's almost painful. I suppose it's ok, but I did stress, especially to Cadence, that she can't milk and feed calves and chase pigs in them. Earlier this week, we looked at and test drove a passenger van at a dealer in Burlington. We decided we'd love to get one, but it'll have to wait. Our Yukon still gets us around, and we have one extra seat in it. We'd like to be able to take other people with us sometimes when we go places, but is doesn't happen very often, so it's not too big a deal to work around. The biggest problems come up with grocery shopping and camping. If we had the van we looked at, we could take out one or two of the back bench seats, and have lots of room for all the fruit we could buy this weekend, we could camp without a utility trailer. We could take the kids' bikes with us when we go places they could ride. I think it's in our not to distant future, but not immediate future. Keep saving, and hope the Yukon is dependable.

So it's raining today, but we had some really nice days the past couple weeks.  The hay is baled and stored under cover, we went to the fair, we played outside, swung in the hammock, stuff like that.

Yep, Stacia asks why numerous times for every occasion. I try to answer each time, but after a while, I just plain run out of reasons. We have reservations to go camping at Fort Flagler in early September. We reserved our favorite site there (the only one we've ever stayed in) for three nights. We hope to do some trail walking, beach exploring, and camp food eating. I wonder if three nights might be too long in one campground, but that's really only two days of active exploring, so I think we'll have fun the whole time. I'm curious to see how Talia handles it. I still haven't decided how we'll have her sleeping. Might be too crowded for the porta-crib. I also hope she handles solids with some texture better by then, too. Something we really have to do soon is go on our fruit trip to eastern Washington for peaches and pears to can. We may even make it an over night trip! First, though, is the NwW Fair. We can hardly wait. We already have the tickets, including the all day ride passes for the oldest three kids. We aren't doing anything major for vacation this summer, so the fair is going to be a big deal. I always love it, and we didn't go last year because of Disney World. It'll be good to go this year.

Today marks the first time Stacia asked "why?"

The birthday party went pretty well, with only a few problems. The pig didn't cook, but so many people pitched in to cut it up and finish it on the BBQ, that it wasn't even a problem. It was yummy, and Mike is figuring out what he thinks he may do differently next time. Almost everyone who came had a great time, especially the kids. If we do it again, I will be more organized so that all the games I have planned will happen, and in a reasonable amount of time. I don't think we'll do pinatas next time, but maybe a scavenger hunt instead. And I'll have to make more punch, that stuff was popular! Hopefully we'll have the pool in and running next time. The whole thing was a great learning experience though.

Talia is super excited, trying to catch the kitten. She's up on her hands and knees, making happy sounds. Her legs are moving like crazy, but her hands remain firmly placed on the floor. The result is a lot of movement, but no forward motion.

...for lunch!

Party prep is in full swing! Gonna be a busy week. We had a nice little outing recently with some local friends. We watched a movie at the Concrete Theatre. What a fantastic place. Great deal, too. The most amazing thing was the buckets of popcorn. They put real butter on it, and the buckets have free refills! Lots of choices of things to put on it, too. Like salt, sea salt, garlic, yeast, cinnamon, some other choices too, I think. Before the movie started, there was a drawing, and 3 ticket holders won prizes. One of the prizes was a free pass to the Skagit Speedway for two adults and four kids. We didn't win it, but the family we went with did. So fun. After the movie we went to our friends' house for dinner. Good times.

The keyboard for our computer is dead, so I can't do as much here as I'd like. I can mostly just add text, but anything more complicated than that is going to have to wait until we get a real keyboard. The iPad just isn't capable of doing everything shutterfly allows, especially with pictures. I'll try be more consistent with updating though.

     Wyatt got a kitten yesterday.  She's a really soft, cute tabby, and Wyatt named her Lucy.  She was a better deal than we expected.  Free, and she already has her first shots and came with some food.

We finally found Internet service that's faster than the satellite service we have, and actually works. The Verizon MiFi is the answer. We will be canceling our WildBlue Internet service, and so our gotsky email will no longer be valid when we do. We have already started a gmail account, so please send all future emails to amymike123@gmail.com. This new service is so much faster! I don't have to wait very long for a page to load anymore, and pictures upload quickly and with no problems. We get a good cellular signal here. I think the satellite signal must have been inconsistent, because a lot of times a significant percentage of pictures I tried uploading would somehow fail to complete requiring a retry. I haven't had a single failure since we switched to the Verizon MiFi. The added bonus is that I can get Internet for my iPad with it, so anywhere we have a cell signal I have Internet. So cool!

     I've just recently loaded more pictures for June.  My multi purpose lens is getting worse, so I missed some good shots.  Here are a few of the better ones I have.

Someone at church gave me a bag of girl clothes the other day.  When I went through them, I found most were Heidi's size and some a little smaller.  A nice jacket for Stacia, too.  Heidi was so excited, she wanted to wear some of it right away.  She has a hard time making up her mind on things.  Decisiveness is not her strongest attribute.  Not even close.  So here's what she chose to wear right away.  Pretty much as many things as she could get on without sweating a whole lot.

Stacia is doing great!  She stays dry all night, and lets me know when she has to go during the day by suddenly announcing, "Pee bad!"  Only a few messes the last couple days.  She doesn't like wet pant,  Today she was outside and didn't get in in time.  She said, "Pee pants."  I told her, "That's too bad.  We'll go in and change you."  She replied, "Uh huh.  Gross."  

     Stacia's doing ok with the potty training.  Not great, but improving.  I didn't have to do a load of laundry just to wash her underwear today.

     Stacia's doing ok with potty training.  At least she's making progress.  When she decides dry pants are desirable, she'll be fine.  She can hold it a long time if she wants to.

Stacia woke up pretty wet on Saturday morning, and never used the toilet.  Oh well.  I'm not shocked.  Tonight (Sunday), she used it right before bed.  That was the only time the whole weekend.  Maybe tomorrow will be better.

Last Sunday we went to my youngest cousin's high school graduation party.  The weather was fantastic, and Wyatt and Cadence had a great time playing with other kids, especially Cooper.  A lot of people got to meet Talia for the first time there as well.  I'm glad the weather was so nice, but it was hard to spend so much time in the car.

• I asked Heidi to go get the eggs for me, and she came back with a chicken.  
• Wyatt's writing a book called "The Deadly Meat Grinder of Death."  It's not illustrated.
• Cadence wrote a book to help Stacia learn to use the toilet.  It is illustrated.
• Ducklings living in a box on my kitchen counter.
• Stacia found the chocolate chip bucket in the pantry.  The lid was loose.
• We ate a whole container of grapes, an apple, and an orange on the way home from Costco.
• Cadence, at the age of 7, upon tasting the fruit dip I was making, said, "Mm.  Good.  Tastes a little bit like plain yogurt.  It's a little bland though.  I think it needs more vanilla."

We have rats in the garage.  Now we have one less.

     Wyatt and Cadence are both signed up to play organized soccer this year.  It starts up in late August.  Mike brought them to a signup at the local Alfy's Pizza while I stayed home with the other kids.  I was afraid it might cost upwards of $50 per kid.  I was wrong!  It's $85 per kid.  I almost choked when Mike told me.  If I'd taken the kids, I'm not sure what I would've done.  That's a lot of money.  They offer discounts if you have 3 or more kids playing, so if Heidi wants to play next year, it'll be less than $255, but I don't know how much less.  Hope it's a long season!  I'm going to start checking consignment shops for soccer shoes.

     Mike and I had dinner out on Wednesday, just the two of us.  He'd been planning it for a little while, and I was sure looking forward to it.  He arranged ahead of time to drop the kids off at their Grandma Peggy's, and then we were going to eat.  The day didn't start out so well, as Talia was up really early (4:18) and it was the day we got our baby birds and had to do all the stuff related to that.  By mid morning I was starting to think I was fighting a little bit of mastitis, brought on by waiting so long to feed Talia when we were running errands.  By early afternoon, I was positive that's what it was.  Chills, severe pain, body aches, just feeling sick and tired.  I really wanted to take a hot bath, but Talia just wasn't getting tired.  I felt so cold and sick, I almost called Mike to see if he could come home early.  I've never done that.  I was thinking that if I could take a hot bath, and a bit of a nap, that maybe I could lick this thing.  He was supposed to be home at 4, and I really wanted to have all the kids dressed and ready to go, as well as me have a bath, and feel better.  Finally, at 3:44, I figured Talia was getting a little tired, so I wrapped her up and put her to bed.  She fell asleep within a few minutes.  I had some tea about an hour before that, but it didn't warm me up, and I was just constantly feeling worse.  I told the kids it was time to get out of the mud and get dressed.  Cadence would help Heidi find clothes to wear, and she and Wyatt could find their own.  I'd already dressed Stacia.  I took a long, hot bath.  I stayed in until I didn't feel cold anymore.  I think I was in there for a good 20 minutes.  Mike was late getting home, so I didn't make us late in any way.  I got ready to go while Mike milked the cow, and as soon as he came in, I took care of the milk for him so that he could try to fix the car door.  The window on the back door of the passenger side won't go up.  He tried for quite a while, but it just wouldn't budge.  We left anyway, and I took an ibuprofen right before I got in the car.  Within a half hour of leaving, I was feeling much less sick and cold.  We brought the kids to Grandma's, I fed Talia, we left, and headed to Anacortes.  Mike took me to Anthony's.  We had a really nice, quiet meal.  Mine was still hot while I ate it.  I was only cutting up food for me.  We had a nice conversation.  The waitress asked if they'd be seeing us again soon.  We laughed, and said "Probably not."  We actually can't remember the last time just the two of us were out to eat.  The last time I can remember for sure was Indianapolis, but there must be something more recent.  We just don't remember.  I love going out with the kids too, but it's just cost prohibitive sometimes.  This was a special treat.

I took my phone with me when we went out to milk on Wednesday morning so I wouldn't miss a call from the post office.  I didn't get a call from there, but I did get one from Mike, saying that he'd gotten the call I was waiting for.  We headed in to Valley Farm Center in Mt. Vernon to get some Scratch and Peck starter feed for them.  It's organic and soy free.  We got some other things we needed, like shavings, light bulbs, water and feed bases, then headed off to the post office, with a quick stop in the Walmart parking lot to feed Talia.  She was hungry and I was uncomfortable.  I actually let it go too far, but that's another story.  We could hear the peeping in the post office, and took possession of our baby birds. 

I'm trying to get stuff straightened out here.  Quite frustrating.  I have so many things to add.  We acquired and butchered a couple pigs, got our baby birds, ordered our garden seeds, kids signed up for soccer, and more.  I'll try get to everything tomorrow.  While I make bread, butter, yogurt, brine ham, ice cream, cookies, finish almond roca, render lard, and other stuff.  Like cleaning Scooter poop out of the carpet.

I found Kidz Biz, but I have to type in the address.  It's not on my tabs.  What's going on?

Kidz Biz is gone too.  That actually makes me really sad.  I don't know if I can set it up the same again.

I just sign on to do some updating, and the site's all messed up.  My site style has been changed, and the whole "Your 2¢" page is missing.  Just gone!  Grrr.  Now I have to do it all over again.  I don't like that.  Grrr.

Vitamin D!  Yep, sunny all day, and it's supposed to be through Saturday.

Mike had Sunday off, but works at the airport Monday and Tuesday, then back to regular work on Wednesday, new schedule starts Sunday with that day off,But he switched with someone so he's working at 7 am, then an extra shift Monday night.  So, he worked 4 night shifts Wednesday through Saturday, slept in Sunday morning after getting home late, got up at 3 Monday morning to work the airport from 4 to 6:30.  Got home after 7 to find cows where cows shouldn't be.  Spent an hour plus moving beef on the hoof and fixing fences (with a little help from the rest of us).  Milked cow.  Ate dinner, ice cream, got frustrated with non-compliant computer, went to bed.  Got up at 3 Tuesday morning to go to the airport again.  Wednesday he'll go to work at 4 pm.  He'll do that on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday too.  Sunday start at 7 am, work overtime shift at 4 pm on Monday, Tuesday off, start regular work week on Wednesday at 6 am.  

     Did you read about the cookies I made the other day?  I had dropped them out onto parchment on the marble counter like usual.  Typically, I put them in the cookie jar before bed, but this time I just didn't get to it.  The next morning, Stacia was the first one up.  I saw her lying on the couch, all smiley, when I came out with Talia.  All of the cookies that had been on the edge of the counter were strangely absent...

Uneventful milking tonight.  Nice, mild evening, so we walked to the mailbox afterwards.  

     Evening milking.  Usually a routine event that is anything but noteworthy.  Tonight was different.

Our road trip yesterday was just that. The piglets were unhealthy. I didn't see them as they were very hard to get to with little kids, but Mike's face said it all. I saw him come back from looking at them, and he looked unexcited. He asked if I wanted to take a look at them, but told him I trusted his opinion. He told the guy selling that we'd pass. They must've looked awful. We spent a whole day (beautiful day) driving, spent lots of money on gas, and went home with no pigs. Tough call,but I'm glad Mike made the choice he did. The guy wanted $100 each for them, but Mike said he probably wouldn't have taken them for free. What a waste.

We're going to pick up piglets tomorrow.  I hope we stop at Cabella's, the store that qualifies as a science field trip.  Way more fun than Walmart, which could be classified as a sociology field trip.  We plan to be on the road before 9.  8:59 qualifies. 

Soooo wet.  No garden work yet.  Hope that changes.  The grass has been growing, recovering where the livestock has been, and we have nice rotational grazing happening.  The ground is just so wet.  Heavy animals are so hard on it, really tearing it up, which makes recovery take much longer than normal.  I was also hoping this year would be a great garden year, but so far it's been very discouraging.  I haven't even ordered my seeds, we're so far away from ready to plant.  

We've got a date for the kids's big combined birthday party.  July 30.  Mike just called me to let me know his request for time off has been approved.  Now I have a timeframe to work with, and Mike has to find a pig.

This morning, when only Talia, Stacia, and I were up, I glanced out the window and was delighted, and surprised, by what I saw.  We had a pair of, I think, wood ducks in the back yard.  They were so neat.  Really pretty colors on the drake, and they're smaller than Mallards.  Super cute couple.  I tried to take a picture through the window, so as not to spook them, but the shutter was too slow, and the picture was blurry.  When I cracked the window open a little bit, Stacia's excited chatter scared them off.  Too bad.  I told the older kids about them when they were up.  Wish they could've seen them.  They told me to wake them up next time.  Good news is, the pair showed up again around noon.  I took more pictures, and they turned out better, but are kind of far away.  I hope this pair is going to come back often.  I'll definitely be looking for them from now on.  I'm going to post the better pictures of them on the My Father's World page.  

Ahhhhhh.  Too many things to do!  Can't decide what to start with.  Option overload.  

Sunday was a nice day from the start.  It was the first Sunday with the goat, so we had extra things to do in the morning, but it went well, and we still made it to church on time!  

Stacia turned 2 on the 14th, and Cadence turned 7 on the 25th.  We went to Hal's for Stacia's birthday dinner, and to the Rock Fish Grill in Anacortes for Cadence's.  Cadence wanted Mike to surprise her for her birthday dinner.  It was really good food, and we all had dessert too.  I had a weird experience there, that I'll try to tell when I have more time.  I just haven't had time to update here.  I've tried to do it on my ipad while I feed Talia, but I can't.  I don't know if it's an ipad thing or a shutterfly thing, but this stuff has to be done on the real computer.

Buttercup recovered nicely, and is back to giving us 2+ gallons/day.  What a relief!  Life is back to normal.  

We have a discouraging trend going on with Buttercup.  Mike will occasionally discover one whole side of her caked with mud.  From nose to tail.  This morning these signs were accompanied by bleeding scrapes.  Had a hard time getting her to move.  Our wonderful neighbors, Jan and Cheri, came out to look at her.  Convinced Mike not to shoot her.  While Cheri visited for a bit, (we talked gardens for a while) Talia rolled over for the first time.  Front to back.  Big stuff for the little punk.

I have not been to many funerals or memorial services, but expect that I'll be attending more all the time as that's just the way life works.  We get older, we get to know more people, and the people we know are getting older right along with us.  The oldest generations in our families are slowly dwindling in numbers.  Most of the people I know who've died were not a surprise.  Grandparents who lived out a full life, and great aunts and great uncles.  Those funerals were easy to handle because we knew it was coming, and for the believers, the end of a hard life and the beginning of a long anticipated eternity.  I especially think of my Grandpa Lindgren that way.  There have been others like that too.  I've been to one memorial service for someone under 20, and that was by far the hardest.  So sad.  Some services I've not been able to attend, for various reasons.  I usually feel pretty bad when I can't make it.

We've been living the regular life here.  Busy, all kinds of weather, all kinds of work schedules, sick and healthy days, tired and alert days.  Days that inspire, and days that don't.  

We've finally gotten our much anticipated snow of the winter.  It was supposed to come sooner and with great frequency, but we're just happy to get some, at this point.  Throwing snowballs, picking icicles, going down white slides, building snow creatures, etc, etc.  On Thursday, our neighbor's dad was over with his snowmobile, and offered everyone rides.  Wyatt loved it, especially the fast and bumpy part.  Cadence not so much, she only went once.  Wyatt went as often as offered.  More people showed up with for wheelers and took him for more rides.  On Friday they towed him around on a sled.  We have such nice people living close by.

While this isn't a constant question, if things are quiet, I have to ask it.  She likes to be close to people, even if she's playing by herself.  Her voice is stuck on high, both in pitch and volume.  As a result, I almost always know exactly where she is.  Sometimes, though, I will realize that it's oddly quiet, and look to see what's up.  Sometimes it's just that Heidi had to inhale, and sometimes she followed a sibling out of earshot (that's farther for her than it is for others), and sometimes she's fallen asleep.  Just last Friday, I noticed that Heidi wasn't in the room with us.  It had just gotten dark, and not long before that she'd said she was going to go outside for some fresh air.  I didn't think she'd be out that long.  Maybe she went in her room to nap on her bed?  I asked Wyatt to look.  He went to her room, didn't see her, and started calling.  No answer.  I asked him to check outside.  Not there either.  Strange.  Then Cadence started laughing.  Heidi was asleep on the other end of the same couch Cadence was on.  In fact, their legs were sharing the middle cushion, but Heidi had pulled a blanket all the way over herself.  Mystery solved.  The next afternoon, the kids were getting the family room clean before Mike got home.  Wyatt left his lego box near the desk, and it was in Mike's way, so Mike moved it.  About a half hour later Wyatt and Cadence were helping my in the kitchen, Mike was outside, Heidi was sleeping under a blanket on the couch, Stacia was in the kitchen, and we heard a loud crash in the family room.  Sounded like legos getting dumped.  Upon investigation, that's what it was.  Mike didn't know Heidi was sleeping under a blanket on the couch, and had put the big box of legos on top of her.  When she moved, the whole box crashed to the floor.  (Upside down, of course.)

So this morning I figured I'd drain some yogurt.  I had a lot to do and was trying to get as much done as possible while Talia napped.   The way I drain yogurt is simple: line a strainer with muslin, set it over a big bowl, pour in the chilled half gallon jar of yogurt, and leave it alone for hours.  Super easy, and pretty quick to set up.  I had just finished cubing and searing some flank steak, and had some stew meat on bones simmering for both broth and the meat, to put in beef pot pie for dinner.  Dough for my pot pie crust was next on my agenda, to be followed by cookies for church tomorrow.  Then I remembered the yogurt and decided to set it up first.  As I poured in the yogurt from the jar, I thought it was draining kind of fast.  Usually can't watch it happen.  Something didn't seem right.  Then I realized I had forgotten the muslin.  Big holes in a plastic strainer let yogurt through rather quickly.  Fortunately it's an easy fix.  I scraped all the yogurt into the bowl, poured it into a smaller bowl, rinsed the strainer, set it back on the big bowl, lined it with muslin, and poured the yogurt onto that.  Much better.  Then I moved on with my plans.  Cookies turned out well and dinner was great.  

I saw a picture of a friends son with a dead bird, and suddenly remembered one of the things Cadence did that was so funny.  A couple of months ago, we had a number of little birds fly into one of our family room windows.  I don't know why this happens, but it's not an unusual event.  The window is under our patio roof, at the corner of the room.  It's always the same kind of bird, and always the same window.  We'll hear a "THUNK".  Cadence knows that sound, and immediately runs out to see if the bird is dead.  Three days in a row we had birds commit suicide this way.  The first time this happened last year, Cadence would tenderly take the bird somewhere and bury it.  This time, she set each one up on a little table we have on the patio.  When all three of them were up there, she gave each a name, and carried them around for a while, playing with them like pets.  She talked about how soft they were, and how pretty their feathers were, and that she wished they were still alive.  She petted them, and treated them carefully, as if they could still feel.  Later in the day, I heard her talking away out on the patio, and stepped out to see what she was up to.  I observed one of her named dead birds lying on the edge of the patio.  With one hand she was holding the little bird down, and in the other hand she was holding a big wood cutting saw, with which she was trying to cut the head off of the bird.  She said she wanted to see what it looked like inside, as she wants to be a bone explorer.

Seems like Talia's always been here.  In reality it's been just over 6 weeks, but I can't imagine life without her.

Talia's already 4 weeks old!  Wow that went fast.  She's a good baby, and the last 2 nights she's slept just over 8 hours each.  Hope that trend continues.  Sure feels good to me.

