Grandpa & Grandma's House

These pictures are actually from two different trips to Grandpa & Grandma's house with two different types of weather. I love how they show some of the kids' favorite things to do while we are there including swing, hunt for geodes, tractor rides, eat on the porch, watch for the train, throw rocks in the creek, and play in their river sand.

Grace somehow talked Grandpa into taking the tractor to pick up her geode collection.

Jeremy's favorite thing to do- work in the shop.
Tractor rides.
The collection. (If you are wondering about Faith's outfit. Yes, she is wearing a pair of oversized spider man shorts. She wore a dress that day and she didn't want to get it dirty so this is what she chose out of grandma's stash of extra clothes...)

Grace, Raylee, & Faith enjoying popsicles.
Titus' first popsicle. So cold!
Playing in the sand.
Love this one it totally shows the girls' personalities. Grace totally dirty and digging in. Faith playing but staying clean.


Swinging with grandma.
The kids always love a trip to see Thomas (the train) and Grandpa & Grandma.

Our "Sharecropping" Garden

This summer our close friends, The Whetstone's, offered to let us plant some things in their garden. So, one Saturday morning I took the girls to Farm & Home with a $20 budget and let them choose plants for our garden. With some supervision they chose peppers ( several varieties), broccoli, cauliflower, cherry tomatoes, squash, zucchini, & cucumbers. We also choose a few herbs to plant in a pot for our front porch.

Grace with our basil plant.
Grace was VERY helpful and loved helping with the planting. I really enjoyed working on this with her. It is really fun now that she is interested and actually helpful!

Faith was a bit less enthusiastic about getting dirty...
Paul running the tiller for us.
Looking back I really wish we would have planted green beans and sugar snap peas...but maybe next year. I really have little knowledge of what I am doing so this was essentially like a $20 science/learning experience for the kids. Seeing these pics motivates me to take new ones as the garden is really growing! We are hoping to have some type of "Thanksgiving Dinner" at some point with veggies from the garden to help teach the kids about God's provision.

Poison Ivy

We have had our first official case of poison ivy at our house, and like anything Grace does it took over completely. Her poor face was quite itchy! But, she was quite proud of what her face looked like with the "pink" all over it.