August 2014

Our summer consisted of a lot of this: Lucy and Timmy playing in the little pool and with the water table that grandma sharon got Timmy for his birthday in June. It was such a nice summer, not too hot and not too cold, just lots of beautiful weather.

My mom and I went to a girls night out that my friend Tabitha set up for some ladies from church. We went to a place called Painting with a Twist where they walk you step by step through how to paint a picture. This one was based off a Monet painting (Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies) and I happen to love Monet's paintings so I was excited to try it out. Let the record show that I am not creative OR artistic, but this class was so fun and the painting actually turned out okay! It honestly was therapeutic to just sit there and relax and paint. It was a great stress reliever. I highly recommend it :)

 My mom planted lots of peppers this year in her garden and got a little behind on picking them, so one day I had Lucy help me pick a bunch. Well, within an hour she had eaten almost all of them. She is such a goob :)

Every Saturday we try to do something together as a family since we both work during the week. One week we went to Soergel's farm for their peach festival. Sadly, an early frost made their peach trees un productive (the guy said they found one peach in all ten acres of trees) but they have other orchards in central PA that they brought peaches over from. We actually didn't get any peaches, but we did get donuts from the Amish family who comes and cooks them fresh every Saturday morning (they were seriously amazing) and the kids got to go to a butterfly house, ride a pony, play on the playground, go to a petting zoo, and ride a tractor around the apple orchard. It was fun to be there and there was lots of good food to go around :)

Timmy is obsessed with carrots lately, and he especially loves the normal super big ones (not pre-cut baby carrots). He eats them all day, every day, and we often find little nubs around the house. We have been trying to explain to him to throw away the last bit that he doesn't eat, and we also have had to put the carrots on the top shelf of the fridge so he can't get them without asking. He ate like half a bag one day. It was crazy!

Sammy is getting so big! He is just a happy, healthy baby and he LOVES to wiggle on the floor and watch Lucy and Timmy play. What a cutie pie :)

Lucy and Timmy have become such good friends. I love to see them interacting together. They have started to pretend together which is super fun to watch. Lucy is usually the leader (the boss really) but Timmy just loves to pretend with her. They are kids, they fight about 50% of the time, but the other 50% of the time is just so fun to watch. I'm glad they have each other.

One last selfie for the road:

 

 

****Sarah came to visit for the second half of August and Johanna and John went on a cruise for their 10 year anniversary so we watched their kids for a week. I somehow have no pictures of that :( But we had a ton of fun with all the cousins and it was awesome to have Sarah and Lincoln come visit from Texas!!!! We love when they come to visit.