Tea Time

A good friend of ours got Ali this sweet little tea set for her birthday. She and Elijah have been having parties on the back porch.

Eli giving a great Tarzan yell...

Birthday Girl!

Birthday Dinner

Alexandra turns two next Wednesday, and my mom and Art are in Bloomington for a few days. Tonight we all went to Farm, a new restaurant on the square, for gourmet pizzas. Elijah was as excited over her birthday dinner as she was. She specifically requested green cake, so I made an ice cream pie out of mint ice cream. We got her a little pink trike for her gift. We may be in trouble, because as soon as she got used to pedalling, she put one hand in the air and said, "One hand! Crazy!" Yikes.

Eli's first baseball lesson

This one's for you, Asher!

Bad, bad blogger

Yikes! I hadn't realized that it had been so long since I updated this blog. The warm, sunny summer weather has us outside most of the time (I'm sure the dust bunnies under the beds would be a great illustration). It will take me a few posts to catch up, but this summer has been a great one so far. We've been able to spend some time with family, plant a killer veggie garden, and spend time with our our new Boxer puppy. The fellow in the picture a couple of posts ago had to leave us when his owner showed up to claim him two weeks after he went missing (sniff, sniff). We fell in love with the breed, and my sweet hubby brought me this little beauty for my 32nd birthday. Her name is Ivy...

Elijah and Ali have been working on lots of great projects--painting, cooking, mud pies, the creation of costumes like this wizard outfit. And here's Ali with a "popple-stick" that she made out of apple juice and strawberries.