We are super excited to have cherries right in our own backyard! Austin is especially excited - they are a bit sour, but so good!

Randomness...

Where did the past 3 months go? Seems like forever since I've been on here to post....Blogger even changed up the whole format of posting, etc, and it's taken me forever to get this far! I can't seem to get a space between the first two pics; not sure what is going on there. Sorry!

Here are a few random shots of late...
The playset. It made the short trip to the new house...and the kids are loving it.

Ethan dancing with his shadow.

...a killdeer egg. One made a nest and had four eggs in the gravel of our driveway....but something took the eggs because one day they just disappeared...no shells or evidence of eggs anywhere. Another (or maybe the same one??) made a nest in some dirt in our backyard and laid an egg....crazy birds. They get this I've got a broken wing, you better get away dance they do when we go near the nest....

 

Swings

Every spring/summer I enjoy listening to the cranes sing in the field adjacent to our house. Music to my ears. I've loved their songs since high school, when I went on the same biology field trip to the International Crane Foundation all 3 times it was offered to students. Someday I want to take the boys there. Soon. (The quality isn't great; I had to keep my distance and I had a 24-70mm lens on).

The weather has been unseasonably warm, so we've enjoyed time after school running around barefoot, swinging, walking, and playing with sticks.

Sasha.

I'm still crying, the 'what if's' creeping up on me...
Ethan doesn't understand, Austin gets it, and has shed tears.
Michael is taking it hard.
I'm taking it harder than I anticipated I would.

Sasha, our beloved dog of almost 9 years, was killed by a vehicle Thursday night.

I'm still trying to understand - she hardly ever (maybe twice) went down to the road.
I just don't get it.
I never will.

That's all I want to say about her death at this time....I can barely type right now. I might post more later about it, maybe not. I will have a post later with more photos of her. We had many good memories with her that we will cherish and always keep in our hearts. :)
We loved her.
So much.
It hurts.