Shouldn't she be a model someday! Beautiful!! 

Of course the only good one of my kids all together none of them are looking at the camera. 

Ben is investigating some rocks. 

Some pictures from our fun day! 

Since I'm adding pictures, I thought I'd put one of my daughter on here. It's not that I don't take pictures of her, it's that she's always in school so there is less opportunity. Here she's hanging out with a friend. 

Here's another shot with the new camera, not to many pictures of me on here so I thought I'd throw this one in.  

My sister-n-law got a new camera and she took some great pictures of my son!

There's nothing more fun than playing in dirt is there? 

Isn't our puppy cute? Or her nose anyway. 

I'm king of the forest, hear me roar!! 

ER bound!

My youngest son is 17 months old going on invincible. He climbs up things, out of things, onto things. All of these things are tall, narrow or typically off limits for toddlers of his age, but nothing stops him. I don't know if it's having older siblings or if it's just his nature, but this one's bound to make a trip to the ER for broken bones at some point in his life, probably sooner than later. He fell on his brothers train table two days ago. His latest bruise narrowly missed his eyeball and is leaving him with one heck of a shiner and yet he goes back for more. Just today he's standing on his tippy toes on the bar of a chair with his chin on top of the table, just barely holding on so that he can reach a toy in the middle of the table. They say boys will be boys, let's just hope this boy makes it to his 10th birthday!

"Charlotte's Web"

"Charlotte's Web"
Originally uploaded by llear.

We found this on our patio this morning.

Out for a ride!

Harley Riding
Originally uploaded by llear.

We had a great time this weekend out on a Poker Run.

My son enjoying a day at the park! 

New Recipe for the Month

Since I have made this a few times this past month I am thinking it's a winner, so here goes.

Black Bean Salad with Citrus Dressing

2 15oz. Black beans rinsed and drained
1 6oz. can mandarin oranges drained
1/2 small red onion sliced
1 large green pepper chopped
1 C. frozen whole kernel corn thawed
1 small tomatoe chopped
1 Tbsp. chopped pickled jalapeno chopped
1 5oz. can sliced black olives

Dressing
1/4 C. vegatable oil
1/4 C. red wine vinegar
1/2 C. orange juice
1/4 tsp. salt

Cutie Pie!

Cutie Pie!
Originally uploaded by llear.

You know this picture has been popping up on my screen saver from time to time and I just had to put it on here. Doesn't it just make you want to squeeze his cheeks?

Picnicing at the capitol with friends.

Picnicing at the capitol with friends.
Originally uploaded by llear.

Last night, we met friends at the captiol to listen to a Middle Eastern band and have a picinic. It was a great time, we had lots of good food and enjoyed adding a little culture to our life. Check out the rest of the pictures on my flickr badge below.

WARNING!! T.V. Might Be Harmful To Your Health

So last night I was flipping through channels watching absolutely nothing on t.v., because nothing is on, it's summer and I have what some people call "Country Cable", which is to say I pay more for my Tivo than I do for my cable and get very few channels. The only reason we got cable is because our bunny ears stopped getting ABC and we couldn't watch our shows, so we had to break down and get cable. Well anyway, I was flipping and watching a couple shows at a time when I came upon Being Bobby Brown. I thought he was in jail or something, and I certainly thought that he and Whitney Houston were over. Much to my surprise, though, they are very much together and he is not in jail, he has his own reality show. It's sort of like the Ozzbornes in that it just follows them around a bit. I really believe that I lost actual brain cells during the few moments I watched. I didn't sit down and watch the whole show you see I am a flipper, I pride myself on the ability to watch three, sometimes four shows at a time, so I did not see this in its entirety. The few times I flipped back to it though, it was Bobby or Whitney talking about crap, and I mean that in the literal sense. It showed them at restaurants, meetings, in studios, all of these fine upstanding places and they were farting and talking about taking a dump. The saddest part of it all was the scenes when their daughter was in it. Here's Whitney Houston, the has been diva blaming one her farts on her daughter, much to her daughters mortified embarassment. It was awful and I just couldn't stop thinking about it last night. What has the world come to that we are watching drug addicts that beat up on one another and crap their pants in public places and call that entertainment. It almost makes me want to get rid of my cable all together.

Got Corn??

As sad as this may be my youngest son just had his first ear of corn the other night for dinner. I don't know if it is because he's trying to get a new tooth or if it was so darn good he didn't want to let go, but it made for a great picture.

First Day Of School!!

Sorry it has taken so long to document this glorious day, but I've been so busy getting back into the swing of things. My daughter started her first day of fourth grade Monday and we've been moving and grooving ever since. My middle child starts three days a week pre-school in two weeks and then maybe we will slow back into the routine of running children everywhere. My daughter is not nearly as excited about starting school as she used to be, but then again only two of her friends are in her class this year and it's like starting over, she doesn't know anyone. Her boyfriend" is also not in her class, which is causing a major uproar in the fourth grade frenzy of boyfriends and girlfriends. I'm confident that she will get back in the social circle soon, though. I asked her why it even mattered if she had a boyfriend, it's not like she can go on dates or anything. And her reply was priceless, she said, "Yeah, we can't even kiss or hold hands in fourth grade", good to know she's learning something.