For the last few nights, Talia only wakes up once to eat.  Granted her morning started a little earlier than I would've likes today, but still not bad.  She is a lot like Cadence was in so many ways, except that Cadence started sleeping through the night at five days old.  They both like to study their surroundings calmly, and love to be talked to while they study the talker.  Big cheeks are one of the physical characteristics they share, as well as the double cowlick in the middle of their forehead.  No bangs in their future.  They were only 2 ounces and less than a half inch different at birth too.  I'm curious to see what color Talia's eyes will be.  So far all of our girls have blue eyes, but Wyatt's are hazel.  I think they used to be brown, but now they seem to have more green in them than before.

Talia is doing fantastic, and so are the rest of us.  We took her to the doctor today for her first well check, which seemed unnecessary as she is obviously doing so well.  Doctor said she looks great, we should know what we're doing by now, and that he really didn't have anything to say.  He doesn't need to see her again until she's two months old.  She isn't the best sleeper I've had, but not too bad either.  Everyone else seems to be adjusting to a new baby really well, even Stacia, who we had some questions about at first.  My labor and delivery went so well that my recovery was just a matter of days, at the most.  I felt pretty normal two days after, the biggest problem being a tired back.  Every day my back gets stronger, and my stomach muscles are tightening up a little to help it out, so I can stand for long periods of time without discomfort.  Very nice.  We've had some meals from others, and eaten some of the freezer meals, and done a little cooking, so we haven't had to be real busy.  I've made butter a couple of times, and ice cream, because I don't want to waste the cream.  I think I'll try making mozzarella tomorrow.  School has been the biggest challenge, as I just don't make it a priority.  Mike has been a great help, and has insisted I take naps sometimes, which make me feel so much better and more rested.  

Girl number 4 arrived to us on Tuesday, January 4, at 1:20 pm.  She was 8 lbs. 1 oz., and 20 1/2 " long.  4 days late, although I think she may have actually been later than that.  Maybe the due date given by the doctors was more accurate than mine.  Anyway, she's healthy, happy, beautiful, and much loved by all.  Wyatt didn't get his brother, but seems to be handling it quite well.  He thinks she's so cute.  Cadence is proud that she herself is still the biggest baby born in the family, being two ounces heavier and slightly longer at birth than Talia.  Heidi is absolutely fascinated with Talia's little parts.  She examines every little thing with great joy and amazement.  Little nose, hair, ears, mouth, fingers, toes, everything.  She even loves the little clothes.  Stacia was not real thrilled with her baby sister at first visit, but upon the subsequent ones, she's been quite loving, wanting to hold and kiss Talia, and even giving her the special green blanket arranged so that the precious tag was in the right spot.  She calls her Tata.  I'm going to try to get pictures up soon, and there are supposed to be pics from the hospital on their baby album thing, but I haven't seen them yet, so I'm not sure if that's even going to happen.

So the non stress test last week proved that the baby is doing just fine, like we thought.  The Dr. told me to come back in a week for another one if the baby didn't come by then.   I was dilated to one, just like the week before.  I went in again today for another nst, and proved once again that the baby is doing great.  I'm still dilated to one, just like the last 2-3 weeks.  I was asked to come back in a week if the baby still hasn't been born.  I go in on Tuesday if I'm still pregnant.  I wouldn't be surprised either way.

We've been busily getting ready for both Christmas and the baby, and doing fairly well, but I'm way behind in getting the meals I want into the freezer.  I only have two pizzas in there instead of the 8 I want, and a few casseroles, some cookies, english muffins, but not as much as I planned.  Maybe there will still be time.  Hard telling.

That's why I haven't done much here on Shutterfly for a while.  I'll try to do a quick fill in of what's been happening.  We haven't butchered our steer yet, so we're getting down there on beef, but I'm trying to make it hold out.  That also means I haven't canned any beef stock yet.  Hopefully soon.  We got two more pigs not long ago, and will be getting four more end of November.  We are going through the pork faster than I thought, so we're going to need them.  We kept two whole ones for ourselves last time, and I'm sure we've gone through more than half of it already.  I have one more ham to finish because it was in the freezer for a while.  I actually think we may eat 4 pigs a year at this point.  I had no idea we ate that much pork.  It sure is nice to have all that breakfast meat in addition to the dinner stuff.  I have to eat mostly just protein for breakfast, so meat and eggs get eaten in great quantities.  Gestational diabetes is a real bummer.  Baby seems to be doing well, though.  Less than 8 weeks to go!  I started cleaning the nursery tonight.  Putting away lots of clothes, and not sure what to do with all the confiscated toys I have stored in there.  I really want that room and my room and closet really clean and organized by the end of November.  If I work on them a couple times a week, it shouldn't be a problem.  I also want to get a lot of meals in the freezer before Baby is born.  I plan on lots of pizzas.  Those are so easy to freeze, but especially to reheat.  Where a casserole takes hours to heat up from the freezer, a pizza is usually less than half and hour, and that's right out of the freezer.  Lasagna is something I plan to have at least two pans of, and after we butcher our turkeys, I want to do a big turkey tetrazzini too.  I've got some other popular casserole type dishes I could do too, and soup.  I want to try canning chili, but have to come up with a recipe I like first.  I think I'll make a few desserts to freeze as well.  Not sure what would be best, I know shortbreads freeze well, and cookies.  Maybe scones would be a good choice.  Orange rolls would be good.  Ice cream too, of course.  Cadence is slowly taking over the ice cream making job.  Still needs a lot of supervision, but she's getting there.  She has also been helping me with the butter.  I put close to a third of the butter from the mixer into a small bowl for her, and she rinses and works it while I do the bigger portion.  She needs to get a little better at getting the buttermilk squished out, but she's doing really good, and likes doing it.  Whenever she takes over a job, the cleanup takes longer, but she won't learn any other way, I suppose.  

With fall in full swing, we've got lots of things going on.  Before we left for vacation, we were asked by a coworker of Mike's if we would be interested in a swimming pool.  A free pool.  This guy's fiancee's parents had a pool they wanted taken out of their yard, as they weren't using it anymore.  We looked at it, and said, "Yes!"  It's a 16'x32' oval with a 4 ' shallow and 7' deep end, and a walking ledge all around the inside perimeter.  It's been very well maintained, and they even kept all the installation instructions.  For the last couple days, we've been taking it apart and bringing the pieces home to store in the garage.  I don't know if we'll be able to instal it next summer, but we might.  We'll have to buy a new liner for it, but a lot of the chemicals are coming with it, and the pump, filter, and a heater, as well as lots of other accessories and toys.  A fence will also be needed around the pool, and some sort of deck, so it's not totally free, there will be related costs, but still a great deal.  We are quite excited.  We love to swim.

People have asked what some of our favorite things were at WDW, and it's hard to decide.  I was amazed at the attention to detail that went in to every aspect of that place.  We went on a safari in Animal Kingdom, which was really fun, and that was one area the detail went beyond what I would have expected.  The whole thing is really well coreographed, and in the muddy areas, to make it look more authentic, they had tire tracks on the edges of the roadway that were cast in mud looking concrete, and made it look as though the area was dangerous, and that a vehicle could easily get stuck there if the driver wasn't careful.  On that safari we saw crocodiles (exciting for Cadence especially), giraffes (exciting for Heidi), elephants (Wyatt was thrilled), and lions, rhinos, zebras, and various other African animals, all in a natural like setting.  In Hollywood Studios, we watched the Indiana Jones show.  Wyatt is a big Indiana fan, and that show lasted about a half hour.  It was a stunt show, with lots of action and explosions, and some good humor.  We watched a car stunt show as well, called Lights, Motors, Action.  That was pretty entertaining, and we were shown how some of the stunts are done and the tricks they use to make things look so amazing.  Lots of explosions in that show as well.  One of my very favorite attractions was a surprise to me.  It was called Mickey's Philharmagic, and was a 3-D experience in a theater.  I think it was a 10 minute show that was a constant bombardment to our senses, in a good way.  Smells wafted through the theater while a dinner was served on screen, wind blew past us as Donald Duck flew on a magic carpet, the screen shots made us feel as if we were moving with him.  Water splashed us when a bucket was thrown.  The kids ducked when Donald Duck flew over their heads.  Pretty fun, and funny.  Wyatt and Cadence both said their favorite ride was a roller coaster train ride called Thunder Mountain.  Heidi was afraid of almost everything.  I don't think our kids are sheltered, but they certainly aren't desensitized to a lot of things, and had a hard time seeing the difference between literal and fake, real and imagination.  They looked worried for actors when there were explosions, and Heidi was always afraid something was going to come out of the dark and get her on a ride.

It's a little hard to adjust to being home, but we had a wonderful time.  All of our flights went really well, with no problems.  Stacia actually did a lot of sleeping on the planes, so that made things a lot easier than I had anticipated.  The older kids were really excited to be flying, and weren't bothered at all by the taking off and landing, and never even seemed to notice the bumps that go along with turbulence.  We got into our hotel after 9 p.m., which was a little later than we had expected, but we still had a great time.  The three oldest kids were each given a balloon, a pirate hat thing, and a balloon sword while we were checking in.  Hunger was great when we arrived, so we ordered pizza.  The in room phone actually has a pizza button on it.  That was yummy.  I ate too much and my stomach hurt.  All the kids went swimming after pizza, and Mike did too, but my stomach hurt too much, so I just stood near the pool to watch Stacia.  We got to bed late, but still felt 3 hours behind the local time.  It was a day of more than 16 hours of traveling.  The room was set up with a master bedroom area, with separate tv and bathroom and such, plus the main living area, which had a queen pullout couch, twin pullout chair, and twin pullout ottoman, so each kid had plenty of room to sleep.  Stacia spent her first night in a big bed, and did great.  She doesn't stay in the covers, but she does stay on the bed.  The sleeping arrangements would change from day to day, but everyone did well.  We would spend our days in the parks, with a mid afternoon break at the hotel for a rest and swim.  That was refreshing and necessary to keep us functioning well.  We usually would stay in a park until well after 10, sometimes after midnight, depending on how late they were open that particular night.  The day we spent in Animal Kingdom was a little different, as we purposely got a late start, big lunch there, and then the park closes around 6, so there was no afternoon break.  We spent the rest of our evening at the hotel and swimming.  It was a good relaxing evening.  

We get to meet Isabela today!  Pretty exciting.  I should get some good pictures so I can show her off.  It'll be nice to see Todd and Dalia too.  We like them.

We went to Alex's birthday party on the 17th, gave Wyatt a gift on his own birthday of the 18th, and told him about the bike we ordered and are waiting for.  Just checked on the status today, and it should be in middle of next week.  He could have had a red one today, but chose to wait for the blue one.  On the 24th, we had an extended family party for Wyatt, and that was fun.  He was excited to get some nice new jeans, nice shirts, outside toys, jacket, and gift cards to Amazon.com.  He did some enthusiastic shopping for Indiana Jones legos, and is now waiting for their arrival.  All of his sisters went in together and bought him a lego set.  He's been playing with that a lot.  Tomorrow we go to Elizabeth's 2nd birthday party,  then on Sunday a party for our friend's girls, Brooklynne and Maliyah.  (No idea if I'm spelling that right, but probably not.)  We are getting a bit partied out, I think.  Well, the kids aren't, but I am.  Next summer, we are going to do an all the kids at once party.  All the work at once, all the fun at once, and people just have to come out one time.  I would like to do a gift-free party, but we'll see.  The kids don't really need as much stuff as they get, and I don't want people to feel like they have to bring one.  Especially if we invite more friends with the family.  They do get a lot of clothes, though, and that's really helpful.  And all the cash they got last year is a big part of why they got to buy their playground.

It's finally summer weather, and we're taking full advantage of it.  We got our garden planted, and everything that's going to grow is up.  We had some issues with puppies ruining some areas, but we should have a decent harvest anyway.  Beans didn't do so well, and squash type things seem to be a disappointment as well, but most stuff has a good showing.  Well, not cauliflower.  I think I have 3 in the whole row.  Anyhow, looks good for the most part.  We got a pool for the kids to use, because the one from last year was destroyed by the puppies.  The new one lasted for quite a few hours before the puppies put holes in it.  The next morning I went out to patch it.  One or two holes in each of the bottom and middle rings, and probably a dozen in the top.  The procedure was repeated for the next two days.  We even did some patching while the pool was full of water, and losing air.  The 12 hour set up time for a patch is way overkill.  

Usually, for vacation, we pack up for camping, prepared for all kinds of weather for a week or more, and take off with no real plans as to where we'll end up.  We typically have an idea of what direction we want to go, and maybe some of the places we want to stay, but mostly just make it up as we go along.  It's always been plenty of fun, and very unstructured, in a good kind of way.  Very free.  Love that kind of vacation.  This year will be different.  Very different.  We already know when we are leaving, where we're going, where we'll be staying, and for how long.  We are going to Disney World.  Not Disney Land in California, but Disney World, in Orlando, Florida.  Wow.  Mike has been working a lot of overtime and stuffing money away for a special trip.  He's talked of going to Disney Land ever since Wyatt was a baby.  He finally decided, this year, he was going to try make it happen.  Looking at package deals, Costco deals, no deals.  Talking to people he works with who've been there.  Someone suggested he look into Disney World instead, saying that it doesn't cost a whole lot more, and is way more fun.  They were right!  We are going the value hotel route, and saving quite a bit that way, but we'll still be staying in the park, with a hotel with 3 pools, one of them a kiddie pool.  7 nights, 8 days.  We'll fly out of Seatac around 6 am, and out of Orlando around 5:30 pm 8 days later.  Our flights were also cheaper because we chose to leave so early on our way there, and we have brief layovers on both trips.  None of the kids have flown before, so they're pretty excited about that.  Picking seats was pretty fun.  Now we have about 2 months to plan for this major adventure.  Snacks for the plane, entertainment for the plane and airports, clothing and shoes, baby gear, etc.  Stacia is walking now, but I know she won't do much of that at the park, so I have to decide if I should bring the backpack, or rent a stroller, or bring a stroller, or what.  I think I should get shoes for the kids to wear there now, so they can break them in first.  I'm thinking maybe we can get away with one carryon per seat, plus two checked bags.  We didn't purchase a meal plan, thinking we could eat for less than $100 a day.  The hotel doesn't offer breakfast, but we figure we can buy some cereal and milk to keep in the room.  Kids will be thrilled, as we don't have cereal here.  Mike and I can easily share meals sometimes, and some of the kids can to.  We'll buy snacks to carry with us.  My ob is from Florida, and had a lot of suggestions.  He said bring lots of water and energy drinks like gatorade in with us because we'll get exhausted and thirsty from all the walking around.  He also said to spend the hot parts of the day in the hotel pool.  The humidity is stifling.  Other great news from him, after hearing the baby's heartbeat, was that I can go on the rides.  I was afraid I might have to avoid them, but, I guess not.  That makes me happy.  I love rides.  I have to admit, I was never real eager to go to Disney Land, as I've never been there, and don't really care for big crowds of people.  Now I'm getting pretty excited.  We're going to have a great time.  I don't even think any of us really know what we're in for.  

That depends on who is asked.  A couple weeks ago, I was talking to Wyatt about something I don't remember, and the old rhymes about what boys and girls are made of came up.  I told him boys are made of "snips and snails and puppy dogs tails" and that girls are made of "sugar and spice and all things nice."  We had a bit of a discussion about what snips are, and an internet search didn't give us any definite answers, just a lot of guesses. It was also decided that even though snails aren't something we really want to be made of, or even really play with much, they are better than slugs.  Snails can be picked up by their hard, dry shell, whereas a slug cannot be picked up by any part without leaving slime on the boy.  Later, Wyatt told Cadence the rhymes, which she found agreeable, especially since she is on the sugar and spice and all things nice side.  I didn't realize that she hadn't quite grasped exactly what it was boys are made of.  Today, she told Wyatt that he is made of "sticks and nails and puppy dog tails."  I laughed so hard.  It actually makes more sense, and sounds so much like the original, that I can totally see how she would come up with that.  Sounds like Wyatt could just build himself a brother.

Ever since Wyatt was born, anytime I have any alcohol at all, I have some sort of allergic reaction.  Used to be that even vinegar would do it, and sometimes kiwi too.  Over time, it has gone to being just alcohol, in any minute amount.  A few minutes after consumption, I notice my mouth is a little itchy on the inside.  Then my lips.  Next is the inside of my ears.  My lips start to swell up a little, on the inside, but enough to be noticeable.  My tongue can get pretty itchy, too.  So I find myself rubbing my tongue around inside my mouth to relieve it's itching, as well as that of my ears.  I rub my lips between my teeth to relieve that itching.  I've never felt like my breathing is hindered, but the more I have consumed, the more my lips swell and the worse the itching is.  Once, after drinking a glass of kombucha tea, I think my throat was a little itchy.  After about 15 - 30 minutes, the effects are gone and I'm back to normal.  Although that kombucha may have taken a little longer, I don't remember for sure.  The worst was when I didn't know alcohol was the culprit.  I had probably 2 good sips of a drink of Mike's when we were out for an anniversary dinner years ago.  My lips swelled up so bad talking didn't sound quite normal, and it took hours for the swelling to go down.  Fortunately we were in a movie theater for most of that time, so no one noticed.  That's when I decided it must be alcohol.  The whole thing doesn't bother me much, because I'm not really a drinker.  I don't mind not being able to drink.  The trouble came with vanilla extract.  We decided to buy vodka and make our own extract with vanilla beans.  Best vanilla ever.  Two months after putting it all together in a little jar, I decided that was the only vanilla to use.  It's that good.  Works great in baked goods and such.  Tasted fantastic in ice cream, and even better in yogurt.  Then, the terrible happened.  I was feeding Stacia some ice cream, and I had maybe a half dozen little bites, and noticed the telltale signs of the coming swelling.  I started to itch.  When I would have yogurt, I would start to itch about the time I finished it.  Really, in a bowl of ice cream or yogurt there must be no more than 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla.  More likely, less than 1/8th teaspoon.  I wonder, it seems that while the allergic reaction will be with me always, I am most sensitive when I'm pregnant.  If a couple drops of alcohol can make me itch and swell, I had to do something about that vanilla.  I bought vanilla at Costco.  It was hard, but I figured it was my only option.  So...  the last batch of ice cream used store bought vanilla, and the yogurt as well.  I have totally lost my appetite for ice cream, so haven't been eating it.  Yogurt didn't appeal either, but this morning I decided it sounded good with granola.  It was.  I finished the bowl I had mixed up for myself, quite happy that I'd found something healthy that sounded appetizing in the morning.  I set the bowl down, and started to itch.  What the?!  This is store bought vanilla!  It's not right!  I refuse to use an imitation extract or a flavoring.  I'll go without certain foods before I do that.  What a bummer.  I don't care about alcohol, but vanilla is a big part of my life.  I may try flavoring the next batch of yogurt with vanilla bean seeds.  I just don't think the flavor will be there without the extract, though.  I just had a thought!  If I boiled the extract, would it be alcohol free?  Hmmm.  May have to try that.

My ultrasound this past Tuesday gave this baby a due date of December 31.  So probably in January, judging by the propensity for our babies to be born late.  Except Heidi, who was born on her due date.  That really threw me off.  I'll be sure to have everything ready at least two weeks before the due date, just in case.  Maybe it's just good practice to drive around with an empty infant seat and a hospital bag for a month before they're actually needed.  

     Todd and Dalia had their baby!  A girl.  Isabela Marie.  She is in England, so we've only seen pictures.  She looks like Dalia.  

A few weeks ago we had the privilege of visiting the dairy farm of some friends from church.  They have numerous locations, a big operation, with the whole family involved.  The Boon family had us over for lunch after church, and gave us a tour of the farm they live on.  Really fun.  I think they're milking over 300 head there.  3x a day.  They're milking 24/7.  They've got mostly holsteins and quite a few jerseys, and a few other mixes, I guess.  We saw all the feed bins, and mixer, and watering system, and cow tracking system, and milking parlor, and rows of calves, and heifers near calving, and a lot of other things.  Those holsteins are big!  They would also be a whole lot easier to hand milk than a jersey.  They're bigger everywhere.  But we don't need that much milk.  And I need a lot of cream, and we don't want to feed a cow that big.  We don't want to get stepped on by a cow that big either.  Anyway, we were talking about cows, and calves, and mentioned that we were hoping for a heifer calf this late summer or early fall.  Steve (Mr. Boon) said we were smart to get the sexed semen to better our chances of a heifer, as she would be worth at least $1500, as opposed to a bull calf being pretty much worthless.  Our chances are beween 80% and 90%.  We are not entirely sure Buttercup is pregnant, though, so Steve gave Mike a couple packets of information on preg checking, some really long gloves, verbal instructions, then a hands on (or arm in) tutorial.  I don't remember if it was after that evening's milking or the next day, Mike gave it a go with Buttercup.  He tried to preg check her.  Upon coming into the house, he said he wasn't sure if she was pregnant.  At first he said he didn't think she was, then he started looking over the material again, and thought maybe she was.  Anyhow, the following Tuesday evening, at AWANA, we were gathering the kids together  to get ready to go home.  The room we were in was full of kids, and lots of parents.  It was very crowded and busy and loud.  Mike spotted Steve Boon across the room and started to approach him.  Still on his way across the room, Mike stated loudly enough for Steve to hear him above the noise of all the kids and parents, "Hey, I did it!"  To which Steve responded, "Oh yeah?  So is she pregnant?"

