Photo re-cap of our summer...

before i cut myself some bangs

Gettin' ready to go to work

At the New Freedom Carnival

I've been on an ice cream making bender... This here is blue berry ice cream sweetened with agave and of course blue berries

Not sure what this means for his future, but man he's a cutie!

This is their new favorite thing to do when it rains

Asa's summer uniform. briefs and boots

Baby chickens in a tree at SidebySide Farm

Large alien plant in the hoops house at SidebySide Farm

This is how we've been picking up the CSA. We hook Thor the dino-dog up to the kids wagon and make him pull us on the bike hike trail... 

Asa's monster mouth from a Sunday breakfast/brunch outting with Lali and Granpa and Miah and Ceci and Lollo and Jocelyn

Punk rock hair

Do-it-yourself aerial yoga!

or maybe i'm just pretending to be a silk worm

reunion after Esther spent 5 days at Oma's house. Longest trip away from home... 

They really missed each other

More home-made ice cream joy... this time it's just vanilla with a couple grain sweetened chocolate chips on top for fun!

And this is Mommy and Daddy's special treat, Guiness Floats

Delectable

Such funny faces...

Jesy's beautiful belly. It's been so cool to watch  her and Ceci grow with babies...  They're both due any day now... 

This is me trying to fetch a frisbee out of a creek... I'm waiting for it to float down stream



It's been a very laid back summer. I'm a bit tentative about the fall, like i said in my last post. It helps to re-cap the summer and remember just how much fun and low-stress we made it for ourselves. Maybe i can make the fall fun and low-stress too... 

Happy 7 year anniversary blog!

Happy 7 Year Anniversary my darling BLOG!!

And as a present i got you this lame-@ss post! aren't you so excited?

 It's been a long road... and it's getting to the point where i hardly post any more... which i feel sort of guilty about considering i had hoped to record my children's lives through this channel so that we could always look back...

It's also been pretty helpful in tracking my own crazy moods, life changes, etc...

All that said, i have no plans or vows to start being a better blogger on the horizon.  I have a busy, crazy life full of children, work, being a bi-polary-type mess, and [insert other thing to finish the list off here].

Esther starts kindergarten next week. I'm more scared than she is. I don't know how well i'll do putting her on the bus that first day... wish me luck. I'm excited for her, scared for her, sad that her toddler-hood is officially over...

Ben leaves for Japan in less than 2 weeks. He'll be gone a MONTH... i'm nervous about doing the lone-parenting thing, worried about the delicacies of working from home, annoyed that he is going (at all and/or without me/us), tired of thinking about it all... I know i'll be fine.  To be honest, it'll probably be easier without him. I have lots of offers of help from family and friends. I'm hoping to hire a neighbor girl for one afternoon a week to just give me some breathing room and let me play catch-up a bit.

I guess that's it for now. The storm from last week blew out our wireless router in the hollow. So i'm hoping the new one will be more powerful and will reach down to our house allowing me to blog from home rather than during breaks at work... here's a'hopin'