Family Time

Sunday afternoon our family took some time to hang out at one of our favorite spots. Actually, the kids and I have been here several times but this was Nathan's first time to go with us. We really enjoyed our time together.

Too bad summer is already coming to a close!

It's Been Awhile...

As you may (or may not) have noticed, I haven't been very consistent with my blogging. I think I go in spurts. That's kind of the way it goes for me with so many other things too. This year one of my New Year's resolutions was to try to be more organized. I haven't done a very good job with that, but at least I keep trying! In the past I would have given up several months ago. This time God has really helped me to try to keep going and not give up when I drop the ball. I'm so thankful that He has helped me with that!

This summer has been flying by! We have spent a lot of time gardening and swimming. We've gone on a few picnics too. The picture below is from an outing to a small lake we like to visit. We could sit and watch the ducks for a long time! We got to see a swan up close as well. Those pics may come later. Even though I helped (very minimally) with the garden when I was growing up, I really didn't pay very good attention to how to garden. I really don't know what I'm doing. One thing I do know how to do I am failing miserably at...weeding! In spite of my negligence God has provided some yummy veggies for us.

These are some of the veggies I picked one day.

They were turned in to a very yummy side-dish! Oh how I love to eat veggies straight from the garden. I think the kids do too. They cleaned their plates dry that night! As for Nathan, we still have a little work to do on him. But I told him that if God keeps providing such yummy garden veggies for us, he will turn into a veggie lover yet! We'll see...

4th of July Weekend

My parents decided to join us for the 4th of July festivities. As always, we were so glad to have them here!

Our town had it's celebration on Saturday. The pictures I have are from our adventure at the parade. Grandpa and Titus (with some fancy shades!).

Grandma and Keziah waiting for the parade to start.

Titus, Tirzah, Grandpa and Josiah

Look who's missing a front tooth!

Grandma blowing bubbles with Tirzah.

Tirzah is such a big girl. She wanted to walk home like everybody else, her little bag in hand. She persevered and made it home!

In the afternoon Nathan, Grandpa and the kids went to the park and the kids enjoyed jumping in one of those blow-up things. Mom and I took our time walking through the quilt show. Of course, after looking at all of those beautiful quilts we had to go to the quilt store!

After supper we lit our little bag of fireworks. Poor Tirzah didn't like it AT ALL! Grandpa took pity on her and stayed home with her while the rest of us went to the city's firework display.

I hope you enjoyed your weekend as much as we did!