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Fun with Crayfish

We went up to Red Butte where Andy is helping with research and helped him pull his crayfish traps. Girls loved it. Hannah was amazingly brave and helped Andy remove them from the traps. Zoe was trying to get brave and then Konrad got nipped quite hard by one of the little fellows so she backed off from them!!!

New Dresses

We hauled out my old Kenmore sewing machine this weekend and the girls experienced their first foray into sewing for themselves. I bought fabric that already had the elastic shirring and the girls sewed the seams and helped make straps. They were both so excited and the little sundresses came out quite sweet.

Cozy Saturday Afternoon

Caught this shot of Henry and Hannah having a cozy moment. So cute!! The cats have certainly settled in and we are all really enjoying them.

Grandpa and Grandma Slind arrived for a long weekend to visit us. We had a great time with them. Unfortunately, I did not get very many pics but Grandma did so I will get those from her and add them eventually. I did get a few shots from our birthday dinner for Hannah. Her birthday is next week but we celebrated early!
Zoe helped with the Birthday Blondie, as you can see...kind of a giant brownie.
My oldest son Andy with Zoe.










We had a steak dinner....that is Hannah's favorite.

Henry and Hazel arrive

We have two new members of our family...Henry and Hazel. Konrad and I have both been wanting a cat for some time. We had looked at the Humane Society a couple of weeks ago with the girls but they mostly had grown cats so we left with no cat but 2 crying furious little girls who punished us all the way home with their glares and accusations of heartlessness. We heard rumors of kittens available the next weekend at a local shop and came home with two! Hazel is about a year old and upon walking into the shop, she wrapped herself around Konrads ankles and he was hooked! Henry is crazy and cross-eyed. The girls were very surprised and happy when they next arrived at our house, of course!!!

Car wash

How can you not just love a man who takes it upon himself one beautiful Saturday morning to start cleaning out your car (AKA The Pigmobile) and continues until it is spotless inside and out??? Many objects of unidentified origin and date were found and disposed of. It was an enormous project and the girls assisted him in his endeavor.


Zoe, of course, was in her typical cleaning girl attire!

Spring Planting

Here are some pics of Hannah planting our little garden patch. She loves digging in the dirt !!!