My mom was here all week and we spent the day doing school, the afternoons playing/working outside, and the evenings going to rehearsals or hanging out at home. We had popcorn parties and Mama read Nancy Drew to the kids and tucked them in. We had beautiful sunny weather with highs in the 70's and lows in the 50's. No more humidity or summer showers so it's definitely feeling like fall around here.
Monday: I get so much joy out of harvesting our garden and preserving it. It's stupid to take pictures every time I pick but it feels so good I guess I just want to preserve the memory.
First year growing okra and we're really enjoying it. It was super easy to grow- just threw some seeds in the ground- and it's fun because it grows fast and tall.
Cut off the tops and bottoms.
And put it in a bag for the freezer to have okra all winter.
Or fry it up in a little butter.
First the kids were only eating a little bit but now I have to fry several batches, go out and pick more, and fry a final batch as the kids keep asking for more.
Cutting up cucumbers for the freezer also. I love adding these to smoothies all winter.
Thursday: Sam and Andy making an outdoor pizza oven.
They gathered a bunch of bricks left here from the Sloops and planned it out themselves.
Meanwhile, I was making sourdough bread for dinner.
Anderson was asking questions about oak trees and acorns so we went on a hunt around the property and took pictures and collected leaves and acorns of several different varieties so that we could identify them. It was so much fun! Wish my dad were here because he would have loved helping us.
We also saw a type of caterpillar I wasn't familiar with Andy wanted a picture of.
And an ugly yellow and black spider. (Sorry my camera didn't focus.)
My granola bars became a checkerboard.
Friday: Talea wanted a photo shoot of herself. She would make a good model because she's always telling me what she wants to do in the picture and where I should stand to take it. "Then one more with me looking this way." :) She's so cute.
Makenna taking the weeds we pulled over to the huge compost pile. It looked like she had a whole weed outfit on or was a weed monster walking around like that.
I propagated a lot of blackberries. Hopefully they work! Last year they did so I'm excited to one day have several rows of delicious blackberries instead of just 1/2 a row.
Samuel weeding the asparagus patch.
Saturday: Mom, Lori and I went to the Raleigh Temple. Every year in mid September my mom and all of my siblings and some of the grandkids go to the temple in honor of my dad's passing on Sept 20, 2016. We're spread all over: Bulgaria (Trish), Virginia (me), North Carolina (Lori just moved there last week!), Illinois (Madalyn), Minnesota (Brady & Tami), Wyoming (Ben & Janet), Idaho (Misty), and California (Mama plus now 2 elders: Chase and Spencer.) Usually we all go alone so it was special to have Mom and Lori join me.
Afterward we dropped Mom off at the airport and she gave us $20 to go out for a sisters lunch, which we did. It was so fun. Still can't grasp that Lori lives only 2 hours away from me. I've never gotten to live this close to any of my sisters before.
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