Friday, July 22, 2011

defoliated walnut tree

The previous picture is in the yard on the north. This black walnut tree is just outside the fence on the west. The oak tree is in the foreground on the left and others in the background, a few branches from the hackberry tree show up on the right. I wrote about the thousands of caterpillars that showed up. After they ate the leaves, they came down out of the trees and must have gone on to the next trees, since there was no sign of them after they did their damage.
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after caterpillars visited


I usually only like to put pretty or beautiful posts on the blog. This time I wanted to show the destructive force of nature that visited 10 days or so ago. You can see the oak trees full of beautiful green leaves and the walnut tree stripped by all of those caterpillars.
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Saturday, July 9, 2011

50th T shirt picture


We had an amazingly special 50th celebration with all of you. Thank you very very much!!
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Friday, July 8, 2011

Jarvis reunion/quilt

The Quilt! Granddad & Grandma and most of the grandchildren.
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Jarvis reunion/dam 2


All of the grandchildren that we could corner long enough to take a picture!
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Jarvis reunion/dam

Great memories with beautiful daughters.
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Monday, May 30, 2011

Memorial Day Weekend 2011


Bubble Time!
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Memorial Weekend 2011

Cousins have a great time together! This was also Garrett's 9th birthday.
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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Pre-K Graduation




Tuesday was graduation but yesterday was the last day. I ran in the neighborhood by the school while he was in school (usual routine) for the last time! It was a little emotional driving away from Stone Canyon Elementary. We've had such a great year and we're so lucky Oklahoma has such a great program. Tanner's teachers made each child a 3 ring binder with school work from the whole year. It's so fun to see how he's changed in one year!! Next year he'll be in all day kindergarten at Smith Elementary so we will really miss our drive to and from Stone Canyon each day.
We're so proud. Tanner was one of the youngest in his class but did wonderfully. Nice Jarvis genes :-) Loves his numbers! And very social!!

Sunday, May 15, 2011

My 35th B-day

This picture is a few weeks old.......now Dave added more tomato plants & zucchini
Me on my 35th!
Tanner woke up yesterday and made me this card all by himself back in his room. He wrote "mom" and taped some of his money to it. I guess he knows what I like???
Dave & Tanner surprised me with this cake from the store! They also bought me fresh seafood..........salmon, tuna, and tilapia. Dave cooked some last night. Yum!
Yesterday was a perfect day! For my b-day we went to a festival in Tulsa last night. There was a 5K race at 8pm called the "Full Moon Run" which I ran. Lots of activities for kids and inflatables and games for Tanner. Then a concert in the park after. We stayed for the concert until 10:00. The band was playing "Journey" songs and Tanner was dancing all over the grass. Really fun day! 5K was easy. 6 months pregnant and feeling great. I remember my 30th birthday being 7 weeks away from having Tanner. Fun!

Monday, April 18, 2011

Disney World & Sea World - Orlando

Tanner swimming with Dad at one of the resort pools. Tanner didn't even need Disney or Sea World.......he's in paradise swimming with Dad. They swam almost every night.
Family at Magic Kingdom. Tanner was happy, but pulling "pirate" faces :-)
Tanner & I spent 2 days at Sea World while Dave was in his conference. I actually liked Sea World better than Disney.........the whale/dolphin shows gave me goosebumps and it wasn't busy season so it was nice & quiet.

My two loves :-).
5 years from now I can take our daughter to all the Snow White/Cinderella things. But Pirates and Buzz Lightyear were fun, too :-)

Friday, April 15, 2011

beware of pirate!

Part of this pirates costume (earring, sword, eyepatch) came from Disney World in Orlando. Some of it you might recognize from Kent's Halloween costume when he was maybe this age.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

iris 2009


I was looking through pictures for the family video & came across this one instead. Can you see why I don't just mow these down? Instead I keep pulling the grass & weeds each year so I can enjoy a brief display of beauty! It should look like this again in 2-3 weeks.