Harp recital year 2

Sage accompanies Nola Rose on the piano
and receives last minute instruction from the wonderful harp-teacher Christy Tamarelli (watch for her on the harp scene!!)

Mother's Day 2009

Four generations of women
Me and my kids

Sage is delicious!

Make a juice mama!

the pulp--how gorgeous!
Guthrie and beet juice

In my vain and desperate attempt to get the buddies to eat vegetables everyday I have devised quite a delicious scheme. I juice copious amounts of seconds found in the ugly organic food bin at the food coop. At the most opportune moment of the day I haul out the machine and assemble the sacrificial fruits and veg. The buddies scream in delight about the loudness and power of the juicing machine and feel quite empowered by making the motor rev and whirl turning the switch off and on. The yell out ingredients as they go in...beets! carrots! apples! ginger! kale! spinach! Then we get the straws down, yet another fun element because i found this huge bag of decidedly unflimsy multi-colored straws, each buddy picks a color. They then proceed to slurp down the thick, mineral-rich juice. I hold one glass with two straws and they go at it straw in mouth forehead to forehead, as they do many activities---relishing in brother, mother, and potent beverage.

I HEART AUSTIN

I heart Austin in general. I heart breakfast tacos and Beth and Eddie Peden and low-lying bushy green live oak trees and central Texas limestone and murky aqua soft warm rivers and i heart 19 children and counting...and spontaneously breaking into hymns with people that also know all the words and sweaty east-austin bike riders and lauren senibaldi and hip mamas and the list goes on and on. here are some of the photographic highlights, mainly they are of children b/c that seems to be a dominant theme in my life nowadays. ENJOY!

Me and Harper Belle
Sage post-Easter egg hunt
Some of the 19 offspring waiting instructions on the Easter egg hunt
Guthrie and Stephen on a horse out at Toby's ranch

the house where sage was born in austin, tx

click on the picture to see it more clearly. i think this house was like 200 sq feet! it has a huge elm tree in the front and gorgeous backyard though.....

These kids are SOOOO ready for spring!

Baby Belle

My sweet new niece, Harper Belle Thornton was born March 18, 2009. I am obsessed with her.

She has really fat cheeks.