The Clifford Family

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Summertime, please

The weather is finally getting warmer and we were able to take the boat out for an afternoon. Everyone was super excited to get back to some summer fun after our long winter. The first thing Ella wanted to do was go on the tube, her she is for her maiden voyage this year. Look no hands!

My happy girl, so glad to be back in the sun on the water

Micah taking it all in

Proof that they actually do like each other sometimes

3 person tube

Big Man on Campus

Tonight our little one graduated from preschool, time sure does fly!! Here are Micah and Papa at graduation:

Micah, Ella and I (Cliff couldn't be with us, he had the Tour de Nez going on in Reno)

Full shot of Micah

Buds Micah and Talon

Trying REALLY hard not to smile!

Ladies and Gentlemen, your Playdate graduating class of 2010:

Hooray for Micah!

Really?

May 10th huh?? It stormed for most of the day today, the sun finally came out and this is what the deck looked like. Where is spring????

My poor sweet tomato plants in their jail cell watching the snow outside

C'mon sunshine!

Mother's Day Garden Party

It was time once again for the Playdate Preschool Mother's Day Garden Party. They invite us to a wonderful catered brunch in the yard at the school where they shower us with sweet gifts and the kids sing cute mommy songs to us. The kids (and teachers) work very hard to put this all together for us and it is very cute. Here is a collage of pictures of Micah and Talon singing for us:

Micah and Talon after their performance... and a cupcake

The kids and I

Lisa and I

Thanks Playdate! Happy Mother's Day!

Sushi Night!

I am so excited that I just found a great source for fish up here, Wild Little Fish (www.wildlittlefish.com) delivers fresh wild caught fish to Truckee on Fridays... hooray! For our first order from our new favorite fish guy, we decided to celebrate and get a beautiful piece of ahi and make some homemade sushi. Now that the kids are older and sushi is one of their favorite meals, they were very excited to try their hand. So, I started some sushi rice, picked up our goods from fish guy and we were rollin!
Here is one of Micah's rolls:

Ella and her delicious creation

Cliff's gorgeous ahi roll

Micah only rolls shirtless, don't tell the health department!

Great, fun dinner!! Yum!

Happy 21st Michael!

I guess I am getting old, because my little brother just turned 21!!! Wow! We went down for the night to help celebrate, it was a quick trip, but nice to get down out of the snow to the 70 degree weather and to get a chance to catch visit my mom and brother. Here is Michael with his first 12 pack purchased with his id.

First beer in a restaurant, Pyramid Brewery in Walnut Creek:

The birthday boy and Micah

Blowing out the candles

I am happy to say that I was back at home with the kids in bed at 9:00. Times sure have changed! Not sure when he got home that night, but I am sure that he was stoked that we were visiting when the kids jumped on him at 7:30am to wake him up....

Happy Birthday Michael! Love you!

Micah... the photoshoot

Our kids like to take pictures, mostly of each other, I mean who doesn't! Sometimes they have little photo shoots and you don't really know what you are going to get until you take the camera back yourself. There are different collections sometimes of the various animals in the house, still life of furniture, this particular collection of Ella's is of her brother. I think that she really captured him and wanted to share it with the world. This is Micah... the photo shoot:

I think she nailed it, nice work Ella!

Sunshine, snow and missing teeth

From 60 degree weather to inches of snow on the deck, we just can't seem to get spring started around here. This is what it looked like on our deck this morning. Fingers crossed for sunshine this weekend!

It finally happened, we have a child with no front teeth! Ella lost her other front tooth on Wednesday at school. We still have NO IDEA where the other tooth is... it fell out around Christmas and no sign of a big tooth coming. Hope it's in there!

Another toothless shot

Happy Birthday Sutter!

Last weekend was Sutter's birthday and the Shropshires threw a great birthday party at their house. We were lucky enough to have a gorgeous day despite the schizophrenic weather we have been having lately. These pictures uploaded backward, so we will start at the end. Here is Micah enjoying his ice cream sandwich from Sutter's "cutie" birthday cake. The kid asked for pizza and ice cream sandwiches and he got it!