5:00

It's 5:00 in the evening and this is what the boy is doing. His sister isn't far behind him. I guess a week of swimming all day will do that to you. I don't have the heart to wake him up.

I know his eyes look open. He, like my cousin sleeps with his eyes open when he is really tired.

Amusing Time Had By All

We went to an amusement park with some good friends. The kids and I had a great time.




My boy and my friend's girl are daredevils. They kept their hands up the entire time! As soon as they got off they both yelled...awesome and got back in line. They rode the big roller coaster about 10 times.




My girl went on once, which was very brave of her. She doesn't like roller coasters. She doesn't get that from me, or her Grandma D. As you can see from my girl's very first roller coaster ride. It was with Grandma D when my girl was two. The look on each of their faces is priceless. One of joy and the other of apprehension. It is funny, as the girl loves to be scared. I guess just not on roller coasters.

The end of a fun day at the amusement park.

Swim Party

A beautiful summer day and friends to share it with. The girl and boy swam all day with some out of town friends and some local friends. It was a perfect day for swimming and the kids had a blast. I remember swimming with my friends and how much fun we had. I am glad all of the kids experience a day of doing nothing but swimming and hanging out with friends. They are all now very tired and should sleep great.

Garden Pictures

The girl took over blogging duties today. She took some pictures of the flowers, fruits and vegetables in the backyard, with her camera. Hopefully, we will get our peaches canned tonight. That is, if I can keep hubby from eating half a dozen a day.

Shasta strawberries. Small but sweet.

White eggplant blossoms.

Purple onions that are looking more like scallions. This my first time planting onions. I didn't know you had to separate each bulb. They taste like a shallot.

Dragon Tongue purple and yellow beans. These are even tastier than regular shelled beans.

Peaches...yum.

Baking Fool

Since it is in the 90's, I thought now would be an excellent time to fire up the oven and bake. This way I get the entire house nice and toasty.

I wanted to bake something for all of the teachers and administrators that took care of the girl when she split her forehead open (which is healing nicely). I made two banana breads, cinnamon-blueberry muffins and two loaves of zucchini bread from the neighbors zucchini. My cousin came over for lunch and she was the guinea pig...I mean official taste tester on the zucchini bread. It was a new recipe. It came out a little denser than I like, so I don't think I will use this one again.

Seven

Seven stitches.  You might think that is bad, but you should see the door frame!  What a hard head.   What a tuffy getting the stitches too.

Happy Fourth of July

We hope you are all enjoying celebrating America's Birthday (as the kids call it). We are off to spend the day with cousins and see some "firepops", as the boy used to call them.