Aug 29
Well, we've had a busy weekend!
Sorry I haven't written for a couple weeks. It's been a busy time for our family. Last weekend we went to two weddings (one in Nebraska), and then in the past week we had two funerals. And we found out that my brother got a job in Idaho and he and his family will be moving in the next couple of weeks. And it seems like all the daily-life kinds of things have converged on us in the past couple of weeks. All this has left my body run ragged and in a lot of pain.
But back to yesterday's activities.
In the morning we had the Library Pool Party! It was actually a little chilly for swimming (70 degrees), but we had fun. We especially loved the Lazy River.
Yesterday afternoon, we had a birthday party/picnic for my nephew Bridger's first birthday. It was beautiful weather, and a really fun time with family. Nora played in nature a lot:
Family:
Nora and Bridger, cousins and BFF's:
The birthday boy, man of the hour:
Nora got fed up with pictures and seized an opportunity to escape:
When we got home, Nora had a bath and went to bed, and then Mark went to play poker with a bunch of friends. While he was gone, I pulled out the sewing machine and did some mending, and then made a big batch of soup to freeze, washed the veggies I had picked earlier, and cleaned the kitchen and then went to bed.
Whew! Big day!
Today was busy too, but more on that later. I'm going to sleep early tonight! :)
Aug 8
This afternoon, Mark had some baseboard projects he really wanted to work on, but they're things which require Nora to be elsewhere. So Nora and I braved the heat index of 110 and put on swim suits for some backyard sprinkler fun. We ended up playing out there for an hour and a half, which let Mark make serious headway on his projects. Nora had so much fun! We played in the sprinkler, played on the slide, did the sandbox, picked a few veggies, and took a bunch of pictures. Enjoy!
Sprinkler: First she was shy of it, then we caught water in the bucket, then we started drinking from the sprinkler and running through it.
Garden: Nora "helped" me pick some cucumbers (and then she hid some of them in the grass). Also, here's a picture of my biggest watermelon. And then here's my Roma tomato plant. I got it for free in early July, when it was "too late" to plant them, so I figured I had nothing to lose by trying them. I found a couple little green tomatoes on there today, so it looks like it'll pay off, if even just a little bit. :)
Berry patch: I had just about given up on the berry patch, because we planted so late and the rabbits were so bad. They ate the blackberry bush almost all the way down, but it looks like it'll pull through after all! And the strawberries finally came up, and they're going crazy! You can see the tiny green berries in the close-up.
General playing: Just some fun pictures of Nora. Trying to eat a rock (I took this while simultaneously saying "NO!" and grabbing her arm), picking flowers to give me, and just looking super adorable.
Aug 6
While I was making supper tonight, Nora and Daddy watched a little Sesame Street. Cutest. Ever.
We reached that point today. The point where the pain of Mom and Dad's headaches and body aches is exceeded only by the horrible, raging cabin fever of a 1 1/2 year old. As much as we wanted to sprawl out on the couch and veg out in front of the TV, we had to get out. So out we got. We loaded Nora up in her "bike" (Burley bike trailer, actually), put on our helmets, and biked on over to the nearby Meeker Elementary School playground and unleashed the girl. Or, rather, assisted her in playing on the equipment, and took pictures.
