Sweet Home Days: July 2013

first taste

We opened our first bottle of home brew. It tasted like real beer. Yeah! So impressed with my sweet man's adventure!

The boys put up the zip line this past weekend and boy was it fun. It is much longer than we had it in CT and on a bit of a slant so it goes fast. They were thrilled with Daddy's idea and have been having a grand time on it. (We are making our own backyard adventure camp.)

5 months

My beautiful babe is 5 months old already.

He is no longer that fragile little guy.
He is growing strong and sturdy.
He rolls over from belly to back and then back to belly.
He holds and clutches things.
He giggles a wonderful belly laugh, mostly for his brothers.
He plays peek- a- boo with you.
He raises his voice when he wants to be heard over all the commotion of two older brothers and a puppy. He blows bubbles and makes raspberry sounds.
He loves to listen to stories.
He bangs on the floor.
He knows how to get his father going already- just cry for mommy:).
He snuggles and hugs and kisses, if you don't mind the slobber.
He is the most wonderful addition to our family.

He is pure sweet love.

bottling

The next steps were taken in our home brew production. It smelled like beer and looked pretty good. Only a few more weeks before the first taste.

offline for a week

So the weather was intensely hot all last week and by nightfall we were having some pretty amazing thunder storms. Which knocked out our Internet service, and being out in the woods it took them a week to fix the problem. Therefore I was not able to blog, among other things that I use the computer for. I could have gone to the library or other place for Wi-Fi but I was content to just ride it out. I did miss posting pictures for family and friends, but otherwise it was a nice break, as I sometime find myself just searching the web for no good reason and wasting valuable time for other things.

As you can see from the pictures much was going on.

Puppy love, golf, building, toe awe, first popsicle(all water) and a first drawing.

Life is good right where we are.

fragments

odds and ends

thoughts that have crossed my mind

each one not enough for its own post

but giving you a small glimpse

into this daily life of ours

*This little man knows just how much he is loved by his big brothers*

*The big boys are playing golf and soccer this summer*

*They just finished attending a full week of adventure camp where they hiked, golfed, ice skated, kayaked, swam, surfed, and had and awesome time. I wish I could have gone.*

* I thought we had escaped the hot weather by living surrounded by trees. The house does not get too hot but being outside we are getting eaten up by bugs. So currently our days are spent playing inside, with lots of games and art activities.*

*Harkin is rolling over and over*

* My favorite time of day right now is early mornings when the tiny bug(Harkin) wakes up and likes to talk to his Mama and Daddy is the sweetest little voice*

*Wonder every day how time goes by so quickly and trying my best to enjoy every moment*

*Making our own popsicles*

*Laughing at Jax, when he gets his own dogsicle( an ice cube). He thinks they are the grandest things.*