Galvinized!

Healing

Remember last May?

Here's what the scar looked like one year later.

Incredible!

Yosemite

On Mother's Day weekend, Grandma, Uncle Mike, and I took the kids to Yosemite for the weekend.

Uncle Mike, Tommy, and I drove up separately after work/school on Friday

We arrived after dark, so really started our adventure the next morning.

Grandma generously offers to take group photos for strangers...

Yes, we brought some technology with us. It was a lot of time together and some of us get cranky! So a few high tech diversions among the trees kept Mama sane (-ish)

Uncle Mike took the kids on a walk while Grandma and I impressively packed all this stuff to the car.

April in Review

Well obviously, I'm playing a bit of catch up here. So here are some random highlights from April.

Lucy and Grandma visited with Aunt Marietta and some other cousins.

Tommy does math for fun... I know, it's crazy to me too! He asked to doodle on Tom's classroom white board and started drawing fractions. Note how he not only drew and labeled the fraction, but he's got that teacher point with the marker thing down!

Lucy wears her official Darren Criss sunglasses

Which I got at this event with my former student Darren

Tommy & Shen

Gopher watching has become a novelty in our front yard. They are bold.

I found a couple more birthday pictures!

Birthday dinner at OG (Olive Garden), that's my boy!

I think sunglasses could be her thing

Sigh... off the shoulder shirt, tousled hair, and ketchup face. That's our girl.

She makes herself comfortable anywhere

She walked into ballet with her hair pulled back and wearing a tutu. Halfway through the hair was down and the tutu became a tunic. A little Isadora Duncan, I suppose.