This morning was a rough one for Heaten who woke at 5:00am crying and wouldn’t go back to bed, wouldn’t lay with me in bed, wouldn’t sit on my lap, basically refused any comfort at all. What he did like was watching the sunrise with me. It has been quite a long while since I’ve actually sat and watched the sun rise through the mountains. It was beautiful.

Yesterday I found this praying mantis thing hiding in our recycle bin.

This morning Jeff rescued it and set it free on the palm tree.

These little bugs have taken over my sunflower in the backyard. Ewww. I really, really hate bugs!