Inspired by Soule Mama…

A weekly post capturing a single moment from our wild life, to savor.

Life. It’s been busy! Sadly this blog has not been as busy, I’m hoping to change that!

Schools out (WOOHOO!) and I passed my Biology class and lab with flying colors!

Work has been back to back to back busy, with the start of summer term, multiple working retreats and more, now I am praying  for some catch up and recovery time.

Our little toddler is quite the busy bee, in this past month, she visited Crater Lake for her 3rd time! Watched her Uncle John receive his MASTERS DEGREE!  And has continued the “word explosion”, she will happily tell you her favorite color is yellow (or nana, depending on her mood), and she will always say “no” when asked if she would like to use the potty.

Hope all is well with you & yours, and wishing you a fabulous summer! We are off this weekend to Point Reyes National Seashore in California to camp, explore and visit my best friend  her 19 month old toddler (yes, same age as Etta!) and 7  year old daughter!

If your ready to enjoy a good laugh, read this blog Suburban Snapshots, top 10 reasons why having a toddler is like a being at a  frat party.

Adios!

To Great Grandmother’s house we go!

We had a delightful weekend (the weekend before last) in Penn Valley California, visiting Etta’s Great Grandma! I brought my camera, but alas, no pictures were taken by me, thankfully Papa had his camera!

We watered plants…

Played at new parks…

A good time was had by all!

If only we could visit Great Grandma’s house every weekend!!!

There is nothing like cooking with kids!

I just love it!

So, as you might imagine, I’ve been waiting patiently till Etta is “old enough” to start helping in the kitchen. She’s good at putting away dishes (not really, but it’s amusing), taking out the trash (okay not really either, but she thinks she’s helping), but a couple of weeks ago she actually started helping make the salad (well, dry the salad).

We documented with a little video for your viewing pleasure.

Inspired by Soule Mama…

A weekly post capturing a single moment from our wild life, to savor.

Inspired by Soule Mama…

A weekly post capturing a single moment from our wild life, to savor. Etta’s first Photo!

So… We decided to celebrate Easter this year…. Well the bunny and chocolate and eggs part of Easter.

Auntie Rene & I decorated the eggs and then the munchkin tried to find them on Easter morning. She’s not much of an egg hunter… It took all of us adults pointing and guiding to get her to find them. But in the end she did! She even manged to keep most of them in her basket!

All in all, it was quite hilarious! As you can probably guess, her new favorite word is Egg!

Vacation!

We have reservations again this year at Yosemite National Park!

Only 3 months till we get to go to that magical valley again!

This year our babies will be much more mobile then they were last summer!

Okay… enough dreaming for me… I’ll go back to reality and the pile of work on my desk!

Hope you had a great holiday weekend… we did! :)

• Bogle Face was recently featured on Lupin Handmade’s blog Bugs & Fishes! We purchase our felt from her fabulous Etsy Store!
• Everything you ever wanted to know about manufacturing fabric!!
• I did promise some pics of our recent trip to Canada! With many fabulous stops along the I-5 corridor.. here are a some from the trusty ole Iphone..
  

  Etta LOVES "The Google"

  

  Etta & Colton in front of "The Google" with nametags even!

  

  Babies together at the Ferry Terminal.. BFFs

Captured by my husband (aka. partner in crime, reality meter and personal photographer).

http://www.p67shooter.com

http://picasaweb.google.com/colton.allen

Thanks for the inspiration Soule Mama!!