Father's Day

Steve is a great dad and wonderful husband. We really should honor him like this more often.

Man-sized breakfast for our man: ham and mushroom omlette, sausage, toast, oj and coffee.

Breakfast helpers. Tara liked Daddy's breakfast...

...more than her own.

The BIG girls, looks like Ryann scored some sausage.

I gave up and brought Ryann's breakfast to the bed also.

We bought Steve a digital picture frame for his desk. He's been playing with it all afternoon.

New PJs for Ryann

Since the selection of pajamas at local retail stores is dismal (we don't like H*nnah, D*ra, or the D*sney Pr*ncesses), I decided to make pjs for my bigger girls. Ryann's were finished first and, she was very excited to model them last night.

Wait, I'm not ready!!


Beautiful!

"Cheese!"

Yes, they are kind of big. At the rate she is growing, they may still fit her until it gets cold again.

Blessings.

A Day Outside

Yesterday!

EGADS!!! I thought I was going to come undone.

First, Tara had a low-grade fever and wanted to be held all morning and afternoon (only walking to see Daddy when he came home). I still don't know what was wrong with her, but she did not feel well. I did check her ears and watch for other symptoms, but she was all clear except for the fever (only tipping 100 once). She may be getting new teeth, but we don't see any and there was an obvious lack of drool. Well, she was better by dinner.

Then, Ryann was playing outside after lunch and somehow hurt her eye. I took her to the sink and tried to rinse out any offending particles. I washed her hands and restrained them so that she would not rub her eye. I put a patch over the eye to keep it closed and safe from hands that broke free. I did all of this while she was HYS-TER-I-CAL! Once the patch was on, I put her in my lap and tried to comfort her with singing and prayer. She fell asleep.

Whew! But, she was on my lap. AND Tara was asleep, leaning against me. At first, I loved it. Soon, I realized that I needed to get dinner started and my leg was falling asleep. I think I ended up waking Tara and getting Ryann on my bed while she snored away. We had leftovers/catch-can for dinner.

After Ryann had had a bath (screaming and crying the whole time) and we put some drops in her eye, we discovered that she had been playing with sticks before the screaming began. I got really concerned and Steve took her to the ER. She did have scratches on her eye, but they were on the surface. They gave her some tylenol with codeine (sigh) and she slept very well.

When she woke this morning, she would not open her eyes at all. I did get some drops in her eye and she slowly started to open her eyes. We had to get her some sunglasses and she was sure to keep her eyes open to pick them out and make sure I got the right ones on her.

She did really well on the trip to the museum and had a great time.

Oregon/California Trail Museum Field Trip

Oh, what a day. Jen and I decided to take our kids to this museum in Monteplier, ID today. It was a gorgeous drive through the canyon to Bear Lake then to the West. It was beautiful and quite cold. Perfect Jun-uary weather. We actually saw snow on the ground up in the mountains.

We had a lovely picnic (okay, nothing lovely about freezing your gizzards, but my lunch was good). Then, we went in to the museum. They have a local museum in the basement with artifacts from the Monteplier area. The lady working in there was very good with the kids, letting them touch stuff and showing them how the phonograph worked. The tour was a lot of fun. They took us around as if we were getting ready to hit the trail and then on the trail.

I would highly recommend visiting if you are ever in southern Idaho.

If you put the mouse pointer-thingy over the picture in the slideshow, you will see the captions.

Oregon/California Trail Museum

Kathy, Kathy, How does your garden grow?

I really have no idea!

This is 8 squares of bush peas (Cascadia), 4 squares of cilantro, 2 squares of red onions & 2 of grande dulce (sweet white onions).

These are red potatoes, some are early (on the left) and some are late (on the right).

My first patch. There are 2 each of red onions, grande dulce onions, radishes, romaine lettuce, corn salad (a lettuce), spinach, cosmic purple carrots, & another carrot (nantes tip-top?).

Tomatoes, 6 glaciers, 2 purple cherokee (these are planted) then some sweet 100s, sun sugars, red pears and a hybrid that I can't remember. The ones in pots are there because we had to cover them in case of frost last nught. Sine we are expecting a possible snow, I saw no reason to move them. There's a zucchini in a pot there too. I hope to plant everything else this weekend.

Dill and sugar snap peas (just barely coming up).

Strawberry blossoms amongst the raspberries.

The berry patch. Raspberries & strawberries compliments of the former owners.

More spinach, buttercrunch lettuce & weeds/carrots (I don't know which is what so I haven't weeded yet).

Backyard Fun!

Guess what Steve did last weekend.

You got it, built this swingset. The weather has been so yucky that this is the first time they got to try it out. Tara isn't feeling so well, so she's in bed. Oh, and Ryann is wearing a heavy coat. It is 51* right now and we could get snow today (the mountains had a fresh coat this morning).

Swings. Teeter-totter thingy above.



Slide.

Merry go how? It's pretty cute, but they haven't figured out how to make it go. Kyla looks incredibly tall, doesn't she?

I gave them a push, but they didn't go far.

Lazy Bones....

As my Granny used to sing! I admit I have been lazy about updating the blog. I hope you (3) haven't been too disappointed. Here are some pictures to make up for it.

But we do need more lilacs, Mommy.

I don't think so girls. That's plenty. I am even tempted to go pick them all because they smell so amazing!

What happens when 3 year olds wake up too early.

Just a swingin'!

Love the shades, girlfriend!


Kitchen work is much better with a tutu and frog slippers (we should all try it).

Ryann in a pretty dress with a new do (she cut such a chunk off herself that we had to get it cut).

Ryann and Mami (pronounced like mommy) doing some crummy work in the kitchen.


Mami playing piano.

Who is Mami? She is a Japanese student here to impove her English (here?). She is part of a Homestay program and will be with us for 2 months. She's very sweet and we are really enjoying getting to know her. She's been here a bit over a week and her English is improving so much already. The kids adore her and love when she does origami for them.