Catching up with pictures and life.

Our neighbors a couple of fields over have several calves right now.  I went crazy over them.  Reminded me of  being on the Jones farm.  I showed Logan how the calves like to suck on fingers.  Now that was a funny thing to watch.

 One of the little girls is Olivia's age and grade.  The kids went swimming the other night over at their house while a crooned over the baby cows.  I really wanted to take one if the calves home with me.

There is a Dahlia farm down the road from us.  The farmer sets out buckets of flowers with a little cash box. Love, love, love them.

 Our fruit trees are loaded with fruit right now.  We have already had raspberries and plums.

 Poppy love to climb the trees.

 Troy with Olivia and Ella on a walk with Izzie.  This was right before bed, thus the PJ pants.

 One of the guys that Troy works for came over the other night with his family.  They are from South Africa and have the most lovely accents.  Troy took them down to the pond to see if they could catch some fish.  The kids get along will together and we hope to do more with their family.

 This is what they catch down at the pond.  The nastiest looking cat fish.  Of course they just release them.  It gives them something to do.  

To the pond we go.

It has been another long week of rain up here in Washington. Surprising, isn't it? Today we had a break in the rain so we took advantage of the sunshine. We know there is some trout in the pond by our house, so we thought we would give it a go at catching something. I took off down to the pond first with Izzie girl. This is her favorite thing in the world to do. Chase the ducks. She's actually caught a couple. We were making too much noise today. It's such a stunning sight to see them take flight. The sound in amazing also.
The creek is high right now. We have lot's of ducks there all the time.

Here comes Logan and Soren. Logan was being a nice brother by carrying Soren's little fishing pole. Soren doesn't walk anywhere. He runs.

Olivia is always running also. It makes me tired to watch them.

Logan was trying to give Soren some pointers. One of those rare moments in my life where my boys aren't trying to throttle each other.

Daddy and Anna coming down the hill from the shop.

Ella bringing her fishing pole on down.

Olivia kept getting her boots stuck in the mud.

So between Olivia screaming about being stuck in the mud, Izzie splashing through the water and not the right fishing equipment, we didn't catch anything.

The had a good time. I stayed on the other side of the pond so I didn't end up with a hook in my head or face.

We got outside together, got some sunshine and fresh air.

What a wonderful little outing that was.

Some of us got more exercise than others.

Happy St. Patricks Day.