Winter Playground

These pics are sort of in reverse order. Levi spent some quality staycation time up on the roof today, getting prepared for the next snowstorm (which is maybe coming on Friday). We then added to the sculpture playground in the yard. Levi was getting creative with his shoveling and built a wall between the driveways. I dug out the snow house in the back. And we added a couple more feet to the top of the sledding hill in our front yard. What a weird and wonderful winter.

 

 

 

 

Roadtrip to SC, April 2010

Here's the mini-movie. It definitely needs some music. Saw that button but I didn't have John Lithgow's Singing in the Bathtub on my computer. If I did, the "Triplets" would be playing over and over as you watched. Or maybe "I had a Rooster" which gives me very fond memories of singing in the van with grandma and grandpa and the girls. We had a wonderful time visiting Pam, Terry and Noelle, Conall and Pancakes.

Como Carousel

 

 

This summer the girls and I went on a few trips to my school for adjustments and then to Como Zoo to see the animals. My dad came with once and Levi came with on the day we rode the carousel.

Birthday Girls

 
Rayna turned 4 in January.
 
Alizah turned 2 at the beginning of the month.
 
Picture 3: nursing their babies in the morning
 
Picture 4: silly princesses

Just wanted to add a few current photos. Life seems busy busy these days keeping up with school and work and the girls. The days have been beautiful, so we have been enjoying playing outside and taking walks and getting to know our garden again. Levi planted peas last weekend. And we have a few kale and collard greens that made it through the winter. Levi is off in CA at a work conference and I will be at the Great River Symposium this weekend.

Our family with chin puffs

 

 

 

Levi decided to research beards before our holiday photo. He settled on a chin puff and I was not very impressed. The beard was shaved before the photo, but it left a good impression with the girls. Here's Alizah talking up the chin puff.

 
Here we are all dressed up for Halloween. Rayna was a tiger, Alizah a zebra and I was a jaguar. Levi was the zoo keeper. We had a Healthy Halloween party with the Holistic Moms group which was a ton of fun! Yummy food and Beth's husband is a juggler! He even juggles swords and probably fire too, although this night, in a small space, he juggled glow in the dark balls.
 
We took the girls out on a sleigh ride at Lowes Creek. Rayna has been afraid of the dark- especially the trees at night are scary- and we had to prep a lot for this. She said a couple prayers for protection and was so easy going once we got there. At the end she said "the bells on the horses kept the big animals away." On the other hand, Alizah was SCARED!, but she nodded off 1/2 way tucked tight against me.
 
This is the 2 of them smiling nice for the camera this Christmas eve. Rayna had a December filled with music. She sang at 3 church services the Alleluia choir version of "Go tell it on the Mountain" and "Twinkle Twinkle Twink." She is a great singer and is a little thrown off my the off key singing of some of her fellow choir members.
 

This one was taken on one of our fun fall days, raking leaves and pushing the girls in the wheel burrow to pile the leaves in the compost bin. In this photo Rayna has one of her many favorite "very special" animals "Rayna Bunny" and next to her her pet worm she dug from the sandbox at my friend Rebecca's house. Rebecca kindly cut some airholes in a container so Rayna could bring him home. I think he is making some fabulous dirt for us in the garden right now, if he's not froze stiff in this subzero weather.

Sarah's starting school

I'm in! I'll be going part-time, working toward my Master's in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, which will probably take me 8 years. School starts in January, so I have been busy putting my projects away....finishing them if I can or finding them a safe place on a shelf for the next 5 years. I'm a bit overwhelmed and really excited.