a couple little dolls I've been making.

Olivia and Lincoln trying to watch a 3-d movie
The at home 3-d is not comparable to the theatre 3-d

effects...so this didn't last long.

Our csa share from last week. This has been the biggest one

yet...And yippee ..NO greens except some baby lettuces.

This summer we have been in a strange transition between school and jobs. As a result we have had a lot of time to spend together as a family...even in a stressful time, it has been nice to be together. Lincoln has been really into saying "whats that" over and over...and over. so that's been fun. Olivia and I finally saw Coraline. It is now available at your Cincinnati public library for check out. The book was a better told story, but i definitely appreciate all the amazing work that went into the stop action movie. If you have older kids...say 8 and up "the graveyard book" also by Neil gaiman is pretty wonderful. Olivia is spending some time in Bloomington...today she is scheduled to go to the fair with my grandma. This is a tradition. We would go to the fair with my grandma every year. I grew to love every thing about the fair in Indiana. The animals and the wonderful 4-h building with the quilts and art work...I hope she loves it to.

Here is our little garden. So far the cucumbers have done great we eat them daily, and our zucchini has given us some delicious bread. The beans were a learning experience...we'll get it right next year. Does anyone have peppers yet? Are we really behind in the bell pepper department? Tomatoes will be here soon (yummy yummy). We have been getting a few a week from our csa and man oh man have I missed tomatoes. I rarely ever buy them during the winter because what you can get at the store......those are not tomatoes people!

Its been a long time coming, and I am so glad tomatoes are back. We also have some hot peppers and lots of herbs...oh and some beets. It turns out I'm not a real big fan of beets. who knew. I have been using the greens a bit, so its not a total waste. Oh and that big blue thing is our rain bucket that catches all the rain ,so we have water to put on the garden. it saves us millions probably.

happy 4th of july. This pretty much sums up our festivities. Oh yeah and we did some smoke bombs and watched all our neighbors...who were lighting off HUGE fly up in the sky stadium style fireworks. Yeah for explosives I guess.

liv.

at carols house.

jonny and anna in old town San Diego.

p.s. those cactus will bite you.

The back yard.

lincoln.

Well I guess It is time to get back in the habit of posting. Sorry about the long pause... our life has been a little busy lately. We had a wonderful time in California. It was so nice just relaxing and playing and seeing all the fun things. Disneyland was a hit...Lincoln still talks about pirates and mickeys house probably everyday. The kids, especially Olivia, Loved the beach. We went to the wild animal park and saw tons of cool animals really close up...and I got the bronze ring at the carousel. woo hoo. Is bronze the one you want? I think thats right...well anyway its the one that gives you a free ride.

The job hunt is slow slow slow. I have an interview on tuesday. Your prayers would be appreciated. Jonny has been working on his resume and then I guess he can start the tons of work he has to do on his portfolio. It is back to school season I guess. Boo Urns. But the good thing is the school supplies are really cheap! So... If anyone would like to donate a few school supplies to the school kits that grandma and I are putting together for the Humanitarian aid

just let me know, and I will get you a list. We all ready have a few contributors,okay one ...you know who you are and thanks very very much.

While we were in california we visited Jonnys aunt (on his moms side). She lives on this big plot of land out in the hills of nowhere. Liv & Linc loved it. She played with some Cousins she had yet to meet on an old school playground merry-go-round.They played with brand new baby kittens, and chicks, pet a frogs belly, and we meet this huge beast that they said was a dog..but it may have very well been a bear.

I better end this , I will post a new garden post tomorrow or the next. We have big beautiful plants...and some vegetables too!