We went to the SB Fair last week – and saw a professional (actor?) cowboy guy do a bunch of lasso rope tricks. So Max has a small rope that he’s been ‘lassoing’ around the front yard. It’s very, very funny to watch – he’s really just yanking it around his body as fast as he can. So today, the kids were playing in the front yard, I’m working in the office and can hear the happy noises, so I’m not paying attention to what the game is. Then they both come inside, and Lucy has the rope tied very tightly around her neck, with like 16 different nots, and he’s been pulling her around, I guess like some cow. OH MY GOODNESS. It was very hard not to run and get the camera, but I’m sure the severity of the situation would have been lost. I untied her (despite her objections – “but I like it!”) and said, “You do not ever tie any living thing around it’s neck with a rope, okay?” Crazyness.
Happy Easter!
Yes, I realize it was 2 weeks ago. This is pretty quick for me! We praise our Lord for the blessings of family and friends, and especially for His gift of new life.
Dyeing eggs with our good buds the Norbys
Max’s creation
A trip upstairs to do some painting
Easter Day smiles
Easter Bonnets
Cousins Nathan and Lucy – both about to turn 3
Hi there Ya-Ya!
Oooh – look at our loot
$4.67 per hour – my hourly rate
Max is very excited to be going to Legoland in a few weeks. To prepare for the vast amounts of Legos he wants to buy, he has been collecting cans and bottles and recycling them after smashing the cans. We generally go once a month after church to the recycling station. Today, we went off schedule because we won’t have any other opportunity before vacation. We got there right after the station re-opened after lunch. We were behind a bunch of other people who all had multiple huge bags of cans and bottles. Being a small station, everyone queues up and goes one at a time. It took us about an hour of waiting for all the gigantic loads to go in front of us. Where other people were loading up multiple 50 gallon trash cans with cans and bottles, Max only filled the bottom 6 inches of the can with his aluminum cans. It was pretty funny. We came out of there with a chit for $4.67, which we then cashed at the local Albertsons. I gotta figure out a way to get my hourly rate up.
Family Day
In our weekend, in this phase of our lives, Saturday is a full construction day. Thankfully, Sunday is Family Day. Sometimes much of it is spent catching up on other tasks (we hope to regain our full Sabbath in a year +), but we try, TRY, really hard to do something fun with the kids. A couple of weeks ago we went to the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum. This time was extra cool because Max was on a little treasure hunt to find certain exhibits, then draw a quick picture of it. The giant squid, the Chumash baby, etc. It was a nice day.
A whale of a skeleton
Cuddles with Mom
Love Lucy’s face in this one
Glad for Family Day
Swimming Pools
I don’t like wearing wet clothes, but you get wet when climbing a ladder on the roof (to get to the second story roof) in the rain at 6:30 in the morning.
Water Inside
Turn up the sound on your computer to get the full effect. ] The early morning rain brought snow to the local mountains.
Snow Mountains
Snow Mountains
I am thankful that the rain didn’t start until 5:30a. I am thankful that the rain stopped (temporarily) at 9:30a. I am thankful that today is Friday and Toby wasn’t here alone. I am grateful for Austin’s True Value Hardware store being so close.