If you love something set it free..

Do you see what I see?
After many months of discussion,
Sunday we decided to free our red-eared slider turtles

from their boxed in clear tank

into their amazing & beautiful natural habitat.

They took a few minutes to take in the

vastness & stretch their necks to grab at some

tiny fish.. and they were gone without a seconds hesitation...

Dalton, Lala, & Liam enjoyed exploring this old "cave".

It was hard work keeping Liam out of the water

& the holes, mud, well, pretty much so everything..

The bridge where Speedy & old whathisname now live under..

Whatshisname..

Dalton (new haircut) & Logan

setting their turtles free..

Ahem.. isn't it illegal to dump animals...

Thats okay... the black n whites didn't stop for these

"Bad boyz"...

Snow day... I think not..

Yes, Mommy will share her pink hat with you..
The sliver of "snow" from February..

Oh wow - snow... whatever will we do with all of it?

ah yes... more snow.. lol

What does Liam do when its freezing cold

& "fake snow" is falling from the sky?

He settles in for a long winters nap..

Now your baking..

Every morning when we get back from taking the big kids to school

Liam grabs Mommys red chair & pushes it to the counter.

He grabs Mommys very favorite custom made blue bowl

(from her sweet & amazingly talented friend at Hands & Fire Pottery)
and (un)patiently awaits for ingredients.

Pancakes, brownies, eggs.. who cares!

Lets make something!!

Someday he is going to be a great cook! :)

Say Snack!

Liam likes to put "Baby" in front of all names..

This is "baby" and "Baby Lala"
He loves to smile for the camera

we say "say cheese" and he says "snack"

because he considers cheese to be the

only thing worthy of
being called a snack...

can't help but to borrow anyones

glasses that may be left around..

"Snack"

Liam & Cats

the kid is so quick he's a blur...
cat love..

have a seat on some cats..

cat attack

January Zoo Trip

Nothing beats a nice sunny Saturday morning in January. We are so tired of winter already. lol.. It was in the 70's yesterday so we took a quick trip to the zoo.

Liam was obviously quite interested in the goats.
He also liked the fishies (as always) and the "Cats".
The SA Zoo has the most beautiful Black Leopards.
They are incredible.
He also liked "Big Cat - the regular Jaguar that was staring him down -
Liam kept signing "Hungry" and I was thinking
Yes, Liam he is hungry.. for a cute little boy like you.. :).

He also thought the bears were pretty cool -
they were wet & he liked the idea
that they had taken a bath.
Since he loathes them we are willing to try
any idea possible to get him in the tub!

A Little Skateboarder

Don't let the pink heart diaper fool you
he is all boy...

mischevious,

daring,

and all about having fun... :)

Happy New Year!

look where he likes to play now..
reading w/Daddy on Christmas day

Christmas morning Rocking horse.

Cat Cat!

More Cat Cat

And some more CatCat

Dressed for winter..

playtime...

Sitting around..being naughty.. lol

Throwing w/o looking

Whoa!

Sneaky..

Silly..

Waiting for the right moment to undecorate the tree.

Aww . undecorating as usual..

He got something.. :)