Blue Door Window: June 2009

Elle and Seb

Elle's first haircut

Making tornadoes

Endless fun at the craft corner

Planting azaleas

Elle sat and ate chips the whole time Gabe was weeding and planting

Rainy day fun

Chesapeake Bay with Ashbys, Doxeys and Alders

Bay Bridge

Horseshoe crabs

Colton, Gina and Aldi

Neighborhood pool - We go there every day, sometimes even twice a day

Babysitting for New Moms

Exciting time in the ward with many new babies all in one week!
Watching Hadley and Cooper while their mom recovered from a c-section

Paige and Evan came over for the day while their baby brother was born

Cory and Nick played while their mom recovered from a c-section

Another fun day with the Freeman kids

Sam and Heidi

Trip to the Butterfly Garden with Friends

Gina, Kaede and Colton

Sonja Barsky and her parents

Grandma Came to Visit!

Baltimore Maryland Zoo

Hawleys joined us

The camel ride that Elle has talked about every day since then. Seb walks around spitting like a camel when she tells the story.

Visiting Aunt Jan at her home in Virginia after a minor surgery

Another trip to see the butterflies

Neighbors

Makayla, Rhianna and a friend, showing Seb a turtle they found. Makayla babysits Elle and Seb upstairs while I teach violin downstairs.

MaryEllen and PJ, the cat, Seb, Brooke (friend in the ward) and Elle. Elle and Seb like to watch PJ's tricks.

MaryEllen showing Seb how to feed PJ a treat for giving high-five

Next-door neighbors. Elle and Seb dying to see Scooby the little Yorkie. I try not to be embarrassed when their nose marks are all over the neighbor's doors every day.

Jason and Scooby

Friends

Watching North and South (the recent movie - not the one with Patrick Swayze) at Stephanie Perrin's place in Silver Spring. She made homemade kettle corn, the best I've ever had! 4-hour-long movie, this is all whose left by the end! Great sappy movie.

Krikorians came down from NY to visit. Elle and Lily met when they were babies and spent every single day together until we moved to Maryland.

Emily Krikorian, one of my best friends from NY- I miss our daily walks together

Farewell party for the Ashby's before their move to Colorado. Sonja cooking with Ryan (who unfortunately later peed on her back)

The kid table, Gina's mom entertained them the whole time storytelling with pretend rain (spray bottle) and clouds and thunder (towel and tin foil) over everyone's head so they would sit eat.

Free dental evaluation- Andy said to start saving for braces....great. (Is it tacky to ask a dentist to "take a quick look" at a party?)

Jon, Meagan, Alex and Davis Alder

Darrel and Nicole Freeman, also moving, but to Maine- sad to see them leave

Ryan, Emily and Scott Faggard

Rand, Karen and Trae Folkman and the Elders

Nicole with Spencer and Cory

Ann Bowler, Alex Franco, two old ward members and Steve Towne

Birthdays!

Elle and Seb's sign for Emily's birthday, which is a day before Elle's birthday. Emily made this apron for Elle.

Singing Happy Birthday to Elle right as she woke up

Three June 6 birthdays to celebrate- Eleanor, Kelly Queen and Meagan Alder

Singing to Elle, she could tell it was for her and she was loving it!

Michelle's twins, Dylan and Cole Johnson on their 1st birthday

We went to Heidi Queen's 2nd birthday party

Gina's spa treatment birthday party, complete with rolling pin massages, face masks, hot hand wax, manis/pedis, heat packs, peppermint lemonade, foot massages, chocolate mousse cake

Quartets and Recitals

Playing through quartets for fun with friends: Grace Boeringer, Emily Ricks and Kelly Stewart. We broke for treats and played some more late into the night. This was our last hurrah before Kelly moved to Cache Valley. We miss you, Kelly!

My students' recital at an Assisted Living Center. Since I only have a few students I invited my old students from grad school to come and play. It's nice to live by old friends again!
John Biffl

Jaydn Tubb (and Sofia Hawley, not in the picture)

Claire Biffl

Grace Brigham (and Constantine Desjardins, not in the picture)

Shostakovich duet with Emily Ricks, nice of her to come and play with me!

A group performance

Post-recital party at our house. Elle and Seb loved it.

Ward Parties

Yearly RS sleepover retreat at the Bowler's house. This time we only stayed up until 3:00, last year it was much later than that!

FHE at the Faggards

Missionaries over for dinner

Ward party at the Koncurat's house
Kenny Cordova (one of the two sets of triplets in the ward)

Ethan and Miles Cordova, Kenny's triplet brothers

Our favorite Mary Finnigan, the primary chorister and one who is trying to convinced us to move to Europe after her 3-year stint there. Mary and I were meant to be great friends.