Return of the Blog-Slacker

Sorry for the long hiatus, it's been a very busy couple of months. In the time since I last wrote: Laine turned 6, school ended, summer started, Laine learned to ride a bike, Laine and Eve started swimming lessons, James stomped around the house in my shoes, Laine started Kung Fu, all the kids had fun with all their cousins, Habojee and Nemo left on trips to Europe, my brother finally came over to the dark side of the force and agreed to come work at my company, the kids started a new system of making their beds and earning nickels for their piggybanks, I went to Virginia twice for work, Christine came to Salt Lake once for Laine's birthday, we ate, we worked, we played, we slept, I watched several cooking shows and played some video games, the girls made some new friends, James grinned and laughed a lot, and life generally moved on. I'm just going to dump a bunch of pictures and some videos, sorry if they're out of order or not well explained, I'm just proud of myself for finally putting up another blog entry.

Fireflies

Fireflies might be one of the most magical things in the world. I had never encountered them until this summer after we moved to Virginia. Tonight was the girls' first time seeing them. Our backyard woods were just lit up with the little sparkling bugs and we spent a good hour watching them in awe.

I think in this clip you can actually see some of them. They're sort of hard to capture on film. We feel so lucky to have a backyard forest full of frogs and fireflies and other ingredients to childhood magic.