Good Read

I picked up a great little book today in Chickadee's classroom.  It's a quick read (couple hours),

 and a great one.  Young girl, autistic brother, growing pains - Super! -made me cry.  

Rules-(Newbery-Honor-Book)

Another Birthday Girl!

So, over the summer, our Little Red turned 5.  Wow.  We had a family party at Chuck-E-Cheese

 and everyone had fun.  She's so big now, she loves to tie her shoes, she is learning to ride a

 bike, and she loves Kindergarten, except when she hates it.  She is an all around joy to her

 family!   I don't know anyone who can resist her charms. 

 Happy Birthday Sweet Cakes!

(I know, the pics are crooked, I'm still figuring out the software on our new comp. 

 I'm going to have to fix them in the camera 'til I figure it out. Sorry)   

10 min update

-we have a laptop now (a Mac) and our desktop is dead. (replacement for Christmas probably)

-school is in session, 2 girls love it, every morning the other 2 girls say they're not going, 

but we manage to get them there anyway.

-I spent the bulk of my day cleaning up my overrun garden of weeds, aphids, ants,

 and powdery mildew.  I think we'll get just a few pumpkins for carving, and more 

peppers, tomatoes and zuccini.

-the rest of my day (before I get kids, in 5 min) has been catching up on my friends blogs. 

 I still have  few to catch up on, but I figured some of you may look here for an update,

 so I better have one.

I have 4 min to put up a few pictures.  Glad to be back, got a bunch of stuff to catch

 up on.

The girls are only frowning because I told them their game was over.

Silly first day of school pic. 

The R_____   Trifecta

 (as thy are known as at their TeaKwonDo academy.)

Ack!  I'm late.......

Acceptable Excuses?

Yes, it has been way too long since an update. But this is not the update you have been
waiting for. This is a hurried explanation from a friend's computer.

Our Computer Broke!!! Not just a power supply, not just a keyboard, or a printer,
or the internet connection (all of which we can handle quite well), but our operating system
no longer wants to operate! Lovely.

We'll be back up whenever we get it fixed, or buy a new one. Hope everyone is having a
great summer! Safe travels!

Newest look

Our own Big Red has a new look. Cute, cute, blue glasses! She loves them.

Slightly near sighted like her mother, she wears them all the time so that
she can see detail far away. Here is her most memorable quote after picking
them up from Wal-Mart. We were in the department store side of the super-size
stuff mart, and she was looking across to the grocery side. All of a sudden
she says, "Mom! I can see the cheese!" What a statement. :)

Camping

A few days after Dad returned home (and after a million destination changes)
we finally headed into the woods for 5 days. What a fun trip. lazing around the
campsite, kids exploring the meadow, hiking, eating! Here are some pictures.



Our campsite was up a steep hill from this beautiful meadow. Dad tied a rope
around a tree and the girls would go up and down the hill and play wonderful
games down there. Occasionally we would let the dog off his rope to patrol the
area for mountain lions and other creatures that make a Mom nervous. The
kids were in heaven!

Chickadee tries her hand at splitting wood!


SMORES!! Messy, Messy!

You guessed it!

Our family is complete once more.
Here is the welcome home picture.