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Just another day on the pitch...

More Eating Fun

New Hairdo

As someone who was never really into her own hair, I often have trouble with fixing the hair of my girls! Taytum at least has a little more to work with! On this day I attempted pig tails in Regan's hair as well. You can't see them too well in the first picture, but I got some other shots of her from above. She is the cutest darn thing in pigtails!

Butterfly Wings

It's amazing what you can find on the clearance isle and how much fun a simple toy can be! Introducing our little butterfly...

Bye-bye butterfly!!!

Apple Picking

Taytum got to go apple picking on a field trip with her school this year. It was a great day. Check out the pics...

Trying to find just the right one...

Showing off her pickin's...

On the hayride with a classmate...

Part of the orchard also kept bees. Here's the beekeeper showing what she looked like when she went to work...

Taytum and another friend listened intently to how the lady didn't get stung by bees. One of the things Taytum came away with was how to act around bees! :o)

This is Taytum's class in front of the Johnny Appleseed tree. Apparently this tree has grown from a seedling from a tree from the REAL Johnny Appleseed!!

Need to Catch Up

So I'm pretty behind on my posts for this blog... so excuse me while I try to do some catching up. The pictures below are from late summer/early fall... oh, c'mon... it's only December now!!! Hee hee hee!



Can you guess what one of Regan's favorite foods is?

I also think this is when she figured out to say 'cheeeeeeese' for the camera!

I took these pictures one day after taking Taytum to school... just to show what Regan is up to when she's 'flying solo'...

Popping bubbles...

Mowing the yard...

Smelling the flowers...

Cruisin'...

Even Maddy, just chillin'...

Another day while T was at school, just Regan and me hanging out...

"Dude! This is hurting my feet!!!"

"Ride! Ride!"

All was good until Regan discovered the camera...

"What's in there?"

This fall we finally broke down and got a nice patio installed in the back of our house. We have a nice sized yard that the girls and dog(s) have enjoyed. But if you wanted to sit you were pretty much out of luck. Once the guys got started, it was an all day event that kept the girls quite busy...
Look what he's doing Mom!

I will post pictures later on of the finished patio, but here's how it started...

This poor little grasshopper was minding his own business when I discovered him on our porch and called the girls outside to investigate.

Everything was all good until they wanted to investigate further... Now, I enjoy insects and seeing them and watching them and blah, blah, blah. What I DON'T enjoy is having them ON me. Being a tom boy pretty much all my life, I know that grasshoppers are ones that have those horrible CLINGY type legs (sorta like june bugs if you catch my drift)... you know, the type of legs that when they jump on to you it's impossible to get them OFF???!!!!

So while I let the girls do as they please (short of harm, of course), I calmly stepped back when I could anticipate the poor guy springing for freedom! The last thing I wanted was a grasshopper to land on me and to fling my camera 100 yards trying to get it off! Ha ha ha ha ha!

But I also sent out my own little warnings, which of course...

did nothing...

I am so glad to have eager, investigative spirits in my girls! Thank goodness they're not girlie girls... at least not yet!

Soon enough the little guy was on the move. I'm pretty sure his survival instinct kicked in!

After all, he had two GIANT girls chasing him no matter where he went!

There was one last attempt at a closer observation before the little guy got away for good!