Our Squash plants love the rain and we've had a lot of rain.

Oh, the weeds love it too, we can't keep up with them.

                                       Our Tomatoes are starting to take off, Hannah and I can't wait to
                                        eat fresh garden tomatoes.  Kevin and I can't wait to can more sauce.                        

                                                 Our little crop of corn.  It's doing well so far.

The Pumpkin patch.  Avery planted the seeds herself.

                                     I Planted a tray of lettuce.  The Bunny loved it.  He ate the whole thing.
                                                      Next year I will plant some for us too.

Avery and I had a special day together.  I took her out to pizza.  She was so good and such
a big girl.  Hannah and I had also had a special day alone together a couple of weeks ago.  It's nice to spend time alone with each of them sometimes.  I wish we could do it more often.

                                                      Playing on their new sit n spin

                                           We all went strawberry picking.  It was a lot of fun.

                                        We picked enough to can a double batch of strawberry jelly.

                               

                                        Hannah and Avery went to their cousin's birthday party and

                                       Cinderella was there.  They had so much fun.  Cinderella read to them,

                                      played games, danced and sang.  All the children loved it.

                                     They even received autographs from her.

                                         We decided to make our own pinata for Avery's Birthday dinner.

                                        It came out really good.  We still have to decorate it though.

                                              

We recently attended our first Home school Field Day.  It was so much fun.  The girls loved it, I loved it!!  I never realized how competitive Hannah is.  She competed in every event except for the Pie Eating Contest.  She did great in the sack race and the 50 yard dash.  Avery competed in a few events.  The girls tried to do the 3 legged race together, but Hannah ended up dragging poor Avery.

                                             We went for ice cream after field day to celebrate.

                                             You would have thought the girls would have been 

                                        exhausted from all those events at field day.  Nope, not at all.

                                        They still played on the playground at the Ice Cream Parlour.

                                      

                                 Pictures from our most recent beach day.  Every Thursday

                               we get together with area Homeschoolers for beach/park days.

                                             

                                            Our most recent Home Economics lesson.

                    We made homemade pretzels from scratch.  Hannah did most of the work.  She is getting really good at measuring.  She knows all of the fractions.  Now if I could just teach her to be a little less messy....

                                         
                                                          Enjoying the fruits of their labor.  The first
                                          taste of fresh out of the oven pretzels.  We made sea salt
                                                          and cinnamon and sugar pretzels.

Hannah and Avery playing dress up.  Don't they make beautiful brides?

I'll end this post with a smile...............