Garden

Here is an update on our garden. We are winding down for the summer. This past week we canned cucumbers and green beans. Brandon and Stacy and Stacy's Mom and brother froze our corn for us - THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! We picked the last of our cauliflower and gave it to my Mom since we couldn't keep up with it. We also picked the last of our carrots and radishes. We are just beginning to enjoy some ripe tomatoes and we are waiting patiently for our gourdes and pumpkins to be ready this fall! Gavin's tree he has grown from seed.

Gavin checking out the pumpkin patch. Pumpkins and gourdes are one thing we seem to know how to do well!

Carley with the "pretty flowers" from our garden.

More pumpkins and gourdes.

"Cute". That is what she is saying - anything small is cute. She also prefers her tomato to be this color when eating it too - hence the reason why we haven't been able to enjoy any ripe tomatoes yet. This drives her father crazy.

Gavin by his row of sweet corn. It didn't do the best this year, luckily Grandpa has him covered in that area.

Gavin's project. I had this plant in the house and killed it off accidentally. I mean this thing was as dry as can be and brown as can be. We stuck it outside to get rid of and Gavin took it and planted it in his sandbox. Wouldn't you know - give a kid a dead mum and a sandbox and he can get the thing to come back to life. Good work Gavin!

Miscellaneous Pics for July and August!

Our summer in review...
He's going in...

This was Jed's "wardrobe" to go into our attic and fix a strip of insulation that had come down. I think I cried I laughed so hard. And of course this was 1 of our 2 days that it hit 90 degrees this summer (which means it was probably 110 in the attic).

Gavin likes to hold Reagan at night while Jed and I go upstairs to tuck Kyra and Carley in. Well we were upstairs less than 2 minutes this night and came back down and SHE had put him to sleep. :-)

Who needs their own space?

One of Gavin's top 5 of summer - sweet corn!

And Carley...

And Kyra...good thing Grandpa has a huge patch of sweet corn and plants them at intervals so we can enjoy throughout the summer!

Reagan is starting to sit in her highchair (with the help of blankets to keep her upright!). This was also the first day she grabbed a toy on her own and got it to her mouth - of course, where else would it go?

I was taking Reagan's 3 month pictures and Gavin decided he needed so photography practice. Kyra was having none of it but the rest of us girls did. He didn't do to bad - we still all have our heads!

We got to watch Isabella and Isaiah (my friend's kids) for a week while their daycare provider was on vacation. We had lots of fun. I hope Isaiah's Dad appreciates that his BOY is not participating in dress up time. :-) But the girls had fun EVERY day playing house and dress up and walking on plastic high heel shoes that could break anyones neck!

All 5 of them playing in the sandbox. It's amazing how well they all get along when they are all so close in age - 2, 2, 3, 6, 6 and of course Reagan.

Swimming

Gavin & Kyra took swimming lessons this summer (Gavin's second year, Kyra's first). Kyra loves the water and isn't afraid to get wet, Gavin takes a little more time getting used to the water, but by the end of the week they had both improved a lot! Gavin on the flutter board.

Gavin waiting his turn to backfloat - his not so favorite part of swimming.

Kyra jumping through the hoop.

Kyra playing games.

Reagan - Two Months

Reagan is two months old already. She is such a good baby. She sleeps good, she is so quick with a smile and she is content most of the day and has only a short fussy period in the evenings before bedtime. Here are some updated pics.

Blowing bubbles!

I have no idea what she is doing here!

Family Vacation

The whole family (minus Jacque and Bryon) went to Alexandria for a weekend of fishing and relaxing.

Britton and Grandpa caught LARGE fish (if you look close enough you can see the fish Brit caught - Grandpa's is almost as small). :-) Another keeper?!

Kyra swimming in the lake.

Gavin riding the floating chair. He was only in the lake about 20 minutes but that was long enough to get a leech on his toe that Uncle Brandon had to pluck off. Ahh... I have goose bumps thinking about it.

Reagan enjoying some fresh air and sun.

Britton finally caught something you could see on the picture! :-) (Sorry it's a little fuzzy Brit).

Jed fishing off the dock - and yes that is a pink princess fishing pole he is using.

Gavin and Kyra talking "duck" talk to the ducks. They swam right up to the kids - not the brightest ducks I have ever seen.

Carley catching fish. She wasn't real sure about them but she warmed up to them as the weekend progressed.

Kyra loves fishing and is by far the best fishergirl in the family - she gets the award for catching the most fish and she has NO problems at all touching them.

Brandon caught some nice ones too!
Kyra petting Uncle Brandon's catch.

Carley had to have her turn too - stuck her finger right in its' mouth.

Beautiful sunset Saturday night.

Lacy, Grandma, Grandpa, Britton, Gavin, Kyra and Carley going out on the boat to fish.

This was Saturday when it was 65 and windy. These life jackets are made to go to 50 lbs. but if we keep taking family vacations that are 65 degrees and colder and the kids have to wear their lined coats under the lifejackets - they aren't going to make it to 50 lbs.

Another one for Kyra!

Gavin is set to fish. He got a tackle box for Christmas and finally got to use it with his CARS fishing pole. He was bound and determined to use this big green fake worm to catch fish but after Kyra caught about 5 fish in 10 minutes he decided maybe he should try a real worm. She still caught more than he did but he didn't seem to mind too much.

Grandpa and Kyra taking a break from fishing.

Kyra - all smiles as she waits for her next fish with Grandma.

Carley caught another one.