Happy Third Birthday Ocean! August 9th, 2008


Tara, Talia and Ocean on Ocean's Birthday.

happiness beyond words

Freya and Tindra visit Full Bloom. Hooray! June 08


Chillin' on the porch with apappa. June 08


Ocean on her first visit to the Britt Festival. She had a great time with dad and amamma and apapa watching the Flying Karamazov Brothers juggling troupe.


Three generations camping on the middle fork of the Applegate River. June 08

Ocean will now "Vogue" for you all....







Really, she was voguing! June 08

Got her footprint in the bakery/community kitchen pad along with all of ours. June 08


Fun with Talia and Tara in our new zero gravity tank!


Preparing for space. June o8


Preparation is FUN!


And requires a lot of devotion. June o8

Definitely a handful at Boone's Farm, southern Oregon rules, by the way...



One bad ass baker's girl! Best watch out 'fore you get beat with a baguette! May 08


A sweet Sunday with our friend Grace and her Momma Maude at Wolf Gulch.


Playing with amamma and apappa at the playground in Calistoga. May 08

...where the conversation is always tops.

She IS growing quickly. Girl's as big as tree.


She Looves to blow out the candles, so of course I was happy to let her get into the action.
April 08

Baby Goats! What a treat. There were so many. About 30 or so. April 08


From left: Bubby, Tara, Talia, Ocean, Zady... That was A LOT of fun. Late April 08



She's STILL working on that cake. April 08

Ocean holding her friend Theya for the first time...Feb., 08

Ready for AfricanDance now.....

Don't even know how this happened, Feb. 08


Ocean getting her first lesson in Cob building while we built our cob oven
Feb 08


Springtime! Dirt, grass and sun! What fun! March 08

For posterity...we are in love.


...and having fun....


...together...


...through thick and thin...



A perfect winter day for the family christmas photo, replete with frosted fir needles and a tepee to boot.

Ready to rock!

Classic pose from a "funny face" session with momma.


The girls with our Wolf Gulch neighbors kids we love so much, Sam and Grace.


Learning from the etch-a-sketch master!



I'd be worried too, Asher. I'd be worried, too.

queen of the mountain



looking into her crystal ball



Amamma and apapa visit the farm! Don't go!
Halloween cuties, Tara and Ocean.

Three cool chicks. Thanks for visiting us Alisha!


Two sweet! Ocean and Magdalene in Truckee, September 2007.



Happy Birthday Grandpa!



Auntie Sue is in da house!



They look good together, don't they?