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Sorry about the distance between the posts…we sure have been busy around here, and it looks to be a full, fun summer too. Pretty exciting stuff.
So, apart from finishing up Charlotte’s quilt (it’s all packed up to be shipped off tomorrow to be quilted, yippee!), sewing some clothes for the children,
a special dress for a niece
(sorry about the low light…but I think you get the idea…), cooking up some great meals now that the weather is warmer, exercising now that the weather is warmer, and just plain relaxing, we’ve been starting summer for sure. Complete with the ice cream cones,
and splashing in the rainshowers…
and a new swingset! Hours of swinging fun.
Ivy has this memorized, and often when she’s swinging I can her her little voice singing the words to a tune she makes up:
How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
He was the giggliest robot we’d ever seen.
And somehow books seem more delicious when they’re read on a quilt, outside, on a Sunday summer afternoon.
Hope everyone’s enjoying the beautiful weather this week!
We had a good time at the beach last week, but I haven’t gotten a chance to post more pictures until now.
The girls (and Asher, too, although it took him a little longer) just made themselves at home on the beach. They got braver and braver as the day progressed.
Grampa took them out further for some wave wadin’.
Asher wanted to play football with Daddy and Uncle Chad…
Some giggles with Gramma…
The children were all so busy playing, many pictures were of the back of their heads…here’s Silas, furiously digging to make a pool…
Sweetie-pie-blue-eyed-beauty Caitlyn, snuggling with her Mommy…
And here’s Chad. !!
The beach is such a great place to take pictures…especially when in front of a pretty orange sailboat. (No, it’s not ours. No, the children did not sit/play/climb/jump on it, although they very much wanted to.)
Couldn’t pass up showing just a few more pictures of the beautiful state of Oregon. I know…ENOUGH with the vacation photos already!
We visited Pittock Mansion, which is just outside of the city, and the long climb up the mountain was so worth the views.
Here’s the mansion. Pretty, huh?
The trees in Oregon are fantastic.
After it was all said and done, we clicked our heels three times (after we ran full-speed through Dallas/Ft Worth airport to just barely catch our flight home…we think they were holding the plane for us…) and here we are.
The children arrive home in two days, and I have a full list of things that need to get accomplished. Finishing a quilt, making a dress for a little girl, pajamas for a little boy, researching lawn cotton (anyone…?), reorganizing the homeschool room, and trying to figure out how to put a swingset in our back yard.
Enjoy your day!
Portland is beautiful. The city is great, the people are friendly, and the coffee is fantastic. The coffee is also helping with the jet lag, but that is getting better.
We took a little ride to a park just outside the city, and man. This forest was amazing. Enchanted, for sure. Everything was muted, quiet. I expected a hobbit to jog by at any moment. The trees were massive; I tried to do them justice with my tiny camera.
The entire park smelled just like Christmas, with all the evergreens.
More favorites from today…
Lots of green, eh?
