By Nabe is Baleen

So, I was thinking that my allergies must be better this year.

Yep, that was just because the spring was a little slow in getting started.

Now, it is is full swing, with plentiful amounts of pollen floating upon the lovely spring breezes.

I can't breathe.

Such a pleasant feeling to be completely stuffed up, and yet my nose still runs.

Whatever, I shouldn't complain...things could be a lot worse.

So, if you don't have allergies, take a deep breath and say a prayer of thanks.




p.s. My last post was my 600th post. Go ME! (Of course right now it sounds like, "Go BE!)

For the Grandmas

She'll be 3 months old on Friday.



I can't get enough of her.



She really likes to suck on her fingers. (When she can find them.)



The hair is always awesome.



She smiles for Ivory possible more than she smiles for me.



She is so curious, always looking around.



Maybe I am more smitten because I know she is my last.

But what a way to end it.

Memorial Day Highlights

We don't have any deceased family to visit here in Utah, so Memorial Day is mainly a free play-day for us. And play we did. (After chores obviously.)

Here are some of my favorite moments:

Tyler was home all day. (YEAH!!)

We got some good things done, like cleaning out the car and fixing the sprinkler system.

I found Daisy swinging her blanket and singing to it.



It was very cute. Besides the fact that she has started the terrible twos early, she still has very sweet moments.

Um, one of her not sweet moments would be when she went upstairs and pooped on her sister's bed. To be fair, she did say something about the potty and I was the one who took her diaper off. (She hasn't yet used the potty successfully, so I didn't take her in like I normally do.) Apparently I did not re-diaper her in time. And then Tyler took a picture.



Yep, we put pictures of poop on our blog. Lucky for us, it was a fairly solid episode. Phew. (Unlike today, when she took off her diaper and peed on the stairs. I see a trend that I am not going to enjoy.)

In the evening we packed up everyone for a swim. Foolishly I didn't call ahead and the pool was closed. I'll tell you from experience that you don't want to be the bogus parent who has to tell a car full of kids that they don't get to go swimming. Luckily, the other pool was open. We paid twice as much and only swam for an hour, but it was worth it because otherwise I was getting the lame summer mommy award for the third year running.

Coming home, we dunked each kid in turn into the tub to wash off some of the exorbitant amounts of chlorine. Ivory was one of the last ones in and she took her free time to snag some tortilla chips. Of course, she knew that she wasn't supposed to be eating them, so where did we find her?



I need to play hide and seek with her more often, because I know at least five better spots, than under the piano bench.

Hope your Memorial Day was a great one.

Let's Celebrate

I have gotten the girls on a pretty good chore rotation system. Sunday is always a favorite day because I don't demand any slave labor on the Sabbath. Regardless, they are always trying to weasel out of chores on the other days, if possible.

This was my conversation with June today while we were sitting in church:

June: Is today Memorial Day?
Me: No, it's tomorrow.
June: Do we have to do chores? It's a holiday; a celebration.
Me: Oh yeah? What are we celebrating?
June: Not having to do chores?

Man, that girl cracks me up sometimes.

Graduation Photos

A sweet girl in my ward graduated this month. I was honored that they asked me to take photos for her. I thought I would share some of them.



Congrats, lady. Now on to better and brighter things.

As Bro. Hawkes says...

...it's a good year for spinach. Because spinach likes the cold. I do not. And neither does my cottonwood tree.

And so last Monday, when it dumped snow on us, it was not a good thing. See there is a reason that trees brave the winter all naked like. Because leaves + snow = a burden too heavy to bear. My poor tree had four large branches break off.



So sad. My garden wasn't looking too happy either.



And by the afternoon the snow was gone, but the damage it left behind was permanent. The only positive thing was watching Tyler enjoy the new walking stick.



So Mother Nature, if we really need more snow this season, could we keep it up in the mountains?

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