• Daisy was proud of her four scrapes with bandaids. • I love Teddy's bunny drawings so much. Every paper in the house is covered with them. • Daisy and Junie grew pea plants as part of our botany unit and they were wildly successful. Successful enough for them to pick 5 or 6 pea pods every few days, anyway. They tasted so sweet and good!
Sebastian did his Eagle Scout project! When the church announced the changes in Scouting, I was not at all sure Seb would want to push ahead to Eagle Scout. But he said he did! He has a few more merit badges to finish, but getting the Eagle Project done is a huge accomplishment. He did a project for the community association—planting a native plant garden near the community center. One of the master gardeners helped him choose and place the plants, but he was in charge of pulling out the old plants, tilling the ground, putting in new soil, and planting everything. (Seb loves stuff like this: last summer he re-did all the dripline and irrigation in the garden beds at our house and it was AWESOME. So this project was really perfect for him.)
We were afraid that he wouldn't have enough other Scouts come help with the project, but Abe and Malachi and Daisy and Junie and Sam all went to help, and then a bunch of Scouts showed up too, bless them, so it worked out well in the end. It was a crazy day for us with our nephew's wedding as well, so Sam and I couldn't even be there the whole time, but Seb and the scouts did a wonderful job. It was so cool to watch Seb taking charge and getting it accomplished!
Two recent fun Family Home Evenings: doing a treasure hunt Abe made for us by the lake, and putting together a puzzle. [Word to the wise: don't do a puzzle on a lazy susan. Everyone will fight over which way to turn it.]
The girls got such cute short summer haircuts. But the Sunday before that, they had me put curlers in their hair… "for the last time!" Ha ha. Of course I love their curls, but I also love their little pixies! And they're so easy!
Ziggy loooooves so much to be read to. He is, I'm sorry to say, a bit tyrannical about it. Lucky for him, when one of us gets tired of his plaintive "Eeed it? Eeed da gook?", there is usually another victim nearby. No one can resist him for long! We always think if we read him a WHOLE BUNCH of books then he will finally be happy. But when we finally have to stop, he seems just as mad as if we'd never read him anything! Hmmph! But his utter delight while the reading is happening makes it all worthwhile.
Pretty moon. Pretty temple. Pretty temple. (That last picture is verrry early in the morning, before they have turned all the temple lights on. It makes such an interesting ghostly outline!)
• Zig doing something he loves to do: push large things noisily around the kitchen floor. • Bathy people. • Ziggy and his friend Nutmeg.
We had our traditional "Longest Day of the Year" party on my brother's birthday. We went to the Hammock Park with a picnic and it was just lovely. Kind of chilly, surprisingly! Sam went back home for blankets and jackets as the sun got low. But it was so nice to be outside, swinging gently and quietly in the evening air. (I use the term "quietly" in a relative, not an absolute, manner, you understand.)
People bore uncanny resemblances to peas. In pods.
These last two pictures are of the day's two twilights: evening and morning. A beautiful day from start to finish. But, lest it all seem too idyllic, I must confess that the day ended with this:
Not an unusual end to a day, really. And…not the worst possible one. :)
You have a gift for seeing beauty. I'm glad you share it.
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