First picture is actually the earliest one -- from before we moved. The girls were playing with rose thorns (Sabrina made a very fiesty and effective fake fingernail out of one. Her expression cracks me up). Michael is also doing little rocket bombs with them -- pop-gun style "explosions" in a metal "rocket" you throw at the ground. Good fun.
The rest of these are in our new home. Our REAL home :)
Yes, these are recent pictures. We got a few inches of snow a week or so ago. Thank you, Utah "Spring". At least we got a sneak peek at how beautiful things are going to be covered in snow!
For Family Home Evening last Monday we walked across the street to see the donkeys. I think they're donkeys at least. They seem very short. The lighter colored, scruffier fellow is named Otis. We know that's his real name. The darker guy is actually Otis's son, but we don't know his real name. While we were feeding them carrots, though, the son got cranky and started whining and kicking at his Papa! So we dubbed him Cranky Pants. That awesome tooth photo on the top right is Cranky Pants.
A few landscapey type pictures I took of the girls with Otis and Cranky Pants. We live in such a beautiful world!
Lizzie is now sleeping on the loft bed Kate has been using for a few years. Kate never had a problem with it at all, but Lizzie ended up being very nervous about falling off. There was already a top support on each side of the bed, but we went out and bought another piece of wood to make a middle slat so she'd feel safer. We had to trim the pieces down a bit, though, so we kinda put it off a bit... and sure enough, she managed to fall out of bed. Michael and I ran in when we heard the THUMP. It was about midnight. She yelled like a banshee, of course. We determined there was no major bodily damage done, then went into "calming-down" mode. I got her snuggled into my bed then got Kate tucked back in bed. Michael went out to the garage, cut down the boards, and screwed them on right then. Sabrina decided everybody was up so she was determined it was morning time. It took some convincing to get her to go back to sleep. With the new boards up Lizzie feels much better and does fine in the loft bed again. Phew! She had a sore shoulder for a few days, but nothing that even looked impressive. Poor thing ;)
(Pictures: Top left: Daddy snuggling a very startled Lizzie. Top right: The improved bed. Bottom left: Kate in her bed. Bottom middle: Lizzie back to sleep in my bed. Bottom right: VERY dark picture of Sabrina in her bed.)
The weather finally warmed up! Michael was walking around the house and saw a couple of birds bathing in the little waterfall in our backyard. Lather, rinse, repeat. Air dry. It was pretty cool to watch them!
We got the girls a perfect sized wheelbarrow. I still need to find them properly sized gardening gloves, but they have done a great job of following me around the yard and gathering up the weeds or any other garbage out of the yard. Then they put it in their wheelbarrow and take it to the garbage when they have enough. Today we did some pretty major yard work (planted tomatoes, strawberries, cantaloupe, and radishes, removed a little ground cover, did some weeding...) and they had a great time doing their part. They also now have properly sized real shovel (for approved use only) and lawn rake. Pictures below: Michael checking the sprinkler system with Sabrina and Sabrina with the new wheelbarrow.
Tonight when it was about bedtime we put it off a bit and went for a walk. The girls chose to ride bikes / scooters and Michael and I walked along with them. We just went around the block, but it was a beautiful evening. We are getting to know our new neighborhood. It is just so beautiful here and the evening walk around the block in our neighborhood with our children on their bikes was absolutely idyllic. I cannot believe how blessed we have been, not just to have a home, but to have such a wonderful little family. It's amazing.
Now that I'm caught up hopefully I can get back to shorter more regular posts. In the mean time, I'm going to go soak in my tub again :)
1 comment:
I'm so excited for you. It such a lot of fun to have a new place and a new yard and all. Keep right on having fun!
Love you!
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