We are SO glad the summer heat & humidity finally seem to be over. Now we're trying to spend every spare second outside enjoying this cool weather! We had twelve whole trees at our last house in Mechanicsville, and we thought that was a lot of raking, but we hadn't seen nothin yet. Our new house has about five million trees, and all six of us have a part-time weekend job of leaf removal for the next few weekends. At least it's a fun job, and it involves burning stuff. Yes, we discovered the joys of a burn-barrel and we now have one proudly sitting in our front yard like every redneck family should.
We're taking it easy this week, trying to get well from colds. Charis has a couple of fun field trips coming up, including the Richmond Symphony Orchestra and a trip to Jamestown to tour an archeological dig & museum!
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| Bethy's new happy place: the turtle sand box. |
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| Raking like a big man. |
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| They've never seen so many leaves! |
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| This outfit is so Hannie |
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| Monkey girl! |
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| We had the children do all the raking... |
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| Tired, Bethy? |
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| "Mom, can we please stop raking?" |
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| Doing fine, children. Keep up the good work. |
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| We'll just stand here and supervise and drink warm beverages. ;) |
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| We can't forget about this ol' boy every now and then. |
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| Sally sent this pic of Sus and John. I couldn't resist! |
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| Sipping hot chocolate with Daddy while Mommy shopped for groceries. 75% of the ceramic mugs survived. |
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| AARRRGH! |
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| We had to be outside on Friday! |
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| Cracker Barrel dinner after some serious yard work. |
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| His cheeks smelled like biscuits all evening... I could have smooched them forever! |
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| Dinner dates :) |
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| Our play room is FREEZING on these chilly mornings! |
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| She wasn't tired at all this particular day. She didn't need to go down for a nap. This is what I found when I checked on them in the playroom! |
