St. Louis Wedding for Andrew and Emily

Mort, Marian, Lisa and Daniel

James and Matt

Matt and Fred

Friedrichses

Phil, Fred (seated), Charlie, Galen and James.

Old friends: Bob Luppen

Kateri's Birthday (it happened on time!)

Catchup with Pia

Let's see if I can get caught up and get back into the regular blogging mix:

Football game.

Pies!

Quotes from Babyland

Pia: "I not baby anymore. I'm da big sister!"

Kateri: "If I were Gideon, I wouldn't cry so much."

Mara: "I would. I would cry so much, my eyeballs would almost pop out!"

Caught one!

Camper girls

Mara is 4?

Shakespeare fest

Kateri

Climbers

Casual Mara

Making grape jelly

Pep talk

Kateri was waiting for me to help her vacuum the living room. I apologized to her for taking so long, but I was very tired. Her response: "But that doesn't matter because you're still a mom. Moms are nice and moms are beautiful, and you are one of the kind that is Mama."

Recent gems

Bernadette: "You're the best mommy because you make good desserts and you know how to fix things."

Mara: "Mama, you were right. Chocolate melts."

Kateri: "Oh, my gosh, is that a b or a d? I don't know and I don't wanna know! But I need to know because I want to read!"

Here's What Faces Would Look Like If They Were Perfectly Symmetrical

http://time.com/2848303/heres-what-faces-would-look-like-if-they-were-perfectly-symmetrical/


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On the face of it - Health indicators

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2012/09/15/on-the-face-of-it


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Grape juice for jelly

Quotes from Kateri

K: "Mama, when new babies are born, can they talk?"

M: "No."

K: "Because they don't have any teeth. They have to earn their teeth before they can learn to talk."

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M: "Kateri, I need to brush your hair now."

K: "Oh, no, that is the terriblest thing that happens to me!"

Cross-world encounters

Dinner topic: what would happen if Anne of Green Gables crossed paths with stormtroopers, which led to an encounter with Darth Vader. Anne remains preternaturally cheerful and friendly throughout. Then this from Bernadette: "In the next episode Anne meets Luke and drives him crazy."

Isaiah is 10!

Good bye river

River rats

Float time

Klein Ford

Duck, duck, fish

Cabin 2

“Woodlands Cabin”