Helper

Artist in costume with beloved babysitter Ruby

 Paper chains

 Christmas tree from neighbor's back yard

 Lucky bay leaf!

 Whispering her secret wish to the lucky bay leaf

 Very cool potion kit from a friend!

 Holiday party

"Smile!"

 Homemade sushi

Mermaid

Thanksgiving with Ima

Pie with homegrown winter squash. The squash in the picture was our biggest squash and significantly larger than the numerous tiny squashes that went into the pie. Won't be trying growing those again for at least a while.

Whipped cream

Ice skating at Potter Marsh

Frozen lake

learning to knit with Ima

 shells

 train in the craft store

Costume piano recital

Recent Ava art

A last day of berry picking before the snow fell. Big kids had a day off of school, so Ava and a friend came to pick with me for the afternoon.

Our Rhode Island Red chicken is a rooster. We're going to keep him and hatch chicks in the spring.

Home sick for a day

Snow, neighbors

Hope the moose like Sharpie marker. Jack-O-Lanterns before trick-or-treating. Wonder how soon the moose will find them on the porch.

gnome house

crinkle chopper

Sunday with friends: morning hike and afternoon playground

 Playground and patch of woods by Ava's school

Beautiful fall birthday party

Piano lessons

Chalk on our cul-de-sac

Berry picking

Laura's wedding in Grass Valley, CA

 Flower girls

Quaker wedding poem by Joanne's grandmother

Best toy

Zoo birthday party

Wood

Digging potatoes