Four Jingle Bells

My camera lens was pretty trashed so Blake being the awesome technological genius that he is, fixed my camera so now we can see pictures. Hooray!  We went strawberry picking.  Heavenly sun warmed strawberries.  Nothing like it!  We made strawberry freezer jam from them.  A wikiup that was in a Victorian house near us.  We went on a tour through it one day and it was pretty interesting.  It's neat to live in an older state.  William checking out the animals at the strawberry farm.   If you're not exhausted by naptime during the summer, then you didn't have enough fun!  We met the Pete the Cat author at the library and got our book signed.  It was pretty fun!  Brooke being hilarious at the library.  I got sick of so much dark wood in the house, especially during the winter. So, I painted the chairs and we recovered them.  So much better and brighter!  Father's Day.  We are ...

 Gorgeous sunset on the river. I just can't get enough of these sunsets! We went to a ward eagle project where we cleaned gravestones with corn cobs and took pictures for the geneology website.  It was a good experience for the kids and had them thinking about people who have lived before them.  We had to take a picture by this grave because the last name was Webster and Blake's mom is a Webster.  After the cemetery, we went to a petting zoo and park.  It was a fun and HOT day!  But we saw a bear and other cool animals.  It was fun to drive home because it was in Amish country and we saw a lot of buggies.  We also hung out at a lake afterwards and the kids loved it.  It was fun to try to keep them from falling into the water.  They had a competition to see who could throw in the biggest rock.  Enjoying a smoothie on the counter on a hot day.  This is upside down but it's a picture Hailey drew that I ...