Boy Friends

There isn't much I have to say about them that isn't already being shown. They are pure love. They are Soul mates as Guthrie's Mama said! They are full of love, life, fires, police, silly conversations,  no conversations, laughing, smiling. I love their Love! I love them. I'd love to have a friend that I could put my arm around all the time and know they wanted to as well. Friends that simply understand each other. I am so thankful that Orien has friend like this.

Little Girls

just a normal moment for Little T! Dressing up, playing with babies, and talking talking talking!

Soccer and Endings all too soon

Another week is amongst us. A week Cedar is definitely not ready for to end.  Fall comes, heat depletes, and were luckily left with green fields. Free to laughing, wrestling, running, kicking, guarding, happy 5-7 yr old. I am sad for us as a family. Saturday rituals of watching the Tigers play games. Chatting with other families, being apart of a friendly community.  I'm  the Mom on the sidelines, yes the loud cheerleader, the  one excited by every kiddos attempts!  Surprise I know! At times I try to keep my mouth shut but can't. It's those moments where I realize this is who I am ...I  am the one yelling, laughing and encouraging. (sorry parents who I am annoyed!!!) We will miss this fall tradition as the snows start falling and the fields turn brown. Where else can we watch kids soccer while Elk rutt and bugle feet away! Where else can we turn and see snow capped mountains while sipping hot chocolate and finishing another chilly soccer day!?

My boys Love soccer.

Cedar loves everything about the sport. From the endless running, dribbling, passing, and of course scoring goals!!!!  He is a team player. He is a talker and planner. He seems to get that at times better to do then expect others to do! He is a leader. A position I haven't seem his in until now. He has strategy, gets his teammates on the same page and goes. I have really enjoyed watching him bloom during this season. I stand strong  in our decision to keep him as a 1st grader this year. He has had the season to build self esteem, mature not only as a boy, but athlete and student.  He has gotten to feel old, and big Something he rarely feels wearing his baggy size 6 pants!!! I love seeing Cedar yell  out to us from the field  when he gets another point, showing with his fingers the score! Then he skips back to the middle for another kick off. It doesn't get any better for a Mama then seeing sheer bliss across my boys faces.

Orien has become a soccer lover as well. I expected no more then a free, happy Orien out on the field. I was shocked at the first practice when he had control of the ball and looked ever so confident cruising down the field. He scored his first goal in a game and is still grinning weeks later. He has strategy and confidence and I couldn't be more happy for him. He can stand in the goalie box  not intimidated, while I close my eyes as the balls come cruising near him! He knows the game, plays the game and ends everyday saying "Mom, I like Soccer!"

Winter came fast this season. After a week of frolicking in a carpet of colorful fallen leaves came this beautiful winter wonderland. It's funny how the forecast for snow mad me feel robbed of a full autumn, when my family awoke to fresh falling snowflakes there wasn't anything thing but pure joy!!! King winter made  a guest appearance with Autumn still shining, piled heavy, wet, snow and then escaped within a half days work! He had soccer cancelled, kiddos outside roasting hot dogs around a fire, and me finding the love for warm winter boots. So now with only a few hidden piles of snow, may we return to autumn! There is still piles of leaves to jump in, colors to collect and stash away for a grey midwinter day, and loose cool clothing to be worn! Welsome King Winter and good bye for now.

Just because I love this place

Cedar showing off the Tepee and the new weaved door he just made! unfortunately someone visited our forest days later, tore this down and used it for fire wood. The Kids were upset. We set out and found a new place to build and have been enjoying our space again.

The Screamin' Eamonns! Truthy excited to show off her frog. We left this AM for a dentist visit and I asked her what she might find in the treasure chest. She replied "A frog!" and lon-be-hold there was one!! Cedar found a hiking stick and Orien simply content to be in the forest!

new colors

A busy season of life is among us. Really the busiest season we hold. We try to get it all in from work, soccer, dance, school, adventures, home projects..and then we blink and the leaves have fallen and there is the first snow. I am trying to capture moments where we breathed a bit slower, wandered a bit deeper and relaxed in the last of the warm sun. We have started a new school year. Last year I felt so ready to blog our every days. Now I might just need to motivate a bit as to not miss the beginnings,  middle and ends of our many days. Cedar is 7. He is excited to be back with the Enki curriculum. We have finished out the end of 1st grade and are just beginning 2nd. He feels old and ready for new stories, drawings, etc.He is starting to enjoy taking the time to sound out words as well as recognize them when we read and write together. This is the beginning of our new year today! We are starting this week with our first cultural block. Native American/Apache culture. We have started with our trickster tales and will soon share some of his work. Our table is much more full. Full of 3 little people who all  insist in having a place while we school. I am having to breath in, add papers, colors, paintbrushes, stories to capture Truth, Orien and Cedar. Cedar is leaving the center of the school attention and now assisting me in Oriens school and keeping me from being annoyed at T's excitement to write, color, paint and simply be around us while we school!

Orien is beginning his K year with Enki, he is 5 and ready for some fun crafts and stories! I keep asking myself who is Orien going to be as we start this school adventure. It seems he's going to be my slow and steady little guy. He loves having his time to trace letters in the sand, write on the chalk board and grins whenever he has mastered a new letter to write or a shape coloring has come out as he wishes. On some many levels it feels like his 3rd year beginning for Enki as well! I keep noticing how much he needs to play with his body, balance doesn't come easy I think I will finally feel like the movements Enki offers will help him as immensely.. I love watching him grow into the calm, loving, gentle, boy.  Both boys are also going to Options, a home school program, held one day a week where they can be students in a school setting. They are in the same class K/1st grade.  Full day of Language Arts, group music/play, math and science...they love a day of social time and structure! It seems for one year we have twins! Playing on the same soccer team , attending the same school programs. I can already see the brotherly moments. Competition over girls???!!! Here we go.....

We have also begun to revisit or forest. It took 8 years of living up here, a dear friend to move too far to romp together weekly to visit the forests only minutes from our house. We have 2 places. One with tall grass, open fields, pines and rocks. The other Aspen groves that are endless! We have built a tepee and continue to revisit it often. When the leaves are falling I don't know where else I'd rather live then right here. Minutes from Aspens galore!

I can't find a more wonderful, joyful place to be!

When we crave peace it is still only found in the woods..and I am blessed to be able to seek these places so quickly.

A place we can dance, sing, wander, collect, build, track, find, live