When Heidi is thirsty, she says, "I am drinky."

So Cadence's tea party was great.  I'm pretty sure everyone had a good time.  We talked and ate.  But we didn't talk with our mouths full.  We're a polite bunch.  We drank tea.  Well, all of us but one.  Cadence said it was ok if Grandma drank coffee.  She even brought enough coffee for all of us to get really wired on and still have some left, but she's the only one who drank it.  All that work for only her benefit.  She came a little early, too, to help assemble things last minute.  Tomato sandwiches have to be last minute.  Strawberries came with her too, so that I could assemble the dessert.  Linda showed up a little early as well, and was begging for something to do, so I put her right to work.  She skewered fruit after Cadence was exhausted from the two skewers she did.  She helped Heidi put out napkins.  She stacked sandwiches on platters that she fetched for me.  I'll have Linda over again when I need sandwiches stacked, she did such a nice job.  Cadence decided putting lemon bars on a plate was better for her than spearing fruit.  Her first two skewers required about 5 minutes.  The third one I had to tell her couldn't go on the platter.  She was doing watermelon ball, grape, mango cube, watermelon ball, grape, mango cube and talking all the while about how yummy it looked.  When she got one watermelon ball skewered off center on the third stick, she must have decided to eat it off and replace it rather than fix it.  No one wants a used skewer.  I was thinking she would know that, but I had to explain it.  Now she knows.

 The combo birthday party for Cadence and Stacia went well.  They will be well dressed for the year because of all the great clothes they got, and there were some toys in there too.  The day was beautiful and warm, so most people stayed outside almost the whole time, and presents were opened outside too.  Cadence wore a tutu dress that our friend Becky made.  She makes a lot of them, and her business is really starting to take off.  Tutus and tutu dresses.  She makes really nice ones, if you're interested.  The best.

Stacia is just starting to take steps.  She has set the record in this family on both sides, I think, for slowest to start walking.  She's probably been the one to crawl for the longest, as she started doing that around 6 months.  Seems to be working just fine for her, except now she want to take stuff with her when she moves around, and her doll and blanket are just too big for her to hold in her mouth.

Sometimes we wander around outside for fun, and no one has more fun than Wyatt.  The swale is pretty full of water this time of year, and like a magnet to him.  He tries to ride his bike in it.  He tries to ride his bike across it.  Figuring that if he got up enough speed he could make it all the way across, he decided to start at the top of the bank, ride his bike as fast as he could into it, and hopefully pop out the other side.  Instead, his bike hit the opposite bank really hard, and Wyatt went flying over the handlebars.  It was really funny, and apparently worth trying more than once.  I wish I'd had the video camera with me.  When that got old, he resorted to doing cannon balls into the water.  That was pretty funny too.

Cadence's birthday is tomorrow, when she'll get her presents from us.   I think she'll be really surprised about what she's getting.  She wants french toast for breakfast, and pizza for dinner.  I made french bread and mozzarella cheese yesterday in preparation.

Soon it will be Cadence's tea party, so I'll be working on food for that later next week.  I have so many ideas that I have to narrow down the choices to a realistic number.  Should be fun.  I have a wonderful surprise for those coming.  Something they've probably never had before, that I think is soooo tasty.  When the party is over I'll post pictures, and the recipe.  

We spent it at church, and with the Rudy family.  The kids sang performed in the children's choir on Sunday morning.  Twice.  I had to have them there extra early, then round them up to go back home to pick up Mike and my waldorf salad and unbaked butterflake rolls for dinner.  Then we went back to church for the next service and choir performance.  Cadence and Heidi are in the same group, so we were able to watch them together.  Cadence had a pretty good idea of what was going on and what she was supposed to do (sing with hand motions).  She did get a little distracted, but managed to keep up with the others to some extent.  Heidi was a different story all together.  She actually looked like she wanted to be invisible in the first performance, but didn't hide.  She told me later that she didn't suck on her fingers because they asked her not to.  Quite impressive.  Anyway, the second performance had me laughing.  She did a lot of yawning, and not any singing.  Not any hand motions either.  She actually looked like she had no idea why she had been dragged out of bed, dressed up, and stood at the front of the church with all those other kids.  She did stand facing the right way the whole time, though.  Not long after the girls were done, the older kids had a turn, so Wyatt was up.  He did a lot of yawning, too.  He did sing along most of the time he wasn't yawning, and kept up with the hand motions fairly well.  Wyatt and Cadence were excited and on their best behavior because they knew Grandma and Grandpa would be there to watch them.  Cadence had a hard time not smiling when she spotted everyone.

I think I'm getting used to it, and that scares me.  The kids have fewer and fewer toys to play with.  I told them I don't have time to pick up my stuff and their stuff, so if I pick up theirs, they don't get it back for awhile.  They have to earn it back by keeping what they do have picked up better.  We'll see how that goes.  So far, it doesn't seem like they miss many things too much.  I'm trying to spend more time outside on nice days, too, so that leaves less time to clean.  I've also found that school goes much better if I sit down with the kids and do it with them, rather than just being there to help.  I need to micromanage them at this age, still, or they get all distracted.  

I guess I can't blame it on anyone but me.  Our washer has a gasket that ripped, so it leaked water all over the utility room floor.  That happened about a week ago, while I was catching up on laundry.  I had lots of piles, and had only done two.  We are waiting on the part, but in the meantime, I have piles of laundry growing like weeds, and we are running out of clothes.  I've had lots of people offer to let me do laundry at their house, but it's so hard to leave home just to do laundry.  I'm going to hold out as long as I can.  To make the mess worse, Stacia was pretty sick last week, and while she was awake, I pretty much just held her the whole time.  Hard to accomplish much house work with one free hand.  Now she's learning all over again how to entertain herself.  

Check out the pets page.  I'll try load pictures soon.

Stacia is not at all interested in walking.  I know she will eventually, but in the meantime, she's wearing out all her pants.  Wyatt and Cadence were walking well by this age.  Cadence started at 9 months, and Wyatt was 9 1/2  months.  Even the timid Heidi had taken some steps.  But Stacia, not interested.  She crawls all over the place, and will walk if she's holding on to furniture or something.  However, as soon as she wants to go somewhere else, she goes back down to her hands and knees and crawls off.  She doesn't even let go with her hands first.  I have caught her standing a couple of times, but as soon as she realizes she isn't holding on to something, she slowly sinks to the floor.  Wearing through the knees in her pants isn't entirely her fault, though.  Most of them have been worn by at least two girls before her, some by 4 or more, depending on where I got them and how many people they've been handed down or lent out to.  Still frustrating.

     We got most of the playground done on Friday.  On Saturday the tube slide was finally finished.  I decided I was putting it together wrong, and re-did it a few times.  When the Tabers came over on Friday evening, Scott tried to help Mike assemble it.  They fixed my mistakes, and got it hanging, but there were still some hangups.  The way I had it together on the ground, it would've had a free fall in the middle and kids would come out upside down.  Didn't matter whether  it was assembled correctly or not, it was still a bugger to complete.  Lots of pushing and pulling and leaning and twisting to get bolt holes to line up.  

We started the playground construction this past weekend, and got a pretty good start.  There are 100 steps.  That's a lot, but some of them are just one thing, and some are quite a few.  While Mike is at work, I try to get some done on it everyday.  Some days we get more done than others, but we're making decent progress.  I love putting stuff like this together, but it's more of a challenge with Stacia because she's either in the backpack or crawling around.  (No, she's not walking yet.)  If she's in the backpack, I have a harder time lifting my arms way over my head, and there are some things I just can't do, like fit into small spaces or lie on my back or hang upside down or sideways.  Yesterday, Mike got home just in time to help me finish tightening the bolts on the swing beam, them move it into it's final position and level it and such.  Hanging swings is one of the last steps, but we hung them yesterday anyway, so the kids could use them.  Fun.  A couple days ago Wyatt asked me if I could skip to step 75. I asked why, wondering if he was just throwing out a random number.  Nope.  He said step 75 is when we install the wave slide.  He looked through the instructions and decided that's what he wanted to do, because we have the lower deck done.  Clever boy.  Maybe we'll be able to finish it on Friday.  Mike is off that day.  Things go so much faster when he's working on it.  He's bigger, stronger, and a whole other brain to accomplish each step.  I  hope to have his help with the tube slide.  I started putting that together recently, and getting the sections to line up is hard.  That thing is being a real bugger.  I may have to get more creative with my assembly methods.

So... the playground has been delivered, but it's still not up yet.  I took all the parts out of the boxes and set them out on the lawn in little piles and groups of like parts.  I have completed step one: putting in t-nuts.  We just haven't had time to do anything with it yet.  Hopefully this week will be different.  Mike is going back to 4 10s for work, so he'll have that extra day off.  Of course, he's working a day shift, so all of the daylight hours on a work day are spent at work, but we'll see what we can do.  

It came this afternoon.  I was making no bake cookies with the kids for AWANA and to take to Mike and the other guys doing the cut and wrap for the pork.  I was just carrying the pan to the counter to drop spoonfuls on the parchment when I looked out the french door window to see a big truck at the end of the driveway.  I put the pan back on the stove with the burner on simmer, hoping it would keep the cookies from setting up.  My camera was slung around my neck, Stacia scooped up, and we all went running out the door across the field to meet the driver.  Wyatt was soooo excited.  All the kids were, but especially Wyatt.  The driver decided he didn't want to try turn around in our driveway, and didn't want to get his driving wheels off the gravel, so he backed the trailer into the field, off loaded the stuff, and then backed out to the road.  He had quite an audience.  Some of the neighbors and their kids and cousins were there to watch.  There were a lot of boxes.  And one really long slide that was just wrapped in plastic.  There were a lot of oohhs and ahhs when that came off  the truck.  We could see that one big box had the tube slide in it.  When he was all done unloading, he offered to take all the kids for a ride on the hydraulic ramp.  Fun for them.  Wyatt gave me a bunch of instructions I assumed were for the assembly of the entire thing, but upon further investigation, it's only for the tube slide.  Wow.  This'll take us quite a while to put together.  We plan to start tomorrow.  Hope we can finish within a week.  Might be hard.  On Wednesday we're going to Rainier to pick up our next set of piglets.  Mike is working nights, but 5 8s instead of 4 10s, so he has one less whole day to work.  I'm really looking forward to putting it together though, I just love assembling things.  I just hope we only do it once, and don't have to take anything apart and do it over.  I'll try to get pictures loaded, but I won't have much time for that for a while.  I'll be taking pictures of the construction too.  

We are able to track the playground.  Costco emailed that it had been shipped, so I've been able to track it.  Yellow is transporting.  The estimated delivery date is February 24.  That's a bit earlier than we could have expected.  I did explain to the kids that it's an estimated date and delivery may be later than that.  It could be earlier, but that seems less likely.  The tracking is fun.  The whole thing is being shipped from Canton, Georgia.  As of this morning it's on it's way to Kansas City, Mo.  Wyatt got out his map and we looked at where those places are.  Canton is not labeled on there, but Kansas City is.  We looked at where it started and wondered at just where it is right now.  His map doesn't have roads on it, so we couldn't really tell what states it might be traveling through.  Maybe tomorrow we'll find a road map and look at the most likely possibilities.  Sure looks far away from our little corner of the state.  They're counting on the calendar how many more days to estimated delivery.  7 now.  Pretty excited.

We have officially placed the order for the playground.  After more than two years of saving (I think) the kids finally have enough money.  I'm so proud of them for sticking it out and achieving their goal.  We did help out some.  Instead of giving each other gifts for Christmas, we just gave the kids what we would've spent on each other, and probably more.  They have been saving for the playground for quite a while, but the first money that went into the fund was money they'd been given as babies.  So some of that money was over 7 years in Wyatt's money can.  Costco shipping info says 2-3 weeks for delivery, so it could be as early as late this month, or no later than early next month.  They are very excited, and say so every day.  Especially Wyatt.  Now they are saving for a trampoline.  They've already got $4.  And counting.

Yesterday afternoon, Wyatt went howling down the hallway from his room.  He started saying, "Oh!!!  My foot!  My foot!  My foot!"  I looked, and the bottom of his foot had a really deep gash almost an inch long.  He said he'd stepped on his ladder.  The ladder for his bunk bed had been on the floor with the hanger brackets up, and he stepped on the exposed metal part.  Sure looked painful.  We called the doctor, and they suggested just taking him to the e.r.  It didn't really bleed very much, but he was in considerable pain.  Mike held him while I drove, and he got better as time went on.  The worst part was numbing the area.  (I remember when I had stitches once wondering if getting the stitches without numbing would've been preferable.)  The first thing they did was clean up his foot.  They were surprised at how dirty his feet were, not realizing that he'd been running around outside barefoot earlier in the day.  It hurt him when they examined it, but he was in agony with the numbing needle.  I watched, and she put that thing in really deep, and was drawing it out slowly.  Poor kid.  She then cut off a flap of skin, washed out the cut really well, and started to stitch.  Then he screamed again.  It was hurting him.  She did some poking around, and found that one side of the cut was numb, but not the other.  She had to put the needle in again to numb it more.  She was quite surprised he had any feeling at all, she said she'd really pumped his foot full of stuff.  I was watching, and I thought she did too.  Anyway, poor Wyatt screamed again as she put the needle back in, deep, and Heidi started to cry, and Cadence was going to start.  I took them out, and one of the nurses gave them popsicles.  We heard Wyatt scream some more.  The nurse had good intentions, but I was a little irritated at her tactics.  She told Cadence and Heidi that Wyatt was screaming because he was mad, not hurt.  He wasn't mad, he was hurting.  I don't know why she said that.  They aren't stupid kids, and they know screaming when they're mad is unacceptable.  And they knew Wyatt was in pain.  They said so, and said they were crying because they were scared for him.  They didn't want him to hurt anymore.  We waiting for a while, and when they finished their popsicles, we went back in to see Wyatt.  He was all bandaged up, with 3 stitches in a very numb foot.  He also had two clean popsicle sticks and a red tongue.  We finally got to go home.  On the way, Mike said that the Dr. was puzzled as to why he didn't get numb with that first shot.  Mike said the kids don't get much medication, it's really rare.  She said that may explain it, as most kids are really doped up for anything.  Strange, I thought that would make Wyatt more sensitive to medication.  Almost home, Wyatt said it felt like there were flies on his foot.  I guess the stuff was wearing off.  He did ok for the rest of the evening, even functioning well at AWANA.  It was the big Grand Prix pine car derby.  He finished fourth, just missing a trophy by one place.  Cadence didn't do quite as well, but still had a good time.  

On Saturday, we broke ground for the playground.  Ed came out with one of his tractors, and dug out and leveled a footprint of 26' x 26'.  What a great day for it.  The weather was so warm and sunny, and dry.  That made the work less messy than it could have been.  The kids had so much fun playing in the dirt.  Even Stacia had a good time crawling around in the grass.  She's never done that before, and seemed fascinated with the feel of it.  Bare footed kids sure got dirty, and had a great time doing it.  They got to ride on the tractor, and ride in the bucket, and even got scooped up and dumped out a couple of times.  I'll try to label pictures.  We will probably order the playground within a month, maybe two.  Delivery is 2-3 weeks after ordering, so we should have it by Stacia's and Cadence's birthday.  Setup will take a while, too, but that's the really fun part.  Kids have been saving for more than two years, I think.  I'm proud of their persistence.

Yesterday morning, Wyatt did what would make any home schooling parent proud.  He did math in his head on his own initiative.  I was sitting at the computer, talking to Mike, when Wyatt suddenly stated, "There's 8 pints in a gallon, isn't there?"  Somewhat stunned by this early morning thought, I quickly thought that over and confirmed that yes, there are 8 pints to a gallon.  He said, "Yeah, I just did that in my head at the table."  

No, we weren't hunting for a family of ducks.  We didn't even intend to hunt, but while we were all out playing around the swale, we saw a few ducks come in and land in our giant seasonal puddle.  Mike went in to get his shotgun, then we all followed him across the pasture to sneak up on those birds.  Heidi was actually silent for a short time while we were being sneaky.  Now I know, it can be done.  Mike got two ducks with one shot.  A third was wounded, and we went looking for it later.  He found it, but couldn't get it.  To bad.  I'll have pictures of the hunt and activities on the hunting page.  

Attachments:

The holidays are over, and life is getting back to normal.  The calves have been weaned, so we're getting more milk, and lots more cream.  I tried making butter.  Seemed like it worked ok, but it was too hard at room temperature, and I think I have to get more moisture out of it.  I'm letting more cream ripen now, a half gallon.  I think I'm supposed to get half of it in butter.  That would be a much better yield than my first try.  I made ice cream too.  That was good.  Thanks Karen for the recipe.  I'll be trying lots more things too, which I'll post on my food page.  Eventually.

We had a different couple of weeks leading up to Christmas than usual, because Mike didn't have any vacation this time.  He did manage to get Christmas day off, so that was nice.  We spent Christmas Eve with the Vandenhaaks, and Christmas Day with the Rudys.  Day after Christmas Grandma Peggy came over.  Two days after Christmas we were with the Vandenhaaks again, as everyone was there at that point.  Even got a great big family picture to prove it.  The kids asked for mostly money this year for gifts, to add to their playground fund.  They are so close!  Mike and I didn't give gifts to each other so that we could put more money towards the playground.  Mike did buy me a tripod, though, claiming it was a gift "for the family."  Sure Mike, whatever it takes to justify it.  Super cool, though.  My other one broke on Independence day, so I've been without for a while.  I don't use it every day, but I do use it, so not having one was inconvenient.  He got me a nice one.  Combo tripod/monopod.  We should have the playground by spring, if nothing goes wrong.  I'm still listening to Christmas music.  I usually do until I take the tree down, probably on Thursday.  I love the songs.  So many of them have the entire gospel message in them.  People hear them frequently, for a period of time, every year, but still only think of shopping and getting.  Where do they think Christmas came from, anyway?  It may seem odd, as we participate to some degree, in the commercialized version, but our kids do know who gave the greatest gift, first, and why.  They also really love thinking of the perfect gift for each person in our family that we're exchanging with.  It's fun to see them get excited about giving, and putting such thought into those people.  It's so genuine a desire to please them.  We've got kids who like to give.

Today is Heidi's birthday.  3.  On the way to church it started snowing!  Super special thing to happen to a 3 year old on her birthday.  She moved up to a new Sunday school class today, and did great.  Wyatt asked her if she'd be going to a new class today, and she said yeah.  So Wyatt suggested that we all take her to her new class together.  What a fantastic brother.  He knew she was a little scared, and maybe sad.  She was just coming out of her shell at church, and now everything was going to change.  He and Cadence marched right up to the new room with her, talking the whole time about how fun it would be and what a great room she would be in.  The Floating Zoo, it's called.  Decorated like an ark.  They talked about how they had both been in that room, and really liked it, that she would have lots of fun in there.  When we got there, Wyatt opened the door to bring Heidi and Cadence into the room.  He introduced her to her new teacher, and told the teacher that she was having a birthday today, and was going to be in that class now.  Heidi looked close to tears, but because of all the encouragement she received from her siblings, she held it together.  When we were leaving church, Heidi volunteered that she was happy in her new class.  She also said on the way home that her teachers love her.  "My teachers love me."  We stopped at Kid's Stuff, and guess what?  Heidi and Wyatt had to pee shortly after we got there.  Fortunately, Wyatt said so just before I got Heidi up the stairs, so it was only one trip.  I'm almost afraid to go there any more.  Heidi's little party was fun and informal, and hurried.  Most people get out of church before we do, so there wasn't much time to get food out, but I had lots of help from lots of people.  Poor Mike had just gotten up when I got home.  I think he's had about 2 hours of sleep out of 45.  On the couch.  He came home late on Saturday morning and had to leave mid morning to cut and wrap Chip.  So good to have a freezer full of beef again.  I like beef best of all.  Good stuff coming to our dinner table soon.  I'll try to load pictures tonight, and post them tomorrow.  Snowman cake, at Heidi's request.  Turned out pretty good.

We had a great, relaxed Thanksgiving.  We will be having our own turkey tonight, as well.  Our tom dressed out at about 17 pounds!  Good size, and the prize goes to Wyatt for guessing the weight correctly.  Heidi is pleased that the turkey's gone, saying, "Daddy killed him, so we safe now."  

Mike has been working an extra job a few times a month.  It has paid for our vacation this summer, and he was hoping to make enough to add into the playground fund that with the kids' Christmas money we could buy it.  As so often is the case, he brings home more money than the regular job pays, and something happens that needs it.  Some sort of unexpected event or something more than just regular homeowner maintenance suddenly requires all the extra money.  This time, Buttercup accrued a vet bill and the alternator in the Yukon needs replacing. Neither if these things was planned, of course.  We were planning on spending $50 or $60 on AI for Buttercup, but that's a far cry from an evening farm call and blood work.  We need to buy tires for the Yukon, but weren't expecting to replace the alternator.  This could be a very discouraging pattern.  After all, the past year is full of stories similar to this.  Unexpected expenses that eat up the money Mike worked for to do something special and out of the ordinary.  In reality, the best way to look at it is to realize that God has provided the funds to pay for life's unexpecteds through Mike's overtime at all the right times.  We don't have the extra money every month, nor do we have the unplanned problems every month.  It just works out.  We do serve a God of wisdom and provision.  We just have to choose to see it.

