A budding young artist

What a day for Haven. This morning I framed some of her paintings, and here she is pictured at her first art showing.
Quite impressive for a three year old!









Then later we went Christmas shopping at the local artisan fair. They had a stage setup that was abandoned, and Haven jumped right in, grabbed the mike and did a rousing version of 'Jingle Bells.'

This kid is destined for greatness. :)

The new toilet seat's here! The new toilet seat's here!!!!

Hooray! Haven had to try it out right away. It's very exciting because it has TWO seats, one small enough so little girls don't fall in. Which happened once, and once is enough.

O C Bee

We had a somewhat disaster trying to eat breakfast at the Old Country Buffet this morning, but at least we got this great picture out of the deal.

Oh no!

What about Halloween??? Haven was a clown, by her own adamance.


Here she is with her trick-or-treating buddies, Trace (scary guy) and Ryanne (Tinkerbell.) We were in Eureka to surprise Grammie on her 60th birthday, so I got to take Haven to the neighborhood I used to trick-or-treat in. Once she figured out what was going on she was very excited; after each house she'd say "Are you going to get MORE?!?!?!?!?"

A week in Mexico

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Here is a link to the most of our Mexico pictures, no need to post them twice!



Haven LOVED being a flower girl. Well, until her part was over. Then she wanted the whole wedding to end so we could get on to the part about the cake.

Puffy coat weather

Our good friend Jess came up from Tacoma last weekend to visit us. We went for a beautiful hike up on Mt Baker. The fall weather was chilly, but gorgeous.

Even though the hike was quite vertical, once Haven got ahold of her walking sticks she was a champ.

Fall Farm Day

We have been having some gorgeous fall weather. On Saturday we went to a fruit festival at a local farm. Haven painted some pumpkins, we tasted fruit and cider and had a picnic in the grass while a celtic band played. Haven ate all the caramel off of her caramel apple. We love fall!

First Dance Class

Most of Haven friends are starting preschool this year, but we decided to wait until next year to start her in school officially. For one thing, I am not ready to send her off! Also it's not the best time for us to undertake preschool financially, so we decided instead to invest the money in dance classes. Haven started pre-ballet on Thursday. She was very excited to put on her pink leotard and tights.
I was a little disappointed in the 'teachers' (high school students who knew nothing about little kids and taught the class like a regular ballet class) and the floor in the kid studio was a disgrace, but we are going to stick with it for at least this month before we switch studios. Haven reports that she did not have fun and she did not like it, but she wants to go back. It was the first thing she asked for this morning. All in all it was VERY cute to witness and I'm already one of those horrible dance moms.

Subdued Stringband Jamboree

Last Friday we had so much fun at the Subdued Stringband Jamboree. For the entire walk back to the blanket after I bought Haven this ear of corn she sang "I have some corn, I have some corn!" It was adorable. Another high point was the smoothie booth with bicycles rigged up to the blenders. Buddy Nicole blended our smoothie for us, we decided to call in a pinch peddler since we had a racer on hand!

Eggs-alent!

Our chickens have started laying! It has been very exciting for us, tomorrow morning for breakfast we eat our own eggs!!!

The chickens, all grown up. So far only the black one will let me pet her.