Blessed Visit

With some of our beloved parents:-)





















That (plus slow Internet and AJ's work, plus dishes, diapers, sorting, cleaning, playing...) is what caused me to fall off the planet for a while. But at least I kept the camera handy!!

There was a gift of goggles for all the big kids, and we went to the lake and made "use" of them.

Truth is, that while at least three of my children wore them like they were going out of style, I don't believe they got very wet!






























Clay giving Grams a spin in his canoe












Pops giving the girls a spin in the paddle boat











Lina, Lina, Lina, and a water lily she couldn't put down!











































Over the last three days we went to the lake for swimming and boating, we picked berries (which included some bee-stingings for some of us), antique shopping (and in due course the buying of a hand pump, and three Aladdin lamps - woohoo!!), lunch, ice cream cones, and chocolate malts out, a used bookstore, sheet rock hung in the pantry, a cuckoo clock hung in the kitchen, coffee on the porch, pancakes with Huckleberry syrup, Watermelon, more swimming at the lake, and now after Grams and Pops have left... sleep;-)

I hope to post a bunch more photos in the days ahead just to catch up a bit. I am almost 33 weeks pregnant and feeling very excited to meet this baby! I am also bumping into everything, and spilling even more things than I can count (much to m husband's amusement). It's just the way I am pregnant. Careless I guess. Who knows.
Other than that, the Plantain is getting well used on bee stings. There's quite a variety of bees and wasps up here and it's a heavy year for them. Clay has taken the brunt of them, but not to our surprise since he goes around taking swings at them with the fly swatter. Humph!
I ran up a hill at top speed today (top speed for a pregnant lady) dragging him by the arm, and holding a pitcher of berries in the other while being chased by bee's he and his brother (who was loooong gone) had stirred up.
It was like our blood on the carpet story Courtney, I was running with all my might and with no heart at all, was shouting at him "STOP screaming! Save that for the bears!"
He survived.
I survived.
The invalids were well taken care of by their more compassionate sisters who fetched them pillows, blankets, drinks....
All while their out of breath mother was spitting out remains of chewed-up plantain leaves, and trying to find an unoccupied couch to rest upon! HA!

Anyhow, that's it for tonight because I must see if the Internet connection will oblige me before the computer battery runs out.
Love to all!!

-me