Dad has been working in Vegas so every once and a while we load up and go stay at a place where we can hang out with him intermittently. It's fun and relaxing.
A couple of months ago Kaden was nervous around water. He didn't love to venture anywhere except shin deep depth. Then a friend told me about swimming lessons for small people. It was only 8 days for 15 minute sessions. I cannot tell you how this has changed Kaden's swimming life. He is a total fish now. That's 2 hours, and now he thinks he's a dolphin! Well worth it. I don't feel like he's going to die and he doesn't either. We both love it.
We visited Mac, Steph and Bug...oh a couple months ago. We have hardly any pictures except I had a bunch of this park that we played at while Mac and Steph were at work. I want to make this metal swing in the picture below. You press on the foot part of it and it rocks gently, it was awesome!
So I got this funny t-shirt online because I loved it. If you can't tell what it is, it's a dinosaur skeleton with a jacket...it's hilarious to me, I don't know why. I took it to Alethea or Steph because both of them are half my size and I knew they would enjoy it. Well, as soon as I announced it was for them, Sadie decided it actually suited her quite well. Here she is seen on our "barefoot" hike flaunting it as a wonderful addition to the well-known dinosaur region of Western Colorado. While we were on this hike, a loud motorcycle went up the road on the opposite side of the canyon. Sadie asked what the noise was and I told her it was a motorcycle. She thought for a minute and then said, "It's loud, like fishy crackers." It took me a minute, but yes, fishy crackers are quite loud in your head.
There is something magical about hiking. Look at these faces. They are kind of tired, kind of refreshed, kind of silly, perfectly happy faces.
This is Kaden in Mac's "green toad," I believe he called it. We had so much fun visiting. Thank you Mac and Steph, Alethea and Bug!
There is a song, "I'm so glad when daddy comes home," yes, this is a picture for that song, the first one is Sadie perched on the window sill watching for dad, and the second one is Kaden doing the same thing on the back of a chair....just waiting so they can jump to the front door, hide in the hanging jackets, and leap onto him as he comes through the door.
Then after he comes through the door, they present their demands. Read a book, wrestle, play star wars, and let them climb all over him. It's a rewarding calling. :)
I don't know about anyone reading this, but we are loving the summer time!
I don't know about anyone reading this, but we are loving the summer time!
And Sadie is loving her fashion sense lately. I can't take credit for any of it...she is her own representation of her closet. The more colors and patterns the better. Every day is a new adventure and she's often seen in one thing at 8am, another by 9:30am, and this continues until bed when mother spoils the fun and demands pajamas.
This is for all the mothers out there. When it's not the best of weather outside to play in, or you have a bunch of grouchos, try shaving cream on the table. It's hours of bliss and entertainment and well worth the cleanup time.
I've spent the last few weeks developing my little seedlings for the long hard southern Utah summer ahead. I planted them...142 plants to be exact in little peat moss trays. I loved them, watered them, was hardening them by taking them outside to acclimatize to the harsh sun etc. Well on 06-09-10, devastation hit. I put the little babies outside and went about business as usual. I was called into town at 11:43 am and returned around 1:17 pm. During that time a wind picked. It's (the wind's) nasty little hand, reached down and picked up one tray of babies and inverted it on the second set of babies. This was the image after hours of surgery trying to restore the plants to their proper trays. Oh well, guess I'll plant seeds. Such is the life of a garden.