Anna's Photo Blog

Summer Camping and Hiking

nospam@example.com (Anna) — 2015-10-15T21:15:00Z

This is the fire that M made all by herself, before and after lighting it. She did a great job and was so proud of herself!! L made a great fire too, but somehow we didn't get pictures.

David washed all the dishes on this camping trip! Thank you!!! That was the best thing EVER!!!

nospam@example.com (Anna) — 2015-07-03T00:36:03Z

I recently graduated from foot zoning school. It was an incredible experience, with a super incredible instructor (Brad Noall, on the right) and an amazing class!! It has changed my life forever! Read more about foot zoning on my new blog here.

L recently turned 10. I can't believe she is that old, or that I'm that old!!

This is M and A in their beautiful princess dresses that Grandma made for them.

This is our cute, silly goose S. He probably looks nothing like the last picture I posted of him! He was being such a stinker, and would not cooperate for a picture. Every time I told him to smile, he would start blinking his eyes really hard and twitching all over. So I took a video, because it was pretty hilarious.

S sure loves his Dad, and all tools. It's kind of hard to tell, but David is using a chain saw in this picture, and S spent every minute that he could with him out there. S already likes to take things apart. We will find random things taken apart, or lone screws sitting around that I get to save and figure out where they came from. This is going to get more interesting as time goes on, I am sure!

Doing sit-ups together.

Catching Up: Ice Skating

nospam@example.com (Anna) — 2014-07-21T01:59:48Z

Catching Up: Winter 2013-2014

nospam@example.com (Anna) — 2014-07-20T22:33:52Z

I think this is my very favorite part of winter here. I love it!

Christmas:

Here are some more photos from our budding photographer M.

Here are some nice photos of the kids.

I couldn't get anything good of S. I think this photo says it all.

This is after S's first green smoothie!! (He is squealing for more.) Yummy!

And these are from S's birthday. One year old!

Catching Up: Fall 2013

nospam@example.com (Anna) — 2014-07-20T20:07:00Z

More From Summer 2013

nospam@example.com (Anna) — 2014-07-19T22:39:40Z

Catching Up: Camping, Summer 2013

nospam@example.com (Anna) — 2014-04-03T01:31:01Z

Our Budding Photographers

nospam@example.com (Anna) — 2014-03-31T14:56:34Z

I am not sure if everyone can appreciate these photos, but I know that at least some of you will, so I will put them up. M has always really liked taking pictures with our camera, and they have begun to take on a style all her own. Most of these were taken by M, with a few by A.

Catching Up: Baptism and Baby Blessing, Summer 2013

nospam@example.com (Anna) — 2014-03-29T16:14:31Z

This was one of the most wonderful weeks of my life! It was SO SOOO very wonderful to have so much family at our home!

L was baptized by her Dad. It was a very special and wonderful day.

Doesn't she look gorgeous!!!

Baby S was blessed in this cute outfit.

What a wonderful, wonderful week!! One of the very best ever.

Catching Up: Spring 2013

nospam@example.com (Anna) — 2014-03-29T16:02:41Z

This is from our trip to Hogle Zoo.

Here is Baby S in May.

And here he is in June.

Baby S

nospam@example.com (Anna) — 2013-03-19T02:38:51Z

Wow, I can't believe how long it has been since I added anything to our photo blog!!! It was back when Baby A was a baby, and she sure isn't any more! Now we have a new baby, our first boy!!! It is so wonderful to have him in our family!!

Here are the VERY proud sisters. (I hardly need to say it-you can see it in their beaming faces! )

They are helping take such good care of him. Here L has rocked him to sleep, all by herself.

We had a home birth again, just like with Baby A. Once again, it was an amazing, wonderful, peaceful, fantastic experience! I wouldn't trade the experience for anything, and I wish everyone could know what it is like to have a baby at home!

Esther came over and took care of the girls while Mom and Dad were busy having the baby. Thank you, Esther!!

L's Seed and Garden

nospam@example.com (Anna) — 2011-09-19T03:05:08Z

We have a local store called Anderson's Seed and Garden. It is a fabulous place, where you can buy seeds by weight and just about anything else you need for a garden.

L decided she would have her own seed store, and she has been collecting seeds all summer-from the food we eat as well as from the weeds and flowers around here.

M made a sign for her too:

She hired M to help her run the store, and she paid M half the revenue. Here is L's Seed and Garden, under our apple tree in the back yard. Notice the piggy bank on the bucket, and there is a stick behind it, which is for scanning bar codes.

They have great customer service and were very helpful when I made my purchase. On this particular day, they were selling potted plants. L, as a self-proclaimed "botanist of wild edible plants," dug up edible weeds and potted them in yogurt containers to sell.

On this day they were selling seeds.

Here is a close up of what was for sale that day: moss, peas collected and dried from our garden, yellow columbine seeds gathered from the front yard, apricot pits, dandelion seeds, and cherry pits.

Random Garden Photos

nospam@example.com (Anna) — 2011-09-19T02:52:45Z

Here are some peas we picked.

L planted a moss garden.

And here is Sparkles. He is so beautiful!

Here is Baby A after helping me weed the garden. She LOVED it! (That's some raspberry mixed with the mud on her face.)

Here is L with her pumpkin that she grew. It weighed 16 pounds, and she was so proud of it!! (M's pumpkin is still growing, we'll have a picture of that one eventually.) Shortly after we planted the seeds, L found a recipe for pumpkin cookies in the Friend magazine. Ever since then, she has been looking forward to harvesting her pumpkin so that we could make pumpkin cookies from it and give them to our neighbors. We did, and it was so much fun.

I found the most beautiful garden spider living in our tomato plants. I had actually been hoping and looking for one since I planted a garden last year. We took a bunch of pictures and then threw him a grasshopper to eat. It was fascinating to the girls (and me) to see him wrap the grasshopper up.

Flowers From Our Garden

nospam@example.com (Anna) — 2011-09-19T02:47:42Z

More Summer Pictures

nospam@example.com (Anna) — 2011-09-12T03:06:30Z