June 2011

I haven't really had much time to blog. With the yard and the animals, the kids, school, violin, life is pretty full. I want to put some photos up and show what our cute girls did the summer. I think life is so full of fun days and moments. We got some on camera... I will post more in the next week.

Auntie Chelan with Gage and the girls. When she goes out with Mercedes and Gage, people always ask if they are twins. they have really similar coloring and are close in size.

We got mercedes a helmet for the bike trailer. She wants to wear it all the time.
Post all you can eat Sweet tomatoes photo. Our favorite place to eat! Cy is so funny!
Isaac bought a whole bag of carrots and was going to wash them and cut them into sticks. Before doing so, he gave them all to the girls to play with. They had a blast!
I dislike dirty laundry, but how can you get upset at your kid when they wipe their hands on their pants when it looks so darn cute!

Mercedes always puts glasses on upside down!

We went to a wedding reception of a friend of mine from college show choir. The girls loved running around outside and Isaac took some cute photos of them.
They ran and ran. Cy danced and danced too.
Upscale reunited (well half of us). What a lovely bride.

Ok, not the most flattering photo... I fixed the dryer, and Isaac took a photo. I was climbing behind it to check the venting. It ended up being the coils. It worked for another month before the motor started to go out. Dan & Georgia opted for a new set. Yay! Who knew I could be so handy with the appliances?

We make a lot of pancakes. Since I am not that good at pouring the batter into fun shapes, we cut it up after! Cy loves butterflys.
We visited my parents and the girls had a wonderful time playing in their amazingly beautiful backyard. Retirement is good on the yards!
My beautiful babies!
This is one of my favorite action shots of Cyprus ever.
We got the yard up and running here. I went to Gareth's Nursery and he gave me a bunch of garden veggies for my birthday. We got the garden all ready and planted and spent hours doing yard work. It is quite time consuming, but good to be out working the land.

AND ANNOUNCING...BABIES

We love goat milk, so we bred all our goats in December and yesterday morning, we came out and Canela had triplets! They are the cutest things you have ever seen. Then, later in the day, Tsunami was acting a little funny. We put her in the goat house and went swimming and an hour later, she had twins!

This is Tsunami's. He is part mini mancha, so he has teeny nubs for ears. His twin is light brown like the other babies but has the mini ears too.
Here are Canela's babies. She had 2 girls and a boy. They are so sweet. They already hop around and play.

my fish

Isaac takes cy to the pool when he can. She's getting good!

Baking with Auntie Bethany

Mercedes and Cyprus love to help in the kitchen. You can't see it as well as I would like, but they are COVERED in flour! Mercedes is really learning to talk too.

Friday, April 29th

The 24 hour bug went through our house this week. Cy & Isaac got it Weds and Thurs. I got it Thurs night. I was hoping that by Friday morning I would be all better... I woke up and was not better until right before we left. We had a big day. Isaac's graduation and my first violin recital.

Cyprus loved seeing her Nonnie, Grammers, Papa Doc, and Papa, Aunties Mindy and Chelan and Uncle Scott, and her cousins Gage and Landon. By the way, this photo is the only good one of Cyprus I've gotten since she decided she has her new smile. that looks more like a painful smirk.

Isaac was so excited (as was I) to get his B.S. in English Literature. The convocation was pretty good and not toooo long. There were some interesting speeches from the valedictorian and a strange poem recitation too. Oh well, it was all worth it.
Thanks to all those that came to support Isaac!
I started taking violin lessons mid January. I really love the violin and am really thankful for the opportunity I have. I played Minuet 3 by Bach and a Vivaldi Concerto for 2 violins (pretty simple one). It went so well excepting the part during my first piece when both of my daughters literally started to scream at each other! I guess it was just like my practicing:) They were good for the rest of the recital. At least it was during my song that they freaked out and not one of the others'.

2011 so far

So, I go through phases of blogging and not blogging. Here is my attempt to play catch up.

There have been a lot of fun things we are doing now. Mostly just living though!

Here is Mercedes hurt feelings face:

Mercedes loves fruit smoothies... I even added spinach to this one and you can't even tell!
My girls' dress up box has a variety of strange costumes... Harry and the Hendersons, Princess Aurora, Belle and Nacho Libre. Not such a great costume, but hilarious when your 18 month old comes out of her room with it on just to show you how cute she is!
I've been able to collect eggs from the neighbor's chickens and ducks. Look at the beautiful natural rainbow! I blew some of them out and made a pretty Easter/Spring decoration I'll post a photo of later.
Mercedes found Cyprus' lip gloss. Yes she did that all by herself.
Amanda and I bonded over building this funny teepee in the back yard. It was pretty cool. As soon as we left it, all the goats went inside it. After a few days, they had knocked the whole thing over. Now it is a pile of sticks.
My girls love the tub. Check out those cute red lips! They didn't get those from me!
On April 9th we went to the Carl Bloch exhibit. It is amazing! You have til May 7th I think, to go! His work is so beautiful. My favorite was the one of the Angel comforting Christ in Gethsemane.
Peace at last!
Makeup dress up day: Cyprus LOVES make up. We did all of it but mascara on her. This was my last day as a 29 year old. I am now 30. Feeling good though! I remember when I thought 30 was ancient. My perspective is constantly changing!
Congrats to my Mom! She got her Associates in Nursing. She has worked hard for 3 years to do all the prerequisites and required nursing courses. She blew all the "young" ones out of the water with her amazing grades and test scores.
We got chocolate covered macadamia nuts from Mindy... Mercedes found them!
So excited for 2011. We've had a good first 4 months.