photo journal

We couldn't find Lucas at one point cause he had found Juniper's mp3 player.


This crazy moth was on my lantern.


Fun with the camera at night.


Kids in the morning around a campfire.


Steiner kids make stuff like this when they hang out in the woods.


Washing dishes in the stream.


Up on the mountain top. I love the dynamic between the kids in this photo.

I went as a chaperon with Juniper's class to the Hancock Shaker village yesterday. Here are a few of my favorite shots of the animals:

Ben passed on the bed he build for Eli when Eli was Lucas' age. Lucas loves it. We set it up in the corner of our room and made his own little space. He goes in there and plays or reads - and even naps in it all by himself at naptime! It might be a long time before we have a room to even offer him for his own, so we need to make the best of the space we've got. So far, so good.

Juniper had a sleepover birthday party at Ben's on Friday. 3 girls slept over and they all had american girl dolls... Eli got to come to my house and we watched a movie that we wouldn't otherwise be able to watch with Juniper around - the transformers. He LOVED it. Of course.


Blowing out the candles on her cake with her doll.

Eli was in a play with his class today and he played Hermes. The class did an amazing job for 5th graders and it was cool to see how tight this group of kids has gotten over the 5 years that they have grown together. The way they do plays at their school is that everyone learns every part, then like a week before the play, the teacher picks who has each role. There is always two days that the play takes place, and each day there are different children in different roles.
They never allow for photography until the end where the kids gather for group shots. The last in this series of photos is my favorite just because I caught Eli in the act of stabbing Zeus.

Choo choo...


We build train tracks almost every day. We have many trains from when Eli and Juniper were Lucas' age. Today Lucas and I tried to find all of the trains that we could to make a super long train. I found a few more after I took this photo.


Lucas sang a song about me when we were done. He makes up songs and sings them with his guitar all the time, they can be pretty funny.

Clarra, Eli and Juniper


Lucas and the downstairs cat checking each other out.


Surfing in the back of a truck.


Gather round, Juniper's hair is bouncy and there are many wet dogs here...


Singing herself a birthday song.


Juniper is 9 now!


All the boys are outside.


Juniper enjoys a moment to herself.

Eli was preparing for a report he had to give on a state.


Lucas insisted on doing some homework as well.


Working hard.


Eli's poster for his oral report.

It's raining, it's pouring.


Juniper took Lucas outside with some umbrellas but it was cold...


Rainy day + swimming in the stream + mud = gross wet dog.

Two boys bringing in the empty trash cans.


One girl with funny glasses.


Three kids.


Dinner - veggie soup and toast.