Hot June Days and a Wedding

Oh my goodness, what happened to late Spring?  We are sweltering with August weather and 100 degree days.  This week Sawyer had his state testing, we had our last piano lesson until the end of Summer,  Phil officially finished up school with a meeting (although he will be working during the Summer), the children did a work day at my parents to earn money for fireworks, we attended a wedding, and we tackled our annual house and purging clean.

We started cleaning in the garage, pulling out items into the driveway and going through boxes.  We are just about finished with both the storage section as well as the laundry and pantry area.  Then, we will take on the rest of the house.  It is overwhelming work with messes and staging areas strewn throughout the house, the patio, and the driveway.  It is hard to downsize and I get very sentimental about our things and what we have used and needed in various seasons of life that we no longer have room for.  I have always been fairly contented with our house size (1150 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath for our family of 7) but this week, it felt small....too small.

Work day...including Glorielle not feeling well and throwing up in the car on the way over.  The children cleaned out the chicken coop and the girls did some weeding while Sawyer used the weed eater.  I was very proud of them.  They worked hard and did a good job.  So much so, that Phil and I will match the money that they made.








We picked up some blueberries this week to stock up our freezer and on the way over to the farm, we saw these beautiful flowers in bloom.  I went back in the morning to photograph them.  I was a little disappointed with the lighting.  There was a cloud cover but I had hoped to see some streaks of light across the field but the sun never came out.  













I love this little farm and someday, want to walk along the railroad tracks and photograph it properly.



We went to a wedding on Saturday.  I love weddings!  I love the joy, I love seeing the bride and groom have this special day, I love seeing family and friends gathered together, and I love remembering my own special day.  There is something so very lovely about a summer outdoors wedding.







Sis made a necklace for the bride with letters that said "Love".  She was so excited to give it to her and the bride graciously wore it with her pearls.

Wading and catching crawdads.  Unfortunately, the owners had to nix the fun because of insurance reasons.

Mother of the groom, who made all the wedding cakes.  She made ours too.



Sis really wanted to catch the bouquet.


The lady who caught it gave it to her.

And then it was time to dance.  All 3 of my girls took to the dance floor.  Evi loves dancing but her tummy hurt so she didn't do much.





And then, I bribed Sawyer with fireworks if he would get out and dance.  He danced two songs, with his sisters, on his own, and with the group.  It was so cute!  Unfortunately, all my pictures were blurry.





See the two girls behind Sawyer in the blue and turquoise?  Those are former students all grown up!

This table had chalkboard fabric so Sawyer wrote out his list of wanted fireworks.

"I am tired now."



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

New Boots

Image
Last week, was snowy and cold cold cold, then rainy.  I continued to work on getting the yard cleaned up.  I dug out the ponds and refilled the holes with dirt.  I loaded up rocks, pavers, and bricks.  I cleaned out the water features.  I collected the strawberry runners so I would have starts to plant.  I unloaded 2 loads of bark dust.  The children were a tremendous help.  They loaded an entire trailer of firewood all by themselves and then helped with another load of rocks and bricks.  I am amazed at how much there is to load and fix just in the yard alone.  It is a lot of work for the simple concept of "curb" appeal.   Waiting for the snow to melt so I can put down the bark dust. Even with two pairs of socks, my feet were freezing so I broke down and bought a pair of Muck Boots.  The funny thing is, 2 years ago, I really wanted to have a new pair of winter boots but I just couldn't justify paying so much money just to have ...
Read more

Then Came Dense Fog and the Thunderstorm

Image
Sunday, I woke up to a dense fog and smoke cover combination.  I think this is probably the densest fog I have ever been in. Before the sun came up, it was white.  Once it got lighter outside the smoke color showed through. On the porch, looking toward the swimming pool (North) but unable to see it or the goat barn or the walnut trees. On the porch, looking toward the barn, only able to see the garden before the parking area. Outside the window looking at the tree block, barely 30 feet away. I am not sure how I let Phil talk me into (trying) going to the store...but the fog was supposed to lift by 11:00 and we were scheduled to gather at the Rawie's for church and I needed ingredients to put together something for the potluck.  (We ended up having to cancel our homechurch.) Our mailbox, we couldn't see any cars, so we had to roll down the windows and listen.  I was already terrified at this point and didn't want to continue. After having to slam on his brakes multipl...
Read more

More Hats

Image
The Etsy shop is still a work in progress and unfortunately the name Over the Top is already taken.  I have been tossing around the names Tip Top and Whimsy.  I managed to get 7 hats made during the month of November.  I have a couple that I can put on Etsy when we are ready to list them and several Christmas hats made for the children.  I have been timing how long it takes me to make a hat and I am surprised (and not in a good way LOL) at the number of hours I spend.  A baby hat takes over 5-6 hours, a child's hat takes about 7-8 hours, and an adult hat 10 plus hours.  It takes even longer if I decide to tear out the stitching because it isn't looking the way I had imagined.  The more yarn variety I use, the longer it takes me to weave in the ends.  I usually spend over an hour just with a tapestry needle making all the ends secure.  Minimum wage plus materials puts the hats in the 50-80 dollar range.  Yikes!  I would never pay th...
Read more