CT Humane Society 2009 Calander

The Humane Society of CT always makes calenders to give away at the shelter, the 2009 calender will feature foster family's. We had out photo shoot during August and just got our pictures back a few weeks ago. We haven't found out where is the calender our picture will be, but it doesn't matter, at least we will be in it! here are a few of the better photos from the shoot..

new things

Holy Cow!!

Its hard for me to keep this thing up to date. Its now November 4th, election day, so its been about 3 months since I posted.

In that time we have put our house on the market and taken it off since we can't get the price we want, its a hard time to be selling a house. Its OK though, we like it here. The house fits our family nicely and we have a good back yard for the kids and our NEW DOG!!! Her name is Shiva, its pronounced she-va. We think she is a pitbull/boxer mix. We got her last Sunday and she is a ball of energy most of the time. She is going to start puppy kindergarten on Monday, I will be taking her and I'm looking forward to it. So far she knows the sit command but not much else, oh, she is doing her business outside too, that's a wonderful thing let me tell you!

Climbing Talcott Mountain

you can see the storm clouds coming in behind them
Lilly picking up rocks to put in her pockets
Sky in front of a giant rock

Every Friday in our house is referred to as "Field Trip Friday". This past Friday Skylar decided she wanted us to hike up Talcott Mountain on the Simsbury/Avon line. So we packed our things and went to the mountain. It looked like a nice day for a hike. We began our trek up the mountain, the first creature we saw was a bright orange newt, he was clinging to the side of a tree, he was very pretty. I took a picture but it didn't come out good. We planned on making a fairy house on the way back down the mountain, but little did we know we wouldn't get to do that. We had reached the lookout section of the mountain and took a few pictures and I found 5 monarch Caterpillar eggs to take home and hatch. At this point Lilly didn't want to walk anymore, so we stayed at the lookout while Matt and Sky continued on. About 10 minutes later they were back urging us to go back to the car. They had heard some thunder a minute ago. So we started to walk down the mountain, when it started to pour rain. We had to run all the way down the mountain because we had left the sunroof open in the car. It was pretty dangerous running with all the rain falling, but it was really fun too. When we reached the parking lot we were all running and laughing at the same time, we were SOAKED! It was definitely an adventurous field trip Friday!

Fairy Houses Everywhere

built by Tish, Skylar, Venu, Yashi and Grampy(Robert)
built by Tish and Matt
built by Tish
built by Tish
built by Skylar and Misa

We LOVE building fairy houses!! They are so much fun to make and they come out looking beautiful. We started making fairy houses last winter after reading about them online, and now we are hooked. We just got the book Fairy Houses Everywhere from the library and it has inspired us as well as all the other kids on the street. They all come over too our yard in the afternoons to build little fairy houses with us. here are some pictures of the houses that have been built in the yard recently, enjoy..

Skylar's 6th birthday

Skylar is now 6 years old!!! WOW. She is turning into such a great young lady, we love her so much. She decided to have a fairy birthday party this year, it was very cute. We decorated fairy wands and made flower head bands at her party. We also had a pixie dust relay race and pin the wand on the fairy. Sky had a great time with all her friends. Here are a few pics from the party...

Skylar's soccer team

Skylar is standing in the back row all the way to the left

Sky played soccer this past spring in the training division of the west hartford girls soccer league. She did fairly well, but I'm not sure if she will be back to play next year. the team name was the orange cheethos! here are a few pictures....

Sky's gymnastics show

Skylar had been taking gymnastics throughout this past year, and she is getting really good at it. She had her recital about a month ago, she got to show us her bar routine, floor exercise and trampoline, it was a nice show, but super hot in the gym. I videotaped the show, so I don't have too many pictures. At the end of the show, all the kids were called one by one and got medals for participation as well as a certificate of achievement :)