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Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

August

Apple picking at Dan's...love that place
Honey Bunches backpacking in Montana - lovin those trees



Hanchett's, Gregorys & Jarvis people hangin at the park

Flash & wifey picking apples with us!

So awesome - Papa J & I got away to St. Louis for a Def Leppard/Journey concert!!

Lots of beach days this year - over 50 so far (I'm writing this 2 days before the first day of fall!)

Drawing our bikes at the park - Mac is getting pretty good!

Ben has his big sister's eye for detail

Playing with colors & some summer harvest

Volleyball practice started

Trip to the Zoo with Zach, Julia & littles!  Haven't been since Zach came back from his roadtrip to Oregon....I think Ben was 2 or 3 then....

My awesome boys

Amazing....

Nature crafting - Leaves added by Malachi, fairies by Josie

A bit of prek work


Beach beach beach - we are definitely beach people

Working on my own painting...inspired by the overgrown garden!


Before the haircut - he was getting shaggy like his bro

Big sis swinging through for a visit

Snuggled with his favorite lovey...made by the Blue Haired One herself ;0)

Zach & Julia's 2nd anniversary :0)

Abbie checking out the Badlands

More watercolor for me....copying some Japanese art from Josie's Good & the Beautiful Language Arts book

Tire park in Columbia

Churchill Museum in Fulton, Mo - went right along with our history studies that week too!

Melt my heart....how does he keep getting CUTER?????!!!!! First barber haircut at Campus Barber Shop w/ Travis

More tire park - Leapin' Lizards!

In front of 4 sections of the Berlin Wall in Fulton, Mo.

Josie says it's like walking through history.....

First swim in Hulen Lake by our old house in 12 years - hasn't changed a bit!

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Lake Life!

Mac got his own fishing pole at the fishing derby this year (like Curious George...it had a wall hook not a real hook!).  I have a bit of an issue with fishing in general - so we stayed FAR away from everyone else!

One of the nearby families brought this awesome water slide to the lake & shared with us - so fun



Homerun Derby at twilight




Papa J & I got an overnight get-away thanks to Zach & Julia! Happy 25 years baby cakes!


All in a day's pickin'.  Ben washed everything & we made it into a delicious tomato sauce for dinner

My boys - some with more teeth than others.....

Some Countryside Playschool fun - looking forward to starting up again next week!

Thursday, September 8, 2016

August update

Had a quick get away to Chicago - 4 hours on the train w/ 3 littles & we actually enjoyed most of the trip ;0) Little guy here cried the last 2 hours but it's all good - we had an awesome time with the Cheese Monger peeps!

I did a bit of painting & woodworking to update the hollow core doors upstairs - I'm happy w/ the results

I found this end table in the burn pile & made it into a play kitchen for Mac! The old one was pretty nasty after having 6 kittens use it for a litter box BLEH

Our wild garden....love it

Our 3 awesome boys soaking in the lake - Zach was giving his beloved some swimming lessons

I guess I was busy or feeling creative or something??  Made these sallopettes for Mac out of an old silk skirt.  Wears GREAT for playclothes & is solf as...oh wait....

another Chicago pic - "The Farm at the Zoo" in the park by JG & AG's apartment (not AJ anymore!).

    Do those handmade backpack thingies make them hipsters?

Papa J getting in his cuddle time

Let's all go buy westies & combis & live on the road, ok?? ;0)

Monday, October 6, 2014

September 2014


Crazy garden! Sweet potatoes & beans on the left, strawberries on the right, cucumber tunnel back right, and corn, beans & squash back left (the "3 sisters" - Josie & Ben planted this bed & tended it.
Cousin GJ gearing up for 6th grade football with Uncle S & Aunt T

The haircut.  Wah.

Me on the map geography activity...

Started big, w/ the world, then N. America, then the U.S. then our state, neighborhood, house & Tweeters - all stacked by size & 3 hole punched for review.

My girls enjoying one of the last lake days!


My boys 4-wheelin'

The many faces of Jam



New skeleton guy to put together - with squishy parts!!

Papa J & Tweeters found this monster caterpillar in the road!

Violin at the park :0)  It was picture day for the big concert!

Squishing grapes to make juice, yummy & tart

Had a wee bit o' rain - where's the beach??!

Beginnings of learning to read music....almost looks like decimal street from Math U See!

Yes, we are slightly obsessed.

And yes, we do have a Clearplay filter - otherwise we would NOT be able to watch & be obsessed with this show.  Waiting for season 4 to come out in February is SO hard....no spoilers on season 4 or 5 please!!

Jam at Countryside - building houses for the fuzzy caterpillars w/ his pals

Tweeters enjoying the muddy creek at Countryside

Heritage Festival w/ Gma L - one of the 2 houses that Gpa L restored this summer!  SO cool!

Jam was obsessed with the bone grinder at the general store

We brought home a mermaid...

A stilt walker....

...and a tiger!!
Field trip with homeschool group to a dairy farm - this is the cow carousel!
out of order, candle dipping at Heritage Festival



back to dairy farm - lots of baby goats! 

Uncle S, Aunt T, M, G & N

Time for an update....

Missing our dear friends so so much....definitely a dynamic change here with them gone! Recreating this pyramid from 2020! Mama grou...