No, I didn't eat the gummi bears.
Really, now?
Really, now?

She's so sweet when she is sleeping.

Pretty sunset this evening, wasn't it? I snapped this photo just in time. In the time it took me to change lenses to the telephoto, ithe pink in the clouds was gone.
Oh, and earlier today, Harley and I went to the grocery store. When we returned home, we found Kassie and Lexa in the yard picking dandelions. Kassie was wearing her pink princess bathing suit. Darling Lexa was wearing nothing but a Costco-sized Tostitos corn chip bag. I asked her if Daddy knew she was wearing an empty chip bag. She told me he did. I told her to get in the house and put her clothes back on.
Mommy: Are you aware that your youngest daughter is in the front yard wearing nothing but a Tostitos bag?
Daddy: Yeah.
Mommy: And you didn't see anything wrong with that?
Daddy: No, she's dressed.
Mommy: In a TOSTITOS BAG.
Daddy: She came in and said her bathing suit was wet and she had to take it off, but she wasn't allowed to be outside naked. So she grabbed the bag and put it on. Then she ran outside.
I so wish I had been able to get a picture of her wearing the bag.

The girls enjoying Ranier cherries from the Renton Farmers Market.

Harley's new haircut.

Chace being a goof with his new haircut.
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Lexa's birthday was on the 19th. (Same day as Cousin Christopher.) Of course, we had to go to Build-a-Bear Workshop. Meet Princess Cupcake.
And here we have the cake and candles bit.
Unfortunately, these are not the best photos I have taken. I have been pretty sick for quite a while, and I am totally off these days. If you all were wondering, Lexa and Kassie had a little too much fun with the scissors one night after everyone else had fallen asleep. That is why she now sports that pixie haircut. I have photos of her mullet that she and Kassie had styled at first - I will have to post those later.
She did it. She did it again. The Little Darling decided she needed bangs, so she did a little self-styling.

This is my not-so-girly-girl. She isn't as pink and frilly as Kassie. Lexa's favorite color is blue. But the child has a thing for art, scissors, style and shoes. Well, she has a thing for boots, actually. She is locally known as "the little girl with the boots". Her latest acquisition is a pair of hot pink cowboy boots.
Here she is modeling the boots at Aunt Anne's on Christmas Eve - the outfit is complete with chocolate smudge on face, Blue Bear, broom horse, cowboy hat and yellow hapi coat from Japan.

She promised me many times she wouldn't ever ever cut her hair again. Ever. At least this time she seems to have done a decent job of it.
We had a snow day today. We got several inches of snow that never managed to melt. The kids are hoping for another snow day, but I am not so sure. It is supposed to melt off tomorrow. In all the years we have lived in this house, I have never seen it snow this much, especially this early in the year.





I will get more of the other two kids soon.