Long Time No Write

Sorry - been a bit busy, not really with anything terribly important, just a lot of summertime stuff. We took a quick weekend trip to Beanbah's and went to Holiday World. We had a fabulous time there - and discovered Alex really doesn't like water parks or fast rides. He loves things like the carosel and the bumper boats. Avril on the other hand is the free-spirit daredevil. It was pretty cute to see them play around on everything but I completely forgot the camera. And it was nice to see everyone again - thanks to Beanbah for hemming my pants. They're perfect!
We've set up a small pool on the patio and the kids are loving it - we refill it about once a week and keep it clean with a spatter screen and a drop of bleach. They play in that for about an hour each evening before the "bitey buggies" come out. lol.


Abby came over to play for the day earlier this week - she is such a sweetie.


Alex went fishing with daddy and actually caught something!

We also went miniature golfing, and he's actually pretty good!


You can definitely tell he's turning into a big kid now. There are always those points between newborn and baby, baby and toddler, toddler and preschooler, and preschooler and big kid. Someday in the future we'll watch him go from big kid to preteen; I'm definitely not looking forward to that one.
Our garden is coming along alright - Frank has some nice corn, tomatoes, peppers and cabbage coming up. My blueberry bush is doing nicely and already has edible berries. I'm not sure that the strawberries are going to fruit this year, but they're filling out nicely and should berry well next year.
The raspberries I've transplanted from Beanbah's aren't looking so well, but I'm holding out hope they'll recover and grow better next year. Avril loves to water the garden. This morning she wouldn't quit; she just kept saying "They're so sad and thirsty!" I think the sunflowers might be a bit drowned. I had to tell her they were very happy to get her to stop. lol.