Raspberries

 A little dirt from helping me pick the berries and then a little watermelon an PBJ for lunch to top of the mess. She is the one who gets the most baths in this house so you'd think she would be the cleanest. 

 I GOT IT...she has this little squinty eyed smile that she will do every now and then that makes me laugh, since it's intentional, love her.

 The character those little chompers give her ...cracks me up

Game of peekaboo

Next time I will have to pick them at nap time so I can freeze them....now you can see why they don't last!

The Wall

I'm not talking about the wall runners hit in races, I'm talking about the ugly one that I just couldn't stand. Luckily paint is paint and nothing structural so here is the progress from stripes to stripes.
(I know I painted over stripes to replace them with stripes but you'll see)

 Perhaps if it was 50 shades of grey that would be better

 Just reminded me of camo prison design

 The part that really got me was I would see it everytime I walked by the stairway and really wanted something more subtle. So I took the leftover paint can from the rest of the walls and got a dilutted version at 50% and painted the whole wall that color. I thought they might have mixed it wrong because with the lighting the wall to the right is supposed to be the darker color but it looked the same.
So I did a finger swipe of the paint and put it on top of the color I had just done and it would look great. I didn't want it white vs color so I WAS excited!!

Now what to put on the wall ???? Black and white frame collages? White table with big metal artwork?? 

Ice Cream and Berries

 Idaho has some of the best skies I have ever seen. They are simply majestic.

 And our raspberry patch, they are the best, they take up space look pretty and green and give us sweet treats. They make little drumsticks which are the perfect size for the little ones. Lily likes them lots.

We have gotten a sandwich filled ziplock bag of berries every week but unfortunately we eat them so fast that we wont be doing any jam this year.

Orange Lilies

 When you buy a house from a previous owner sometimes there are things you don't like or would have done differently. The backyard has been our summer project with the rocks, garden and such
But when these lilies came up I was so glad the other owners has chosen them. The orange with the purple looks so good and I love being outside to enjoy them

and I remember to always....consider the lilies :)

Don't fence me in :)

The time had come for a fence.We are not that interested in the 'open' lifestyle and I wanted to limit the chance of the girls wondering into the street. We have been putting most of our efforts into the yard while the weather is nice and tackling the weeds. We cleaned up all the garden area and by the tamp and got a new hot color cover for it and have been wheelborrowing 9cuft of gravel looking much better :)

Weekend vaca

 IT was hot so we headed to the splash pad so get our wiggles out

Our little sunbeams

All born the same year

A side note, Noah was born the day I found out I was pregnant.

And we're done :)

Father's Day

 Started the morning off with personalized pancakes for breakfast and then took a nice nap after church.

This dad loves pizza!!! So we whipped up homemade pizza and a fruit pizza( think big sugar cookie)

And lily helped :)