Symphony Hall

Rachael celebrated her 12th birthday by . . .

Singing in Symphony HallRachael and Geoffrey are in Treble Choir at school. This is a special choir that meets twice a week after school. They received Gold at their last festival and had the privilege of singing in Boston's Symphony Hall.

Definitely an impressive building.

Geoffrey coming on stage.
Rachael entering the stage.

Here is a short video of one of their songs. They sounded great!

Elm Bank Children's Garden

Every year we go to the Elm Bank Herb sale. It was usually raining when we went so we hadn't explored the property. But two years ago we discovered the Children's Garden. Gorgeous flowers and several gardens, one of which is made for children. Reagan and I went with the grandparents, Sharon and Charles.
Reagan in the over sized red chair.
It's a really BIG chair--enough room for lots of friends. The gals are in the tower. Rapunzel, Rapunzel. . .

Reagan is the bird in this nest. I'm sure she can't wait for mama bird to bring her a nice juicy worm.

Easter

We were sick for the week (or two) preceding Easter. The whole family ended up sleeping all day on Saturday and missed both the Primary Easter Egg hunt and our family Easter egg hunt. Thankfully by Easter Sunday we were feeling well enough to go up to Bonnie and Jason's for Easter Dinner. Although we traditionally do the egg hunt on Saturday we had ours on Sunday this time.

Reagan got the hang of the search pretty quickly. She even managed to sweet talk Jeremy into giving her some candy. (Actually Jeremy was just being kind.)

Here's Lilly followed closely by Karin.

Rachael and Geoffrey are still not too old for egg hunts--not when there's candy involved!

Dinner Disgusting?

This is what Reagan said about our dinner last night.

This is what we actually had for dinner last night. Crepes with chicken and broccoli and then of course some dessert crepes. Pronunciation is not her forte. So no, it was not crap. Delicious, actually.

Art

About a year ago we bought our first piece of real art for the home. The photo doesn't do it justice. I love the vibrant Fall colors in this piece. It fits in really well with the colors in our home. He's an artist from the Philippines but somehow he knows how to capture New England.

It reminds us a lot of where we had our family pictures taken.

Two weeks ago we bought a second painting from the same artist. This one will probably end up in the master bedroom. We haven't stretched this one yet.

If anyone is looking for art-ebay is a great place to find a piece that fits your style. (Just don't bid against me.)

Charlotte's Web

Here are a few shots from the play the girls and I were in last weekend. We had a lot of fun and I think the performances all went really well!

Here are the farm animals.

Mr. and Mrs. Zuckerman (me)
Mrs. Zuckerman (me again) upset at Wilbur for escaping. We chased him all through the audience. The kids really seemed to love that scene. I got to shriek and act flustered.

Charlotte and Uncle the Pig

The County Fair Scene

Rachael

Lilly
This is my head shot for the program. Okay, so I'm just excited about having taken a good picture.

Wildlife at the Rogers

This time the wildlife I'm talking about are actual animals not our crazy kids. We have had several visitors over the last few weeks. We saw these deer last week.

Two weeks ago the kids looked out the basement window and found a racoon looking back at them. They watched him as he ambled back into the woods for a morning nap.

We may not live in a gigantic house but we have something most people don't have. A woods with wildlife in the back of our house and in the front of our house, just a half block away--an adoroable New England town. We love where we live.