Rainbow Carrots

Fresh from the garden.  Mulligan soon.

Port Gamble Morning

 

Our tradition for celebrating Valentine's Day is a trip to Port Gamble.  The town is so small and quaint and charming.  And it makes for a great day trip.

Some colouring while we wait for breakfast to be served.

We *must* bring home a bottle of finn river wine.  I'm thinking pear.

Our Finn noticed the "fsh" right away at the sea museum.

The prerequisite visit to the fabric shop.  Oh, glorious rows of beautiful potential!

 

Sadly, The Artful Ewe was closed for a fiber arts show.  This was very unfortunate for me since I so enjoyed my visit last year, and I really did need some more yarn...

 



 

But we made up for lack of wool with a purchase at the Wish Boutique - a sweet Beatrix Potter floor puzzle for three little girlies.

A Little Bit of Winter

 

 

Baby Doesn't Like...

...rides on the lawnmower with ear protection.

Woo hoo!  Would you look at this?!  I can blog again!  (At least for the moment).  Guess it's time for a new computer.  :)

Testing ...

Baby Likes

 goat's milk,

 bubble baths,

 bedtime,

 vanilla ice cream,

and naptime with Grandpa. Notice Grandpa is the only one sleeping.

In The Herb Garden

I've been tucking in a few culinary herbs amongst the pile of stumps at the back of the vegetable plot.  It's overgrown with ferns and nettles and while crouching down to clear a spot for sweet Cicely, bronze fennel and hyssop, I noticed some of these dew bejewelled beauties.

*~~~Fairyland~~~*

Sweet April Birthday

 My little one is five!  Our ensemble of choice for a birthday celebration at home is a stunning light pink pajama top with cats, comfortable yet classy brown cords, and to complete the outfit and add softness, a rich red tutu.

 The Wearing Of The Bows is a Browning tradition.

 "They even gave ME a present to hold!"

 "...aaaand of course, a corny bow."

A very happy birthday, Sweet Pea!

Holy Week

We started off holy week with baptisms on Palm Sunday.

And Finn's first food ~ some tasty rice cereal.  Very tasty, as you can see by the reaction.  Perhaps we should have gone with Grandpa's intriguing suggestion: an organic lima bean.

We attended our first Maundy Thursday service this year.  So powerful!  Looking forward to making that a tradition.

And finally, a glorious Resurrection Day with Easter baskets to celebrate.

"Would you like a jelly bean?"

Story Time

Finn's Fish

I found this fun undersea mobile to crochet at Lion Brand and thought it would do just swimmingly in Finn's room.  She finds the lazily floating fish to be very soothing.

Got Milk?

We do!  The prospect of having milk delivered from a semi-local dairy has been considered for a long time now.  When the vendor offered our girls chocolate milk samples at the Flower and Garden Show this year, we figured we might as well try it.

 What were we waiting for!?  Is there anything more exciting than finding tasty dairy products on your own front porch?

Now it's just like Christmas every Monday morning.

And, get this, the milkman drives a "Holstein" painted truck. Too fun!