Our weekend strolled by at a much more relaxed pace in comparison to many of the previous summer weekends. Not too much on the agenda - just a couple social commitments with friends, some blueberry picking with my girl, a little cleaning, a little chilling out and a little reading.
I baked some blueberry bars on Saturday during nap time to take with us to dinner at a friends house that evening. Our friends Tim & Angie and their adorable daughter Addyson invited us over for a delicious meal and we had so much fun!
When we arrived,
Addyson had her little pool ready along with some water balloons for playing. But very shortly, a big storm blew in and we never even got to put our swimsuits on. So instead, we hung out in
Addyson's super cute play room.
She is the one that set up this little photo session, by the way, and I love that she poses! :)
Addyson was born in March of 2008, so she and Will are about nine months apart.
They were either jumping or dancing... can't remember. :)
Another view of the play room.
Genius! Pull up a chair to the stove while cooking... Why didn't I think of that?
Addyson rocking her baby that I just swaddled for her.
Will played with the Melissa & Doug ice cream set for most of the evening.
Check out
Addyson's room! So pretty. I helped the kids "play library" with
Addyson's books. We requested pretend library cards, scanned bar codes and said "beep!" and then took turns playing librarian.
Downstairs, while Craig and Tim discussed some remodeling plans in Tim's kitchen,
Addyson & Sophie pretended to cuddle up for bedtime.
Addyson has lots of super soft blankets!
I love Sophie's eyes in this picture. :)
Thank you, Mann family, for having us!
On Sunday morning, we tried some new blueberry pancakes, I put away a bunch of clean laundry (a never ending process), and Will asked if he could help me clean a little.
Umm... yes, please! He dusted and
vacuumed several parts of the first floor. Unfortunately, the
vacuum was lifted up in the front most of the time that he was pushing it, so I ended up having to go over most of it later, but I still appreciated his efforts. I need to involve my kids in daily house chores more often.
Will asked to take "just one picture, please!" using my camera. He's getting better at centering his subject. This is what he took:
Sunday morning after nap, we met up with more friends to give some little people a tour of the
Riedeman farm. My sister's co-worker, Kelly, has a little boy just a few months younger than Will who is infatuated with tractors/heavy machinery and farm stuff right now. I've gotten to know Kelly's adorable
fam through blogging and a few meet-ups and we thought it would be fun to let the kids check out the farm, see some animals and take a tractor ride with Craig.
The kids were all playing on this trailer like it was their stage or something and Casey asked if we could get a group pic with their legs dangling and smiling... All three of us moms kind of laughed like "ya, right!", but we
did get a few decent ones.
Love this one of Stella &
Soph.
Will & Brody... future farmers?
Will is so used to being surrounded by girls that "Ring Around the Rosy" is just as common place as, say, smashing cars or playing with bugs.
"We all fall down!"
Jumping, marching and dancing.
Leaves are like a canopy to all the ripe fruit hiding beneath. Love this pic with the sunlight shining through.
Can see a bunch of green buds just waiting to ripen in this heat and rain.
Happiness.
Hello, goat. :)
Steve (farm owner) insisted I try a little, yellow plum after I asked if they tasted different than purple ones. He pulled and washed one for me right there in the store. Delicious. Took home a pint container of these babies too. About eight small plums.
Only about a week left of blueberries. Definitely want to go back!
Only about a week left of blueberries. Definitely want to go back!
