Horses With Grandpa Rado

Elizabeth Swinging

Elizabeth in her new UK shirt.

Elizabeth Time

Elizabeth at her Iced Tea stand. Made $7 despite being at the end of a cul de sac. Nice neighbors and visitors. :)







Elizabeth playing in the kid corner at the Coffee Booth.

Elizabeth At Play

Elizabeth at Soccer Practice.










At the top of the 32 foot climbing wall.









On the way up the climbing wall.

Elizabeth at the climbing wall

Elizabeth boulder one day at the climbing wall. The next time she went she climbed up the 32 foot wall by herself! She really likes it.

Older Elizabethism

Several years ago, when Elizabeth was about 2 or 3 years old we were eating dinner. She starts saying, "Get out! I need you. I need you." I look over and she is trying to get peas out of a sugar snap pod. :)

Pals

Bailey Bud and the girls.
This is one of his favorite ways to visit.

Scarecrows

Emily and Elizabeth were downtown taking pictures of scarecrows.
These three were most scary.

The girls

Downtown, self-portrait

And She Was Swinging

Elizabeth can really get to swinging now on her own.

From almost Zero degrees ..... !!!!







To a full 180 degrees !!!


I was amazed when I saw her doing this.

It's All About Elizabeth

A Self-Shot.








A Tony Romo fan. Cute.











A unique shot at Mountain Playground.








At White Rock Overlook with the Rio Grande in the background.










That is Black Mesa in the distance background. We are at White Rock Overlook before pre-school one morning.











A quote from the Preschool end of year report:

She has a desire to please, even though, she would love being in charge.

Memories and Pictures

This is one of my favorite pictures of Emily and me taken six or seven years ago. We tried to reproduce it today when Emily decided to hug me on the small couch. I do not look so happy but it is just the fact I was waiting to smile and look up on que but Gwen got the picture off a tad sooner than I anticipated. Oh well we may try again. It seems just like yesterday we took the older picture.


Elizabeth wanted her picture taken in the same way. Pretty cool.

Toilet By Elizabeth

Thanks Aunt TK...this is all your fault. :)

Sleeping Elizabeth

No it is not a new doll that Elizabeth has gotten. It is Elizabeth herself. Since their return from Colorado we got her started on no Binky. So she now sleeps with no binky...yea! But she refuses to take naps. Part of it is no binky and the other is she is now at the age where she just does not want a nap. Needing a nap is a whole other issue as you can see.

She will be motoring along and starting to get grumpy. Saying, "I am not sleepy." And in a heart beat she is asleep. Here is a few of her right where she fell asleep.



In front of the front door with plenty of daylight left.







In my arm by the computer with plenty of daylight left.











Two nights ago...she was grumping and just crawled up on the couch and asked if she could put her head on Emily's feet. Then she was out like a light. Emily is awake in this picture but playing possum.




Last night Elizabeth was sitting on the bed, again plenty of daylight, with me while I talked on the phone. Next thing I know she is asleep. Recently if I take her with me to Sonic right before dark then she will fall asleep in her car sit while I am ordering. Once she was awake when we left Sonic and even bragged about it. Then within two blocks she was trying to fall asleep. :)

A few Birthday Pictures

On Elizabeth's BD she wanted to have dinner at Gabriels which is a favorite of the whole family. She was excited to be there.







Here is the whole family with photo courtesy of David Daniel a family friend who Elizabeth invited. His wife Joann could not make since she was headed to England that day.







Here is a picture of David along with the girls.








Emily's BD came quickly after Elizabeth's and she did not have a special dinner request but she did want an ice cream cake or pie. Mint chocolate chip pie. Yum.






Here is one of her presents from grandma Texas. It is only displayed here since it was a favorite of Dad's! So nice to use on that laptop. :)

Elizabeth Pictures

The infamous shoe shot.







Self Portrait








You tell me ... a ducky thing.

Elizabeth Having Fun

Elizabeth has been wanting to practice her HorseShoeing since Bob and I cleaned out the two sandpits for the horseshoeing. I placed a mark on the ground for her to stand behind when pitching the shoe. She made a ringer on her second throw. She does pretty good.
















Emily and ALB like swinging on the swings and ropes in the back. Here is a little video of ALB swinging from the rope.

A Picture From The Ether

Ramona (Gwen's cuzin) sent me this picture from her cell phone. This is at the hospital where Gale (Gwen's mom) is having surgery to replace a replacement value in her heart.
Elizabeth looks to be clowning around with Marmalade the clown. It is wonderful to see Elizabeth. Now if Ramona would send me pictures of the rest of my family. :)

Elizabeth On Her Trike

Elizabeth, first time, on her trike. She is working hard to learn how to ride it by herself. What a joy....well maybe not her face at this moment. :)

Slipping Into Summer

Bailey hanging in the yard with the girls. Summer is a special time because Gwen spends a good bit of time in the gardens while the girls play outside which usually Bailey gets regular treats of being set free from his yard to come visit the family. Picture is courtesy of Emily.


Well the girls are out of school now. Finished up a week ago from yesterday. Emily will miss Mrs. Schaefer very much....I gather all of her kids will miss her. She is a special and wonderful teacher who teaching and influence will remain with them the rest of their life. Emily has really excelled this year and we are proud of her and proud for her.

Her reading went from a about a 3.5 at the beginning of the year up into the 6's which, though a relative scale, is suppose to be the grade number. I gather she did a good bit of work at school to achieve that accomplishment.

ALittleBit enjoyed her daycare when she wasn't sick. Seems that there was a correspondence between her starting daycare and being sick a good bit. :) Go figure. She had only one timeout the whole time which was a bit of a surprise to her. One because she had not been in trouble there yet and two because we do not do "timeouts" or at least use the word so she was not sure how to take the punishment. It seemed to upset her a bit.

I also think ALB enjoyed her weekly Community Bible Study class that she attended.

Well this summer should be busy. Gale will be having surgery sometime after June 18th. Gwen will be going out to help Bob take care of Gale and at some point the girls will be going out to stay there too. Colorado is a special time and place for all of us and the time spent there with Grandpa and Grandma make special memories. It may be hard to know what the schedule will be like with the surgery and all.

I head to Tejas next week to attend a shoot, my first one since 2005, down in Southish Texas near Hondo. It is a shoot that was modelled after the one I ran a several times near Mingus. The family running it has a ranch and a personal shooting range that they have started a shoot at. I am hoping to stop at Mom's and TK's for two nights then go on to Llano to the Eaton's for day then head out early Friday morning for Utopia and the shoot. We will see how that goes.

We are all doing well and enjoying Los Alamos and our friends. We just miss our families and other friends who not here with us.

Well on this last day in May 2008 I hope to get several things done including getting my rifle loads ready for the shoot. We will see how that goes. No chance of winning but just having fun is enough. Besides I miss Texas and the countryside. Maybe some Cooper's BBQ is in store for me too. ;)