Brothers

I bought a huge frame that I am wanting to fill up with pictures of my boys. So for the next little while I will be focusing on them.

Alpaca's

Alpaca's

A Dream

Yesterday Shane, Liam and I went to visit a local Alpaca ranch. We spent 2 1/2 hours with these wonderful creatures and I feel in love. If only I had the money right now to buy a herd I would. They are sweet animals that have the softest fiber you have ever felt in your life. Its like a silky cashmere. John the owner was great and answered all my questions. He invited me and the boys back anytime and gave me permission to photograph his alpaca's anytime.

This is something I really want to do and I will. Eventually.

Our favorites were Carlos and Norman they were was so sweet and not shy at all. They were fascinated with my perfume and gum. Alpaca's love to smell new things. They were all so gentle with my boys. They loved to smell Liam and Liam loved to touch their soft fur. Shane made a great helper and helped one of the girls there to water the alpaca's and spray them with the hose which they love. He also helped her take hay to the horses they had there.

Stargazer Alpaca Ranch has over 80 Alpaca's at the moment with a few cria's (baby alpaca) due this fall. They have a web cam on their website that you can watch when a baby is born. Their website is www.alpaca.net. Mostly they have huacaya alpaca's (pronounced: wah-KI-ya), they also have a few suri alpaca's (pronounced: SOO-ree). I really love the suri alpaca's they look like they have dreadlocks.

I am learning so much and hope that someday I too will be able to have a herd of my own.

Someday.

Here is to dreaming and hoping and wishing.

~Christina

The boys go Horseback riding

We have enrolled the boys in horseback riding lessons. Here is a slide show just because I can.





The horse's name is Six. He was a very gentle therapy horse. The boys loved him. Shane kept asking if he was his horse now. Lisa the trainer said the boys did very well, and Jared was a natural and doing things that she hadn't even told him. We are looking forward to our next lessons.

Chuck E Cheese & My 100th blog!

A while a go we went to Chuck E Cheese with the boys and their cousins. Of course the boys loved it and were really sad when they ran out of coins. Liam was so tired he threw the biggest temper tantrum I have ever seen out of him. It was so great that I thought I would document it for posterity. They got super cheap prizes but what do you expect? They had a blast putting their tokens into machines and playing games.

I made a slide show. Here is the link (Be Patient as it loads, it doesn't take too long)

Go to Slide show

This is also my 100th blog post. I am happy to say. Hooray for me. I hope that I have a few readers that enjoy these small glimpses into the crazy days of the Picker family.

Love ya!
Christina



P.S. Leave a comment, let me know you stopped by, will ya? Thanks.

Sometimes you take what you can get.

Liam is 19 months old and I took him over to a friends house to take pictures of him. She has some amazing things in her yard, very architectural. He however wanted nothing to do with Mom and her camera. So I ended up with this shot. It has our car in the background but his expression is all him. So I took it. Perhaps I’ll try another day.

Perhaps there is a reason I still don't have any photos of my own boys hanging on the walls of my home. :0)

~Christina

Once was old, now is new

I acquired these chairs and they had character for sure. Rustic, worn, timeless. . .

But they were missing something. So I bought some spray paint. :o)

BLUE

and YELLOW

Now I just need a couple cute kids to sit in them. :o) The paint will be dry in 24 hours. I could probably bribe the boys with a lollipop. We'll see.

Now I need to go and make a tutu.

I know.

I wont make the boys model it.

Do you know any cute little girls? Can I borrow her? I promise to give her back. Or perhaps we could trade. I am always open. :o) Just Kidding. Kinda.

~Christy