Photo Catch Up

The last couple weeks in pictures (now that I have a camera again!) . . .

Even though Claire can't read yet, she loves to look at books and so does Abram. This is not the first time I have found the two of them snuggled up looking at books together. LOVE. IT.

Zoe working away cutting pizza. Friday nights are homemade pizza nights.

Last weekend we got a small fire pit. The boys loved helping their daddy get the wood ready...

 So we could roast our first hot dogs of the summer.

The kids loved it. (We just got the brush cleared out of the back corner of our yard and are going to move the fire pit back there.)

Couldn't roast hot dogs without making smores!

We also have a garden in our back yard - which to date I have contributed all of one evening of watering  and two days of weeding to. It is really my mom's garden in our yard. Mom and Claire put in the garden awhile back. We hadn't weeded it yet, so last Monday and Tuesday mornings the kids and I weeded it.

Keeping the boys on task with weeding was quite comical!

 Claire loves being in the garden. She'll often just wander out there and check on it.

All EIGHT cousins in the pool playing last week!! SO FUN.

In the background you'll notice some major excitement (for me!) . . . my dad and brother spent most of last week here building a deck off of our kitchen. They poured the footings several weeks ago and came back last week to build it. I LOVED having my dad and brother here all week. I was sad when they left, but I am quite ecstatic to have a DECK!!!

Oh, these three boys!

Since dad and Mitch were here, we all ate dinner together last Wednesday. And even though the deck was about half done, we still wasted no time using it to eat on that night after all the kids swam.

It started raining right as everyone left for the night. Jason opened the garage door so the kids could watch the storm. Don't worry, we didn't let them stand out there under a metal umbrella very long while it was lightening. :)