It finally feels like spring!

The last few days here have been just beautiful! Weather in the 60-70's with just a light breeze in the evening. I have been busy in my garden and am almost done, hopefully we will have lots of fresh veggies this summer. Emma enjoys helping me in the garden, but poor Ken is not having a very good time being stuck in his stroller for any extended period of time. He likes to be mobile! Wayne has been busy with his new project, two lambs that he intends to fatten up over the summer. The kids have also started swimming lessons and they both just LOVE it! Ken's class is a parent/child, so I go in the pool and hold him. Emma goes by herself in the shallow childrens pool. It's gearing up to be a busy summer for us; 2 weddings to go to, a two day trip to Oregon to visit a friend of mine and her daughter and Wayne is flying back to Australia for a quick trip to visit his folks who seem to be deteriorating in health. So sometime in my busy summer schedule I will try to keep this updated with new blogs and photos!




Emma and Ken.


Emma and one of the new little lambs.


Silly Emma getting ready for swimming lessons


My garden a few days ago.... now see next picture!


The garden before!

Just a short note and some new pictures.

Don't really have much to blog about today, just wanted to post some more picutes. I posted a video the other day and hope you will or have watched it, it's pretty cute. My kids are pretty funny! We are all doing fine. Wayne and I had like six days off in a row together and had all these plans to get a bunch of yard work done. Needless to say we only got a couple nice days out of the deal and the rest were rainy, chilly, windy or all of the above. Oh well, maybe next time. Ken is walking while holding on to a toy now and waving bye bye. He is 10 months old now, however I just gave away all his 9 month clothes and he is wearing his 12 month clothes now! I think he will start to slow down his growth now, hopefully....... or I may go broke buying clothes for him.... HaHa, just kidding! Anyway, enjoy the pictures and video. Jacki

The Emma and Ken Foley Show

Having a great spring......... Wow summer is almost here!

Emma chasing the chickens.

Ken watching Emma chase the chickens.

The chicken coop!

Grandma Marilyn with the kiddos.

The kids and I at the zoo.

Wow, it's May already!! We have been trying to get work done out in the yard and on the property, but the weather has not always cooperated with us. We got our chicken coop completed last month and the chickens are making themselves right at home, 15 of them to be exact. They are getting fairly friendly, Emma can bend down and touch them, which she is thrilled about. They follow us around the yard. We are hoping to get some kind of irrigation to the place this spring. I've started working on a garden space and will post some pictures of that when I get it completed. Emma went to the Drs office last week for her 4 year old checkup. She is healthy ofcoarse, but is on the small side, however this is normal for her considering the size of her parents;) She is developmentally very smart and can do most things that 6 year olds can do. Ken is doing very well also. I thought Emma was a handful, but this little guy is just a swirling vortex of energy!! He walks holding on now and no doubt will be walking on his own soon......... or more like running. Work is going well for Wayne and I. Wayne is now looking into getting some sheep to raise. Quite the little Foley Farm we have going on here now. My mom and I took the kids up to Bellevue to have pictures taken last month and we went to the Woodland Park zoo afterwards. It was lots of fun. Emma, my mom and I enjoyed the animals and Ken liked being pushed around in the stroller; he still is at that age where he dosent see much unless it's right in front of him or moving and making a lot of noise. Hope everyone has a wonderful spring, summer is fast approaching!
Jacki.