saying hi to butterflies

over the weekend my dad attended the annual butterfly release.  he came home to us with extra butterflies and we had a nice little ceremony of our own releasing them near the flowers.  noah was especially happy that one landed on his finger and then his leg!

love, laurie

preschool snapshots

a few recent photos and some artwork from preschool.

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cooling off on a hot day

our neighbors invited us over for a little summer gathering, and noah enjoyed cooling off in the baby pool.  he also enjoyed dunking himself in the bucket of water for the water balloons.

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lots of "big shows"

mr. noah has been a big help at all of mama's "big shows" recently!

and he's always game to test out whatever scenery we have on stage!

love, laurie

birthday celebrations

we all got together last week to celebrate ryan's dad's birthday with sandwiches and a chocolate chip cookie cake!

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happy father's day weekend

happy father's day weekend to all of the papas out there!

love, laurie

happy birthday!

happy birthday today to ryan's dad!

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happy anniversary!

happy 54th wedding anniversary today to ryan's parents!

love, laurie

strawberry picking at lakeland orchard

it's strawberry season at lakeland orchard and we're very excited about it since we all love strawberries.

on sunday morning, noah and i got to the orchard when they opened to go strawberry picking.  noah was in his glory because his favorite tractor driver drove the tractor we were on to go out to the strawberry fields.  it was a lot of fun and the strawberries are delicious!

after we put our strawberries in a cooler in the car, we spent several hours riding all of the rides and taking two more tractor trips out to strawberry fields just for the ride because he loved watching the tractors drive so much.

love, laurie

preschool snapshots

some recent snapshots of what noah has been up to at preschool and some of his awesome artwork.

love, laurie