Stacia started crawling just after her six month mark, and then shortly after that started sitting up.  She goes into a sitting position on her own, she'd never stay that way if I put her there before she was crawling.  Cadence was that way too.  Heidi is always telling me what Stacia is doing.  It's funny to hear her say, "Yay, Stacia, you sitting!  Good job Stacia!"  Sometimes Heidi will get frustrated with Stacia trying to get something from her, or crawling on something.  Then Cadence says, "Heidi, don't get angry at her, teach her."  Yesterday, Wyatt was flying Stacia around the family room like an airplane.  She loved it.  Not more than two weeks ago, Heidi moved up to a big chair so that Stacia could use the high chair.  We'd been talking about it for quite a while, but when the big day came, Heidi was near tears and about to pout and cry in self pity.  We quickly made as big a deal about the move up as we could.  She got to eat off of a breakable plate.  She started to get the idea, and let us know that she should have a breakable glass, too.  The next morning at breakfast, she needed a breakable bowl for her oatmeal.  And a big spoon.  She has made quite a few comments about being big now, and being too big for the high chair.  She has also decided she's too big for the high chair at Grandma and Grandpa's, so Stacia should use it now.  Now when she eats there, it'll be on a stool at the counter.  I wonder how many times she'll fall off?  She'll be three soon, and still talks about her snowman cake that she wants for her birthday.  I would like to make a stacked cake, but don't have the pans for that, and I don't know how much experimenting I want to do with bowls, so I may just make a flat snowman with round cakes. We'll see.  We're only one week away from Christmas music!

October proved to be just as busy as any other time of year, maybe even more so with the cow and school and such.  On the 31st, Reformation Day, I took the kids up to Bellingham to have lunch with Grandma for her birthday.  It was free at Billy McHale's because they were in costumes and it was her birthday.  Mine and Grandpa's meals had to be paid for, that was all.  Wyatt and Cadence wore indian costumes that were made for me and Wade when we were in grade school, and Heidi wore the one I bought for Cadence about 3 years ago at Old Navy for just a couple dollars on clearance, and Stacia wore one just like it that we borrowed from some family friends.  So fun to see our little tribe running around.  Things were running later than I thought, but I did manage to stop and see Great Grandma Dolly on our way out of town and visit with her for a bit, and take pictures.  While we were there, Steve came in with Xavier and Alex, so we took some pictures of them too.  They couldn't stay long because Alex had to get home, but it was nice to see them all dressed up.  Quite a pleasant surprise to be there at just the right time so that happened.  I got home thinking we'd have enough time to feed Stacia and relax for a moment, but Mike was ready to go to the church for our Fun Fall Festival.  It started an hour earlier than I thought.  Running late, but we got there and had lots of fun.  Grandma Peggy stopped by to see us, and we went to Big Scoop for ice cream afterward with Grandma and Grandpa Vandenhaak.  It was a fun day for the kids, but crazy for me.  It wasn't too bad, just lots of time spent away from home.  Some days are like that.

I just recently got some fresh insight into Heidi's thinking process.  She mentions Snowflake every once in a while.  Snowflake, the cow that got mean.  It's funny to hear her talk about that.  Anyway, she was looking at her jammies, and the following conversation ensued.  

So now we have gotten used to having a cow, seems like she's been here a lot longer than just a week and a half.  I've managed to do more canning this year, by making apple sauce, canning prunes and blackberries and peaches and pears, and I canned up 13 quarts of corn a while ago instead of freezing it.  I have more to do today, plus I was given a bunch more apples so I'm going to can pie filling for winter pies and breakfast crepes.  Mike said there's a crab apple tree at the office, so if there are still apples on it I may get the chance to make crabapple jelly.  The kids and I went to a cider pressing on Saturday, and got to bring home 3 gallons of fresh cider!  So good.  Thanks to the McRae's for that.  We had a lot of fun, and the kids were able to be involved as well.  Our garden did a pretty good job of providing us with plenty of butternut squash, and just a few acorn squash.  I think I'll can some of the butternut.  Not sure if I'll do puree or chunks, or both.  We've been absolutely loving the fresh, raw milk.  The two calves are getting a lot, I think, because we aren't getting as much as we'd like.  Mike's going to try to separate them from Buttercup at night, so that he gets a good morning milking.  I'd like to get enough milk to try make butter and some yogurt and some cheese.  We'll see how I like that.  Mike is on vacation right now, so hopefully we'll get a lot of winterizing done in the next couple weeks.  Garbage runs, clean the garage, clean the house, mow the lawn one last time, put in some water lines for animals, roof the pump house and lean to, etc., etc.  That's a lot.  Might not get to all of it.  I never get the house clean.  I have to be a better time manager.  I don't have time for everything I want to do.  I don't have much time to update this site, and I want to move a lot of pictures off this home page and keep the content more recent, like a monthly group of pictures.  I don't think I could keep up with weekly for very long, but will keep adding stuff on to the months album.  I'll see if I can't get some pictures moved later today.  I'm way behind on our photo album I'm building on shutterfly too.  Not current at all.  Have some catching up to do.

We got a milk cow!  We've been looking for a while, with no luck.  Ones we could afford hadn't been vaccinated, and ones that had been vaccinated we couldn't afford.  Until one day, the one day I didn't do a thorough search on craigslist, our friend Karen called to leave me a message that there was an affordable, vaccinated, organic, high producing dairy cow on craigslist.  In Everson.  That was Sunday.  We looked at her the next day, decided to buy her, built a lean to, borrowed a stock trailer, and brought her home on Friday.  I give more detail on our cow page.

Made applesauce yesterday.  Started a little after noon, and finished up after 9.  I got 18 quarts altogether, although that last quart is actually a jar of all the leftovers from the pans as I finished filling the jars that went into the canner.  I made some chunky with cinnamon and some chunky without, and some really smooth baby food type with no cinnamon.  We don't eat loads of applesauce, so this may be enough for us.  Next I want to make some apple preserves, and jelly.  Have to get more apples.

Going to get apples today after school!  The super great Patterson's have some I can get, as well as some neighbors of theirs, I think.  I'm really happy, I want to can apple sauce and jelly, and try some other things, but couldn't find any apples.  Our trees are too little, and I can't afford to buy many apples right now.  I feel really lucky because I know a lot of people are looking for windfall apples and can't.  I see adds on craigslist all the time.  I hope to buy more apple trees to plant in the spring.  I think I'll try to get at least one crabapple for jelly.  Crabapple tree, not one apple.  Hard to make jelly with one crabapple, I bet.  

We are in our second week of school now.  Going great, and we're going to go to the library at our local grade school either tomorrow or Thursday to check out some books.  That's going to be great.  AWANA started last week, and we'll be going for the second time tonight.  Cadence is a sparkie this year, with Wyatt.  Fun.  Heidi and Stacia are in the nursery with me.  That's where I'm working this year.  

We got our school stuff on Thursday.  The kids were really excited to look at everything.  Wyatt got a pretty neat magnet kit that is still getting a lot of attention.  He's also been reading the books that came.  Most of them are read alouds for me to read to them, but I'm certainly not going to discourage him from trying to read them himself.  Cadence is excited about having her very own Bible reader, and has been trying to read it.  She hasn't learned a lot of the sounds that are required for reading it yet, but will be way ahead of the game by the time we get there.

So... after Wyatt's birthday we had a little time before vacation, then vacation.  We road tripped to the coast.  Cottonwood campground for one night (it is very primitive, but free), then Kalaloch for two nights, Mora Campground for two nights, and finally, Fort Flagler for one night in a great campsite.  We had a great time playing on the beach, and kids don't seem bothered by how cold the water is.  I remember being that way once too.  We brought their bikes along, and they had a great time in the campgrounds making friends and just pedaling around.  Heidi actually learned to pedal and steer quite well at Kalaloch.  On our last day, at Fort Flagler, we saw lots of neat things on the beach.  We left after Wyatt got squirted by clams or oysters too many times and panicked.  The panic was contagious, so we had to leave, but before the meltdown, we saw lots of little bullhead, crabs, hermit crabs, a jelly fish, sea star, clams, maybe something else I'm forgetting.  The jelly fish was really fun to watch move.  Wyatt loved going through the batterys at Fort Flagler the day before we left.  There are a lot of them there. A day off at home, then we went to the fair in Lynden.  Love the fair.  Cadence got to have her picture taken with an alligator, her favorite animal.  We looked at lots of exhibits, went on rides, watched the horse events, ate, etc.  All the normal fair stuff, and still didn't have time to see everything.  I want to get there earlier next year.  A few days after the fair, we went to Wenatchee to buy fruit for canning.  We stayed one night in a hotel with a pool.  Pool got a lot of attention from us.  We also ate out, which was nice for Mike, who insists on doing all the cooking while we're on vacation.  So great for me.  We visited Leavenworth, where the kids like to roll down the big hill.  When we first drove by, Wyatt said, "It's not as big as it used to be!"  We then made our way to Winthrop.  Got there just in time to visit the glass blowers shop before it closed.  No glass work to watch this time though.  I miss vacation already, but real life needs attention too.  At least at home the toilet is close and no one needs me to come with them.  I think while on our camping trip and at the fair and on our overnight fruit run I made about 153 trips to a toilet of some sort.  I think I only needed to use it less than 10% of the time.  Heidi usually chose to go right when Mike finished cooking.  A lot of my meals were not very hot by the time I got to enjoy them.  Oh well, she only had one wet pants incident, on the second day, so I should be quite pleased.  Most times our campsite was a long walk away from the bathrooms.  It's quieter, and I suppose it's good exercise.

After a month of having our internet privileges revoked, we're finally back.  We had downloaded too many movies at once, and violated our FAP with Wild Blue internet.  That's fair access policy.  Oops!  It's good to be back, but I'm way behind on picture uploads and other info.  I sure relied on the internet for a lot of info and communication, so it's almost overwhelming to catch up now.  Especially with all the other things going on and the nice weather.  I don't want to be on the computer in beautiful weather when I could be outside, and I can't neglect feeding people or doing laundry just to sit here working on a non essential project.  In that month of no internet, we had Independence Day and Wyatt's birthday here, both super fun.  I'll post pictures of both events as soon as I get a chance.  

The spring weather got off to a cold start, but hopefully summer will be better than last year.  We still have lots of garden to plant, we've only just started.  Stuff we planted is coming up, though.  Pigs were butchered mid May, so we have lots of pork and lard.  We're getting more ducks and fryers this month, too.  The three oldest kids have been sleeping in the tent in the back yard the last week.  So fun for them.  Stacia is doing wonderful with her sleeping and eating and growing and smiling and cooing.  All the things a baby is supposed to do.

The day before Cadence's birthday, we needed to run into town.  Mike took the older 3 kids into Costco while I fed Stacia in the car.  Afterwards, we went to a really great toy store in Mt. Vernon.  Kid's Stuff is one of those stores that has not just good toys, but great books and projects and such.  I was planning on running in alone, to get a couple of things I already had in mind.  I figured it should take me about 4 minutes, tops.  Then Wyatt said he wanted to come in with me.  Well, one well behaved 6 year old shouldn't slow me down.  Cadence was feeling really left out, saying she wouldn't look at what I was buying, she would only play with the train.  Hearing about the train, Heidi sure didn't want to miss that, she loves the train!  Instead of dropping me off at the entrance, Mike drove down the block, around the corner, and parked.  We all went in.  Mike was holding a sleeping Stacia while I grabbed one of the things I had in mind.  I heard Mike make a disapointed sound, and upon turning around, I saw Heidi standing over a puddle that hadn't been there when we came in.  Mike said he'd clean it up, and went to the register to get some carpet spray and paper towels, while I took Heidi back down the block, around the corner, and into the car to change her underwear.  She'd been wearing a dress, so underwear was all that had to be changed.  We then went back into the store so I could get the one last thing I'd come for, a color by number book.  When I got back, Mike had just finished cleaning up the puddle.  Heidi went to try out a ride on toy, I started to browse a shelf for the book, and Wyatt came up and said he had to go pee. He couldn't wait till we got to Fred Meyer.  We went to the register and asked for the key.  The bathroom there is up the stairs, through two doors in a private hallway, and then through a locked door.  I told him to hurry, as I still had the entire birthday cake to make.  He did, and we went back down the hallway, down the stairs, to the register, and gave the key back.  I went back to browsing for the coloring book, a little more hurried now, as my 4 minute shopping trip was already pushing 15 minutes.  Suddenly Cadence appeared at my side, saying she had to pee.  Why couldn't she have gone when Wyatt did?  Why didn't they all go at Costco?  Each said they didn't have to then.  I asked for the key, took Cadence up the stairs, through the two hallway doors, through the locked bathroom door, and asked her to hurry, I still had a whole birthday cake to make.  And filling, and icing, and flowers.  She did, and we returned the key.  Not a minute later, I hear Heidi's panicked little voice, "uh, uh, uh, poop."  I took the key back off the counter, (she hadn't even had time to put it away yet) and ran up the stairs, through the two doors in the long hallway, and rushed to unlock the bathroom door.  No need to tell Heidi to hurry, she was pretty motivated to get in there.  When we got back, Mike asked about the color by number book.  They didn't have any.  He took the kids out, down the block, around the corner, and into the car.  I paid for the things, and got back to the car before all the kids were even buckled.  I think the whole trip took about 30 minutes.  As we were driving out of town, a few blocks from the store, Heidi said, "a me, a not a buckled in."  I buckled her seat belt while Mike drove.

Cadence turned 5 on April 25th, and we had a party for her that day.  We enjoyed hamburgers, salmon, mac & cheese, potato salad, punch, and cake.  Thanks to Verna for donating potato salad and mac & cheese, thus saving me a lot of time.  Very nice when time is at a premium with a newborn.  Also, two days before the party, our electricity was out for about 5 hours, so I couldn't do a lot of things I wanted to that day.  People were thoughtful with their gift giving, and Cadence got a couple of the toys she wanted, and a lot of clothes that she really needed.  Also some money for the playground the kids are saving for.  

So, at five days old Stacia slept 8 hours through the night.  The following night, she went six, still great.  Every night I go to bed expecting to get up at least once for her, and I guess the six hour night I did, because I got up before six to feed her, then went back to bed for awhile.  Since that six hour night, she has been sleeping 7 or 8 consistently.  Even now, I don't want to assume it's a habit, because if I do and then have to get up while it's still dark, I'll be disappointed, and this is just so unusual.  Today, I'm still waiting for her to wake up at a quarter to eight.  This is so great.  I have to admit though, I haven't taken a nap during the day since she was four days old, so I do feel tired most of the time, because I go to bed after she does, obviously, and get up before she's awake, most of the time.  I'll catch up sometime, probably a Sunday afternoon.  I'm so lucky.  She does her share of crying, especially in the evening, the international baby fussy time, but that's fine if she sleeps like she does.  She's going on nine hours right now.

At five days old, Stacia went to bed with a full tummy at about 10:45, was asleep by 11, and didn't wake up until after 7 in the morning.  Wow!  No guarantee that'll happen again soon, but it sure was nice.  I woke up at a quarter to six and realized I'd just gotten the longest stretch of sleep I've had in weeks.  I wasn't worried about Stacia because all her older sibling have done the same thing at some point, earlier than the average baby.  Cadence was consistently sleeping through the night after five days old, so I know it's possible.

Stacia Marie, much anticipated child #4, arrived on Tuesday, April 14, at 12:24 pm.  Perfect timing.  Everyone is mostly healthy, and Mike was just heading into a weekend.  Only had to leave work about 6 hours early to take me to the hospital.  Everything went well.  Mike was in a hurry, got us there in time, Grandma picked up the kids, Stacia was born shortly after we arrived and got in a room.  Great way to do it!  Her stats are: 7 pounds 12 ounces, 20 1/2 inches long, apgar scores of 9 and 9.  She was born very quickly so she's still working out a lot of fluid from her lungs.  Lots of sneezing, some gagging and spitting up.  She loves to look at whoever is holding her and listen to them talk.  She's pretty laid back, doesn't cry much, yet.  You may notice in some of the pictures that her right hand is missing some fingers.  She has a thumb and pinky finger, the other three are missing.  Small defect on an otherwise perfect baby.  It shouldn't really be a problem.  I'm sure she'll have no trouble doing everything she needs to do in life without difficultly.  She's getting lots of love and attention from everyone here, especially her big siblings, who absolutely adore her.  I'll be adding more pictures and info as time allows.

I'm quite pleased that I am still pregnant 5 days after my due date.  Kids are getting healthier, but they still have coughs.  And runny noses, and are a little extra sleepy and touchy.  Mike is absolutely miserable.  He had a 104 temp yesterday, and he's been achy and exhausted for a few days.  He coughs a lot and is all plugged up and has almost no appetite.  I want everyone healthy when the baby is born, and especially Mike.  I don't know what hospital policy is on flu symptoms in the delivery room, but they probably don't encourage it.  Mike is the only one I would allow in sick.  If anyone else was sick, I'd think they were nuts for thinking they could come in to see a newborn.  It's just obviously important that Mike be there when his baby is born.  Maybe it wouldn't be too big a deal, as I'm not sick and babies tend to be immune to what their mothers are.  I just hope he/she waits a little longer.

So, the 5th was Baby's due date, and I'm still pregnant.  No big surprise, as 

Besides the toothpick incident, life has been pretty normal here.  We ordered seed for out garden, so hopefully we'll do better than last year.  All we really need is more sun this time.  We are doing a lot more stuff this time around, hoping to do a lot of canning and freezing.  We are going to have to get another freezer for all the meat we'll have this fall, and so we can freeze some veggies and fruit.  I want to can as much as possible, but not the stuff that gets mushy and yucky.  I am always on the lookout for a decent deal on canning jars of any size.  I got a variety just this week, for 25 cents each, and they required a lot of cleaning.  I had to scrub rust off the bottom of a lot of them, and some have lots of bugs inside that didn't come out in the dishwasher.  I see a lot more adds for canning jars wanted than I do for ones for sale.  I have to be careful too, because sometimes I see them advertised for just under what I could buy them new, and if I buy new ones I get lids and rings with them.
   Mike ordered some more birds, we should get them the last week of the month.  We got some sort of mystery variety of 2 geese, 7 ducks, and 7 turkeys, plus 25 fryers.  We've never had geese before, so that should be interesting, and with all the duck varieties we could get, I'm excited to find out what we'll have.  Turkeys have never survived here, so hopefully we'll have better luck this time around.  They'll be a variety as well, so it'll be nice to find out what works best for us. 
   I got my new mixer last week, and love it.  I posted that stuff on the food page.
   Some of out recent pictures are on this page in the recent pics album, where they'll stay until I add more.  Then they'll go into albums they belong in.

Mike was injured while walking in our house.  There was a toothpick hiding in the carpet, and when he walked over it, it imbeded itself in his foot.  It went in the bottom of his foot at the base of his big toe.  He had Wyatt pull it out, and didn't think much more of it, except that it hurt, and went in pretty deep.  That was mid morning Friday, January 30th, and by that evening the area was all swollen and he couldn't walk without limping.  It continued to get worse, and finally on Saturday night he couldn't stand it anymore and got out of bed to go to the emergency room.  They gave him some antibiotics and instructions to keep an eye out for red streaks going up his leg.  A followup appointment with our local Dr. clinic here in Sedro didn't answer any questions, just raised more.  A lot of dead ends with different specialists.  No one knew what to do with this growing infection.  Another round of different antibiotics, two kinds, actually, still didn't rid his foot of the infection.  At an appointment on Thursday, February 19th, the doctor monitoring this situation decided to do surgery the next day.  He was afraid the infection had gotten all the way into the joint, and one of his fellow docs even thought it has gotten into the tendons.  Surgery went well, joint infection was in the joint, but hadn't gotten anything else.  Ten days in a splint and on crutches was not fun for Mike.  A person really can't do anything on crutches.  Can't even carry anything.  All he could do was move from one place to another.  When he got the splint off everything looked like it was going well.  Now that he's done with the antibiotics, he's got to be aware of how it's doing to make sure the infection really is gone.  Seems to be good, but even ten days on crutches after a few weeks of limping around is going to mean recovery is a lot of rebuilding the strength in his leg and foot and toe, and it's still a little sore from the surgery.  He's back to work, and back to caring for the animals again.  I have to admit, I kind of miss the animal care and feeding I got to do while he was laid up, but I have lots of other things to keep me busy.

Wyatt lost his second tooth on Thursday night.  He came running out of the bathroom to tell us that brushing his teeth had made his tooth really loose and that is was going to fall out.  He played with it for a while, then said he wanted it out and that he wanted Mike to pull it out with pliers.  He chose the little pair, but Mike couldn't get a grip on the tooth, so he grasped the it with the bigger pair, and the tooth just came right out without any pulling.  Wyatt said it didn't even hurt.  Pictures of that exciting event are in the Wyatt album.

