Introducing Harper Evelyn

We were blessed with the birth of our daughter, Harper Evelyn on December 22, 2009

Little Sister's Room....

Pictures of the nursery so far....

Sawyer Slides

Mother's Tea

Sawyer's preschool had a Mother's Tea a couple weeks ago. They spent months preparing these songs for us. I couldn't stop smiling and I think I've watched this video 100 times!

Sawyer Rides

We all went out to a birthday party for a little girl in Sawyer's preschool class yesterday. What fun - horse rides, hay rides & BBQ. Sawyer also LOVED the really tame chickens who were running around the arena.



Music by Leo Kottke "Buckaroo"

90 Degree Day in May?

Haven't experienced many of these in my life time but we enjoyed it!

Spring Soccer

We had our last night of pee-wee soccer (spring season) and Sawyer was VERY excited to have a ribbon at the end of the game!

Texas Bluebonnets

A Belated Happy St. Pat's Day ;)

With spring break and a week of no commitments or scheduled places to be, we actually forgot it was St. Patty's Day until mid-day but Sawyer did (amazingly) have green on!





Some shots of the dogs in the last couple days....

The Cowdogs 4 -

Tallulah the nut ball (or is that ball nut) at almosts 2-years old in April



Quila looking as beautiful as ever at 8.5-years old -



Hope giving her famous "stink eye" at a graceful 10-years old.



And last but not least the old man of the brood, Hagen at 11.5-years -

Cowboy & his cowdog

Sawyer playing on the round bales next door with Tallulah - I got a million shots but this one was the winner in my book. I played with some frames and colors too so you can see this X3 ;)





The group getting fed up with the pictures so they could get back to playing...I quit when I saw these faces. I have to keep the "subjects" happy so they let me keep photographing them.

Sawyer the agility instructor & horse whisperer

I took some pictures of Sawyer and Pepper (our neighbor's horse) today - this is actually a fairly regular activity between the fence for these two. She is such a gentle, wise girl - reminds me of our Heidi girl.






Sawyer and Newton have become quite the team. Newton loves to learn and Sawyer decided he wanted to teach him to go through the tunnel - he did this all by himself! He's going to pass me up on handling skills very quickly ;)






Newton & Sawyer bonding...

Bath time....

I'm sure he won't be pleased with these photos when he's a bit older (hey, the bubbles are covering all the important areas) but I think they are adorable and he was so proud of himself for going all the way in the water ;)