It's been a long time

Wow - it's been almost a year since I posted! Things have been busy in the Myers household. Rose is halfway through 4th grade. She auditioned for the Marin Girls Chorus and was accepted and has been enjoying her time singing. She is still involved in 4-H and has started tennis lessons, which she is enjoying greatly! Maybe we have finally found a sport she likes :) Max is 4 1/2 yrs and loves his new preschool, All Saints. He is busy doing gymnastics and soccer. I have started a 2nd job as a Community Liaison at Rose's school, working with the Latino families and am still at Even Start in San Rafael. Curtis is happily shooting away. Mainly small jobs right now, but the wedding business is certainly picking up!

We are loving being in our new house and are starting to add our own touches (new lighting, new carpet in the living room & bedroom, new furniture). The backyard has been great, our new trees made it through the winter and we are about to start planting the spring garden! New (permanent additions) will be a pomegranate tree, raspberries, and blackberries. I also hope to put in some olive trees in the front yard and possibly an espalier apple tree in the chicken/rabbit yard.

And speaking of chickens. We have some new additions to our family...26 of them to be exact! Our baby chicks arrived yesterday and we will soon be looking for homes for 15 of them! Rose will be showing them for 4-H and we will also be enjoying their brown and blue-green eggs. She chose to get Bantam Rhode Island Reds and Bantam Araucanas.

Here are a few pictures to enjoy. Hope everyone is doing well!

Getting the garden ready

Farmer Curtis getting ready to use the rented roto-tiller in our 50 foot garden area. The kids are having a picnic while watching. I'll post some photos of the garden in it's planted stage later :)

Max in Sand

Farm Day March 2009

Rose worked at Farm Day again with her 4-H Club and shared her bunny with all the schools and kids that came and attended.

Mid Winter Break (February 2009)

Our birthday present to Curtis was to go up to Lake Tahoe for 4 days and sled and ski. Rose had her first ski lessons ever and was a champ! Unfortunately, Curtis, while sledding, injured his knee pretty badly, which resulted in being off of soccer for about 3 months, as well as physical therapy. We did have a blast!

Presentation Day (February 2009)

Rose won another gold pin for her 4-H hat for her cooking project at Presentation Day. She made an Easter Bunny Cake :)

Firefighters (February 2009)

We borrowed my dad's old fire fighter gear for a photo shoot I was doing at Rose's school. Of course the kids had to have their photos taken in grandpa's helmet and mask