change of digs

We are moving!!!

Since we are graduating from trio to quartet, we needed a little more space. Everything is still the same, and I'll be filling in the holes over the coming weeks.

(and no, sillies, we aren't moving houses. click THIS GIANT LINK for the new website.

Kids & Other Pets

beating the heat

We spent a lovely Saturday afternoon at the "Raging" river. More like a trickling brook, but it served us well with coolth.

The hike down.


The boys served lunch.


Frolick.







37 weeks, 5 days.

week 37ish update

With a little foresight and patience I could have NOT been pregnant in August. Alas, when I want a baby I want it NOW and here I am sitting in 95 degrees of dry wall dust, chicken poop, and tears.

Baby simply can't come today, tomorrow, or in the next 6 days or so. Wednesday is our last day of work on the remodel. Period - I don't care if we don't have a toilet. It needs to end. We've currently got a nearly there new upstairs bathroom and refinished bedroom, but the rest of the house is in a state of suffering. Boxes and boxes of new furniture, paperwork and clutter in every corner, and a naked dirty summer version of Leif flitting about. I'm just too hot/miserable/swollen/tired to do all that much, but the nesting instinct is still as strong as ever.

Whoever is in charge, please let this baby stay in, let those worker men finish their work, and let me have at least 2 days of good uninterrupted nesting before it all comes crashing down again.

Today I have also promised to take some very pregnant photos of myself, given that I can find one beam of flattering light and a hairbrush. Stay tuned.

bucket napping

Sometimes he won't sleep at all. Other times he likes to sleep say, in a bucket strapped to a dolly.

river rat

tree climber

Ladies and gentlemen, a new era has dawned. We now have a tree climber on our hands.

at long last

Coming home from Boulder were thrilled to find the first 3 eggs from the chickens. Yipee!

They were small and the most divine shade of pale olive green - cracked open they had brilliant orange yolks.