Today we assembled and attempted to launch the rocket that Wyatt got for Christmas from Todd.  The assembly was more than expected, but not real difficult, and was pretty fun.  Wyatt liked the way it looked, so decided not to do any of the optional decorating.  It was such a nice day today, and we figured that because it was so clear and warm, we'd have no problem finding the rocket when it came back to earth, and then we could launch it again.  We had no idea that we needn't have worried about it at all.  The first launch attempt was funny.  The way the rocket works is with baking soda and vinegar.  A plug allows pressure to build up inside the bottle in the rocket body, then blows out and the rocket flies into the air from the force.  Our first try just allowed the plug to escape before Mike even set the rocket down.  The next time was better, sending the rocket up a few feet.  Each successive attempt yielded better results, with Mike having much more experience at putting the tube full of baking soda into the bottle of vinegar without allowing them to mix prematurely.  Our last try, dictated by the fact that it was the end of the vinegar, would've worked great if one of the fins hadn't fallen off just before Mike was about to set it down to launch.  He'd already given the rocket a couple of good shakes, and was trying so hard to reattach that fin before the plug blew.  He was holding the rocket upright, so when the plug blew out, the rocket did go strait up.  I think it went something like 30 feet in the air.  Our best one.  Next time we go to Costco we'll buy vinegar and baking soda.  The rocket could go up to 300 feet in the air, so the box says.  It's pretty neat, especially since we can use it over and over.  The instructions even tell how to make repairs if it's damaged somehow.  See the column to the right to view pictures of rocket assembly and launches.

     We have had the biggest flood of our 3 years with this property.  All the snow melt and the recent rain has really added up.  The first problem was all the snow that drifted into places, and was pushed off the roads into the ditches.  When the weather started to warm up and rain, the usual routes that water took to drain out of here were compromised.  Now the  swale that runs from one corner to the other diagonally through our property is swollen beyond what even Al, the guy who sold us the land, has ever seen.  We had to borrow Ed's trash pump to get water out from under our house.  The water was 8" below the top of our foundation walls.  Not cool.  The pump did the trick, and we were able to stay ahead of it.  I took a lot of pictures on Wednesday, but on Thursday morning the water was even higher.  It ran all the way out onto our lawn.  In the early afternoon, however, it had already started to recede quite bit.  The swale was just backed up at the road because the culvert isn't big enough to handle that much water at once.  Eventually it evened out on both sides and quite raining, so things are looking good now.  

After a very long break from the week of Thanksgiving to now, we will be starting school again on Monday.  I think.  Life will slowly get back to normal for us.

IMG_00001.JPG
IMG_00001.JPG 2011-01-14

IMG_00008.JPG
IMG_00008.JPG 2011-01-17

IMG_00003.JPG
IMG_00003.JPG 2011-01-17

IMG_00007.JPG
IMG_00007.JPG 2011-01-17

IMG_00002.JPG
IMG_00002.JPG 2011-01-17

IMG_00006.JPG
IMG_00006.JPG 2011-01-17

IMG_00004.JPG
IMG_00004.JPG 2011-01-17

IMG_00005.JPG
IMG_00005.JPG 2011-01-17

IMG_4745.JPG
IMG_4745.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4746.JPG
IMG_4746.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4747.JPG
IMG_4747.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4749.JPG
IMG_4749.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4751.JPG
IMG_4751.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4755.JPG
IMG_4755.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4757.JPG
IMG_4757.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4759.JPG
IMG_4759.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4760.JPG
IMG_4760.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4766.JPG
IMG_4766.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4769.JPG
IMG_4769.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4768.JPG
IMG_4768.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4779.JPG
IMG_4779.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4782.JPG
IMG_4782.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4784.JPG
IMG_4784.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4785.JPG
IMG_4785.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4787.JPG
IMG_4787.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4789.JPG
IMG_4789.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4825.JPG
IMG_4825.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4831.JPG
IMG_4831.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4853.JPG
IMG_4853.JPG 2011-01-05

IMG_4894.JPG
IMG_4894.JPG 2011-01-05

IMG_4918.JPG
IMG_4918.JPG 2011-01-05

IMG_4932.JPG
IMG_4932.JPG 2011-01-05

IMG_4937.JPG
IMG_4937.JPG 2011-01-06

IMG_4938.JPG
IMG_4938.JPG 2011-01-06

IMG_4941.JPG
IMG_4941.JPG 2011-01-06

IMG_4942.JPG
IMG_4942.JPG 2011-01-06

IMG_4953.JPG
IMG_4953.JPG 2011-01-06

IMG_4956.JPG
IMG_4956.JPG 2011-01-06

First picture of Talia
IMG_4707.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4714.JPG
IMG_4714.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4715.JPG
IMG_4715.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4716.JPG
IMG_4716.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4718.JPG
IMG_4718.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4730.JPG
IMG_4730.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4732.JPG
IMG_4732.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4735.JPG
IMG_4735.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4757.JPG
IMG_4757.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4778.JPG
IMG_4778.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4779.JPG
IMG_4779.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4792.JPG
IMG_4792.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4793.JPG
IMG_4793.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4799.JPG
IMG_4799.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4801.JPG
IMG_4801.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4804.JPG
IMG_4804.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4808.JPG
IMG_4808.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4823.JPG
IMG_4823.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4840.JPG
IMG_4840.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4846.JPG
IMG_4846.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4850.JPG
IMG_4850.JPG 2011-01-04

IMG_4853.JPG
IMG_4853.JPG 2011-01-05

IMG_4875.JPG
IMG_4875.JPG 2011-01-05

IMG_4878.JPG
IMG_4878.JPG 2011-01-05

IMG_4879.JPG
IMG_4879.JPG 2011-01-05

IMG_4906.JPG
IMG_4906.JPG 2011-01-05

IMG_4918.JPG
IMG_4918.JPG 2011-01-05

IMG_4919.JPG
IMG_4919.JPG 2011-01-05

IMG_4942.JPG
IMG_4942.JPG 2011-01-06

IMG_0889.JPG
IMG_0889.JPG 2010-08-25

Photo0028
Photo0028.jpg 2010-08-25

Photo0071
Photo0071.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0076
Photo0076.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0102
Photo0102.jpg 2010-08-28

Photo0106
Photo0106.jpg 2010-08-28

Photo0122
Photo0122.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0129
Photo0129.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0144
Photo0144.jpg 2010-08-29

IMG_1669.JPG
IMG_1669.JPG 2010-08-30

Photo0170
Photo0170.jpg 2010-08-30

Photo0004
Photo0004.jpg 2010-08-25

Photo0002
Photo0002.jpg 2010-08-25

Photo0010
Photo0010.jpg 2010-08-25

Photo0012
Photo0004.jpg 2010-08-25

Photo0014
Photo0014.jpg 2010-08-25

Photo0016
Photo0016.jpg 2010-08-25

Photo0019
Photo0019.jpg 2010-08-25

Photo0018
Photo0018.jpg 2010-08-25

Photo0020
Photo0020.jpg 2010-08-25

Photo0023
Photo0023.jpg 2010-08-25

Photo0024
Photo0024.jpg 2010-08-25

Photo0025
Photo0025.jpg 2010-08-25

Photo0026
Photo0026.jpg 2010-08-25

Photo0028
Photo0028.jpg 2010-08-25

Photo0033
Photo0033.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0037
Photo0037.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0039
Photo0039.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0040
Photo0040.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0042
Photo0042.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0045
Photo0045.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0049
Photo0049.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0051
Photo0051.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0054
Photo0054.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0056
Photo0056.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0059
Photo0059.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0060
Photo0060.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0061
Photo0061.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0063
Photo0063.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0066
Photo0066.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0071
Photo0071.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0076
Photo0076.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0077
Photo0077.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0078
Photo0078.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0079
Photo0079.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0082
Photo0082.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0084
Photo0084.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0086
Photo0086.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0089
Photo0089.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0091
Photo0091.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0092
Photo0092.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0094
Photo0094.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0098
Photo0098.jpg 2010-08-26

Photo0099
Photo0099.jpg 2010-08-27

Photo0102
Photo0102.jpg 2010-08-28

Photo0106
Photo0106.jpg 2010-08-28

Photo0107
Photo0107.jpg 2010-08-28

Photo0108
Photo0108.jpg 2010-08-28

Photo0110
Photo0110.jpg 2010-08-28

Photo0112
Photo0112.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0115
Photo0115.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0117
Photo0117.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0119
Photo0119.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0122
Photo0122.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0128
Photo0128.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0129
Photo0129.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0130
Photo0130.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0131
Photo0131.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0132
Photo0132.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0133
Photo0133.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0135
Photo0135.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0134
Photo0134.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0136
Photo0136.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0137
Photo0137.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0139
Photo0139.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0138
Photo0138.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0140
Photo0140.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0141
Photo0141.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0143
Photo0143.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0142
Photo0142.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0144
Photo0144.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0145
Photo0145.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0149
Photo0149.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0153
Photo0153.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0152
Photo0152.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0155
Photo0155.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0156
Photo0156.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0157
Photo0157.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0158
Photo0158.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0159
Photo0159.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0161
Photo0161.jpg 2010-08-29

Photo0163
Photo0163.jpg 2010-08-30

Photo0164
Photo0164.jpg 2010-08-30

Photo0166
Photo0166.jpg 2010-08-30

Photo0165
Photo0165.jpg 2010-08-30

Photo0169
Photo0169.jpg 2010-08-30

Photo0170
Photo0170.jpg 2010-08-30

Photo0171
Photo0171.jpg 2010-08-30

Photo0172
Photo0172.jpg 2010-08-30

IMG_0823.JPG
IMG_0823.JPG 2010-08-22

IMG_0825.JPG
IMG_0825.JPG 2010-08-22

IMG_0827.JPG
IMG_0827.JPG 2010-08-24

IMG_0829.JPG
IMG_0829.JPG 2010-08-24

IMG_0849.JPG
IMG_0849.JPG 2010-08-24

IMG_0851.JPG
IMG_0851.JPG 2010-08-24

IMG_0854.JPG
IMG_0854.JPG 2010-08-24

IMG_0856.JPG
IMG_0856.JPG 2010-08-24

IMG_0858.JPG
IMG_0858.JPG 2010-08-24

IMG_0861.JPG
IMG_0861.JPG 2010-08-24

IMG_0862.JPG
IMG_0862.JPG 2010-08-24

IMG_0865.JPG
IMG_0865.JPG 2010-08-24

IMG_0866.JPG
IMG_0866.JPG 2010-08-24

IMG_0869.JPG
IMG_0869.JPG 2010-08-24

IMG_0874.JPG
IMG_0874.JPG 2010-08-24

IMG_0878.JPG
IMG_0878.JPG 2010-08-24

IMG_0879.JPG
IMG_0879.JPG 2010-08-24

IMG_0880.JPG
IMG_0880.JPG 2010-08-24

IMG_0882.JPG
IMG_0882.JPG 2010-08-24

IMG_0889.JPG
IMG_0889.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0893.JPG
IMG_0893.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0894.JPG
IMG_0894.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0897.JPG
IMG_0897.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0901.JPG
IMG_0901.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0904.JPG
IMG_0904.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0905.JPG
IMG_0905.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0906.JPG
IMG_0906.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0908.JPG
IMG_0908.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0912.JPG
IMG_0912.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0914.JPG
IMG_0914.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0917.JPG
IMG_0917.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0918.JPG
IMG_0918.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0920.JPG
IMG_0920.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0929.JPG
IMG_0929.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0943.JPG
IMG_0943.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0952.JPG
IMG_0952.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0953.JPG
IMG_0953.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0954.JPG
IMG_0954.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0955.JPG
IMG_0955.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0956.JPG
IMG_0956.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0957.JPG
IMG_0957.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0961.JPG
IMG_0961.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0968.JPG
IMG_0968.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0973.JPG
IMG_0973.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0980.JPG
IMG_0980.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0983.JPG
IMG_0983.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0985.JPG
IMG_0985.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0990.JPG
IMG_0990.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0992.JPG
IMG_0992.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0995.JPG
IMG_0995.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0996.JPG
IMG_0996.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_0999.JPG
IMG_0999.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_1002.JPG
IMG_1002.JPG 2010-08-25

IMG_1025.JPG
IMG_1025.JPG 2010-08-26

IMG_1059.JPG
IMG_1059.JPG 2010-08-26

IMG_1063.JPG
IMG_1063.JPG 2010-08-26

IMG_1064.JPG
IMG_1064.JPG 2010-08-26

IMG_1069.JPG
IMG_1069.JPG 2010-08-26

IMG_1071.JPG
IMG_1071.JPG 2010-08-26

IMG_1104.JPG
IMG_1104.JPG 2010-08-27

IMG_1110.JPG
IMG_1110.JPG 2010-08-27

IMG_1120.JPG
IMG_1120.JPG 2010-08-27

IMG_1150.JPG
IMG_1150.JPG 2010-08-27

IMG_1182.JPG
IMG_1182.JPG 2010-08-28

IMG_1232.JPG
IMG_1232.JPG 2010-08-28

IMG_1235.JPG
IMG_1235.JPG 2010-08-28

IMG_1238.JPG
IMG_1238.JPG 2010-08-28

IMG_1239.JPG
IMG_1239.JPG 2010-08-28

IMG_1240.JPG
IMG_1240.JPG 2010-08-28

IMG_1259.JPG
IMG_1259.JPG 2010-08-28

IMG_1264.JPG
IMG_1264.JPG 2010-08-28

IMG_1304.JPG
IMG_1304.JPG 2010-08-28

IMG_1306.JPG
IMG_1306.JPG 2010-08-28

IMG_1314.JPG
IMG_1314.JPG 2010-08-28

IMG_1319.JPG
IMG_1319.JPG 2010-08-28

IMG_1320.JPG
IMG_1320.JPG 2010-08-28

IMG_1325.JPG
IMG_1325.JPG 2010-08-28

IMG_1326.JPG
IMG_1326.JPG 2010-08-29

IMG_1327.JPG
IMG_1327.JPG 2010-08-29

IMG_1347.JPG
IMG_1347.JPG 2010-08-29

IMG_1351.JPG
IMG_1351.JPG 2010-08-29

IMG_1352.JPG
IMG_1352.JPG 2010-08-29

IMG_1354.JPG
IMG_1354.JPG 2010-08-29

IMG_1358.JPG
IMG_1358.JPG 2010-08-29

IMG_1362.JPG
IMG_1362.JPG 2010-08-29

IMG_1364.JPG
IMG_1364.JPG 2010-08-29

IMG_1367.JPG
IMG_1367.JPG 2010-08-29

IMG_1371.JPG
IMG_1371.JPG 2010-08-29

IMG_1384.JPG
IMG_1384.JPG 2010-08-29

IMG_1390.JPG
IMG_1390.JPG 2010-08-29

IMG_1390.JPG
IMG_1390.JPG 2010-08-29

IMG_1394.JPG
IMG_1394.JPG 2010-08-29

IMG_1406.JPG
IMG_1406.JPG 2010-08-29

IMG_1414.JPG
IMG_1414.JPG 2010-08-29

IMG_1428.JPG
IMG_1428.JPG 2010-08-29

IMG_1511.JPG
IMG_1511.JPG 2010-08-29

IMG_1519.JPG
IMG_1519.JPG 2010-08-29

IMG_1602.JPG
IMG_1602.JPG 2010-08-30

IMG_1652.JPG
IMG_1652.JPG 2010-08-30

IMG_1656.JPG
IMG_1656.JPG 2010-08-30

IMG_1669.JPG
IMG_1669.JPG 2010-08-30

IMG_1675.JPG
IMG_1675.JPG 2010-08-30

IMG_1726.JPG
IMG_1726.JPG 2010-08-30

IMG_1767.JPG
IMG_1767.JPG 2010-08-30

IMG_1802.JPG
IMG_1802.JPG 2010-08-30

IMG_1807.JPG
IMG_1807.JPG 2010-08-30

IMG_1815.JPG
IMG_1815.JPG 2010-08-30

IMG_1817.JPG
IMG_1817.JPG 2010-08-30

IMG_1819.JPG
IMG_1819.JPG 2010-08-30

IMG_1827.JPG
IMG_1827.JPG 2010-08-30

IMG_1830.JPG
IMG_1830.JPG 2010-08-30

IMG_1841.JPG
IMG_1841.JPG 2010-08-30

IMG_1844.JPG
IMG_1844.JPG 2010-08-30

IMG_1847.JPG
IMG_1847.JPG 2010-08-30

IMG_1860.JPG
IMG_1860.JPG 2010-08-30

IMG_6560.JPG
IMG_6560.JPG 2010-01-20

IMG_6307.JPG
IMG_6307.JPG 2010-01-09

IMG_6315.JPG
IMG_6315.JPG 2010-01-09

IMG_6317.JPG
IMG_6317.JPG 2010-01-09

IMG_6318.JPG
IMG_6318.JPG 2010-01-09

IMG_6321.JPG
IMG_6321.JPG 2010-01-09

IMG_6328.JPG
IMG_6328.JPG 2010-01-09

IMG_6336.JPG
IMG_6336.JPG 2010-01-09

IMG_6338.JPG
IMG_6338.JPG 2010-01-09

IMG_6337.JPG
IMG_6337.JPG 2010-01-09

IMG_6340.JPG
IMG_6340.JPG 2010-01-09

IMG_6348.JPG
IMG_6348.JPG 2010-01-09

IMG_6365.JPG
IMG_6365.JPG 2010-01-09

IMG_6369.JPG
IMG_6369.JPG 2010-01-09

IMG_6370.JPG
IMG_6370.JPG 2010-01-09

IMG_6371.JPG
IMG_6371.JPG 2010-01-09

IMG_6377.JPG
IMG_6377.JPG 2010-01-09

IMG_6392.JPG
IMG_6392.JPG 2010-01-09

IMG_6393.JPG
IMG_6393.JPG 2010-01-09

IMG_3655.JPG
IMG_3655.JPG 2009-09-02

IMG_3677.JPG
IMG_3677.JPG 2009-09-02

IMG_3730.JPG
IMG_3730.JPG 2009-09-02

IMG_3787.JPG
IMG_3787.JPG 2009-09-05

IMG_3833.JPG
IMG_3833.JPG 2009-09-07

IMG_2827.JPG
IMG_2827.JPG 2009-08-20

IMG_2830.JPG
IMG_2830.JPG 2009-08-20

IMG_2859.JPG
IMG_2859.JPG 2009-08-20

IMG_2845.JPG
IMG_2845.JPG 2009-08-20

IMG_2849.JPG
IMG_2849.JPG 2009-08-20

IMG_2862.JPG
IMG_2862.JPG 2009-08-20

IMG_2878.JPG
IMG_2878.JPG 2009-08-20

IMG_2932.JPG
IMG_2932.JPG 2009-08-20

IMG_2975.JPG
IMG_2975.JPG 2009-08-20

IMG_3223.JPG
IMG_3223.JPG 2009-08-25

IMG_3247.JPG
IMG_3247.JPG 2009-08-26

IMG_3262.JPG
IMG_3262.JPG 2009-08-26

IMG_3285.JPG
IMG_3285.JPG 2009-08-26

IMG_9878.JPG
IMG_9878.JPG 2009-05-22

IMG_9879.JPG
IMG_9879.JPG 2009-05-22

IMG_9880.JPG
IMG_9880.JPG 2009-05-22

IMG_9895.JPG
IMG_9895.JPG 2009-05-22

IMG_9879.JPG
IMG_9879.JPG 2009-05-22

IMG_9723.JPG
IMG_9723.JPG 2009-05-12

IMG_9711.JPG
IMG_9711.JPG 2009-05-11

IMG_9709.JPG
IMG_9709.JPG 2009-05-11

IMG_9710.JPG
IMG_9710.JPG 2009-05-11

IMG_9708.JPG
IMG_9708.JPG 2009-05-11

IMG_9605.JPG
IMG_9605.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9491.JPG
IMG_9491.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9482.JPG
IMG_9482.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9471.JPG
IMG_9471.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9175.JPG
IMG_9175.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9174.JPG
IMG_9174.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9173.JPG
IMG_9173.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9171.JPG
IMG_9171.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9170.JPG
IMG_9170.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9169.JPG
IMG_9169.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9167.JPG
IMG_9167.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9150.JPG
IMG_9150.JPG 2009-04-16

IMG_9034.JPG
IMG_9034.JPG 2009-04-15

IMG_8983.JPG
IMG_8983.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8980.JPG
IMG_8980.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_9025.JPG
IMG_9025.JPG 2009-04-15

IMG_9017.JPG
IMG_9017.JPG 2009-04-15

IMG_8982.JPG
IMG_8982.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8949.JPG
IMG_8949.JPG 2009-04-06

