teasing and taunting

this is where i spent the morning......i can't resist a staring contest with this furry creature out the window.... it teases and taunts me......with a flick of the tail here and a chuuurrr there.........it absolutely drives me so mad, i could just.......howl!!!

we are a mess......

everyone is sick or broken at the moment, except for mom.......isn't that lucky you all have someone left to take care of you........and luckily i love you all!!

paul: constant cough and lack of energy

nicole: recovering from walking pneumonia

margo: still fighting an infected toe from thailand adventure

ben: hand therapy exercises twice a day + vitamin e oil massaged onto scars, home from school with a sore throat

sebastian: missed school yesterday with a sinus infection

gabrielle: sprained ankle & horrible poison oak reaction

*remember those beautiful scenes of paul and gabi at the stream building the dam? that's when we think she was exposed to the poison oak :(

ben now has a custom velcro splint.
he can take it off whenever he
needs to which seems
to be very often!
he is seeing a physio once a week now.

l & r at preschool...
 we read a story today about a rainbow
jellyfish.

so guess what we had for nursery tea......

rainbow

jellyfish!

november in our little valley..........

eldorado springs valley
(referred to as "eldo" by the locals)

meet ron....
dry waller, plasterer and
painter perfectionist.
the inside of the garage
feels more like a
living room.

i really should introduce you to these guys.  they feel like my other 3 husbands or at least, family. they've been hanging around here under my feet for months!! they are our superb contractors....

meet george.....
landscape architect extraordinaire.
he's transformed this place with
his green thumb magic!

meet rick.......
well, he is just about mr. builder everything!!!!!
thanks for all you have built, concreted, welded,
dug, set, designed, moved and fixed. 

our viola goalie
played her last soccer game for the season....
now she will have more time for the other
things she loves......
singing, dancing, music & playing with friends

i love that she still likes to play with her dolls......