Me!

I handed the camera over to Jackson and Alex one day not too long ago and told them to take a few pictures of me with my big ol’ pregnant belly (at 28 weeks.)  We were outside checking out the garden, swimming in the pool, and taking laundry off the line on a beautiful summer [...]

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Belly Shots

And they’re not mine!

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Our Oh So Little Garden

I meant to have a much bigger garden, but between the exhaustion that goes along with first trimester, a rainy spring, and little time to devote to said garden, I was lucky to put together our little patch. We have 3 roma tomato plants that have grown beyond my wildest expectations and two sweet pepper [...]

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My Little Nature Hunter

All in one day last week, Jackson found a slug and two varieties of caterpillars.  He was oh so proud of his finds! And yesterday, he called me over to the side of the pool to watch a cicada emerging from it’s old shell on the ground. He misses nothing and is so aware of [...]

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Co-op Pick-Up

This is our small weekly summer produce share for the week.  We also picked up a bottle of Trader’s Point yogurt, our monthly local Amish butter, our local raw cheese order, and our Frontier order – all from our co-op. I know I’ve said this before, but I adore our co-op!  Shopping from home with [...]

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Happy Father’s Day!

We took James fishing at a local park for Father’s Day and within 2 minutes of getting Alex set up with a fishing pole, he caught a good size catfish.  It was about the length of Alex’s forearm, so really quite a large catch for him!  And his Daddy couldn’t have been prouder! Happy Father’s [...]

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Backyard Camping

The boys pitched a tent in the backyard yesterday afternoon and informed me that we were having dinner over the campfire.  Add some friends and a quick run to the grocery store and you have summer bliss! We roasted corn on the cob, hotdogs, and marshmallows over the open flames and did a few hamburgers [...]

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Sprinkler!

It felt a little more like summer here this weekend when we hooked up the sprinkler for the kids and roasted some marshmallows over the fire.  I won’t mention the big old thunderstorm that blew in as I was roasting the last one and got me a wee bit wet. The boys positively adored the [...]

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