Beach Lashes

When I took this picture, I thought of...

This picture. From our beach trip in 2009. Where you can see Rock's ridiculously long lashes.
While Lou's lashes are beautiful and impressive in length...

I think Rock still has her beat.

Summer Fellowship Portraits

Look at those good looking grandparents and their cute grandkids!
Can you guess the impromptu color theme? And did you spot more matching outfits on the girls? We have Bethany to thank for those. If only Sarah and Ron could have been with us, but she's about to have her baby boy!

Summer Fellowship House of Chaos and Fun

There's a reason Louisa is positively giddy in this picture. It was SUMMER FELLOWSHIP WEEK! And Zuni was here from London and staying in our house!!!

In fact we shared a house with the Rabenhorsts, Brockmans, Barnetts and Hathaways. It was a kid-filled house of fun for sure.

There was young love....

And lots of screaming from the two kiddies pictured here.

And there were matching outfits provided by Juju for all the young ladies.
Juju even hosted a Bingo night at our house.
And she gave away killer prizes.

At the other houses, we celebrated Copeland's birthday.

And her Uncle Greg's birthday.

And took an adorable picture or two of the Barnetts. No no no, we didn't take a picture of our family. That would be silly.
But we did take a picture of the matching outfits again.

At the close of each day, we'd go back to the house of chaos. Our Litchfield, SC home away from home.

Happy Birthday Susi!

Someone is old. But not as old as me or her older brother. But she's old. And Fix and the kids went over to celebrate her birthday with her. This is the only picture they got but at least it shows the super cool Stella & Dot necklace her mother purchased. From www.stelladot.com/rachelfix.
Happy Birthday Susi! You are old!

Port Discovery

We love the Rohals. And we love museums. So when we got the offer to go with the Rohals to Port Discovery we were ALL IN! For the record, I believe these free tickets were originally given to the Schwartz family who shared them with the Rohals who shared them with us.

Let's start with the best group shot of the day. Okay so Lynn's the only one looking at the camera. But at least you can kinda see most of the kid's faces.

Unfortunately, we Fixes couldn't stay all day, but during the few hours we had together, we enjoyed building mini log cabins...

Rolling around in giant pancakes...

Being fierce knights...
Grocery shopping...

Painting...

Driving...

Reliving my childhood with a giant Lite Brite...

and pacifiering.

And of course, Rock loved being with Adeline most of all. He's a fool for love.

Earth Box Garden

So have you heard about EarthBoxes? They are a really cool planting system that enables you to grow a ton of veggies in a small space. And considering our backyard is all concrete, we needed an option that allows you to grow plants without planting in the ground.

Did you know you could make your own 'earthbox' and save money? They are ugly, but they are awesome.

Did you know that we also have a really ugly wall in our backyard? With ugly utility boxes and trashcans, this section of our backyard has always been an eyesore.

Enter my hunky gardener. Remember him? He decided to a) make our own earthboxes and b) make a beautiful wooden structure to disguise the ugly homemade earthboxes and the ugly part of our yard. Here they are half-way done.

Once they were done, he added clematis and another climbing flowering vine (name escapes me!) to grow around the lattice and hide the trashcans.
He's so modest, he wouldn't even let his full identity be known. I refuse to reveal his name, but I will let you know that I am SO grateful for all his hard work cultivating our own mini-garden in the backyard. We plan on enjoying lots of basil, peppers, tomatoes, squash, etc. all Summer long!

Oh and in case you think the other side of the yard was neglected, it wasn't. That's where the majority of our herbs grow. I'm so glad I have a hunky gardener as I also have a black thumb.

Eating is Exhausting

Sometimes eating is exhausting. When we stepped away from the table the other day, Louisa passed out right into her peanut butter and honey sandwich.

Poor tired girl (with beautiful long lashes!).