Chrysalis

Our beautiful pet caterpillars started not doing so well in the house, so I took them outside (yes, back to my parsley), but when I was letting them go, two were missing. I went back in the house, and Daisy and I found one underneath the stool their cage was sitting on. We looked and looked for the other one, but couldn't find it. Two days later, Daisy said she found the caterpillar's chrysalis on our wall. Sure enough, we pulled out our stand, and there it was...

Faye lost her second tooth--on the top this time. She has quite the lisp. Whenever someone comes to our house she asks, "Do you want to thee our chryth-a-lith?" Ha, ha. B is always trying to get her to say words with lots of "sssss" sounds in them. He had been calling her "Toothless Wonder" but because of the change of recent events, she is now "Checkerboard" (her spaces are top, right and bottom left). Poor girl-she's had 6 years of her Daddy's "sense of humor," but has many more years to go (and many more teeth, too)...

June Undertakings

"Ya'll wanna know what we've been up to??? Well, let us tell you..."

Hair trims!! I have never trimmed my girls hair, except once for Daisy, after Faye cut the ends of both her braids off 2 years ago. I did the trims voluntarily this time (they needed it)...

Fayelette (I always LOVE looking into those eyes!!)...

Daisy Dog (fun and funny girl)...

Lizzy-Lu girl (I love that baby!!)...

Church starts at 8:30am for us. That is mighty early, so Faye decided to prepare everything on Saturday night. I'm not sure why she wanted the bird book--maybe for the drive to church?? That is one organized girl. If you look close you can see her neclace and CTR ring at the very top of her dress)...

Liz wanted to help me make bread so bad, she even stopped getting dressed so she could snitch...I mean, "knead" the dough for me...

We discovered 3 caterpillars (after they ate all my parsley). They are black swallowtails, or will be if they survive the Payne girls. We recently learned about butterflies, and of course..

At the first of the month, when it was the end of our Weatherford vacation, we made a trip to the Church cannery, where we picked up the food orders for the Lubbock Stake. Brian and I got up, drove to the Uhaul closest to the cannery, picked up a truck, went to the cannery, and loaded all 6,000+ lbs of food (with the help of a fork lift, thank goodness). Brian did the manual labor while I supervised. :) After it was loaded, Brian started the drive back to Lubbock. I went back to pick up the kids and get our luggage. It took me about an hour and a half. Brian beat me back to Lubbock by about 15 minutes is all. It was a heavy load, and quite the experience. Here's Brian and the girls right before we went to return the truck...

We finally decided (and were able) to visit the Lubbock Windmill Museum...

Liz and Dais standing on the inside of a turbine...

Faye at one end of the turbine (Brian is at the other end with Daisy & Liz)...

And all my girls on the turbine. I didn't get a picture of the whole windmill (in the background), but there are 3 of these turbines per windmill. They are pretty amazing, especially after driving through the windmill farms a few times and seeing hundreds of them together...