Happy 23 Birthday

Today is my oldest boys 23rd birthday.

Wow.

Where does the time go? 

I decided to a little picture tour thru history. Unfortunately we didn't go digital until 2001 & I have no idea how to use the scanner so our trip starts a little late. 

I tried to avoid anything too embarrassing ;)

Happy birthday son .

I love you.

Blessings.

Back when the sun was shining...

We have had 4 solid days of rain, rain, rain.


Windy, dark, cold, ugly sunless days.

Blah.

So I thought I would share some sunny pictures to help me remember what the sun actually looks like...

Pretty, pretty pink.

See the bee?

Don't you just love the little green dots?

See the other bee?

Blessings.

Boys & Tractors

A couple of weeks ago I took a bunch of pics at a friends house. 

It was a nice sunny day & they had a tractor! 

I am finding ~ much to my surprise~ that I really enjoy taking photos of large equipment.

The colors are so vivid & there are all sorts of angles & circles inside of squares & squares inside of circles.

It's just easy to take fun pics.

And we all know how fond  I am of my close ups of weeds...  ;)

And little boys on tractors...well that is just win/win all the way around  :)

Notice the tiny little gnat on the leaf? (Yes. I am stoked about a gnat. Or at least the ability to capture it in a photo)

Weeds are just so pretty ;)

See? Boys & tractors. You can't go wrong.

Blessings.

Bonanza

We went home to Oregon on Monday & I took my camera (of course).

Out of the, oh...100 or so photos I took, I thought I would share a few.

Blessings.

Front tooth

DP had a big week last week. 

He lost his front tooth!

It's been hanging by a thread for days now & he finally twisted & twisted until it was just dangling there and then...

his brother pulled it out & it didn't even hurt!

Yay for big brothers :)

The evidence.

The new grin.

Blessings.

Mmmm. Good eats.

The other day I made a batch of Potato Leek Soup ( using Julia's recipe of course). It smelled soooo yummy.

And the colors were sooo pretty...I just had to take a picture (you're shocked I know).

Isn't that pretty?

And muy delicioso!

Valentine Cake...

White cake, cream cheese frosting flavored with plum jam & jam filling. Yum.

Blessings.

Sugar Cane

This morning at the Farmer's Market we found the coolest thing...sugar cane!

For $1!!!

You know we just had to get some of that.

So we brought some home...

Chopped some up...

 And everybody had a taste.

 
Mmmmmm....sweet!

Then Daddy sliced a 'sample' & loaded up the microscope...

Oooooooo...

Crystals!

And then we had to juice some...

Tastes like...sugar water :)

You never know what you can bring home from the Farmer's Market ;)


Blessings.