Early Years

Doing some file transfers and thought I would share a few of these early photos from Levens Addition. There should be some other interesting pictures and avis
from that period I may post up.

florist2_

Move over Lotus & LeeAnn, there is a new game in town.
Here she demonstrates her passion for flowers and creating things,
a vision her paw-paw shares.

January Christmas

christmas is any day we want it to be!

Who says that santa only comes in december? We had our first snow on the 19th and we decided that it was as good a time as any to have a white christmas.

From a Child's Eye

Sometimes it helps to take another perspective, a different approach. Here, in these photos, all except the three we took of her, taken by Kailani without coaching, we can see her view of a little part of her world. No matter if there is redundancy, what matters is what she thinks is important. These pictures are of her choosing.

lost & found

after we dug up the verbena, we found these two kids under the flowers.

as we keep digging, we continue to discover new things.

Cruzing

I think you can see a smile from mama here

Our Nursery Outing

Our trip to the local nursery yielded many good finds. We tore up a lot of stuff and boy, was it HOT! Like a trip to the Amazon, we brought back many specimens, horn worms included, and are trying to propagate them in our own climate. I told Mama that she would have to come and see her plants in our gardens and she agreed. We are working hard to finally landscape our lawn and with a lot of help and Lotus' generosity, we are slowly making it a reality. I still intend to post those belated pictures when I have some spare time.

April Birthdays

Saturday, April 21, we celebrate Kailani's 3rd, and Mama's upcoming 81st birthdays with some of our family & friends.

just pictures

when i told kailani this bear was smiling, she says it's happy cause it's at paw-paws!
xoxoxo :)

some moments in our lives make us smile, these are just a couple

pitter patter

what makes our hearts glow, what brings sunshine to our mornings. after the reunion, these two bitty girls came to see us and made us smile. for a moment, there are no worrys, there are no problems, when you know the wonder of these precious gifts.

7/30/06

Cody's Album

not to be outdone, cody snaps a few shots.

grandpas helper

(in speak easy)

a spring flower2

another baseball player

adversity into manna

darrell is doing better. he has involved himself with productive things that keep him busy and is beggining to see the bigger picture.

grandbabies2

we enjoyed a saturday visit from our babies. these pictures are from before i got home from yard mowing (ravenna, ridgecrest, cemetary) with my boys, darrell & curtis. the spring flower video is later the same day after we got home. i have some other short clips i would like to upload when i figure out how to best compress them. any suggestions would be helpful.

learning the ropes

a little too nippy outside, so some indoor practice has to do