Monday, September 22, 2008

Grapes in the Shire and Family

One thing that El has discovered this fall has been the grapes that are ripe and ready for picking surrounding our house. She has decided that her favorites are the "purple drapes" and she can sit at the base of the Concord grape vine, eating grapes for hours on end. You can imagine how this plays out in her bowels, but we won't mention that here on this clean blog-site. If you come to visit us right now, one of the first places she would take you would be to the base of the Concords. For die-hard grape fans like her, the grape is eaten seeds and all. However, most normal grape-eating people don't enjoy the seeds and spit them on the ground. However all grape eaters are accepted around here!

We had some great times with my brother and his family and my grandma came from Iowa for over a week to visit with all of us. Graham has been able to climb four 14er's with my brother and my dad made it up (and down) 1 of them. The following pictures are from the past couple weeks and will show you some of what we have been up to. Blessings!
A little lesson on how baby preying-mantis are made:

Oh, the frustration of it all:

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Tree Monkey

I apologize for not writing much lately but frankly, I can't find the time to write anything profound or witty so I will default to just showing off more of our little girl. Videos are something I can get on here rather quickly and still satisfy your thirst for an updated blog. So here are a couple recent ones. Maybe things will slow down in the near future so I can write some more clever things as you have become accustomed to reading here....ha!


Untitled from Andrea Trenda on Vimeo.



Tree Monkey from Andrea Trenda on Vimeo.