Textures and yellow light

Another lovely time of year at Red Butte Garden.  There are still a lot of flowers but everything is starting to look a bit exorbitant and overgrown.  France in the 1780s.  We better enjoy it while we can!

Eating her sandwich.  She did eventually finish it.

Junie loves to be outside

There were lots of butterflies out and I saw these two gorgeous ones!

Love these textures

Black-eyed susans

Glowing berries

I like this picture; it captures the warm and cool dichotomy that seems so characteristic of Fall

Luminous baby at sunset

Wild animals, and other zoological curiosities

There has been an infestation of animals in the yard lately.  I would call animal control but they don't seem to be hurting anyone.  Just building factories and things.

The birdie will lie down with the bear

A lovely little nest

Cheetah-print (very on-trend for the season)

A braid (back and front)

I made a bunch of hats for Daisy a long time ago and she wouldn't keep them on her head.  Now she will (but they are starting to get too small).  And now that she has hair I don't feel like she needs a hat so much.  Ah well.

She likes to dress herself up in anything she can find lying around (and by "lying around" I mean, even in laundry baskets, drawers, etc.)  Here she has Abe's sunglasses, Ky's shoes, Sebby's socks, and somebody's old backpack.  And Sebby's lawnmower.  When the older boys are at school she really lives it up with their toys. :)  (Don't worry Mom, this is before I fixed the sleeves on her dress)

Aren't they cute?

The CSF (I call it the CSF)

Tootsie-roll-mouth

We don't actually live in Provo, but we make it a point to attend the Provo City Services fair whenever we can.  Last year it was rained out, so this was Daisy's first time.  She rode in the bucket truck with the others and loved it!  (5 people in one bucket--a new record!)  I was happy to stay on the ground and record the event for posterity.  Malachi thought he would be scared, but afterwards he said, "I was NOT scared a BIT!"

It was about 90 degrees in that hot parking lot.  We thought we would die of thirst.  These helicopter blades provided a nice breeze for a few minutes, though.

I really like these tiny people

Frown and Smile

Happy runners

If we do this stuff, we will run and not be weary

A long time ago I recorded one of Abraham's Primary talks and posted it here.  While I was listening to it again, I was thinking how I had totally forgotten that sweet little voice of his.  (He was good at saying his "r"s . . . unlike some others I could name :))

So here is Malachi giving his recent Primary talk about the Word of Wisdom.  I love the way he talks while breathing out AND while breathing in (very efficient).  I also love the little touches with which he makes this talk his own ("If we do this stuff," Leek Soup as part of the word of wisdom, etc.  One time while practicing he used "Fanta Orange" as an example of something we should drink).  It is strange to think that someday I will have forgotten how 3-year-old Ky sounds too.  Then I'll listen to this to remind myself.

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Bonus Track: Ky reciting a poem ("What a conunder-drum!") Eggs

A campfire

A seat for everyone (almost)

I think she's singing

Tongue

Seb, and someone's watermelon

September sunflowers

It is that sunny sunflower time of year again.  We were taking pictures by some sunflowers exactly a year ago too!  Was it really only one year ago that Daisy was a little bald baby?  I can hardly believe it.

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She still gets this same look on her face, though.

Silly

All Daisy really wanted to do was sit by Malachi and watch a swarm (?) of ants.  She loves bugs.