Family Pic

This may have to be our Christmas card picture this year. No matter that it was taken via Skype on a Saturday afternoon when none of us had made it to the shower yet. No matter that Jenny the Chicken takes front and center. No matter that Spencer appears to be 18 inches tall. We all look so happy, and that's what counts. Cheese!

First Snow of the Year

 This is Spencer pulling Eva and Stella home after a quick sledding trip.

The snow is a definite improvement over the drought-stricken grass.

September in Lincoln

 We've seen a lot of Nebraska-style mayhem the past two weekends. Last weekend we witnessed the Zombiefest. There was supposed to be a battle on this quad, but the Resistance just ran away from the Zombies, so it wasn't exciting as it could have been. This past weekend we also went up to campus to see the Husker game antics. Husker fans are a bit more jolly than zombies, in my opinion, and they also eat better food. Both zombies and Husker fans wear a lot of red. That's my fodder for a Zombies/Huskers venn diagram.

 Seminary: what can I say? This is how I found Rebecca Friday evening. I think she had been asleep for about 4 hours at this point.

 This is Scarlet Sue Criserry. It was an abandoned bunny found in the middle of the street. Eva and her friend Stella are more than happy to be Scarlet's new parents. They give her more attention than a bunny deserves.

Poor old house. The basement is getting jackhammered. The front yard is getting dug up. All because we like indoor plumbing. We really do like indoor plumbing.

Romeo and Juliet on the Trampoline

Eva Cantering on Vanna

Busy Times

 For Eva's birthday party this year (2 weeks early), we experimented with tie-dye t-shirts. They turned out really well, and since we forgot about latex gloves, everybody had tie-dyed hands to match their shirts.

 Poor, poor Ben. He had to spend a beautiful Saturday digging up the sewer line in the crawl space so he could replace a battered, root-filled section of cast-iron pipe. Our hero!!

 Meanwhile, the rest of the family spent a lovely day with the cousins at the Boulder Creek Festival. Here are the girls standing in front of a cute puppy's cage.

 Grandma came all the way from Utah to spend the weekend with us. It was so wonderful to have her here. She was a real trooper.

 Rebecca had her Alice in Wonderland show the following weekend. She had lots of interesting parts. Here you can see her in her fish costume.

Now that it's summertime, Spencer and his good pal Cade have lots of time on their hands to create interesting things like this, uh, tall robot thing.

6th Grade Wax Museum Day

I went to the school this morning and saw all kinds of people I'd been hoping to meet: Al Capone, Zeus, Anne Frank, Marylin Monroe, Alexander the Great, Bonnie and Clyde. And here's Orville Wright (of Wright Brothers fame):

 You can walk around and look at the wax statues, and if you want them to tell about themselves, you just push a button (or a mustache or a lightning bolt, depending on the statue's preference).

Back in the Saddle

Eva hasn't had a chance to go horseback riding much since the end of last summer, but Becky's back (for a little while) so Eva got to go hang out at the stable on Saturday.