IMG_8946.JPG
IMG_8946.JPG 2009-04-06

IMG_8396.JPG
IMG_8396.JPG 2009-02-24

IMG_8394.JPG
IMG_8394.JPG 2009-02-24

IMG_8391.JPG
IMG_8391.JPG 2009-02-24

IMG_8384.JPG
IMG_8384.JPG 2009-02-24

IMG_8382.JPG
IMG_8382.JPG 2009-02-24

IMG_8377.JPG
IMG_8377.JPG 2009-02-24

IMG_8339.JPG
IMG_8339.JPG 2009-02-16

IMG_8396.JPG
IMG_8396.JPG 2009-02-24

IMG_8338.JPG
IMG_8338.JPG 2009-02-16

IMG_8335.JPG
IMG_8335.JPG 2009-02-16

IMG_8333.JPG
IMG_8333.JPG 2009-02-16

IMG_8333.JPG
IMG_8333.JPG 2009-02-16

natural straw
IMG_8312.JPG 2009-02-15

IMG_8103.JPG
IMG_8103.JPG 2009-02-05

IMG_8100.JPG
IMG_8100.JPG 2009-02-05

IMG_8097.JPG
IMG_8097.JPG 2009-02-05

IMG_4287.JPG
IMG_4287.JPG 2008-06-30

IMG_4832.JPG
IMG_4832.JPG 2008-07-08

IMG_4875.JPG
IMG_4875.JPG 2008-07-18

IMG_4945.JPG
IMG_4945.JPG 2008-07-19

IMG_4900.JPG
IMG_4900.JPG 2008-07-18

IMG_4904.JPG
IMG_4904.JPG 2008-07-18

IMG_4949.JPG
IMG_4949.JPG 2008-07-19

IMG_4284.JPG
IMG_4284.JPG 2008-06-30

IMG_4285.JPG
IMG_4285.JPG 2008-06-30

IMG_4286.JPG
IMG_4286.JPG 2008-06-30

Dad's duck
IMG_0913.JPG 2008-01-15

AWANA derby car
IMG_1178.JPG 2008-02-08

IMG_2082.JPG
IMG_2082.JPG 2008-05-05

IMG_1421.JPG
IMG_1421.JPG 2008-03-31

IMG_2467
IMG_2467.JPG 2008-05-10

first duck
IMG_3544.JPG 2008-06-11

baseball with Dad
IMG_3758.JPG 2008-06-21

fuzzy kitty
IMG_3933.JPG 2008-06-26

saving the first lost tooth
IMG_4288.JPG 2008-06-30

Dad pulling a tooth
IMG_4281.JPG 2008-06-30

IMG_5328.JPG
IMG_5328.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_4530.JPG
IMG_4530.JPG 2008-07-02

IMG_4718.JPG
IMG_4718.JPG 2008-07-07

IMG_4821.JPG
IMG_4821.JPG 2008-07-08

IMG_5147.JPG
IMG_5147.JPG 2008-08-05

big bug
IMG_5146.JPG 2008-08-05

IMG_5176.JPG
IMG_5176.JPG 2008-08-05

IMG_5179.JPG
IMG_5179.JPG 2008-08-05

jumping into the river
IMG_5271.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_5402.JPG
IMG_5402.JPG 2008-08-06

Mom's rabbit
IMG_5710.JPG 2008-08-27

IMG_6076.JPG
IMG_6076.JPG 2008-10-26

IMG_5926.JPG
IMG_5926.JPG 2008-10-18

IMG_5488.JPG
IMG_5488.JPG 2009-12-14

IMG_5475.JPG
IMG_5475.JPG 2009-12-14

IMG_5521.JPG
IMG_5521.JPG 2009-12-18

IMG_5887.JPG
IMG_5887.JPG 2009-12-25

IMG_6064.JPG
IMG_6064.JPG 2009-12-26

cadence portrait-2.jpg
cadence portrait-2.jpg 2009-12-22

IMG_5642.JPG
IMG_5642.JPG 2009-12-22

cadence portrait-1.jpg
cadence portrait-1.jpg 2009-12-22

IMG_3657.JPG
IMG_3657.JPG 2009-09-02

IMG_3679.JPG
IMG_3679.JPG 2009-09-02

IMG_3699.JPG
IMG_3699.JPG 2009-09-02

IMG_3681.JPG
IMG_3681.JPG 2009-09-02

IMG_3783.JPG
IMG_3783.JPG 2009-09-05

IMG_3686.JPG
IMG_3686.JPG 2009-09-02

IMG_3705.JPG
IMG_3705.JPG 2009-09-02

IMG_3706.JPG
IMG_3706.JPG 2009-09-02

IMG_3793.JPG
IMG_3793.JPG 2009-09-05

IMG_3817.JPG
IMG_3817.JPG 2009-09-06

IMG_0560.JPG
IMG_0560.JPG 2009-07-02

IMG_1432.JPG
IMG_1432.JPG 2009-07-22

IMG_1454.JPG
IMG_1454.JPG 2009-07-23

IMG_0465.JPG
IMG_0465.JPG 2009-06-21

IMG_3126.CR2
IMG_3126_2.jpg 2009-08-23

IMG_3264.JPG
IMG_3264.JPG 2009-08-26

IMG_3254.JPG
IMG_3254.JPG 2009-08-26

IMG_3091.CR2
IMG_3091_2.jpg 2009-08-23

IMG_3113.CR2
IMG_3113_2.jpg 2009-08-23

IMG_3162.JPG
IMG_3162.JPG 2009-08-24

IMG_3165.JPG
IMG_3165.JPG 2009-08-24

IMG_0802.JPG
IMG_0802.JPG 2009-07-02

IMG_0954.JPG
IMG_0954.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_0963.JPG
IMG_0963.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_0980.JPG
IMG_0980.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_1021.JPG
IMG_1021.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_1022.JPG
IMG_1022.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_1034.JPG
IMG_1034.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_1036.JPG
IMG_1036.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_9823.JPG
IMG_9823.JPG 2009-05-20

IMG_9825.JPG
IMG_9825.JPG 2009-05-20

IMG_9824.JPG
IMG_9824.JPG 2009-05-20

IMG_9918.JPG
IMG_9918.JPG 2009-05-22

IMG_9959.JPG
IMG_9959.JPG 2009-05-25

IMG_9960.JPG
IMG_9960.JPG 2009-05-25

IMG_9974.JPG
IMG_9974.JPG 2009-05-25

IMG_9679.JPG
IMG_9679.JPG 2009-05-09

IMG_9674.JPG
IMG_9674.JPG 2009-05-09

IMG_9673.JPG
IMG_9673.JPG 2009-05-09

IMG_9652.JPG
IMG_9652.JPG 2009-05-08

IMG_9650.JPG
IMG_9650.JPG 2009-05-08

IMG_9651.JPG
IMG_9651.JPG 2009-05-08

IMG_9602.JPG
IMG_9602.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9601.JPG
IMG_9601.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9596.JPG
IMG_9596.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9597.JPG
IMG_9597.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9595.JPG
IMG_9595.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9589.JPG
IMG_9589.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9582.JPG
IMG_9582.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9581.JPG
IMG_9581.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9576.JPG
IMG_9576.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9570.JPG
IMG_9570.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9572.JPG
IMG_9572.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9521.JPG
IMG_9521.JPG 2009-04-27

IMG_8978.JPG
IMG_8978.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8986.JPG
IMG_8986.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_9017.JPG
IMG_9017.JPG 2009-04-15

IMG_9025.JPG
IMG_9025.JPG 2009-04-15

IMG_8985.JPG
IMG_8985.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8987.JPG
IMG_8987.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_9152.JPG
IMG_9152.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9155.JPG
IMG_9155.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9153.JPG
IMG_9153.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9449.JPG
IMG_9449.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9455.JPG
IMG_9455.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9456.JPG
IMG_9456.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9457.JPG
IMG_9457.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9459.JPG
IMG_9459.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9461.JPG
IMG_9461.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9458.JPG
IMG_9458.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9464.JPG
IMG_9464.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9463.JPG
IMG_9463.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9472.JPG
IMG_9472.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9475.JPG
IMG_9475.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9245.JPG
IMG_9245.JPG 2009-04-20

IMG_9244.JPG
IMG_9244.JPG 2009-04-20

jumping in the swale
IMG_8296.JPG 2009-02-15

jumping in the swale
IMG_8296.JPG 2009-02-15

jumping in the swale
IMG_8296.JPG 2009-02-15

some school
IMG_5905.JPG 2008-10-16

IMG_6138.JPG
IMG_6138.JPG 2008-11-02

IMG_6074.JPG
IMG_6074.JPG 2008-10-26

IMG_6141.JPG
IMG_6141.JPG 2008-11-02

holding mom's rabbit
IMG_5706.JPG 2008-08-27

fat frog
IMG_5781.JPG 2008-09-23

fell asleep on the back of the couch
IMG_5841.JPG 2008-10-03

watermelon with Dad
IMG_5746.JPG 2008-09-07

camping with Dad
IMG_5323.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_5258.JPG
IMG_5258.JPG 2008-08-06

found another frog
IMG_5691.JPG 2008-08-23

playing in the river
IMG_5235.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_4497.JPG
IMG_4497.JPG 2008-07-02

IMG_4254.JPG
IMG_4254.JPG 2008-06-30

IMG_5181.JPG
IMG_5181.JPG 2008-08-05

IMG_4194.JPG
IMG_4194.JPG 2008-06-28

IMG_3638.JPG
IMG_3638.JPG 2008-06-15

duck head
IMG_3652.JPG 2008-06-15

riding Freddy
IMG_3866.JPG 2008-06-24

first duck "Feathers"
IMG_3542.JPG 2008-06-11

IMG_1264.JPG
IMG_1264.JPG 2008-03-07

IMG_3074.JPG
IMG_3074.JPG 2008-05-28

Dad's big duck
IMG_0912.JPG 2008-01-15

hunting with Dad
IMG_0195.JPG 2007-12-24

carve this Daddy!
00330003.jpg 2008-11-29

fell asleep
IMG_8457.JPG 2009-03-06

IMG_9631.JPG copy
IMG_9631_2.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_3210.JPG
IMG_3210.JPG 2009-08-25

IMG_3249.JPG
IMG_3249.JPG 2009-08-26

IMG_3256.JPG
IMG_3256.JPG 2009-08-26

IMG_3024.JPG
IMG_3024.JPG 2009-08-22

IMG_3280.JPG
IMG_3280.JPG 2009-08-26

IMG_3027.JPG
IMG_3027.JPG 2009-08-22

IMG_3032.JPG
IMG_3032.JPG 2009-08-22

IMG_3031.JPG
IMG_3031.JPG 2009-08-22

IMG_3038.JPG
IMG_3038.JPG 2009-08-22

IMG_3040.JPG
IMG_3040.JPG 2009-08-22

IMG_3135.CR2
IMG_3135_2.jpg 2009-08-23

IMG_3196.JPG
IMG_3196.JPG 2009-08-25

IMG_3197.JPG
IMG_3197.JPG 2009-08-25

IMG_3204.JPG
IMG_3204.JPG 2009-08-25

IMG_3216.JPG
IMG_3216.JPG 2009-08-25

IMG_9631.JPG
IMG_9631.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_0344.JPG
IMG_0344.JPG 2009-06-15

IMG_0345.JPG
IMG_0345.JPG 2009-06-15

IMG_0346.JPG
IMG_0346.JPG 2009-06-15

IMG_0347.JPG
IMG_0347.JPG 2009-06-15

IMG_0798.JPG
IMG_0798.JPG 2009-07-02

IMG_0807.JPG
IMG_0807.JPG 2009-07-02

IMG_0820.JPG
IMG_0820.JPG 2009-07-02

IMG_0945.JPG
IMG_0945.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_0951.JPG
IMG_0951.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_0952.JPG
IMG_0952.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_0973.JPG
IMG_0973.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_0981.JPG
IMG_0981.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_0984.JPG
IMG_0984.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_1007.JPG
IMG_1007.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_1009.JPG
IMG_1009.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_1010.JPG
IMG_1010.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_1013.JPG
IMG_1013.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_1016.JPG
IMG_1016.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_1015.JPG
IMG_1015.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_1030.JPG
IMG_1030.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_1042.JPG
IMG_1042.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_1095.JPG
IMG_1095.JPG 2009-07-16

IMG_1096.JPG
IMG_1096.JPG 2009-07-16

IMG_1097.JPG
IMG_1097.JPG 2009-07-16

IMG_1109.JPG
IMG_1109.JPG 2009-07-16

IMG_1111.JPG
IMG_1111.JPG 2009-07-16

IMG_1108.JPG
IMG_1108.JPG 2009-07-16

IMG_1118.JPG
IMG_1118.JPG 2009-07-16

IMG_1126.JPG
IMG_1126.JPG 2009-07-16

IMG_1142.JPG
IMG_1142.JPG 2009-07-16

IMG_1122.JPG
IMG_1122.JPG 2009-07-16

IMG_1138.JPG
IMG_1138.JPG 2009-07-16

IMG_0344.JPG
IMG_0344.JPG 2009-06-15

IMG_0345.JPG
IMG_0345.JPG 2009-06-15

IMG_0346.JPG
IMG_0346.JPG 2009-06-15

IMG_0347.JPG
IMG_0347.JPG 2009-06-15

IMG_9690.JPG
IMG_9690.JPG 2009-05-09

IMG_9687.JPG
IMG_9687.JPG 2009-05-09

IMG_9676.JPG
IMG_9676.JPG 2009-05-09

IMG_9686.JPG
IMG_9686.JPG 2009-05-09

IMG_9666.JPG
IMG_9666.JPG 2009-05-08

IMG_9631.JPG
IMG_9631.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9603.JPG
IMG_9603.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9600.JPG
IMG_9600.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9587.JPG
IMG_9587.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9586.JPG
IMG_9586.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9583.JPG
IMG_9583.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9585.JPG
IMG_9585.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9579.JPG
IMG_9579.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9578.JPG
IMG_9578.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9573.JPG
IMG_9573.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9570.JPG
IMG_9570.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9505.JPG
IMG_9505.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9506.JPG
IMG_9506.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9503.JPG
IMG_9503.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9507.JPG
IMG_9507.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9508.JPG
IMG_9508.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9525.JPG
IMG_9525.JPG 2009-04-28

IMG_9348.JPG
IMG_9348.JPG 2009-04-25

IMG_9025.JPG
IMG_9025.JPG 2009-04-15

IMG_9034.JPG
IMG_9034.JPG 2009-04-15

IMG_9156.JPG
IMG_9156.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9160.JPG
IMG_9160.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9162.JPG
IMG_9162.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9452.JPG
IMG_9452.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9454.JPG
IMG_9454.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9460.JPG
IMG_9460.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9469.JPG
IMG_9469.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9470.JPG
IMG_9470.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9479.JPG
IMG_9479.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9481.JPG
IMG_9481.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9253.JPG
IMG_9253.JPG 2009-04-20

IMG_9252.JPG
IMG_9252.JPG 2009-04-20

IMG_9247.JPG
IMG_9247.JPG 2009-04-20

IMG_9240.JPG
IMG_9240.JPG 2009-04-20

IMG_9239.JPG
IMG_9239.JPG 2009-04-20

IMG_9350.JPG
IMG_9350.JPG 2009-04-25

IMG_9308.JPG
IMG_9308.JPG 2009-04-24

IMG_9309.JPG
IMG_9309.JPG 2009-04-24

IMG_9310.JPG
IMG_9310.JPG 2009-04-24

IMG_9376.JPG
IMG_9376.JPG 2009-04-25

crawling in the swale
IMG_8298.JPG 2009-02-15

outside ride
IMG_7632.JPG 2009-01-03

got it together
IMG_7615.JPG 2009-01-03

first ride on the trike
IMG_7621.JPG 2009-01-03

IMG_7619.JPG
IMG_7619.JPG 2009-01-03

IMG_7616.JPG
IMG_7616.JPG 2009-01-03

IMG_7622.JPG
IMG_7622.JPG 2009-01-03

thanks Grandpa
IMG_7625.JPG 2009-01-03

IMG_7626.JPG
IMG_7626.JPG 2009-01-03

IMG_7623.JPG
IMG_7623.JPG 2009-01-03

IMG_7630.JPG
IMG_7630.JPG 2009-01-03

IMG_7631.JPG
IMG_7631.JPG 2009-01-03

IMG_7629.JPG
IMG_7629.JPG 2009-01-03

Jedi Heidi
self proclaimed Jedi

big bed
IMG_6254.JPG 2008-11-20

IMG_6296.JPG
IMG_6296.JPG 2008-11-27

helping make my cake
IMG_6572.JPG 2008-12-11

IMG_6584.JPG
IMG_6584.JPG 2008-12-12

airplane!
IMG_6593.JPG 2008-12-12

Heid's 2nd birthday cake
IMG_6590.JPG 2008-12-12

IMG_6596.JPG
IMG_6596.JPG 2008-12-12

IMG_6629.JPG
IMG_6629.JPG 2008-12-12

IMG_6623.JPG
IMG_6623.JPG 2008-12-12

birthday bath
IMG_6635.JPG 2008-12-13

IMG_6646.JPG
IMG_6646.JPG 2008-12-13

IMG_6688.JPG
IMG_6688.JPG 2008-12-13

IMG_6678.JPG
IMG_6678.JPG 2008-12-13

shovel ride
IMG_6903.JPG 2008-12-19

IMG_6790.JPG
IMG_6790.JPG 2008-12-17

icicle
IMG_6858.JPG 2008-12-19

IMG_7338.JPG
IMG_7338.JPG 2008-12-24

casual Christmas Day
IMG_7476.JPG 2008-12-25

IMG_6753.JPG
IMG_6753.JPG 2008-12-17

I love to paint
IMG_6239.JPG 2008-11-19

IMG_5312.JPG
IMG_5312.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_5309.JPG
IMG_5309.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_6124.JPG
IMG_6124.JPG 2008-10-31

IMG_5292.JPG
IMG_5292.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_5278.JPG
IMG_5278.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_5044.JPG
IMG_5044.JPG 2008-08-04

playing in the river water
IMG_5281.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_4760.JPG
IMG_4760.JPG 2008-07-07

