Howdy!

Goodness, where to even start?
Life since January.....has been swift. Everyone is doing great. Kids are all well, trucking right along. Actually Emma isn't trucking anywhere right now.  She had her first accident. Her monster truck did what it should, kept her safe....while demolishing  a Lexus.

 Unfortunately, while her trucks engine wasn't damaged at alll and at a quick glance it looked totally fine... the frame was bent, suspension damaged, front tires pointed in different directions, safety computer needed replaced....and the estimate was 7k-9k to fix.  We paid half that for her truck.  So we sold it to a gal who has already fixed it up and has it moving again. Sad day, but we are truck shopping again, so we will see what fun truck we find next.

Emma and Brian headed down to Surf City, aka Huntington Beach to run a half marathon.  Brian also ran the Napa Half Marathon.

Oh yah, Emma's taller than me now.

 Of course we've been spending time on the mountain...

 Ticks are super bad this year. If you look close below you can see one on the end of a blade of grass.

 We have new neighbors with 2 Bully's...the breed of dog.  They do not like sharing a fence with our Duke and battle with him. The fence wasn't going to last, so we fenced off the shared portion, so Duke can't get to the part the Bully's are.  Which meant we had a decent fenced off area for a garden this year.

 And we put in a bed for Myles to have his own flower bed, which he's wanted forever.

 His shed is doing great! No leaks all winter long.

 Six Flags is currently having Educational Days on Fridays, which is really fun if you home school! Here Myles is feeding the seals.

 Myles and Emma got to ride The Joker with these vests which recorded data during the ride. Super neat.

 Lights are up for the summer. Hanging bed, too. I've already fallen asleep in it.

 Sam in his flower patch.

 Solar oven experiments with Myles.

 Our beautiful back yard friend.

 Sophie and Emma getting geared up to fly high...

 Emma had her yearly HOSA trip.

 We did a family trip to the city while Emma (who doesn't do well n crowds) was away.

 We had a bee battle in the back yard. A new queen was born, who then gets her peeps to oust the old queen and her peeps.  They swarmed in the air for 2 days and then separated into 2 groups, one got the old hive, and one clumped together on the ground, which the keepers came and got.

 I made a sign for Brian.

 Everyone says we have started to look a lot alike.

 I got the kids out to our favorite section of trail during winter.

 Duke is working on his fears.

 We had snow on the mountain.

 We took Emma's truck muddin before it got broke.

 Myles did an awesome Fresco painting during our Greek unit.

 Duke spent the winter in his sweatshirt.

 These are from their Surf City trip. They ended up at Disneyland.

And, well, there's lots more.  Too much.  But we are still here! I haven't been great about blogging, or checking email, or much other computer stuff where I have to physically sit down at the comp and think. My days are filled with home school stuff, kids, husband, house, dogs, appointments....blah blah blah. Same stuff as everyone else. I just haven't been taking/making time to blog. No promises it will improve either. Summer is right round the corner, though, so....maybe?
Hope you are all doing well!