Busy as a Bee

In short we have been crazy busy lately. Here's a few photos to bring you up to speed....

The Orchids and Butterfly exhibit is going on at the Wild Animal Park. This is by far our favorite exhibit and it only lasts for about a month. Picture walking into a greenhouse filled with every type of butterfly imaginable. It's like a scene in a fairy tale.

Monkey flower power.

It was Olivia's 2nd birthday the other day. She is one of the girls good friends.

Sahara and Maya got to eat cupcakes that day. This is actually a big deal because mommy doesn't give them any sweets.



Nader's brother Brian and his wife Christine gave birth to their 4th child, a girl. Her name is Giana.

Look at those long toes !!

Here's a proud uncle kissing his new niece.

Sahara pointing out her binky addiction.

Remember those sunflowers the girls planted. Well they planted 20 sunflowers and got 3 that sprouted. So they replanted those survivors in the ground.

Here are the lucky sprouts.

The girls are taking turns watering them.


The girls love feeding ducks and mommy finally got smart and bought duck food from the feed store.

They girls throw so much food at the ducks that most of it goes to waste.

There was a pink and orange duck at the pond. How did they get that color?


And finally, we have a home improvement project in progress. We are adding some stone work to our fire place. What was quoted to take a day has now taken 2 weeks. Needless to say the house is a mess, but it is coming along nicely.