A Couple of Good Farm Hands

After Austin's birthday party these two cousins were just playing around on the four wheelers and barn. It was such a good photo opportunity! My favorite was when Spencer stopped walking to remove a large rock from the ground. After pulling it out he started to dig in the dirt where it had been. I asked him what he was doing and he said, "working!"



If you're going to visit Vale(and I only do because my amazing sister lives there,) you need to visit during the spring. This visit I was there to witness the first signs of spring and it was beautiful. The temperatures reached 70 degrees and the cool wind was blowing strong. Trees started to show buds of green instead of the dry brown that characterized them all winter long. The farms started to turn a lime color reminding me of the neon green rice fields in Vietnam. Upclose they're a wet mess but from the road the fields look like you could lay in them. It really is beautiful around this time of year when the sun comes out and everything starts to grow! It makes me just want to write all the time!

A Visit in Vale

Vale is to desolate as pumkin is to dead.
Austin is to reading as Rachel is to clogging.
Emma is to princesses as Karen is to facebook.
Ruth is to sleeping as the Romans are to car trips.
Rachel is to scrapbooking as Karen is to boys.
Spencer is to pot belly as Karen is to weak arms.
Emma's hair is to static as Karen's clothes are to pajamas.
Rachel is to amazing mom as Karen is to aunt-who-lets-them-get-away-with-too-much. ha ha
Karen is to journal writing as Rachel is to laundry.
Rachel is to popcorn as Spencer, Emma and Austy are to popcorn too.