Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Lunar Eclipse, Cookies, Spring, and Gourmet Cooking

We managed to wake up the kids for the lunar eclipse...
They came, they saw, and then they snored.

conference coloing

Eliza loves to help in the kitchen, and is, as she told me
a really good cooker!




Out the window of our schoolroom...ah I LOVE TREES





I had to take a picture of Hazel on the trampoline...
then we had to comb out all those knots!

We went to Costco in preparation for conference and they had watermelon, which no one in our family can resist.  Lucy got to sit in the cart, on the watermelon.  When we got home she cried for her "pumpkins" to sit on.  Puzzled I could not imagine what she was talking about, at last it dawned on me that she was equating the watermelon to pumpkin.  Logical, I guess.  I corrected her, and now she call them waterpumpkins.  Her brain just cannot grasp that they are called watermelon.  Maybe by the end of the summer she will have it down :)

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Sunday, March 29, 2015

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Happy Happy Birthday time .... Again....



I love this shot of Lucy eating sprinkles, and then eating a sugar snap pea, which you can still see in her mouth :)






So Miriam turned eight...

We love our little Miriam.  She was so patient as the little girls opened her presents, and decorated her cake with letter "E's" that we took off right after :)

She is so excited about life and happy to be a friend to everyone who comes her way.  She has a tender heart and a loving disposition.  She is the most reliable little babysitter we have (not that we leave her alone), but she can be trusted to follow around her little sisters and make sure they are safe and happy.

I wish I had more kids just as good as her!  Oh....yeah... we do!  and we love them all.

Happy Birthday Miriam!

Friday, March 20, 2015

Spring...

So we learned today is a pretty special day.  Not only is it the Spring equinox, but it is also the day of a total solar eclipse (unfortunately not seen in the US), it is exactly halfway between all the blood moons of the tetrach, and a super moon(the moon will orbit as close to the earth as possible) tonight.  WOW!!!

With those historic facts out of the way, we are enjoying spring coming into our little corner of the world, picking daffodils, riding bikes, playing in the sandbox, and just watching the leaves come back.

We went on a family walk the other night and I was just laughing as I walked in the road for a small part of the journey.  Lucy came running over to me, I was worried she was making bee-line for the road, but I needn't have worried, as she was only coming to my rescue.  She said very seriously, "Mommy...NOT IN THE ROAD, come on, off the road on the walk."

Her consciousness is impressive.  She was watching me intently as I ate some strawberries the other day, not sure what she was getting at, because I know she does not like strawberries, I asked her, "Lucy, what do you want?"

She replied, "Chew it Mommy, not choke!"

Ah she loves me, so she keeps me safe!
Trust me when you are this cute, you need your beauty sleep



Kids treasures from the beach...




The new captain safety!

Oh...My...Bubblious!


Oh, I caught one!

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Happy Birthday, a little bit late...

She's cute, she's two, and she LOVES sprinkles!!!!

This moment was captured by Jacob

Yes, that is one of many empty sprinkle containers that remained after her party 

Lucy's personal slice of "cake"

Here's the proof!  Caught her sprinkle handed.

Since Lucy does not like cake, or ice cream, or whip cream, we decided to indulge her passion for small sweet sprinkles.  We had a cake for show ad let her cover it in sprinkles.  She nibbled and nibbled until she had had enough sprinkles for a life time, then she politely said, "All done."

I suppose it is worth noting that she calls sprinkles,
"MINKLES"

We love our little birthday girlie :)
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