Peaches ...the finished product

Colorado peaches...yummy, yummy!

Singing about Jesus

Sorry I got the orientation wrong on this video! You'll just have to lean a little to the left. :-)

Logan loves to sing! ...and he has to turn the pages, too! Cute.

Mommy's Little Helper

Logan loves to dig while I'm working in the garden. He knows to leave my plants alone, so Momma's happy, too! One day I even noticed that he and brother were digging very carefully trying not to disturb a lovely weed they surely thought was one of Momma's beloved flowers. :-) Of course, I'm never sure where the dirt is going to end up, but the plants are safe.

The Monarch emerges

Well this morning, this is what the Monarch chrysalises looked like. The outer layer turns translucent and you can see the dark body inside. I knew he would be coming out soon!

Here you can see the orange of the wings...beauty waiting to reveal itself.

And here he is! I thought I would have to wait a day or so for him to come out, but when I checked the butterfly house a couple of hours later, he had already come out!

The orange on the inside of the wings is so brilliant. I got this shot just seconds before he flew off, so I didn't have time to get a clear one.

Here's Logan helping out on butterfly watch.

Weekend trip to KS City!

We drove to our hotel Friday evening after Trevin got home from school. They had a nice pool, so we relaxed in the pool and hot tub before heading to bed.

Saturday morning we headed to the Deanna Rose Farmstead. It was really neat! Flowers and animals and wagon rides and feeding the goats and mining and pedal tractors. What a blast!

Here's Trevin meeting one of the horses that gave us a wagon ride.

From caterpillar to chrysalis...the Monarch transforms

This was amazing to witness...one of the Monarch caterpillars I found last week transformed into its chrysalis. This one started by attaching himself (or herself!) to the ceiling and hanging down in a "J". They call it J-hooking. He hung like that for a while, but I just happened to be there when he started wiggling around and I knew he was getting ready to transform.

Here you can see his antennae getting droopy. He squishes himself together and then extends himself (1st and 2nd pics) for a bunch of times...

...then finally his old skin splits open on his back and the green chrysalis emerges.

Here he is, almost free of his old skin.

He continues to wiggle - not sure what he is accomplishing, but in the end...

...he looks like this. His buddy is in the background, getting ready to do the same thing!
It's hard to see it in this picture, but that line of black on the chrysalis also has a thin line of gold next to it. Beatiful!

What a miracle!

Goin' Fishin'

A beautiful Saturday morning was just begging for a little outing to the lake. So off we went, mom and the boys. Logan was the first one to catch a fish! ...after mom cast for him. Trevin caught 2 and mom caught 2 (one a nice-sized catfish we gave to our fishing neighbors...because I didn't want to take it off the hook!).