Dec 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
Nutcracker is in full swing this week.
Mom, Emily and I made 11 dozen cupcakes!
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| Set up in Studio (can’t see the royal mice very well but they are peeking out!) |
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| Snowflakes and Flowers |
We tried to do something from each scene in the Nutcracker. Ended up with Gumdrops for Land of Sweets, Flowers, Snow, Dragon (from Chinese Tea because Max is in the dragon this year,) Soldiers, and some fondant mice and royal mice.
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| Fondant Snowflakes with Sprinkle Snow |
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| Fondant Flowers with Sugar snow |
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| Soldiers, Nutcracker, Flowers, Dragon |
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| Dragon’s Head (by Emily) |
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| Soldier with Blue Disco Dust |
Nov 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
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| Falling Leaves… |
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| Trails with Trees, |
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| Racing for the Cure, |
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| A few dancing zombies, |
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| And La Niña y la Pinta, |
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= fall fun!
Nov 4, 2011 | Motherhood, Uncategorized
Over one third of a year
inside me…
never
to see him smile
or
laugh
or
breathe,
my seventh
tiny
angel
flies away.
Three weeks ago we lost our tiny baby.
At 18 weeks he was born quietly, without the joyous celebration we had expected and wanted for him.
My pregnancy had been uneventful and smooth. There wasn’t a reason why he died the doctor said. Just another victim of my exaggerated immune system I imagine. When I think I don’t have any more tears they seem to find me.
In the car,
in the grocery store when I see the baby aisle,
when talking with someone as pregnant as I would be now,
when a friend calls to ask how the pregnancy is going…
Most recently at breakfast in a restaurant-
at the table next to us with two beautiful baby boys that looked like mine would have,
like his brothers did at that age, with beautiful fat baby cheeks and sweet blonde wisps of hair…
Grief is a strange animal.
Oct 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Sunday was a beautiful day in the Natural State!
We started the morning at
Pinnacle Mountain for Rendezvous
(a Mountain-Man/Native American celebration)
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| Campers at Rendezvous |
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| Blacksmith’s Shoppe |
Then we went home for a “break”
(where the boys showed me their newly learned bicycling skills)
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| Ferris Wheel Night Light |
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| Yum? |
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| Fun House! |
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| 9 X’s On A Tilt-A-Whirl = World Peace |
Jul 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
Well, sad news in our house…
Dinner, Max’s pet chicken, went to the great scratching ground in the sky.
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| Dinner as a Youngster |
She had been sick for over a month. I tried EVERYTHING to get her well.
(My family really thought I was nuts, believe me.) It was so strange. At first she started acting weak, then in a week or so acted like she’d hurt her foot. Then, a few weeks later both feet totally didn’t work. My theory is that she had a genetic disorder where she was TOO GOOD of a layer (she would lay two eggs a day on average) and it leached all the calcium from her body. Even with me giving them enriched food, veggies, and oyster shell… I tried home remedies (spoon feeding yogurt, shredded apples, oats,) tetracycline just in case, vitamins. Her sisters didn’t pick on her or bother her much. They were only a little jealous that she got to be spoon fed. I swear they have been singing a little dirge at night in her memory. Very sweet.
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| Cole Looking at Dinner |
R.I.P. Dinner the chicken
Jul 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
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| New Murals On the River Trail |
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| Max on the “Secret Trail” He Found- We met the artist that designed the mural above while exploring! |
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| One of The Many Monsters in Town |
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| You Never Know Who’s Looking |
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| Rock Monster |
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| Pretty Cliffs |
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| Mimosa In Bloom (They remind me of Panama) |
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| My Guys By the Arkansas River |
