Funny "Hat"

There must be something about pull-ups that makes kids like them as "hats".  I remember Kylie wearing one around for fun years ago (somewhere there are the pictures to prove it too!).  She wore hers perched on the top of her head, whilst Shea prefers the helmet-style.

The Birthday

A great day was had by our birthday boy!  Breakfast at The Property, home for swimming with Daddy, cake (as specified:  a layer cake with butterscotch and chocolate frostings), terrific presents, ending with playtime outside with his new toys (he finally got the remote control car he's been anting for two years!).  Happy Birthday Shea!

Birthday Boy

Happy Number Six Shea!  You are a delight!

Fourth of July Super Hero

Shea's Alphabet

So Sweet

Back to the Garden

Wynn and Shea worked long and hard with Brian loading dirt from the driveway into wheelbarrows and filling the raised beds in the backyard.  I have the lovely picture of Brian and Shea side-by-side pushing their full wheelbarrows along the side of the house while talking to each other, but it is only in my mind!  I did manage to get outside to snap these shots of Wynn.  He would go by himself to the driveway, use the small shovel we have (a gardener's spade from Wal-Mart which is so sturdy and sized perfectly for the kids), fill the wheelbarrow and push it himself to the backyard to dump it.  He repeated this over and over, happily working the days away!

Painting

Wynn did some free-style painting of his own...

Happy Fourth of July

Happy Fourth of July! 

Kylie and Shea decided to paint their own flags to celebrate!

Brian put a lot of work and love into building our new garden beds.  They are growing slowly and we are watering more with the heat.  The kids are so thrilled to watch everything blossom and turn into something edible! 

our first watermelon

tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and herbs

garden from the edge of our yard flanked with potted fig and persimmon trees

Wynn is so interested in everything and is always asking me what each plant is.