IMG_4491.JPG
IMG_4491.JPG 2008-07-02

Heidi's trick
IMG_4696.JPG 2008-07-07

IMG_4322.JPG
IMG_4322.JPG 2008-06-30

IMG_4318.JPG
IMG_4318.JPG 2008-06-30

IMG_3228.JPG
IMG_3228.JPG 2008-06-02

IMG_3917.JPG
IMG_3917.JPG 2008-06-26

IMG_2783.JPG
IMG_2783.JPG 2008-05-17

IMG_3051.JPG
IMG_3051.JPG 2008-05-28

fell in the mud more than once.
IMG_2771.JPG 2008-05-16

IMG_2654.JPG
IMG_2654.JPG 2008-05-14

IMG_2373.JPG
IMG_2373.JPG 2008-05-09

IMG_2614.JPG
IMG_2614.JPG 2008-05-13

IMG_1422.JPG
IMG_1422.JPG 2008-03-31

00340019
00340019.jpg 2008-11-30

Easter eggs
IMG_1315.JPG 2008-03-15

getting to know Daisy
IMG_2064.JPG 2008-05-05

IMG_0945.JPG
IMG_0945.JPG 2008-01-20

birthday airplane
IMG_0124.JPG 2007-12-23

IMG_0116.JPG
IMG_0116.JPG 2007-12-23

sharing popcorn
00320020.jpg 2008-11-30

IMG_3842.JPG
IMG_3842.JPG 2009-09-07

IMG_3843.JPG
IMG_3843.JPG 2009-09-07

IMG_3868.JPG
IMG_3868.JPG 2009-09-09

IMG_3767.JPG
IMG_3767.JPG 2009-09-03

IMG_3771.JPG
IMG_3771.JPG 2009-09-03

IMG_3807.JPG
IMG_3807.JPG 2009-09-05

IMG_3831.JPG
IMG_3831.JPG 2009-09-07

IMG_3838.JPG
IMG_3838.JPG 2009-09-07

IMG_3813.JPG
IMG_3813.JPG 2009-09-06

IMG_3018.JPG
IMG_3018.JPG 2009-08-22

IMG_3007.JPG
IMG_3007.JPG 2009-08-22

IMG_3191.JPG
IMG_3191.JPG 2009-08-25

IMG_3192.JPG
IMG_3192.JPG 2009-08-25

IMG_3210.JPG
IMG_3210.JPG 2009-08-25

IMG_3211.JPG
IMG_3211.JPG 2009-08-25

IMG_3238.JPG
IMG_3238.JPG 2009-08-26

IMG_3239.JPG
IMG_3239.JPG 2009-08-26

IMG_3242.JPG
IMG_3242.JPG 2009-08-26

IMG_3624.JPG
IMG_3624.JPG 2009-08-28

IMG_3625.JPG
IMG_3625.JPG 2009-08-28

IMG_3627.JPG
IMG_3627.JPG 2009-08-28

IMG_0555.JPG
IMG_0555.JPG 2009-07-01

IMG_0559.JPG
IMG_0559.JPG 2009-07-02

IMG_0896.JPG
IMG_0896.JPG 2009-07-07

IMG_0897.JPG
IMG_0897.JPG 2009-07-07

IMG_1055.JPG
IMG_1055.JPG 2009-07-13

IMG_1057.JPG
IMG_1057.JPG 2009-07-13

IMG_1084.JPG
IMG_1084.JPG 2009-07-14

IMG_1087.JPG
IMG_1087.JPG 2009-07-14

IMG_1088.JPG
IMG_1088.JPG 2009-07-15

IMG_1091.JPG
IMG_1091.JPG 2009-07-15

IMG_1144.JPG
IMG_1144.JPG 2009-07-16

IMG_1157.JPG
IMG_1157.JPG 2009-07-16

IMG_1160.JPG
IMG_1160.JPG 2009-07-16

IMG_0304.JPG
IMG_0304.JPG 2009-06-14

IMG_0228.JPG
IMG_0228.JPG 2009-06-11

IMG_0303.JPG
IMG_0303.JPG 2009-06-14

IMG_0305.JPG
IMG_0305.JPG 2009-06-14

IMG_0310.JPG
IMG_0310.JPG 2009-06-14

IMG_0308.JPG
IMG_0308.JPG 2009-06-14

IMG_0309.JPG
IMG_0309.JPG 2009-06-14

IMG_0316.JPG
IMG_0316.JPG 2009-06-14

IMG_0318.JPG
IMG_0318.JPG 2009-06-14

IMG_9225.JPG
IMG_9225.JPG 2009-04-19

IMG_9739.JPG
IMG_9739.JPG 2009-05-17

IMG_9731.JPG
IMG_9731.JPG 2009-05-17

IMG_9732.JPG
IMG_9732.JPG 2009-05-17

IMG_9730.JPG
IMG_9730.JPG 2009-05-17

IMG_9740.JPG
IMG_9740.JPG 2009-05-17

IMG_9741.JPG
IMG_9741.JPG 2009-05-17

IMG_9744.JPG
IMG_9744.JPG 2009-05-17

IMG_9745.JPG
IMG_9745.JPG 2009-05-17

IMG_9746.JPG
IMG_9746.JPG 2009-05-17

IMG_9750.JPG
IMG_9750.JPG 2009-05-17

IMG_9749.JPG
IMG_9749.JPG 2009-05-17

IMG_9752.JPG
IMG_9752.JPG 2009-05-17

IMG_9757.JPG
IMG_9757.JPG 2009-05-17

IMG_9758.JPG
IMG_9758.JPG 2009-05-18

IMG_9759.JPG
IMG_9759.JPG 2009-05-18

IMG_9760.JPG
IMG_9760.JPG 2009-05-18

IMG_9761.JPG
IMG_9761.JPG 2009-05-18

IMG_9770.JPG
IMG_9770.JPG 2009-05-18

IMG_9775.JPG
IMG_9775.JPG 2009-05-18

IMG_9777.JPG
IMG_9777.JPG 2009-05-18

IMG_9779.JPG
IMG_9779.JPG 2009-05-18

IMG_9780.JPG
IMG_9780.JPG 2009-05-18

IMG_9788.JPG
IMG_9788.JPG 2009-05-18

IMG_9793.JPG
IMG_9793.JPG 2009-05-19

IMG_9794.JPG
IMG_9794.JPG 2009-05-19

IMG_9795.JPG
IMG_9795.JPG 2009-05-19

IMG_9800.JPG
IMG_9800.JPG 2009-05-19

IMG_9813.JPG
IMG_9813.JPG 2009-05-20

IMG_9816.JPG
IMG_9816.JPG 2009-05-20

IMG_9815.JPG
IMG_9815.JPG 2009-05-20

IMG_9814.JPG
IMG_9814.JPG 2009-05-20

IMG_9830.JPG
IMG_9830.JPG 2009-05-21

IMG_9906.JPG
IMG_9906.JPG 2009-05-22

IMG_9907.JPG
IMG_9907.JPG 2009-05-22

IMG_9947.JPG
IMG_9947.JPG 2009-05-25

IMG_9948.JPG
IMG_9948.JPG 2009-05-25

IMG_9949.JPG
IMG_9949.JPG 2009-05-25

IMG_9950.JPG
IMG_9950.JPG 2009-05-25

IMG_9723.JPG
IMG_9723.JPG 2009-05-12

IMG_9716.JPG
IMG_9716.JPG 2009-05-11

IMG_9712.JPG
IMG_9712.JPG 2009-05-11

IMG_9674.JPG
IMG_9674.JPG 2009-05-09

IMG_9668.JPG
IMG_9668.JPG 2009-05-08

IMG_9665.JPG
IMG_9665.JPG 2009-05-08

IMG_9663.JPG
IMG_9663.JPG 2009-05-08

IMG_9655.JPG
IMG_9655.JPG 2009-05-08

IMG_9654.JPG
IMG_9654.JPG 2009-05-08

IMG_9647.JPG
IMG_9647.JPG 2009-05-06

IMG_9646.JPG
IMG_9646.JPG 2009-05-06

IMG_9991.JPG
IMG_9991.JPG 2009-05-29

IMG_9990.JPG
IMG_9990.JPG 2009-05-29

IMG_9989.JPG
IMG_9989.JPG 2009-05-29

IMG_9995.JPG
IMG_9995.JPG 2009-05-29

IMG_9998.JPG
IMG_9998.JPG 2009-05-29

IMG_0003.JPG
IMG_0003.JPG 2009-05-29

IMG_0006.JPG
IMG_0006.JPG 2009-05-29

IMG_0010.JPG
IMG_0010.JPG 2009-05-29

IMG_0012.JPG
IMG_0012.JPG 2009-05-29

IMG_0011.JPG
IMG_0011.JPG 2009-05-29

IMG_0014.JPG
IMG_0014.JPG 2009-05-29

IMG_0019.JPG
IMG_0019.JPG 2009-05-30

IMG_0021.JPG
IMG_0021.JPG 2009-05-30

IMG_0023.JPG
IMG_0023.JPG 2009-05-30

IMG_0035.JPG
IMG_0035.JPG 2009-06-02

IMG_0037.JPG
IMG_0037.JPG 2009-06-02

IMG_0038.JPG
IMG_0038.JPG 2009-06-02

IMG_0036.JPG
IMG_0036.JPG 2009-06-02

IMG_0039.JPG
IMG_0039.JPG 2009-06-02

IMG_0040.JPG
IMG_0040.JPG 2009-06-02

IMG_0042.JPG
IMG_0042.JPG 2009-06-02

IMG_0043.JPG
IMG_0043.JPG 2009-06-02

IMG_0086.JPG
IMG_0086.JPG 2009-06-03

IMG_0126.JPG
IMG_0126.JPG 2009-06-04

IMG_0131.JPG
IMG_0131.JPG 2009-06-04

IMG_0130.JPG
IMG_0130.JPG 2009-06-04

IMG_0132.JPG
IMG_0132.JPG 2009-06-04

IMG_0133.JPG
IMG_0133.JPG 2009-06-04

IMG_0191.JPG
IMG_0191.JPG 2009-06-05

IMG_0195.JPG
IMG_0195.JPG 2009-06-05

IMG_0197.JPG
IMG_0197.JPG 2009-06-05

IMG_0200.JPG
IMG_0200.JPG 2009-06-05

IMG_0201.JPG
IMG_0201.JPG 2009-06-05

IMG_0199.JPG
IMG_0199.JPG 2009-06-05

IMG_0203.JPG
IMG_0203.JPG 2009-06-05

IMG_0204.JPG
IMG_0204.JPG 2009-06-05

IMG_9644.JPG
IMG_9644.JPG 2009-05-06

IMG_9643.JPG
IMG_9643.JPG 2009-05-06

IMG_9642.JPG
IMG_9642.JPG 2009-05-06

IMG_9641.JPG
IMG_9641.JPG 2009-05-06

IMG_9640.JPG
IMG_9640.JPG 2009-05-06

IMG_9639.JPG
IMG_9639.JPG 2009-05-06

IMG_9638.JPG
IMG_9638.JPG 2009-05-06

IMG_9637.JPG
IMG_9637.JPG 2009-05-06

IMG_9566.JPG
IMG_9566.JPG 2009-05-02

IMG_9565.JPG
IMG_9565.JPG 2009-05-02

IMG_9610.JPG
IMG_9610.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9611.JPG
IMG_9611.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9612.JPG
IMG_9612.JPG 2009-05-05

IMG_9521.JPG
IMG_9521.JPG 2009-04-27

IMG_9520.JPG
IMG_9520.JPG 2009-04-27

IMG_9528.JPG
IMG_9528.JPG 2009-04-28

IMG_9284.JPG
IMG_9284.JPG 2009-04-24

IMG_9270.JPG
IMG_9270.JPG 2009-04-21

IMG_9269.JPG
IMG_9269.JPG 2009-04-21

IMG_9262.JPG
IMG_9262.JPG 2009-04-21

IMG_9268.JPG
IMG_9268.JPG 2009-04-21

IMG_9236.JPG
IMG_9236.JPG 2009-04-20

IMG_9231.JPG
IMG_9231.JPG 2009-04-20

IMG_9356.JPG
IMG_9356.JPG 2009-04-25

IMG_9365.JPG
IMG_9365.JPG 2009-04-25

IMG_9437.JPG
IMG_9437.JPG 2009-04-25

IMG_9438.JPG
IMG_9438.JPG 2009-04-25

IMG_9498.JPG
IMG_9498.JPG 2009-04-26

IMG_9290.JPG
IMG_9290.JPG 2009-04-24

IMG_9278.JPG
IMG_9278.JPG 2009-04-24

IMG_9225.JPG
IMG_9225.JPG 2009-04-19

IMG_9224.JPG
IMG_9224.JPG 2009-04-19

IMG_9223.JPG
IMG_9223.JPG 2009-04-19

IMG_9222.JPG
IMG_9222.JPG 2009-04-19

IMG_9220.JPG
IMG_9220.JPG 2009-04-19

IMG_9219.JPG
IMG_9219.JPG 2009-04-19

IMG_9207.JPG
IMG_9207.JPG 2009-04-18

IMG_9205.JPG
IMG_9205.JPG 2009-04-18

IMG_9104.JPG
IMG_9104.JPG 2009-04-15

IMG_9101.JPG
IMG_9101.JPG 2009-04-15

IMG_9106.JPG
IMG_9106.JPG 2009-04-16

IMG_9126.JPG
IMG_9126.JPG 2009-04-16

IMG_9128.JPG
IMG_9128.JPG 2009-04-16

IMG_9131.JPG
IMG_9131.JPG 2009-04-16

IMG_9138.JPG
IMG_9138.JPG 2009-04-16

IMG_9195.JPG
IMG_9195.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9190.JPG
IMG_9190.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9187.JPG
IMG_9187.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9186.JPG
IMG_9186.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9183.JPG
IMG_9183.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9182.JPG
IMG_9182.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9181.JPG
IMG_9181.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9149.JPG
IMG_9149.JPG 2009-04-16

IMG_9148.JPG
IMG_9148.JPG 2009-04-16

IMG_9146.JPG
IMG_9146.JPG 2009-04-16

IMG_9144.JPG
IMG_9144.JPG 2009-04-16

IMG_9145.JPG
IMG_9145.JPG 2009-04-16

IMG_8977.JPG
IMG_8977.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8980.JPG
IMG_8980.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8979.JPG
IMG_8979.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8978.JPG
IMG_8978.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8981.JPG
IMG_8981.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8983.JPG
IMG_8983.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8985.JPG
IMG_8985.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8987.JPG
IMG_8987.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8989.JPG
IMG_8989.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8988.JPG
IMG_8988.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8992.JPG
IMG_8992.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8993.JPG
IMG_8993.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8994.JPG
IMG_8994.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8995.JPG
IMG_8995.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8999.JPG
IMG_8999.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_9000.JPG
IMG_9000.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_9003.JPG
IMG_9003.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_9001.JPG
IMG_9001.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_9002.JPG
IMG_9002.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_9004.JPG
IMG_9004.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_9005.JPG
IMG_9005.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_9006.JPG
IMG_9006.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_9011.JPG
IMG_9011.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_9007.JPG
IMG_9007.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_9012.JPG
IMG_9012.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_9034.JPG
IMG_9034.JPG 2009-04-15

IMG_9085.JPG
IMG_9085.JPG 2009-04-15

IMG_9058.JPG
IMG_9058.JPG 2009-04-15

IMG_9077.JPG
IMG_9077.JPG 2009-04-15

IMG_9025.JPG
IMG_9025.JPG 2009-04-15

IMG_9028.JPG
IMG_9028.JPG 2009-04-15

IMG_9008.JPG
IMG_9008.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_9040.JPG
IMG_9040.JPG 2009-04-15

IMG_9017.JPG
IMG_9017.JPG 2009-04-15

IMG_8975.JPG
IMG_8975.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8996.JPG
IMG_8996.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8990.JPG
IMG_8990.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8986.JPG
IMG_8986.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8978.JPG
IMG_8978.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_8982.JPG
IMG_8982.JPG 2009-04-14

IMG_0886.JPG
IMG_0886.JPG 2009-07-05

IMG_0887.JPG
IMG_0887.JPG 2009-07-05

IMG_9521.JPG
IMG_9521.JPG 2009-04-27

IMG_9160.JPG
IMG_9160.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9169.JPG
IMG_9169.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_9173.JPG
IMG_9173.JPG 2009-04-17

IMG_4554.JPG
IMG_4554.JPG 2008-07-03

IMG_7509.JPG
IMG_7509.JPG 2008-12-26

IMG_7508.JPG
IMG_7508.JPG 2008-12-26

IMG_7507.JPG
IMG_7507.JPG 2008-12-26

IMG_7092.JPG
IMG_7092.JPG 2008-12-21

IMG_7081.JPG
IMG_7081.JPG 2008-12-21

IMG_6944.JPG
IMG_6944.JPG 2008-12-20

IMG_6861.JPG
IMG_6861.JPG 2008-12-19

IMG_6753.jpg
IMG_6753.jpg 2008-12-17

IMG_6690.JPG
IMG_6690.JPG 2008-12-13

IMG_6689.JPG
IMG_6689.JPG 2008-12-13

IMG_6688.JPG
IMG_6688.JPG 2008-12-13

IMG_6681.JPG
IMG_6681.JPG 2008-12-13

IMG_6646.jpg
IMG_6646.jpg 2008-12-13

IMG_6475.JPG
IMG_6475.JPG 2008-12-09

IMG_6466.JPG
IMG_6466.JPG 2008-12-07

IMG_6458.JPG
IMG_6458.JPG 2008-12-07

IMG_6318.JPG
IMG_6318.JPG 2008-12-02

IMG_6316.JPG
IMG_6316.JPG 2008-12-02

IMG_6308.JPG
IMG_6308.JPG 2008-11-29

IMG_6273.JPG
IMG_6273.JPG 2008-11-20

IMG_6266.JPG
IMG_6266.JPG 2008-11-20

IMG_6233.JPG
IMG_6233.JPG 2008-11-19

IMG_6226.JPG
IMG_6226.JPG 2008-11-19

IMG_6222.JPG
IMG_6222.JPG 2008-11-19

IMG_6141.JPG
IMG_6141.JPG 2008-11-02

IMG_6138.JPG
IMG_6138.JPG 2008-11-02

IMG_6127.JPG
IMG_6127.JPG 2008-10-31

IMG_6110.JPG
IMG_6110.JPG 2008-10-31

IMG_6102.JPG
IMG_6102.JPG 2008-10-31

IMG_6087.JPG
IMG_6087.JPG 2008-10-26

IMG_5946.JPG
IMG_5946.JPG 2008-10-20

IMG_5932.JPG
IMG_5932.JPG 2008-10-18

IMG_5844.JPG
IMG_5844.JPG 2008-10-03

IMG_5796.JPG
IMG_5796.JPG 2008-09-26

IMG_5783.JPG
IMG_5783.JPG 2008-09-23

IMG_5329.JPG
IMG_5329.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_5326.JPG
IMG_5326.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_5323.JPG
IMG_5323.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_5312.JPG
IMG_5312.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_5309.JPG
IMG_5309.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_5307.JPG
IMG_5307.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_5305.JPG
IMG_5305.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_5292.JPG
IMG_5292.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_5258.JPG
IMG_5258.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_5245.JPG
IMG_5245.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_5186.JPG
IMG_5186.JPG 2008-08-05

IMG_5153.JPG
IMG_5153.JPG 2008-08-05

IMG_5126.JPG
IMG_5126.JPG 2008-08-05

IMG_4856.JPG
IMG_4856.JPG 2008-07-14

IMG_4844.JPG
IMG_4844.JPG 2008-07-13

IMG_4840.JPG
IMG_4840.JPG 2008-07-10

IMG_4810.JPG
IMG_4810.JPG 2008-07-08

IMG_4809.JPG
IMG_4809.JPG 2008-07-08

IMG_4788.JPG
IMG_4788.JPG 2008-07-08

IMG_4763.JPG
IMG_4763.JPG 2008-07-07

IMG_4760.JPG
IMG_4760.JPG 2008-07-07

IMG_4755.JPG
IMG_4755.JPG 2008-07-07

IMG_4722.JPG
IMG_4722.JPG 2008-07-07

IMG_4722.JPG
IMG_4722.JPG 2008-07-07

IMG_4696.JPG
IMG_4696.JPG 2008-07-07

IMG_4678.JPG
IMG_4678.JPG 2008-07-07

IMG_4599.JPG
IMG_4599.JPG 2008-07-04

IMG_4579.JPG
IMG_4579.JPG 2008-07-04

IMG_4578.JPG
IMG_4578.JPG 2008-07-04

IMG_4537.JPG
IMG_4537.JPG 2008-07-02

IMG_4519.JPG
IMG_4519.JPG 2008-07-02

IMG_4495.JPG
IMG_4495.JPG 2008-07-02

IMG_4451.JPG
IMG_4451.JPG 2008-07-01

IMG_4442.JPG
IMG_4442.JPG 2008-07-01

IMG_4433.JPG
IMG_4433.JPG 2008-07-01

IMG_4413.JPG
IMG_4413.JPG 2008-07-01

IMG_4406.JPG
IMG_4406.JPG 2008-07-01

IMG_4387.JPG
IMG_4387.JPG 2008-07-01

IMG_4322.JPG
IMG_4322.JPG 2008-06-30

IMG_4318.JPG
IMG_4318.JPG 2008-06-30

IMG_4194.JPG
IMG_4194.JPG 2008-06-28

IMG_4046.JPG
IMG_4046.JPG 2008-06-28

IMG_4030.JPG
IMG_4030.JPG 2008-06-28

IMG_4026.JPG
IMG_4026.JPG 2008-06-28

IMG_3997.JPG
IMG_3997.JPG 2008-06-28

IMG_3932.JPG
IMG_3932.JPG 2008-06-26

IMG_3924.JPG
IMG_3924.JPG 2008-06-26

IMG_3900.JPG
IMG_3900.JPG 2008-06-25

IMG_3844.JPG
IMG_3844.JPG 2008-06-24

IMG_3663.JPG
IMG_3663.JPG 2008-06-16

IMG_3652.jpg
IMG_3652.jpg 2008-06-15

IMG_3638.JPG
IMG_3638.JPG 2008-06-15

IMG_3591.JPG
IMG_3591.JPG 2008-06-14

IMG_3588.JPG
IMG_3588.JPG 2008-06-14

IMG_3532.jpg
IMG_3532.jpg 2008-06-11

IMG_3530.jpg
IMG_3530.jpg 2008-06-11

IMG_3523.jpg
IMG_3523.jpg 2008-06-11

IMG_3508.jpg
IMG_3508.jpg 2008-06-11

IMG_3506.jpg
IMG_3506.jpg 2008-06-11

IMG_3492.JPG
IMG_3492.JPG 2008-06-09

IMG_3444.JPG
IMG_3444.JPG 2008-06-08

IMG_3437.JPG
IMG_3437.JPG 2008-06-08

IMG_3436.JPG
IMG_3436.JPG 2008-06-08

IMG_3427.JPG
IMG_3427.JPG 2008-06-08

IMG_3270.JPG
IMG_3270.JPG 2008-06-05

IMG_3263.JPG
IMG_3263.JPG 2008-06-05

IMG_3243.JPG
IMG_3243.JPG 2008-06-03

IMG_3232.JPG
IMG_3232.JPG 2008-06-03

IMG_3157.JPG
IMG_3157.JPG 2008-05-31

IMG_3105.JPG
IMG_3105.JPG 2008-05-30

IMG_3074.JPG
IMG_3074.JPG 2008-05-28

IMG_3061.JPG
IMG_3061.JPG 2008-05-28

IMG_2887.JPG
IMG_2887.JPG 2008-05-22

IMG_2886.JPG
IMG_2886.JPG 2008-05-22

IMG_2821.JPG
IMG_2821.JPG 2008-05-20

IMG_2767.JPG
IMG_2767.JPG 2008-05-16

IMG_2557
IMG_2557.JPG 2008-05-11

IMG_2474
IMG_2474.JPG 2008-05-10

IMG_2470
IMG_2470.JPG 2008-05-10

IMG_2469
IMG_2469.JPG 2008-05-10

IMG_2441.JPG
IMG_2441.JPG 2008-05-09

IMG_2412.JPG
IMG_2412.JPG 2008-05-09

IMG_2228.JPG
IMG_2228.JPG 2008-05-09

IMG_2177.JPG
IMG_2177.JPG 2008-05-08

IMG_2087.JPG
IMG_2087.JPG 2008-05-05

IMG_1882.JPG
IMG_1882.JPG 2008-05-01

IMG_1834.JPG
IMG_1834.JPG 2008-04-29

IMG_1830.JPG
IMG_1830.JPG 2008-04-29

IMG_1662.JPG
IMG_1662.JPG 2008-04-27

IMG_1443.JPG
IMG_1443.JPG 2008-04-19

IMG_1438.JPG
IMG_1438.JPG 2008-04-19

IMG_1423.JPG
IMG_1423.JPG 2008-03-31

IMG_1390.JPG
IMG_1390.JPG 2008-03-24

IMG_1370.jpg
IMG_1370.jpg 2008-03-20

IMG_1264.JPG
IMG_1264.JPG 2008-03-07

IMG_0783.JPG
IMG_0783.JPG 2008-01-04

IMG_0116.JPG
IMG_0116.JPG 2007-12-23

00340019
00340019.jpg 2008-11-30

IMG_8561.JPG
IMG_8561.JPG 2011-06-19

IMG_8573.JPG
IMG_8573.JPG 2011-06-19

IMG_8578.JPG
IMG_8578.JPG 2011-06-19

IMG_8579.JPG
IMG_8579.JPG 2011-06-19

IMG_8601.JPG
IMG_8601.JPG 2011-06-19

IMG_8604.JPG
IMG_8604.JPG 2011-06-19

IMG_8648.JPG
IMG_8648.JPG 2011-06-19

IMG_8660.JPG
IMG_8660.JPG 2011-06-19

IMG_8664.JPG
IMG_8664.JPG 2011-06-19

IMG_8668.JPG
IMG_8668.JPG 2011-06-19

IMG_8671.JPG
IMG_8671.JPG 2011-06-19

IMG_8675.JPG
IMG_8675.JPG 2011-06-19

IMG_8689.JPG
IMG_8689.JPG 2011-06-19

IMG_8692.JPG
IMG_8692.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8701.JPG
IMG_8701.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8710.JPG
IMG_8710.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8715.JPG
IMG_8715.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8720.JPG
IMG_8720.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8721.JPG
IMG_8721.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8723.JPG
IMG_8723.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8726.JPG
IMG_8726.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8730.JPG
IMG_8730.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8733.JPG
IMG_8733.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8740.JPG
IMG_8740.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8741.JPG
IMG_8741.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8746.JPG
IMG_8746.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8748.JPG
IMG_8748.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8750.JPG
IMG_8750.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8751.JPG
IMG_8751.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8752.JPG
IMG_8752.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8754.JPG
IMG_8754.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8756.JPG
IMG_8756.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8757.JPG
IMG_8757.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8758.JPG
IMG_8758.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8766.JPG
IMG_8766.JPG 2011-06-20

