Anwyn's First Day of Preschool

Anwyn had a great first day of preschool. She was very excited to go to school. She had a great time and really enjoyed playing with the toys and doing the activities. Here are a few photos to commemorate the day.

New school outfit.

Smiling.

I am so excited!

In the car.

In front of the school.

Tongue-curling

The girls obliged us today by posing for a mini-photo-shoot after church.

A pretty flower.

We recently discovered that Lily has joined the ranks of those who can curl their tongues. In our family that makes 3 to 1. Kristi is the unfortunate one who has no talent for tongue-curling.

Look, a tongue roll!
Don't you just love those adorable little pigtails?!

The good big sister holding her Lily.
Are not we so cute?

Princess Day

Yesterday the girls attended a princess themed birthday party for a friend. They are enjoying wearing the tiaras and earrings and everything else.

"Yes, I'm a princess. Check out those stars on my forehead." I think we're going to give Lily a new middle name: "Dances-in-the-aisle" because of her church antics. She likes to explore [read: entertain/distract/dance/shriek] during Sacrament Meeting. Today a little girl in front of us started crying and quickly got taken out. Lily watched her leave and started throwing a mini tantrum to see if we would take her out. Copy cat. She wasn't loud so we didn't take her out...at that time.

Anwyn in the complete princess outfit - gown, tiara, magic wand, shoes, earrings, and regal air.
Here's what Anwyn wants to say: "Dad and Mom told me that if I want to earn money and I said, 'Yes!'. I can save my money and pay tithing and buy toys or books."

We had a lab party yesterday as well. We experienced rural Florida by feeding a cow some grapefruit. Apparently this cow likes grapefruit and moss. It was raining, hence the person in the improvised umbrella (towel).

This was taken just before Sweetie jumped the fence and tried to gore a student. It was only Jared's prior experience with steer wrestling that allowed him to throw Sweetie to the ground and save all of us from Sweetie, the violent cow. Okay, that was all made up except for Jared's steer wrestling experience.

Anwyn and Lily riding a horse tire swing in my mentor's backyard. The people in the background are a fellow grad student (in blue) and her husband (in pink).

Future member of the Intergalactic Association of Future Equestrians of the Future Intergalactic Association of Humans and Humanoid Entities - otherwise known as the IAFEFIAHHE, or Future Fred for short.

The girls sitting in a nice swing.

All in all, it was a lovely day.

Toady Moon

I opened our front door tonight to get our trashcan out to the curb and I saw this toad. It was quite large.

I decided to take a few other photos as well. I had not tried nighttime shots likes these before so I thought I'd try taking pictures of the moon. Here are a couple that turned out okay. I was really hoping to capture the dark side of the moon - it's rumored to show for one minute only on August 9th - but the dark side remained shy. So you'll have to suffice with the same old boring side we always see. So in fact, the title of this post is ironic - the moon certainly was not toady, at least not to me. The toad wasn't even particularly toady. :) [Note: I'm kidding about that rumor; we do not see the dark side of the moon].

Family Resemblance

Can you see the resemblance in our family? Here are pictures of Jared, Kristi, Anwyn, and Lily, all around age one or younger. Can you tell who is who? It's probably pretty obvious.



If you want to check your answers, here is the correct order: L, K, J, A, K, L, J, A

Ducky Sunday

We came home from church today and discovered a lot of feathered visitors hanging out in the swamp next to our home. We received a lot of rain recently so the drainage area has water.

Ducks are small.

In flocks they waddle.

When hungry they love bread.

They are not shy.

They think Jared's jokes are hilarious. They are the only ones who do.

Jared tried to teach them tricks.

He gained a faithful flock of followers.

But some of the duckies needed a stern lecture after they did not share with others.