6 Months!

Our Little Sister is six months old. Taking pictures of her was a lot of fun and there were so many fun ones that I could not settle on just a few. They all give you a glimpse of her personality!

Garden

At the beginning of the summer we had a bad storm. This is what my garden looked like after it passed. Not sure what would recover and what wouldn't I watered it then left it for a week or so. 

 The above picture 'center' is the leftover 'sticks' from my pepper plants. No leaves left. behind them is the lettuce, flattened.

 In front of the fence was flowers and cantaloupe. It all looked pretty depressing.

 This is what all came out of it! Oh the miracles of nature! The onions never did straighten up. Nor the garlic. But they have grown some none the less!

 And now the harvest is in full swing!

 My good helpers!

Summer 2013

A quick recap of the summer. The days have gone by so fast and there has been a lot going on! Between kids, garden, travel and everyday life it seems my blog has sadly suffered. I have at times thought of giving it up but then how could we share some of the simple precious moments in life with those we seldom ever see? So if you all can bear with the random posts for a while longer maybe in a year or so when I no longer have a baby in the house...maybe I can plan to do a once a week post.

So on to the recap and hopefully I can get back and do single posts for some of the highlights!

Our little snuggle bug! She has been growing so fast :(

 Some VERY special company!

 This is Baby Sister's hair do! Yes it really is long enough for pigtails!

 Biggest Brother can always make Baby Sister laugh!

 Our Little Lady turned 4!

 Sunday Nap Time Snuggles

Baby Shower for a Special Mommy-to-be

 The Mommy-to-be *smile*

 Morning Story time

 'riding' the fourwheeler

 Father's Day

 Happy Father's Day to a wonderful Daddy!

 Teaching the dog new tricks!

 Cousin photo shoot! Anyone with kids knows how that goes!

 The sky after the storm.

 Story time with mommy

 Chubby Cheeks!

I'm going to miss...

When the kids are sleeping and the house is quiet 

we begin to think of the day 

they will be grown up and gone away...

...when that day comes we will look back and remember

the little things that were so precious...

 ...and the things we wished would go away! But some day I will miss...

Piles of laundry,

 Little Shoes...

 ...that never seem to have mates!

 Toys scattered across the floor...

 Dishes, dishes and more...

...Dishes!

 mud...and someones Sunday shoes stuck in that mud!

Yes, these are all the 'little' things that someday will be missed.