Ethan and Addison like to go exploring in the backyard garden. I tried to sneak up on them in their adventures this evening. But they caught eye of the camera before I got many pics.
Their adventures usually just end with both of them chowing down some cherry tomatoes and covered in dirt. You can see Ethan’s got a mouthful of tomatoes as I took these.
My wife rocks!
As a way of helping our family to be more efficient and on the same page, Lynda devised an amazing organizational area in our kitchen/dining area. The wall is complete with our meal plan calendar, the house rules (along with consequences and rewards) and a place for the kids to store their library books and weekly spelling lists.
I love that she has really thought this out…and with a creative design. Eat your heart out Pottery Barn!
this evening we planned for a family movie night. the kids have been talking about it all week.
it started in the kitchen creating ‘bugs in a blanket.’ it ended with us all crammed on the couch, at least for the first ten minutes, watching “Everafter.”
i think Fridays are going to now be our family night.
any good family night ideas out there?
a little bit behind…
Colin & Aubrey headed off to another school year a couple of weeks ago. Back to the routine!
i guess our swing set in 3 pieces is a sign that it’s the end of summer…
time to get a new swing set.
of course, this one was ‘recycled’ last year when Lynda snatched it from someone’s curb!
Lynda planted a small garden this summer… small is not the word we’re using to describe it now!
we’re really enjoying some fresh tomatoes and cucumbers!
On our way to MA, we stopped off at the Slaugenhaupt farm outside Pittsburgh, PA. Lynda grew up visiting the family farm each summer as a kid…
Our four got a chance to spend a couple days on the farm and visiting Nana, who is an amazing 95! I think the kids felt right at home on the farm…
For all the family, here is a complete gallery of our photos..a sampling is below.
we returned yesterday from 11 days of vacationing out east.
we started in PA with a trip to see Lynda’s grandma and extended family…
then we moved on to MA to visit all of our friends from lowell and harbor of hope…
our last stop was to NYC to hang with the Storms family…
we logged some 2300 miles and over 50 hours in the van… and we lived to tell about it!
these are some of wonderful friends in New England.
we said goodbye to them a little over a year ago.
we miss them terribly.
this weekend, we get to see them.
looking forward to catching up and being back ‘home.’
see you all Sunday!
well, I made an ambitious reading list for the summer…and I have to admit, I’m not making much progress.
I finished Unlikely Disciple… and highly recommend it. It was a great outsiders point of view of Christian culture…and not in the negative, critical way. Kevin Roose, the author, spent a semester at Liberty University, ‘undercover’ as an evangelical Christian college kid. His insights and observations are right on in many ways.
I found myself laughing several times…mainly because I often felt like he was describing my Bible college experience. Maybe that’s why I liked it so much!
I’m now about half-way through The Hole in our Gospel… and am enjoying it thoroughly. I’ll post more when I finish…hopefully soon!
