Visitors!

We had a fantastic visit this last weekend from Nana and Saba.

Nana and m discuss the meaning of life

We did lots of special stuff and you'll see over the next couple of days, but just having visitors made the ordinary special as well :o) C was thrilled to get to show off the playground near our house, and Saba was game for trying it all out.

Riding

So c continues her love affair with Romeo:

She got to ride at the ranch's forth of July party, and then was thrilled to go out again as part of "ranch Camp" this past week. This time though she also got to share the ring with her fellow "campers" and try bareback.

Either way I've added two things to my to do list:
1) Learn something about horses so I can even pretend to keep up
2) Make a truck load of money so I can say yes some day when she asks for a pony ;o)

life's little mysteries

I'm thinking about making a label for "life's little mysteries". A couple of years ago we had this gem:
http://madcityprovans.blogspot.com/2013/10/one-of-lifes-little-mysteries-explained.html

and today I discovered why I can't for the life of me pair socks after we do laundry. Apparently max's dog bed has been re-purposed as the ultimate sock playing with station.

It's Rochester's fault

So for those who don't know, U of R's motto is meliora, roughly translated to "always better". The idea is that Rochester folks always push to make things better, which is the only reason I can possibly think of that we signed up to move the girls to ANOTHER new daycare.

Now I really do think it will be better. It's up in Park City so the girls are in clean are all day AND will have way less time in the care. The building is an old Montessori school so it's open and bright. There isn't a TV on in the front room. And I reviewed the menu and there are no plans to feed m root beer floats for snacks.

But it does mean that we had to do the whole "tour the new school" thing again this afternoon. m actually did remarkably well. c not so much. I think the poor girl is a little over threshold when it comes to change...

Good thing she's got a sister to stick with through thick and thin :o)

They say it runs in the family...

m and alex played their first duet over the weekend :o)

Happy 4th!

Happy July 4th everyone! I hope everyone has a fantastic day of relaxing and celebrating. We're up at the ranch and doing some nice relaxing ourselves. There's a picnic lunch today so we may have some pictures to share tomorrow, but for now, enjoy an m video from earlier in the week :o)

more art

Apparently we're back to Ocean themes - I have to wonder just how much m was able to do of her fish...