Waiting for Spring...

Here are some updated pics from a weekend in Logan.
We were celebrating moms birthday and Mother's day!!





Aoife, getting so big and looking so much like her mama!





While Pop Pop settled the little bear...





the girls were busy in the kitchen, as usual.
And Gracie never misses an opportunity to put on her apron and lend a hand.





Appetizers...



I'm going through a Malbec phase right now, Love it!



Spanish tortilla...



Elk and Antelope kabobs...



And my first attempt at a vegetable Spanish Paella!



Not as good as I remember in Spain but pretty delicious none-the-less!

How the years fly by...

I can hardly believe it, my Gracie is now 3 years old!!!
She just makes me smile! Love you Grace!!

She wanted a tree cake...mom and nonne did a pretty good job!

New Tricycle!

Underpants on the head...
wonder where she learned that one?





Even Nonne and Pop Pop helped out...





Birthday snowman!!


And the little sis... 4 months old!!
She still has that dark hair like her mamma,
and from the looks of it her eyebrows too...lucky girl!

Sleepy baby.

She's all smiles.

LOVE this one!!

Another year past, and another begun...

Wow, it's been sooooooo long...I am officially fired from blogging. I made it through the holidays and before I knew it the calendar said March! It has been a pretty good start to 2011. I decided to TA for an introductory biology class this semester and what I have realized is that I am getting old...it has been almost 8 years since I had my first college bio class, yikes! So this has proven to be a very good refresher course and I am getting some teaching experience at the same time. I am continuing to look for potential programs to go back to school for my masters of education. Maybe one day I can inspire some kids to become scientists! Until then, life has just been plugging along.

At the beginning of February the whole family took a trip south to Tucson for a visit to my brother-in-laws family and for me to visit the HUGE annual gem, mineral and bead show. Although the weather wasn't as warm as I was hoping and half the family got sick, it was still a great escape to the desert. And I came home with a couple hundred dollars in beads! :)








Damn, there are A LOT of cactus in the desert!





Teddy bear cactus...DO NOT HUG!









My favorite cactus pic of the trip
and believe me, I have lots of them.
Check out those nasty hooks...ouch!

Hummingbird

On a colder note, it has been a pretty epic winter here in Utah and we were on the ice early this year. Here are some great pics of my friends dog Daisy...her first time on the ice so she was a little nervous. And of course, a few pics from our annual fish lake trip.