Isabella's first day on the school bus

 

Isabella and Mommy at the Josephs and Gordon's Twin Lakes party

 

Playing before our first day of kindergarten

 

First day of kindergarten

 

Willow & Isabella first day of kindergarten

 

Isabella's story about Daddy & Hap; Feb. 2010

Daddy, remember the story about when you and Uncle Hap when biking by yourselves?
(Greg – ahhhh no.)
Well this is the pretend part.
You and Uncle Hap went biking yourselves and you saw a baby bear. And the baby bear asked if you had any honey bread.
And you said “Yes, we do.” And you gave him some honey bread.
And then his mommy and daddy came by.
And they asked the baby bear what he was doing.
And the baby bear said that you gave him some honey bread.
And the mommy and daddy bear said, “did you say thank you?”
And the baby bear said, “yes!”
And that ‘s the end.
And then Christi and Jony made ginger bread cookies.

Daddy's Birthday

On daddy's birthday (and father's day), we had a fun impromptu dinner at our friend the Boyles' home on the Roaring Fork River with their family, Christie and some of her friends. Isabella and Willow were very excited. They chimed in the adult conversation frequently, performed, commanded everyone's attention with their charm and wit, and often by yelling, "Everyone please be quiet!" After staying up until 10 pm we all went to sleep in the safari-style tent in a big brass bed on the riverbank.

Around midnight, without waking, Isabella sat straight up in the big bed and yelled, " Will everyone please be quiet!" once again, then fell back to sleep until the birds chirping along the river woke us up the next morning.

In the middle of the night, Willow woke up and looked at the stars and said "there must be a hundred billion stars up in the sky." Then while falling back to sleep with the sounds of the river surrounding us, she said "do you year the musical instruments in the river? I hear the piano and drums."