Wednesday, February 15, 2012

G H L

Emerson...he has a thing for letters and numbers... He's known his ABC's, being able to recognize them, since he was 2 years old.  (He's 2 years, 9 months old now.)  He's been into spelling recently, as I blogged earlier.  Now, he's starting to write!

Amazing!

Monday, February 13, 2012

Crab

 This was our dinner Saturday night...

My guy told me I should take a picture of it and put it on the blog for Joshua... Crab is probably Joshua's favorite food on the planet!
Thanks to my buddy, Jake...
Jake and her wonderful husband, Jim...
Jim is a U.S. Marine... I don't think you're suppose to say he 'was' a Marine.  I think it's 'once a Marine, always a Marine.'  He and Joshua have a connection because of that.  Jim is also a fisherman...and the source of the crab!
Jake is only too happy to cook the crab Jim catches...and to share it with her buddy (that's me!)




Thank you, thank you, Jake and Jim!

Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Virginia

My baby boy...
Is leaving California...
He's so proud of his sweet wife's outlook of the news...
Erica is looking at it as an adventure...
It's not quite as easy when you're 12 years old...
But I know Thalia will do just fine...she'll meet so many new friends...learn a lot about herself... and get to experience a new part of our country!
Virginia... my friend, Jake, said it's absolutely wonderful.  I suppose I'll find that out for myself this summer!  I'll miss them even more, just knowing they're farther away!

Tuesday, February 07, 2012

BB...aka 'Before Babies'




I started thinking yesterday, what did I blog about before the boys came along?  I definitely have always blogged about family..but I caught myself thinking I didn't have anything to blog about since I'd covered all the recent times with the boys. 

But I blogged for 3 1/2 years before they were born... so I looked back at old posts... I found a precious video of my friend, Laner's, first grandson right after he was born (almost cried), I saw our house getting a little remodel, I saw the farm, going on a walk with Rema, lots of Camilla... just a variety of topics.  So, I decided to blog about the woodshed!

I'm sitting here on a Tuesday morning, 6:30 a.m., enjoying my coffee, with NO FIRE!  Rats!  I miss it when there's no fire in the wood stove.  Considering it's in the mid-50's outside...that's why there's no fire.  But I still miss it.

My guy has worked hard on stocking the woodshed this year.  You can see how much we've used this year -see there in the front?  The last picture was taken from the door of our family room... I should have photoshopped it so you could better see how the clouds were... beautiful...it was a blustery day, kind of like it is now, except right now, it's still dark...

Saturday, February 04, 2012

Running with Papa

 Emerson was ready to run...
 and his Papa was ready to run with him...
 back and forth...
 "around the bend" as Emerson says (from Thomas the Train!)...

 It's not everyday you see people running with a blanket...
 But Emerson did... never tripping over it... not putting it down... he did look back several times to see if I was taking photos... or getting it all on video...
 Occasionally, he'd run to me and want to look at the camera to see the picture.. and then once he'd seen it, off he'd run...
 "Let's go, Papa!"
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Emerson is not a quiet runner... I love hearing all his little happy noises as he runs!



 You may notice an absence of Papa in the last photos... someone was getting a bit tired from all the running...
and it wasn't Emerson!