Summer Catch Up

 Our first time harvesting honey! We did everything by hand, low budget. The honey is sooo delicious. We have harvested again from one hive this summer. So exciting! And we bought a small extractor. Makes an enormous difference in how long, and how messy the process takes.

 Happy Father's Day to our awesome dad!

 On the last day of school Abby spent the night. The kids convinced me to let them burn all their old school papers. I think we have created a new tradition! Noah and Jason were camping in the woods so they missed out on our fun, but had a great time on their own.

 Catching fireflies never looses it magic. At least not for me or any of the kids yet. We have spent many an evening on the front porch watching while the kids catch them this summer. I love that it doesn't hurt the fire flies at all.

 Jason couldn't come on our camping trip to the beach in July. We missed him, but had a fabulous time at the beach! The hot, humid, sticky, dirty camping part was not so great.

 Our boogie boards were literally falling apart. I let each of the kids pick out a new one. They spent almost every second from then on body surfing. So fun! We also found some beautiful shells, the assorted clams and a small starfish. Luke found it first. It looked like a tentacle from some creature, but it was a tangled up star fish. We kept it in our bucket for a bit and then put it back out in the surf. Fort Fisher beach is our new favorite. I can't believe we have never been there before!

 

4th of July 2014

 Happy Fourth of July!

 We had a great time at the Greensboro parade this year. Our expectations have definitely changed and we just enjoyed what was there. Hurricane Arthur had blown through the day before and brought temps in the 70's. It was wonderful! Grace and Sophie continued their tradition of Patriotic toe nails this year. Grace let me put a red, white and blue thing in her pony tail but I admit that I miss the days when I would dress them all up and have fancy patriotic hair things.

My favorite part of the parade is always the Revolutionary war reenactors and their drums and fifes. This dancing hot dog was a close second! Not attached to anyone else marching, just dancing her, or his, way down the road. Super awesome.

Later we went to an outdoor symphony concert and fireworks. It was fun to watch fireworks while Sousa marches were being played. Not so fun is the hour it takes to get out of the parking lot. But again, at least we knew about it this year and were prepared.