We'll miss you Nat!

The girl put on a play for us. Snow White, inspired by Ellie's new Snow White Dress. They were quite creative with a curtain and stage, props, and costumes. Here are some highlights.,,,


This is the audience, seating was all arranged for us.



The wicked queen



Snow White in Rags (notice the curtain behind her.)



Snow White after eating the poison apple, She was later kissed by a prince made out of paper. It was quite entertaining.

Strawberry

The fruit of Barry's labor.
This is our very first strawberry. Barry has worked hard on the garden this year, planting, weeding and gardening, and I, well I've done basically nothing.(on the garden) Fortunately my husband loves me, and awarded me his first ever strawberry.
It was delicious!!!
(He admitted, after I had gobbled it up, that he had expected me to share it with him. Whoops! Maybe next time. ;) )

Reunion

For Barry's Family's reunion this year we went camping. Almost all of the family was there. We had a good time. Natalie found a fallen tree that served as a nice bridge up to a tree that had some good branches to sit on. With Barry and the cousins help they built a nice fort out of branches. Barry said he would sleep in it if they made it nice enough. Fortunately, I was able to talk him out of it. It rained like crazy that night, and the coyotes were yipping and howling real close. So I think it was a good thing. We also went to a lake close by and Natalie and Ellie had a great time. The lake was really really high, and the beach was completely flooded. We waded out to a sand bar and sat on it with James, while we watched Natalie and Ellie play. We were all tired and dirty when we got back to Grandma's house, but we still celebrated the 4th with a party. We went to Amy's new apartment to watch the fireworks. We were really close, you could feel the boom of the fireworks in your chest. Afterwards we went back to Grandma's, and Grandpa set off some fireworks for the girls.

Finders Keepers

So we were driving down the road a couple of days ago, and there was a rather large tortoise walking up the road. Rather an unusual sight for that neighborhood. Barry stopped and picked it up and put it in the car. We drove back to my parents house, and assigned my dad to find its' owner. He wasn't able too. He did make some cute signs though to put up, so we're still hopeful.
We're giving it some time, but I believe we are the proud new owners of an approximately 30 year-old male tortoise. The girls love to play with and feed it.

Our Garden

This is the view from the front of our house. We are slowly transforming our unruly land into a yard. Barry has done an amazing job in planting and taking care of our garden.(now if only the weather would cooperate) He's planted Indian corn, sweet corn, squashes, sunflowers, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, tomatoes, cabbage, lettuce, peas, peppers, rhubarb, rosemary, basil, oregano, and sage.

Growing, and Growing

We're Ready

Ready for Church



All ready to go on a jog.
12 wks old. 14 pounds. 24 inches long.

Yellowstone

Yellowstone 2009

We're under construction

Excuse our mess we're under construction. A better looking blog coming soon.
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