stealing daffodils

Never seen so many daffodils in my life

figured 1 0r 2 wouldn't be missed

The Pterodactyl Life

A nation dependent on oil.. and me, one of the industry's guzzling consumers.  Will the lifestyle I dream of ever become a reality?  When will I have somewhere to call home?  or really, when will I have somewhere to grow a garden and raise animals and my own children??

At this moment in time I would never believe it could ever happen--but the only way I feel that I could keep going is to tell myself that we will find a piece of this earth that welcomes us.  We will not be moving around staying with random people throughout the country for the rest of our days.  Most days I feel pretty good about what the future will hold. some days it's a daunting thought and I feel like I know we're about to breakdown and there's nothing I can do to rise above it.  My husband is kind of eccentric or maybe just odd, and our lifestyle is not the norm--the world feels like its rotating the opposite direction as I am. I want to simplify my life.

Hello to all who may read this blog, 

This is the family bus!  We've got a little RV set-up, still kind of in the works but live-able, and great for travel at the moment.  Right now we're in Ann Arbor, MI--but this year's trip started in Tucson, AZ when we bought the bus after working at the Gem and Mineral shows in Quartzsite and Tucson.  We headed over to California in the last week of February and worked our way all the way up to Portland, setting up our fossils and jewelry at flea markets and the like along the way.  We decided to botch our west coast plans and head over to Ann Arbor and spend our summer in the midwest, which was our original plan for the summer.  So, here we are in Michigan!

the bus

Tabitha's first book!

Igor is a great driver..

man v.s. wild

Dan is really silly.  oops no sound..