Yankton

We went to Yankton recently

Did a little fishing and boating

This girl

 

she can fish for hours...

 

late, late at night

 with her dad

Cyrus is more of our boat driver

 Aliza too

This one has always, always been so patient

she could be still from the time she was a toddler

always so good in restaurants or doctors offices, or to get her picture taken

 

this one...

well, she is different...

not the same

 

my friend calls her colorful, oh that she is!

 

It's been awhile...

I keep thinking in the back of my brain how I started recording a few family moments on this blog and I how I kinda stopped and I do not even have a picture of our newest babe - not one picture of her up on this teeny tiny (as Aliza's refers to things) blog.  Our Marin Grace, or Mare Bear as we call her was born 7 months ago!

Well here she is at 5 months...

 

Of course she started out more like this, scratch on cheek and all

 

and this is what our Mare Bear looks like more recently

and so these are all my little people

 

my sillies, my often times very loud sillies

So hopefully I will be more on track.  Now that I have not done this in so long, it seems easier than it used to be - to post pics, yay for that!

Me with Aliza & Lydia

of course I like to distort it a bit as to hide wrinkles, for the artistic affect.

 

Tootles for now...be back sooner then 10 months! ha!

Our Luminaries for the 4th of July

We painted luminaries

  

then we lined our sidewalk

 

and rode some bikes through them

 

Cyrus painted these

 

 

I did this one

 We put candles

(and rocks - give it more weight)

in them

 

 

 flash photography - does not show their lovely glow

but who is that girl up way too late!

the glow....

I loved it

so much I packed them away for next year!

This was easy peasy too! Just need white paper lunch sacks, paint, brushes, and a paper punch.  I did pick up some candles, the kind that are suppose to keep bugs away that don't....ironically there were dead bugs in the melted wax, so maybe that is the plan for those candles...you know keep them away by killing them in the wax!