Dancing Chickens

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Busy Being Me

On our way home from Ella's gymnastics class, she and I had the following conversation:

Ella: "Mom, why haven't we done our alone time yet?"
Mom: "Well, we've been pretty busy lately...Max and Sophie were busy with Nature Camp, Alex has been busy with WoW, you've been busy with gymnastics..."
Ella: Mom, I've been busy being me."

Yes indeed.

Some of our wonderful busy-ness:

1).The Coulters came for a visit. As usual, Shanna inspired me beyond belief and we worked diligently researching and testing all natural ways to make my aprons water repellent, with bees wax :)
2). Sophie injuring herself, having to get a tetanus shot, reacting VERY badly to the tetanus shot(her first ever immunization), then having minor surgery to remove pieces of wood from her foot
3). Alex leaving on his very first ever trip ALONE to Hawk Circle, in upstate NY, where he had to fly by himself
4). Losing computer and email function for several days, on ALL our home computers
5). Getting tickets, through Madeline, for So You Think You Can Dance
6). Having our neighbor come shoot a sick, possibly rabid raccoon
7). Making bread
8). Gardening
9). Eating tomatoes
10). Eating more tomatoes

Monday, July 13, 2009

The Screamin' Serpent

Max decided to try his hand at this very difficult K'Nex building project, generously given to us by the Traaseths. With Alex away and not able to help, I was a bit concerned that Max would struggle and end up getting frustrated. I needn't have bothered. After 3 long days of constant work and a complete taking apart and starting over incident, Max succeeded. He did it. All by himself :)

Getting started

Taking it all apart

Rebuilding

Ah...Sweet Success!

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

"U" is for You and Me....

"N" is for Anywhere and Anytime at All,
Hanging with Our Buddies!

Monday, July 6, 2009

Seeing the World Through Rose Colored Glasses

....Or through the lens of an underwater camera.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

"F" is for Friends that do stuff together....

I love friends :)
We had the best weekend with Madeline and Nicolas and Gillan and Jesse. Just absolutely perfect, if not quite long enough!

Madeline captured our trip to the Falls on her blog. I wanted to wait to get back the waterproof camera pictures from the camera she brought me just for that purpose. It was WAY harder than I imagined, with the water pummeling down on me as I tried to look up. We all had a go, with some very interesting results, to be put in a later blog post.

In addition to our trip to the Falls, we also went to our favorite pizza and ice cream spot in St. Elmo, and the cool playground with the giant horse penis zip line. We fooled around with my new digital Rebel (hehehe..my surprise bday present from Juan Miguel!) trying to capture night pictures at the park. I'm not sure how successful we were at the photos, but I'm fairly certain I blinded several children in the process with the crazy flash.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Celebrating Sophie

Sophie, enjoying her gifts :)

Totoro...Finally!

WoW Guild Shirts

Sunday, June 21, 2009

37 Years....A retrospective

My mom brought me a bunch of old pictures recently, which led me down a path of revisiting my life. As we went through the pictures, the kids and I compared how different I looked from myself of today, but how similar, at different stages in my life, I looked like one of my children or another. I started thinking about who I was during these different times in my life. I decided to get all the pictures in one place...the good, the bad, and the ugly... to remind myself of the path I took to become who I am today.