Outside play

We are having a lot of fun with this teeter totter!
We got to use Lizzie's new wooden airplanes:

And the slide!

Birthday!

Our baby is 1!

What a great birthday party! We had great food, nice family and Martin got some great toys and clothes. It is hard to believe he is one already! He is now walking with great confidence and even starting to run.

The Farm

A few shots of the farm. Now that we have a little help, things are starting to shape up for summer! Some beds are prepped:
The raspberry beds:

The garlic is growing:

The pigs are resting:

March & April

I am a little behind on my blogging. Here are a few catch up pictures of the kids. I love Martin in these overalls!
These two are playing so well together these days!

A few weeks ago we had our annual spring dinner with family. The kids had a great time watching the talking tree and we all had a great visit!

Signs of Spring!

A few sure signs that spring is coming around here. The two little ones playing on the slide:
A few of the bigger ones playing on the new teeter-totter:

And getting the swing out (the patio furniture is on the porch too, another sure sign of spring!):

Carrot tops!

Grampy has a new chicken house and Lizzie is helping get it ready for the chicks.

Grampy and a few of his helpers/

Angi's birthday! In pretty much all the pictures she is surrounded by these three girls. They were all big helpers to their Aunti and played well together too!

February and March

I am not sure what happened to February, so I am playing a little blog catchup.

Ryan had a great birthday this year!

We are in the midst of applying for farmers markets and getting the word out about our farm. Here is Ryan's setup from a recent event - very impressive, I think!

Lizzie is so focused here - I love her concentration!

Febuary

Lizzie and Ryan spent a few days last week clearing off the farm pond for ice skating! We had a great chance to use the ice over the weekend. Here are Rachel, Dan and Lizzie taking a spin. The ice was perfect!
Lizzie loved it and by the end was much more confident and was practically running across the ice.

The babies cooperated for much of the time and were happy to watch for the most part. Here Maeve is taking a turn around the ice.

I love this one because you can see Griffin saying "waaait for meeee!" Neither dog wanted to spend time on the ice, so were especially glad for a chance to walk around off the ice.

Martin tries to watch Lizzie. He slept for most of our skate, but woke up near the end and was very interested in what was happening.

I think Lizzie and Ryan used this method to clear the ice.

Grammy got in on the action near the end.

Can you tell they are having fun?

Here is our growing boy - he is always standing up and walking around these days. He and Lizzie spend a lot of time playing together.

Lobster in February! What a nice tradition.

We have been remembering baby Wilson on his birthday this month. We have been thinking about how to remember him best at this time of year and we started out a new tradition on his birthday with making a king cake. Thanks to Kate for finding the mix and helping me put it together. Lizzie got the baby in her piece of cake this year, so she got to be queen of the cake for the day.