While visiting Idaho for Christmas we also visited Great Grandma Evans. Great Grandpa had already left for work or he would have been in the pic as well.

Gearing up for Christmas.

The Forney Museum = pure awesomeness for kids who love, cars, trains, planes and bikes. http://www.forneymuseum.org/ Who is driving this jeep? Too bad the pumpkins are there. It sort of ruins the effect that they could actually be driving the car :) Thank goodness our cousins, Timmy and Wesley were here to share in this pure awesomeness.

This is Amelia's favorite car because it was Amelia Earhart's car, the Gold Bug Kissel. Go Amelia!

Edie's take on parenting. She did this all by herself.

Halloween, obviously. They were so cute! It probably goes without saying, however Lauren was Snow White and Amelia was a black widow spider.

In October we had some great snow. I love these pictures of the kids. They had a great time.

Lauren's 3rd birthday.

And Edie's 1st birthday sans friends....we didn't invite anyone is that bad? It's our third child and she's only one.....that's my excuse.

Edie hit her head pretty hard and the blood drained through her eye socket so she had a shiner for 1 straight week. It looked pretty bad. But this pic of her is pretty funny. She was eating yogurt.

It has been a long time since last posting so I'm going to play catch up chronologically. Here's the girls on their first day of school.

This is outside of the cabin at Bear Lake. Sad to say that this is about the only picture we took at Bear Lake. Our camera was hiding in the diaper bag and we were too busy to get it out. That's my excuse.

This picture is of Edie and her cousin Georgia who is 3 weeks older than her. Edie was eating her food and dropping most of it. Georgia was eating what was dropped. It was super funny. Georgia is good at Eating. Edie is not. Georgia is about 23 lbs. Edie is 16 lbs.

Here's an excerpt from the Archibald Family Reunion that began at my parents house and then ended at Bear Lake. We celebrated Kent's birthday on Sunday and got to use the pink panther mold for the cake. Thanks to the brilliant video archives my father made we have proof that the mold was acquired at or before 1981. Thanks to my mom's ability to save even the most 'seemingly' unimportant things we still had the joy of using the pan. And lastly thanks to Kent for being willing to have a pink panther cake despite his dedication to Superman.

Happy Birthday to the Big C! He wanted German Chocolate Cake and boy was it yummy! Love that frosting so much. Why isn't it used in more things other than this cake. Why doesn't somone invent cookies with it?

I realize that this is two weeks ago and actually it looks so different from then and now. I wouldn't believe it though if I wasn't taking pictures. The cucumbers are definately on the slow growth plan. If we're lucky we may be able to do our pickles in September at this rate :).

Edie and her food...a very cute combination. I love how she looks a little terrified while eating the avocado and then purely happy when eating the rice cereal.

Here we are at Chatauqua Park. Wesley was sitting on Amelia's lap, but it looks a lot worse than that. I have no idea what they are doing. I love Lauren and Timmy's poses.

Here's the fam all together at the ranger station...minus Tommy. If I had photoshop I'd put you in.

Along the estes park river walk.

More elk along the road, but this one above is in Estes Park.

I thought this looked really pretty, but it is of even more elk. This one is within Rocky Mountain National Park.

While leaving the ranger station we met a coyote who would not get out of the road.

What a cute pair!

Lauren is chillin' in Natalie's sunglasses.

Now here's a closer look. How many can you see now? I couldn't believe how many there were.

Can you find the elk in this picture?

On the way back from Dream Lake.

This is at Rocky Mountain National Park just before Memorial Day. The Jim and Chris Willford families were attempting the "Dream Lake Trail". When we arrived we found it to be under 2 feet of snow, but we did it anyway. Under pressure by the pouring rain and kids we shortened it to just the Nymph lake trail. To Dream Lake: We'll be back and conquer you yet!

Things are looking up. I'm going to keep you in suspense since I haven't gotten new pics for a little while. I'll have to do that this week.

This one is our plot before the plants...not much promise.

What started out as such a wasteland and slowly become a community garden. We decided in April that we really wanted to have a community garden. We have wanted a garden for a loooonng time, but obviously apartment living is out of the question. I tried to convince the management here that a garden in the place of the crab grass would be an outstanding idea, however they are slow to agree. Nevertheless our garden dreams have now been fulfilled at a nearby school (The Bradley International School).