Crazy weather, crazy kids

I don't know what we're going to do with this boy... he keeps us on our toes. 

Awhile back I was giving the boys haircuts and Ella told me she wanted her hair cut... if any of you remember our history with this, you would know that this makes me apprehensive. ☺ She insisted, so I cut small amounts off at a time, and she was adamant that she wanted it even shorter... so that turned out okay, (and she's actually saying she even wants it shorter). Then she said she wanted bangs, again I was apprehensive, but went ahead and cut her some bangs.

She hated the bangs.

A few weeks have passed and she's decided she likes the bangs, but she still wouldn't let me take a picture so I had to sneak these. (she thought I was just looking at my phone while she was telling me something) ☺

I mentioned that we had a really bad wind storm a little over a week ago. 

It was really crazy, and we couldn't sleep because it was so loud and sounded like our house was going to blow away. It knocked some trees over, and there were tree limbs all over the place.  I was really sad about this Russian Olive tree, it's my landscape photo tree. ☺

I took this picture with it in January. 

Anyway, the wind blew in rain which was nice since it seemed to clean the landscape of all the dirt that had just been blown around. :P

It drizzled for 3-4 days, it felt like we had blown up to the northwest or something, but it was nice.

When we remodeled, added on to our other house that mom and dad now live in, the contractor did not do the roofing right (argh!) and so when it rains quite a bit, there are places in the roof that leak, so mom had some leaking in their office and Cary is a nice son-in-law and was on the roof trying to temporarily get it to stop leaking.  

Pesach (Passover) 2016

It's raining again...we're used to desert rain storms that come and go, and we're on day two of straight drizzly rain, I feel as though we've moved to a different part of the country, but it means I'll update again. ;) 

We are celebrating Passover right now (eating unleavened bread for a week) but we had our weekend celebrations this past weekend, starting with the Seder on Friday night so here are a few photos.

This is where I start to get frustrated with my camera phone, and wish I could/would haul my DSLR around, but I'm not there yet, so I guess phone pictures are better than no pictures....or are they? ☺

Cary got some Sienna time in, so I was asking him if he's ready for another baby. 

He's not. (lol.)

He likes the Uncle role.

Ella was in one of the dances over the weekend, which she was thrilled about.

Catching Up with April

It's raining this morning, so I guess it's a good time to catch up...

Cary and I watch a show called, Gold Rush, and one of the tough gold boss guys had this sign  hanging in his office. We both laughed for awhile about it, so now it's an inside joke, and it still makes me laugh when I think about it.  

I made cheesecake for Cary's birthday earlier this month, So good! ☺

 We found ourselves eating waffles at Ben and Chandra's house one Sunday morning. 

Kunz was pretty sure that dad would be a sucker and share with him.

He kept waiting.

EHS is supposed to participate in an active shooting drill as part of school preparation, our location makes the logistics of that somewhat special (remoteness, state line, etc..), but they were able to do the drill and had Baker, EskDale, Ely, and Partoun EMS services participating, the sheriff from our valley was there, some of the police force from Delta, as well as AirMed flying in. I think it was a good exercise for all the different agencies as far as communicating, or in some cases realizing that they can't because they aren't on the same frequencies. 

I drove Ella to one of her friends b-day parties that was held up at Sacramento Pass Rec area. It was a nice day except for the wind. Buffy had a very creative pirate party set up though.

The kids always look forward to the Young Authors Fair. Here are the kids introducing themselves and talking about their book.

The author/speaker this year was Mike Prince who is an author and a cowboy, so he did some demonstrations for the kids.

The blooms on everything have been incredible this spring. We have been hit by some freezing, so we'll see if any fruit happens on the fruit trees.

This is a Sensation lilac bush that I transplanted from my Grandpa Bob's yard. It's been struggling for the past few years in his yard, so I'm glad that one, it survived the transplant, but it seems to be thriving where it is now.

These tulips were looking so pretty in my front yard, and I took this picture sometime last week when it was hailing (small hail, thankfully). We had the worst wind storm on Friday night though, and everything really got beat up.