Isla

Severin and Lisa had their second child - Isla.
Thankfully everything went well with both mother and child.
she is absolutely beautiful and last week we got to go up to NY to meet her...

Isla and her Dad

proud Uncle Caleb

nearly all the cousins - we missed you June

proud big brother Rowan !

 the 2 youngsters playing and looking at Dorthy - the 12 year old goldfish , make that silver fish.

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 We all went to the play ground and had some fun. the girls were great hanging with Rowan and they all played really well together. Yay - go cousins!

 
 They each got to hold Isla - much to their delight. 
Isla is already rocking a great look with that fantastic hair! 

Busy Busy

We have been pretty busy of late

With home school...

With co-op...

 Kate made this blanket at co-op

 we went on a field trip with co-op to the post office, the girls loved getting in the delivery truck!

watching Hudeni (our last surviving guinea foul) poop all over the deck kept us busy - well chasing him off anyway...

 I had a show in Hyattsville so really busy with carving as much as I could to get ready for the event - which it did go really well. Hopefully next week at the apple scrapple will go well too. Busy the next few weeks getting ready for that.

It's enough to tire out any cool princess!

Family

I am a little late with these but here they are anyway...

I have taken some snap shots of Pop Pop with the girls, about time I added them, they absolutely love him and enjoy his company and obviously very comfortable on his lap...

Kirsten and June were here for a visit over the summer and here are a few shots of the fun times.

Some summer firsts

One major first is Jaylee is now a big girl in underwear! so it is really a last and not a first but hey its a biggie!
here is my big girl drawing a picture but that same proud face goes for the potty too! high 5!

first time successfully growing a sunflower -  but its the sunflower that would not stop growing and turned into this...

First time the girls slept in a tent - was a success, they had fun and actually slept the whole night through...

here you can see Kate is still sleeping in the morning mist - so sweet!

The girls had swimming lessons this year too - Kate was jumping in and swimming for the first time - one proud Mama! Jaylee and Anna had lessons with Grandpa and I in the water with them while Kate was by herself.

Thank you Grandpa for helping all week - the girls really enjoyed it and I could not have done it without you!

We just got our first sheep - yay, so excited!

some summer fun

enjoying the deck and just being outside!

 Water hose on the slide is always a must when it comes to the new swing set/tree house, it was a lot of fun and they just went so fast - did this a few times during the summer!

 Helping paint my walls is always fun, but with all that paint and with birthdays coming up it means painting cards too!

This summer we have had a lot of rain, so rain + warm + puddles = lots of fun, the best part being joining them with a game of soccer in the puddles - who says you get too old for some things?...

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Opa and Oma

 Some photos of Opa and Oma with the kids... feeling the love :) <3 nbsp="" p="">In front of the very cool bookshelf that Opa made for me...