I have not been good about posting. I just haven’t. This year has not been a good one for blogging. I can blame it on the Fb, or my busy kids, but really I’ve just been plain lazy about it. I haven’t taken pix off my camera since Easter, I haven’t updated my gallery… Oh my. I won’t make any resolutions, but I do have some catching up to do.
Easter was wonderful. We had great weather (we have had alot of great weather, actually), and the kids seemed to really have fun hunting for eggs around the house. We got them all gardening tools, which have been put to use in our backyard redo! 
Yes, our boy is getting big. Isn’t he handsome? I’m biased, of course…
My family came to visit the next weekend and we were blessed by a viewing of our visiting bears.
I made this one a bit bigger so maybe you can see the black lumps in the pine above that roof. The largest lump to the left of the tree is a bear as is the smaller lump just below. This house is right in the city- on a main road. There were apparently 5 bears in that tree. Crazy.
We had a nice visit- spent some time painting B’s room (or really, painting over the area where the Santa Fe border used to be) with the residual mauvy paint. We’re going to switch the kid’s rooms, since the girl’s room is navy blue, rather than repainting both rooms. Now we just have to figure out the configuration of each and we’ll be good to go!
The next week was M’s 5th birthday. She’s 5 and I can’t believe it. Here she is in her birthday sweater:
She wanted pink, lots of pink! We had a flower fairy party for a few friends, although I don’t have pictures to post at the moment. The girls squealed, giggled and had a wonderful fairy time. We’ve also been introduced to the world of miniature toys! Life will never be the same.
Over M’s birthday week we took an overnight to Ithaca for a web conference. The kids and I spent some time visiting friends (thanks for the hospitality, Dennis’!) and touring the town. Stewart Park was a HUGE hit, as was the food at Shortstop (subs as good as I remember), but IC left a bit to be desired. Sorry to all those who still love it there, but it’s become a bit too modern and industrial feeling to me. There was construction (when was there not?) so I had to stop at the Alumni building to figure out where to go. I wasn’t very impressed with their willingness to help -I didn’t even get a parking pass to the union lot-so I had to drag 3 hungry, tired kids across campus through the construction to find the snack bar. Once we were there we found some good food, but there was not a seat to be found (and nobody was observant enough to help find three hungry kids a table). Were we that inconsiderate as students? As a parent, that certainly changed my perspective of the people who go there and who I want my kids associating with. IDK- maybe I’m becoming too idealistic in my “older” age. Anyway, we did get the chance to visit with an old professor of mine, which was nice. So I give the visit an “eh.” I’d go back to visit the town (which has been really brought back since my last visit in 2003), but probably not the school.
So that brings us to now and another gratuitous cute kid picture from the JCC picnic yesterday. I have one more week of class (what? you didn’t know I was taking a college class? I’ll have to talk about that sometime.) and then I’m all caught up with my continuing education. I can renew my license with confidence. I’ll update my gallery and descriptions of a few FO’s in the next few days.
