Archive for June, 2014

back home in ny: maddie’s birthday party

Posted on June 29th, 2014 by mountain girl  |  2 Comments »

Here are a few more shots from our vacation in NY.  My sister Rahab (Rae) postponed Maddie’s birthday party so we siblings could all be there.  Papa and Mimi didn’t make the party, so it ended up being our first family get-together without them.  Which was a little strange, but still fun. Zia was suspicious […]



{this moment}

Posted on June 27th, 2014 by mountain girl  |  8 Comments »

Linking up with SouleMama…a moment from our week.



pirate girl and ‘sidey boy

Posted on June 25th, 2014 by mountain girl  |  6 Comments »

I’m taking a short break from my NY posts to say that Zia’s tooth #5 (on the bottom) finally wiggled loose in the car on Saturday.  And just in time, since Zia has recently turned Pirate.  Here she is in her “ship”, waving the Jolly Roger. We went to Nederland today for black construction paper […]



back home in ny: camping at southwick beach

Posted on June 24th, 2014 by mountain girl  |  Comments Off on back home in ny: camping at southwick beach

While we were in NY, Mimi and some of us kids drove up to Southwick Beach on Lake Ontario.  Southwick has a feel like the ocean–wild and windy.  Lake Ontario is the 14th largest lake in the world, the easternmost of the five Great Lakes. Its source is the Niagara River and its outlet is […]

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back home in ny: cousins

Posted on June 23rd, 2014 by mountain girl  |  6 Comments »

I’m finally getting around to posting pictures from our NY trip, just a couple of weeks late.  Our 11 days there was so packed full that I decided to post the pics in a series, instead of cramming them all together in one post. Here is Gianna with Cash–she’s my little sister Sarah’s baby, three […]