Standing Guard

This is a warning to all of you stupid ground squirrels who feel the need to eat my watermelon plants, basil, strawberries, beans, pansies, etc etc.... My garden is not your salad bar. I saw one of your buddies today gettin' into my roses for his meal and fed him a lead after dinner mint. One shot suckers. I'm watchin' so stay off of my garden!

Family portraits

Every year for our anniversary we go down to the local portrait studio and have a family picture taken. Since the kids have gotten older we don't do a monthly picture of them anymore so this is also a good excuse to get recent shots of them as well. As it turns out this year, we have been so busy all summer that we didn't get around to having the pictures taken until over a month later. Early in August we got our sitting appointment and went down to experience our annual "Kids-can't-smile-simultaneously-and-mom's-pulling-her-hair-out-while-Daddy's-rolling-his-eyes-and-asking-are-we-done-yet" event. It went rather smoothly this year (relatively to the angry badger den that was two years ago) and the pictures were good enough to buy. Of course, my favorites are of the kids by themselves. They can't seem to take a bad picture at this age.The photographer had an elmo toy that my little man was all fired up about for his picture and can you tell my little girl wants to be a princess?

A day with the girlz

Daddy was great and watched the kiddos while I got to take a 4 hour train up north last Friday night to visit with a couple girlfriends. We played some games, scrapbooked, went to a farmers' market, went out to sushi, went line dancing, and all-in-all had a very fun time. Then I turned around and took the same train back Sunday. We got lots of things done and had a chance to relax among friends. Not bad for just over a day spent away. Now my batteries have been refreshed again. It's perfect timing too because we're trying to work on this potty training thing and it's taking a lot of energy :)