Interesting Backyard Visitor

I was a little late this year (like every year) in overseeding the lawn, just did it a little over a week ago. The doves love to come and eat the seeds. Hoover and especially Kona do a great job chasing them off, but they need their beauty sleep.

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On Friday I knew the dogs were asleep but I heard a bunch of wings flap as the doves flew off the lawn. Turns out a hawk had landed on our wall and was hanging around keeping an eye out for stragglers. She was a beautiful bird, gave us a good look at those gray striped tail feathers.  After a little poking around on Google, it appears to have been a Cooper’s Hawk.

Halloween, October and September Photos

Did a big photo update finally.

September 2009 September - Mikey’s birthday, last of the summer water days, and Daddy’s special happy-face waffles!

October 2009 October – Sleepover with cousin Elisia, meeting cousin Timothy Phelan, the Pumpkin Patch with the Urbs, Disney on Ice and Elisia’s Pumpkin Party.

Halloween 2009 Halloween – We had a ladybug and a fairy princess this year…and two ballerina dogs. It was a great one!

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Felicity’s Doodle

Felicity likes to play with my iPhone now and one of her favorite apps is DoodleBuddy. This is her latest creation.

Lil’ Yogis

Becky goes to a yoga class three times a week at the Pointe of Grace dance studio, the same place Felicity goes for her dance class. The other night we had dinner at the place right by the studio and Becky brought her yoga clothes to change into. Nobody else showed for the class, so Ms. Kim (the owner) and Ms. Amy (the teacher) said the girls could stay. Felicity likes to do yoga but Michaela doesn’t have the patience yet. But she did do a few poses with them!

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Photos for August and Felicity’s Birthday

I posted some photos a while ago but I know some people don’t check the photos page, just the home page. Go take a look at August and Felicity’s 4th birthday.

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Felicity’s first day of school

IMG_0890Felicity started pre-school today at our church’s school, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.  She will go every Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons.  She was very excited to go and I think that it helped that we went into her classroom last Friday for about an hour and met the teachers and got to play in her classroom.  She was hooked!  She was very cute today, here are some of the highlights:

* On our way to school she told me “Mommy, if Michaela does anything cute while I am at school make sure you grab the camera and record it so I can see it when I get home.”

* Once at school we put her lunchbox in her cubby and headed into her classroom while holding my hand, but as soon as she walked through that door she squeezed my hand very tight and only let go to give her teacher a hug and find her name tag.

* Michaela seemed a little confused when I put her in her car seat and Felicity wasn’t in hers.  She looked back at the school doors and then at me and said “Fa Fi?” (her word for Felicity).  Then when I got her up from her nap to go get Felicity, I asked her, “do you wan to go get Felicity?”  She got excited and still 1/2 asleep yelled, “FA FI!”

* When I walked into her classroom to pick her up, she saw me, got a big smile on her face and came racing towards me!  Too cute!

She had a great day and really likes it.  Her teachers Mrs. LaFevre and Mrs. Hoffman, are terrific and you can tell from the instant that you meet them that they love their job and truly love the kids they teach.  It is going to be a great year!

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Photos from June and July

The other day I posted new photos to our Photos page. They include a June photo set with Father’s Day and our 8th Anniversary, and July witht he 4th holiday, the new swingset, a trip to Sedona/Flagstaff, Randy’s birthday and some other things. Enjoy.

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Photos – May, Becky’s Reunion and Felicity’s Recital

imageI just uploaded some more photos to the Photos Section of the Blog. Enjoy!

 May 2009

  • Kenny’s Birthday
  • Mother’s Day
  • Carey’s Surprise Party
  • Water fun

image Becky’s 12th HS Reunion

Felicity’s Recitalimage

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New Photos – Easter and April

Earlier this week I posted some photos for the month of April as well as a separate set for Easter. Highlights from the April set include a Fancy Nancy dinner (see previous post), some great family pictures of the four of us and some really cute ones of the girls. For Easter, the highlight was probably getting to spend some time with my brother Ted, Kris and the kids: Nick, Dan, Lindsay and Ben. We also took some Post Family portraits, although the sun was pretty bright, so most are a little washed out and have a bunch of squinty subjects…but otherwise they are very nice. Then of course there are plenty of egg hunting ones! Enjoy.

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