lemonade and smiles for sale.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About That

After complaining about the hot weather, we spent yesterday in the waves at the beach. Then we came home and Mike grilled a yummy dinner while the kids played outside. I take back the whining. I like summer days and I love summer nights.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cousins and Pumpkins

Avila Valley Barn in October is my favorite place for pictures. So I'm sure this is only our first set of pumpkin pics. On Saturday we packed a picnic and let the cousins explore the farm. There was a big hay maze that they begged to go in again and again. And again and again. Thankfully, Camryn was a patient cousin and took them because just looking at it made me claustrophobic.

For being such a summer girl, I'm over it. My car temp yesterday told me that it was 101. Today's supposed to be hotter than yesterday. I'm dreaming of hot chocolate and scarves. Tall boots and scented candles. Leaves and brisk mornings. It'll come, and then I'll miss our warm nights. So for now, we'll fake fall with trips to the barn and tractor rides. 

 

Afternoon picnic.

Afternoon mischief.

Come on guys...get together...

 

Grandma bought them their first pumpkin of the season. 

Here's to faking fall~

Last Week

What have we been up to? Not much I guess. We had yucky weather last week and just kind of hung around. Mike was working out of town and we tend to get lonely. We spent the night at my parents and with my brothers, which is always fun. Yesterday it finally warmed up and we played with the hose and buckets out front, but it was too pretty to even think about getting the camera. The play structure has the kids every bit as entertained as I'd hoped. I LOVE watching them play right out my kitchen window.

We tried to come up with new rainy day activities...here we finger paint.

Another afternoon was spent building train tracks. I remember when I had the help them, now they do on their own.

We went to the children's museum with my mother in law and niece Charli

 

...And that's about it. Oh, and I read The Hunger Games. In one day. I didn't know much about it but I usually don't get into things with that much hype around them. I wasn't a Twilight or Harry Potter fan. But I LOVED it. I couldn't put it down and now I'm anxious to see the movie. Even though I haven't been to see an adult movie since before the kids were born. Truly.