IMG_8772.JPG
IMG_8772.JPG 2011-06-21

IMG_8774.JPG
IMG_8774.JPG 2011-06-21

IMG_8778.JPG
IMG_8778.JPG 2011-06-21

IMG_8785.JPG
IMG_8785.JPG 2011-06-21

IMG_8790.JPG
IMG_8790.JPG 2011-06-21

IMG_8799.JPG
IMG_8799.JPG 2011-06-21

IMG_8804.JPG
IMG_8804.JPG 2011-06-21

IMG_8806.JPG
IMG_8806.JPG 2011-06-21

IMG_8811.JPG
IMG_8811.JPG 2011-06-21

IMG_8813.JPG
IMG_8813.JPG 2011-06-21

IMG_8824.JPG
IMG_8824.JPG 2011-06-26

IMG_8843.JPG
IMG_8843.JPG 2011-06-26

IMG_8846.JPG
IMG_8846.JPG 2011-06-26

IMG_8851.JPG
IMG_8851.JPG 2011-06-26

IMG_8852.JPG
IMG_8852.JPG 2011-06-26

IMG_8855.JPG
IMG_8855.JPG 2011-06-26

IMG_8857.JPG
IMG_8857.JPG 2011-06-26

IMG_8858.JPG
IMG_8858.JPG 2011-06-26

IMG_8859.JPG
IMG_8859.JPG 2011-06-26

IMG_8861.JPG
IMG_8861.JPG 2011-06-26

IMG_8862.JPG
IMG_8862.JPG 2011-06-26

IMG_8353.JPG
IMG_8353.JPG 2011-06-03

IMG_8354.JPG
IMG_8354.JPG 2011-06-03

IMG_8360.JPG
IMG_8360.JPG 2011-06-05

IMG_8368.JPG
IMG_8368.JPG 2011-06-05

IMG_8370.JPG
IMG_8370.JPG 2011-06-05

IMG_8374.JPG
IMG_8374.JPG 2011-06-05

IMG_8376.JPG
IMG_8376.JPG 2011-06-05

IMG_8377.JPG
IMG_8377.JPG 2011-06-05

IMG_8383.JPG
IMG_8383.JPG 2011-06-05

IMG_8387.JPG
IMG_8387.JPG 2011-06-05

IMG_8388.JPG
IMG_8388.JPG 2011-06-05

IMG_8390.JPG
IMG_8390.JPG 2011-06-05

IMG_8394.JPG
IMG_8394.JPG 2011-06-05

IMG_8401.JPG
IMG_8401.JPG 2011-06-05

IMG_8403.JPG
IMG_8403.JPG 2011-06-06

IMG_8411.JPG
IMG_8411.JPG 2011-06-06

IMG_8413.JPG
IMG_8413.JPG 2011-06-06

IMG_8414.JPG
IMG_8414.JPG 2011-06-08

IMG_8423.JPG
IMG_8423.JPG 2011-06-08

IMG_8424.JPG
IMG_8424.JPG 2011-06-08

IMG_8426.JPG
IMG_8426.JPG 2011-06-10

IMG_8430.JPG
IMG_8430.JPG 2011-06-10

IMG_8443.JPG
IMG_8443.JPG 2011-06-10

IMG_8444.JPG
IMG_8444.JPG 2011-06-10

IMG_8461.JPG
IMG_8461.JPG 2011-06-10

IMG_8466.JPG
IMG_8466.JPG 2011-06-10

IMG_8471.JPG
IMG_8471.JPG 2011-06-10

IMG_8476.JPG
IMG_8476.JPG 2011-06-10

IMG_8477.JPG
IMG_8477.JPG 2011-06-10

IMG_8488.JPG
IMG_8488.JPG 2011-06-10

IMG_8490.JPG
IMG_8490.JPG 2011-06-10

IMG_8520.JPG
IMG_8520.JPG 2011-06-12

IMG_8521.JPG
IMG_8521.JPG 2011-06-12

IMG_8532.JPG
IMG_8532.JPG 2011-06-12

IMG_8539.JPG
IMG_8539.JPG 2011-06-12

IMG_8542.JPG
IMG_8542.JPG 2011-06-13

IMG_8543.JPG
IMG_8543.JPG 2011-06-13

IMG_8545.JPG
IMG_8545.JPG 2011-06-15

IMG_8555.JPG
IMG_8555.JPG 2011-06-17

IMG_8874.JPG
IMG_8874.JPG 2011-06-28

IMG_8876.JPG
IMG_8876.JPG 2011-07-02

IMG_8878.JPG
IMG_8878.JPG 2011-07-02

IMG_8881.JPG
IMG_8881.JPG 2011-07-02

IMG_8885.JPG
IMG_8885.JPG 2011-07-02

IMG_8892.JPG
IMG_8892.JPG 2011-07-02

IMG_8902.JPG
IMG_8902.JPG 2011-07-03

IMG_8901.JPG
IMG_8901.JPG 2011-07-03

IMG_8903.JPG
IMG_8903.JPG 2011-07-03

IMG_8905.JPG
IMG_8905.JPG 2011-07-03

IMG_8906.JPG
IMG_8906.JPG 2011-07-03

IMG_8907.JPG
IMG_8907.JPG 2011-07-03

IMG_8909.JPG
IMG_8909.JPG 2011-07-03

IMG_8908.JPG
IMG_8908.JPG 2011-07-03

IMG_8910.JPG
IMG_8910.JPG 2011-07-03

IMG_8911.JPG
IMG_8911.JPG 2011-07-03

IMG_8912.JPG
IMG_8912.JPG 2011-07-03

IMG_8914.JPG
IMG_8914.JPG 2011-07-03

IMG_8915.JPG
IMG_8915.JPG 2011-07-03

IMG_8918.JPG
IMG_8918.JPG 2011-07-03

IMG_8925.JPG
IMG_8925.JPG 2011-07-03

IMG_8936.JPG
IMG_8936.JPG 2011-07-03

IMG_8937.JPG
IMG_8937.JPG 2011-07-03

IMG_8939.JPG
IMG_8939.JPG 2011-07-03

IMG_8943.JPG
IMG_8943.JPG 2011-07-03

IMG_0098.JPG
IMG_0098.JPG 2011-07-04

IMG_0099.JPG
IMG_0099.JPG 2011-07-04

IMG_0209.JPG
IMG_0209.JPG 2011-07-04

IMG_8966.JPG
IMG_8966.JPG 2011-07-04

IMG_8975.JPG
IMG_8975.JPG 2011-07-04

IMG_8978.JPG
IMG_8978.JPG 2011-07-04

IMG_8982.JPG
IMG_8982.JPG 2011-07-04

IMG_8986.JPG
IMG_8986.JPG 2011-07-04

IMG_8991.JPG
IMG_8991.JPG 2011-07-05

IMG_8999.JPG
IMG_8999.JPG 2011-07-05

IMG_9006.JPG
IMG_9006.JPG 2011-07-05

IMG_9015.JPG
IMG_9015.JPG 2011-07-05

IMG_9021.JPG
IMG_9021.JPG 2011-07-08

IMG_9049.JPG
IMG_9049.JPG 2011-07-14

IMG_9053.JPG
IMG_9053.JPG 2011-07-18

IMG_9055.JPG
IMG_9055.JPG 2011-07-18

IMG_9064.JPG
IMG_9064.JPG 2011-07-18

IMG_9069.JPG
IMG_9069.JPG 2011-07-18

IMG_9075.JPG
IMG_9075.JPG 2011-07-18

IMG_9079.JPG
IMG_9079.JPG 2011-07-18

IMG_9084.JPG
IMG_9084.JPG 2011-07-18

IMG_9092.JPG
IMG_9092.JPG 2011-07-21

IMG_9094.JPG
IMG_9094.JPG 2011-07-21

IMG_9096.JPG
IMG_9096.JPG 2011-07-21

IMG_9098.JPG
IMG_9098.JPG 2011-07-21

IMG_9103.JPG
IMG_9103.JPG 2011-07-21

IMG_9108.JPG
IMG_9108.JPG 2011-07-21

IMG_9110.JPG
IMG_9110.JPG 2011-07-21

IMG_9112.JPG
IMG_9112.JPG 2011-07-21

IMG_9134.JPG
IMG_9134.JPG 2011-07-28

IMG_9143.JPG
IMG_9143.JPG 2011-07-29

IMG_9145.JPG
IMG_9145.JPG 2011-07-29

IMG_9146.JPG
IMG_9146.JPG 2011-07-29

IMG_9154.JPG
IMG_9154.JPG 2011-07-29

IMG_9155.JPG
IMG_9155.JPG 2011-07-30

IMG_9156.JPG
IMG_9156.JPG 2011-07-30

IMG_0886.JPG
IMG_0886.JPG 2009-07-05

IMG_0887.JPG
IMG_0887.JPG 2009-07-05

IMG_0929.JPG
IMG_0929.JPG 2009-07-11

IMG_1126.JPG
IMG_1126.JPG 2009-07-16

IMG_1363
IMG_1363.jpg 2006-09-01

00610011
00610011.jpg 2009-01-13

00610008
00610008.jpg 2009-01-13

SUNP0124.JPG
SUNP0124.JPG 2004-02-18

portrait by Wyatt "smile like this, Cadence"
SUNP0003.JPG 2004-01-01

01480012
01480012.jpg 2009-01-13

10110002
10110002.jpg 2009-01-13

10080012
10080012.jpg 2009-01-13

07640012
07640012.jpg 2009-01-13

07640007
07640007.jpg 2009-01-13

07640008
07640008.jpg 2009-01-13

27700008
27700008.jpg 2009-01-13

01060014
01060014.jpg 2009-01-13

01050021
01050021.jpg 2009-01-13

patriotic cousins Cadence, TJ, Wyatt
01060008.jpg 2009-01-13

01060011
01060011.jpg 2009-01-13

01060019
01060019.jpg 2009-01-13

01060017
01060017.jpg 2009-01-13

Bryce holding Heidi
IMG_0201.JPG 2007-12-24

getting to know Charlie
01070002.jpg 2009-01-13

Heidi in furniture packing
01100015.jpg 2009-01-13

01120022
01120022.jpg 2009-01-13

IMG_0809.JPG
IMG_0809.JPG 2008-01-04

clean Heidi cat
IMG_0804.JPG 2008-01-04

IMG_0910.JPG
IMG_0910.JPG 2008-01-15

dressed herself
IMG_1086.JPG 2008-01-26

fell in the mud more than once.
IMG_2767.JPG 2008-05-16

fun, but not open
IMG_3263.JPG 2008-06-05

IMG_3427.JPG
IMG_3427.JPG 2008-06-08

fork to mouth coordination
IMG_3436.JPG 2008-06-08

got it! looks like Sawyer missed
IMG_3437.JPG 2008-06-08

mmmmmmmm fuzzy
IMG_3924.JPG 2008-06-26

morning book
IMG_1438.JPG 2008-04-19

IMG_7509.JPG
Sawyer   IMG_7509.JPG 2008-12-26

IMG_7508.JPG
Sawyer   IMG_7508.JPG 2008-12-26

cooper's happy about new cookbook
Cooper  IMG_7507.JPG 2008-12-26

who needs pants if you have gloves
IMG_7092.JPG 2008-12-21

Heidi and Freckles
Heidi and Freckles  IMG_7081.JPG 2008-12-21

breakfast waffles
IMG_6944.JPG 2008-12-20

fun deep snow
IMG_6861.JPG 2008-12-19

Heidi in snowsuit
IMG_6753.jpg 2008-12-17

IMG_6690.JPG
IMG_6690.JPG 2008-12-13

IMG_6689.JPG
IMG_6689.JPG 2008-12-13

we love birthdays
IMG_6688.JPG 2008-12-13

IMG_6681.JPG
IMG_6681.JPG 2008-12-13

IMG_6646.jpg
IMG_6646.jpg 2008-12-13

Dad's success
IMG_6475.JPG 2008-12-09

IMG_6466.JPG
IMG_6466.JPG 2008-12-07

duck meat
"I want to hold the duck meat!"  IMG_6458.JPG 2008-12-07

IMG_6318.JPG
IMG_6318.JPG 2008-12-02

IMG_6316.JPG
IMG_6316.JPG 2008-12-02

sweet sleeper
IMG_6308.JPG 2008-11-29

IMG_6273.JPG
IMG_6273.JPG 2008-11-20

IMG_6266.JPG
IMG_6266.JPG 2008-11-20

Heidi painted
Painting  IMG_6233.JPG 2008-11-19

they're not gloves
Cadence painting  IMG_6226.JPG 2008-11-19

Heidi painting (why do we give her paper?)
Heidi painting  IMG_6222.JPG 2008-11-19

IMG_6141.JPG
IMG_6141.JPG 2008-11-02

IMG_6138.JPG
IMG_6138.JPG 2008-11-02

it's a black and yellow butterfly
IMG_6127.JPG 2008-10-31

IMG_6110.JPG
IMG_6110.JPG 2008-10-31

IMG_6102.JPG
IMG_6102.JPG 2008-10-31

Heidi shopping
Shopping  IMG_6087.JPG 2008-10-26

who's having more fun?
IMG_5946.JPG 2008-10-20

TJ and pumpkin
TJ  IMG_5932.JPG 2008-10-18

sleeping on back of couch
IMG_5844.JPG 2008-10-03

she's sleeping, not facing east
IMG_5796.JPG 2008-09-26

fat frog!
IMG_5783.JPG 2008-09-23

IMG_5329.JPG
IMG_5329.JPG 2008-08-06

serious camper
IMG_5326.JPG 2008-08-06

camping with Dad
IMG_5323.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_5312.JPG
IMG_5312.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_5309.JPG
IMG_5309.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_5307.JPG
IMG_5307.JPG 2008-08-06

gravity
IMG_5305.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_5292.JPG
IMG_5292.JPG 2008-08-06

so cool
IMG_5258.JPG 2008-08-06

cold water!
Oooo! Cold!   IMG_5245.JPG 2008-08-06

IMG_5186.JPG
IMG_5186.JPG 2008-08-05

looking at the big bug
IMG_5153.JPG 2008-08-05

really, she is sweet
IMG_5126.JPG 2008-08-05

IMG_4856.JPG
IMG_4856.JPG 2008-07-14

mmmmmm Daddy
IMG_4844.JPG 2008-07-13

Wyatt's so fun!
IMG_4840.JPG 2008-07-10

IMG_4810.JPG
IMG_4810.JPG 2008-07-08

IMG_4809.JPG
IMG_4809.JPG 2008-07-08

IMG_4788.JPG
IMG_4788.JPG 2008-07-08

IMG_4763.JPG
IMG_4763.JPG 2008-07-07

IMG_4760.JPG
IMG_4760.JPG 2008-07-07

IMG_4755.JPG
IMG_4755.JPG 2008-07-07

IMG_4722.JPG
IMG_4722.JPG 2008-07-07

IMG_4722.JPG
IMG_4722.JPG 2008-07-07

Heidi's trick
Heidi's trick  IMG_4696.JPG 2008-07-07

IMG_4678.JPG
IMG_4678.JPG 2008-07-07

IMG_4599.JPG
IMG_4599.JPG 2008-07-04

IMG_4579.JPG
IMG_4579.JPG 2008-07-04

TJ
IMG_4578.JPG 2008-07-04

IMG_4554.JPG
IMG_4554.JPG 2008-07-03

Heidi's so funny!
IMG_4537.JPG 2008-07-02

not what you expected?
IMG_4519.JPG 2008-07-02

IMG_4495.JPG
IMG_4495.JPG 2008-07-02

IMG_4451.JPG
IMG_4451.JPG 2008-07-01

IMG_4442.JPG
IMG_4442.JPG 2008-07-01

IMG_4433.JPG
IMG_4433.JPG 2008-07-01

IMG_4413.JPG
IMG_4413.JPG 2008-07-01

IMG_4406.JPG
IMG_4406.JPG 2008-07-01

IMG_4387.JPG
IMG_4387.JPG 2008-07-01

curly q
IMG_4322.JPG 2008-06-30

IMG_4318.JPG
IMG_4318.JPG 2008-06-30

IMG_4194.JPG
IMG_4194.JPG 2008-06-28

IMG_4046.JPG
IMG_4046.JPG 2008-06-28

IMG_4030.JPG
IMG_4030.JPG 2008-06-28

IMG_4026.JPG
IMG_4026.JPG 2008-06-28

IMG_3997.JPG
IMG_3997.JPG 2008-06-28

IMG_3932.JPG
IMG_3932.JPG 2008-06-26

IMG_3924.JPG
IMG_3924.JPG 2008-06-26

IMG_3900.JPG
IMG_3900.JPG 2008-06-25

IMG_3844.JPG
IMG_3844.JPG 2008-06-24

IMG_3663.JPG
IMG_3663.JPG 2008-06-16

IMG_3652.jpg
IMG_3652.jpg 2008-06-15

IMG_3638.JPG
IMG_3638.JPG 2008-06-15

IMG_3591.JPG
IMG_3591.JPG 2008-06-14

weird breakfast
IMG_3588.JPG 2008-06-14

Wyatt's first duck
IMG_3532.jpg 2008-06-11

cuddly duckling
IMG_3530.jpg 2008-06-11

excited about the ducklings
IMG_3523.jpg 2008-06-11

bringing home the ducklings
IMG_3508.jpg 2008-06-11

picking up the ducklings
IMG_3506.jpg 2008-06-11

IMG_3492.JPG
IMG_3492.JPG 2008-06-09

IMG_3444.JPG
IMG_3444.JPG 2008-06-08

got it! looks like Sawyer missed
IMG_3437.JPG 2008-06-08

fork to mouth coordination
IMG_3436.JPG 2008-06-08

IMG_3427.JPG
IMG_3427.JPG 2008-06-08

IMG_3270.JPG
IMG_3270.JPG 2008-06-05

IMG_3263.JPG
IMG_3263.JPG 2008-06-05

IMG_3243.JPG
IMG_3243.JPG 2008-06-03

IMG_3232.JPG
IMG_3232.JPG 2008-06-03

IMG_3157.JPG
IMG_3157.JPG 2008-05-31

IMG_3105.JPG
IMG_3105.JPG 2008-05-30

IMG_3074.JPG
IMG_3074.JPG 2008-05-28

IMG_3061.JPG
IMG_3061.JPG 2008-05-28

IMG_2887.JPG
IMG_2887.JPG 2008-05-22

IMG_2886.JPG
IMG_2886.JPG 2008-05-22

IMG_2821.JPG
IMG_2821.JPG 2008-05-20

IMG_2767.JPG
IMG_2767.JPG 2008-05-16

IMG_2557
IMG_2557.JPG 2008-05-11

IMG_2474
IMG_2474.JPG 2008-05-10

IMG_2470
IMG_2470.JPG 2008-05-10

IMG_2469
IMG_2469.JPG 2008-05-10

IMG_2441.JPG
IMG_2441.JPG 2008-05-09

IMG_2412.JPG
IMG_2412.JPG 2008-05-09

IMG_2228.JPG
IMG_2228.JPG 2008-05-09

IMG_2177.JPG
IMG_2177.JPG 2008-05-08

IMG_2087.JPG
IMG_2087.JPG 2008-05-05

IMG_1882.JPG
IMG_1882.JPG 2008-05-01

IMG_1834.JPG
IMG_1834.JPG 2008-04-29

IMG_1830.JPG
IMG_1830.JPG 2008-04-29

IMG_1662.JPG
IMG_1662.JPG 2008-04-27

IMG_1443.JPG
IMG_1443.JPG 2008-04-19

IMG_1423.JPG
IMG_1423.JPG 2008-03-31

IMG_1390.JPG
IMG_1390.JPG 2008-03-24

IMG_1370.jpg
IMG_1370.jpg 2008-03-20

IMG_1264.JPG
IMG_1264.JPG 2008-03-07

IMG_0783.JPG
IMG_0783.JPG 2008-01-04

IMG_0116.JPG
IMG_0116.JPG 2007-12-23

00340019
00340019.jpg 2008-11-30