Bye-bye kitchen floor.

Lex is chalk art.......

Lex made me a play dough plaque

Lex channeling her inner elephant today

Multi tasking

Here's Liv working her ds and laptop all at the same time. It's all about the Pokemon......Silver and Gold versions have restarted the passion...that was temporally on hiatus for almost a year and half!

-- Sent from my Palm Pixi

Happy 4th of July!

Lex made this beautiful patriotic fruit salad.

We did something we rarely do...

we ventured out on a weekend day! We usually try to avoid crowds and it being summer in a tourist town and 4th of July weekend...it's like a triple threat. But free admission to Pfac intrigued us. We have never been before, so we packed a afternoon snack and headed out.
"The Common Object" exhibit had each painter incorporate an ordinary dishtowel into their work. Here are two of our favorites:

We got to meet and chat with the artist of the second biggest collection "Pencil to Paper" there. She lives locally and was working on a huge canvas piece...it was very cool to see her work. Other than sharpies, pencils plain or colored are Livs favorite medium to express her self artistically...so she really enjoyed her collection this one of glass bottles could have been a photo, it was really really good.

Here's Mary Lee Ruff talking with Liv (out of the shot)

This is a very different sculpture of St Francis by Emanuele De Reggi it depicts him in his youth at the moment of his discovery of his harmony with nature.Here Lex tries her hand at still life drawingsSnacking and playing outside the art center:

Our garden view this am.

These are limited views, the side beds are not shown. But it's come a long way! Tomatoes are just starting to appear and we're still waiting on zucchini...we've got our hearts content of cukes and they are very yummy! Milder temps made it quite enjoyable to be out here this morning. Next year we'll work more on pest control and maybe less variates...a lot of what we planted, herbs, broccoli ,peppers, beans, lettuce, melons, strawberries have been destroyed by various critters. Learning-takes, life's full of them!!!

Let these two get a bit too big and fat...they are from the side beds and both were growing on our neighbors side..the one on the right started growing tru the chain link in our fence causing the scarring and deformity.