Aruba

here we are in Aruba.  The connection is slow so no pictures until i get home.  Today I did the kids sleeping.  We were all exhausted by the trip.  Perhaps tomorrow i will do sunburn ones.  Tim and I win the prize for sunburn.  Colleen for overall tan.  Sarah for grumpiness, no one wants to play in the pool with me.  She has been sleeping and we can't get her to wake up so we can go to dinner.  Yippee.  More pictures of sleeping kids.

Aruba 2008 day 1

I was hoping to download pictures of everyone sleeping but this connection isn't letting me do it right now.  

the sun is shining, the weather is perfect and the kids are just starting to get moving...

Butterflies

When I get tired of picking berries, I take pictures of the flowers nearby.  The butterflies were amazing.   There were 3 or 4 of them per plant.

Evening/Morning?

Fun Things from Summer

First picture is from Aruba, the view looking down from the balcony.  

Next is a thimble berry bush just before we picked the berries for jam.

Third are the rocks we found by the hotel and the message we left for everyone.

Enjoy!

My favorite tree

I finally figured out how to get my pictures out of my camera.  I have a ton of pictures of this tree and the marina behind it.  I imagine that this summer if I make it up there again, I will take more pictures of it.  It doesn't change much from year to year which makes it pretty cool.  Last year the lake was so low we could cross over to the island easily.  

Now to try some other things with my pictures.

Pictures

All this time I thought I had 5 pictures and tonight I discovered I have 6...I think this is the most coherent way to show the dance.  Rollover Beethoven...I do wish I had the last picture of us all waving at the imagined camera.  I hope next year is as much fun as this year was.