http://happyflamily.com So Happy Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:52:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today Lillie turned 3 years old! She requested a fish themed birthday party. When she woke up, the house had been decorated in the night and there was a present for her to open on the table. It is a barn like the one she loves to play with at her friend's ... http://happyflamily.com/2009/09/20/lillies-3rd-birthday/ I got some pictures of Mima and the girls about a year ago, but they just never got posted. I've been promising Mima that I would get them up, and today I finally am! Only about 13 months after we took them..... http://happyflamily.com/2009/09/17/mima-and-the-girls/ Sophie and I decided that before the summer ended we needed to get one more good day at the beach. We left Lillie and Becky in Eugene and spent an entire day goofing around on the coast. We spent most of our time building a sand-castle and playing in the ... http://happyflamily.com/2009/09/07/day-at-the-beach/ Veronica and Efrain stopped in Portland after their Alaskan cruise, so we all got a chance to stay at Mima's and visit with them. I didn't get any decent pictures of Efrain because he was usually behind his own camera, but here are some pictures of everyone else. Veronica and Becky: The ... http://happyflamily.com/2009/08/25/veronicas-visit/ It has been a long time since the last update, but that's just because we've been having a busy summer. Lots of little things going on, plus spending a lot of time playing with the kittens. The cats are 14 weeks old now and are much bigger than when most of ... http://happyflamily.com/2009/08/12/cat-pictures/ As a little treat the day before Father's Day, I got to take my two girls out for a day of fun without Becky tagging along. We had a blast. Sadly, I didn't get any pictures of the three of us, but here are some of the pictures I took ... http://happyflamily.com/2009/06/22/daddy-daughters-day/ Lillie woke up early this morning and spent some time working in her notebook. Here is the picture of our family she produced! This may not look like much, but for a 2-year old we think it is pretty special. She put eyes and hands on everyone and even wrote ... http://happyflamily.com/2009/06/21/lillies-art/ We had a long stretch of gorgeous summer weather here, but then got some early summer storms. Thunderstorms aren't too common here, so the girls went outside to enjoy them (Note that the umbrellas only went up after the lightning had stopped)     http://happyflamily.com/2009/06/14/rain/ We added two little kittens to our family earlier this week. James thought he might bring us some kittens from the cat that lives in his favorite hangout in Italy, but customs proved to be too much of an obstacle so we just adopted some from craigslist while he was ... http://happyflamily.com/2009/06/12/sweet-dee-and-coco/ We went to the Mount Pisgah wildflower show with my friend Amy and her family. We bought tomato plants, watched the hippies and enjoyed the sun. Lillie, Aubrey and Sophie making butterflies from old magazines... Totally cute... They had a 400 year old tree section. You draw a date out of the bowl ... http://happyflamily.com/2009/05/22/wildflower-show/