The Ones I Love

Sunday, July 6, 2008

So Curtis and I won a stay-over at Full Belly Farm, an organic farm in Capay Valley at an auction. We got to spend the night on the farm with Andrew, the farmer and his wonderful family. He took us all over the farm on the tractor and told us about his crops and farming. It was a wonderful day! Then we picked produce and used it in the dinner that his wife made - she even made a strawberry pie at Rose's request. The next morning we had a yummy breakfast with them and explored the farm a bit more before we headed home.

Picking lettuce for our salad

Max a bit perturbed that he has dirt on his hands

Rose and Curtis

Tanya and Max

Rose driving the tractor.

Yes - there is a wedding happening

For those of you who don't know or who were wondering why I had wedding flowers posted, Tara is getting married this fall to her good friend, John Chase. They have been dating on and off for the past few years and have decided to take that next big step. John just finished seminary and will be looking for a church in the near future, but in the meantime is a fabulous interior painter and Tara is working at SPU. They are both involved in the Prebyterian Church on Queen Anne. John will be joining us for the first time at Sea Ranch and will hopefully survive the few days that he is there with the 15 of us! Their wedding is October 11, 2008.

The little gymnist

Max has been doing a gymnastics class, mainly with Curtis and when Curtis is unavailable I go. He loves going through the tunnels, running, jumping and climbing the rock wall and sliding down. He has completely resisted doing somersalts with the instructor's help, however in June he ran across the floor and did a somersalt flip and has continued doing them non-stop wherever we go. We will definitely be signing him up for some more classes in the fall.

Going through the tunnel.

The catepillar tunnel

The rock wall

For the first part of the year he would only run down the trampoline,
now he is jumping all the way down.

Getting ready for bubbles and the parachute

Potty Time

Potty training has commenced! Max is happy most of the time to go potty in the morning and is successful! Our next step now that we are approaching summer is to put him in his "chonies" (that's underpants to you gringos) for most of the day, except when he is at school in the a.m.

Rock and Roll!

I did it!!!

Easter 2008

So here are some photos of the kids decorating their Easter Eggs and also some from Easter morning. For those of you who are familiar with Rosemary Well's book, "Max's Chocolate Chicken", our Easter morning was a re-enactment of that story. For Max, all that mattered was finding and eating chocolate. Rose on the other hand really wanted om to find Easter eggs with her and put them in his basket. However, with the few eggs he was "forced" by his sister to find, he creatively arranged them in a line in our sandbox and went back to eating chocolate. Guess which Easter basket is his? Afterwards we went over to Gramma and Grampa's house in Berkeley to find more eggs...or for Rose to find more eggs while Max pushed around a wheel barrel and fed the chickens.