The end of the 3 month hiatus

Nothing is wrong. Hope you weren't worried about us, I was just overwhelmed with work. Or maybe lazy... :)

Here are the best of the shots I've been taking for the last 3 months but not posting.

My green-eyed girl. I can't tell if she's grumpy or 'wounded' in this shot. I love the kids' expressions. They can say so much without making a sound (see last photo).
Here's a fun one from the library

John and the kids got me a hammock for Mother's Day. I'm glad I found one of Shiloh with this haircut, which I gave her. I thought it was 'punky' but everyone kept asking me if she cut it herself. John made me promise to take her to a professional next time :)


I bought Lincoln a pair of Converse so he could learn to tie his shoes before school starts next year. It's a work in progress. Right now it's just frustrating but I know he'll pick it up in no time. After all, this is the boy who taught himself to ride a bike with no training wheels in about 1 hour when he set his mind to it.

Random shots from the first 1/6th of 2009

Shiloh ran around in circles at Glow Putt while John, Lincoln and I played. (Lincoln didn't really play, he just kept rolling the golf balls through the little tube that makes them glow again :)

Sledding on the driveway February 2009

Ice park

Before Christmas Kevin and I took all the kids to the ice park in North Pole. It was 20 below the day we went but we bundled everybody up anyway and only stayed out about half an hour. This one is blurry but it captures the mood of the day

Caleb is riding on this huge long slide that was more of a luge! It was so fast the kids almost needed helmets! Optom-Ice Prime was the guest of honor. Lincoln is sad in this picture because I'm making him go home while the cousins get to play a little longer in the park.

Library trip

John read a book to the kiddoes at the library this afternoon

but not until after they both checked out the turtles and fish


Lincoln got a haircut today. It's supposed to be spikey but mostly it's just short. Now I can see the flat spot on the back of his head again. I remember being so happy when he finally grew hair to cover that up!

Okay... Now that I've double checked I have to say that back then it wasn't so much flat as conical! This shot is from October of '05 (hee hee hee):