early july

 

{pretend you are reading this in july}

the boys' preschool is out during the summer, so this summer they went to cornerstone preschool two mornings a week and were home all day with a sitter on the third day.  they had a blast!  our teachers at cornerstone were great.  they loved splash days and playing in kid's town.  owen and henry were on separate playgrounds during their outside playtime and owen was a really sad fella about that.  :( 

 

summertime is always a bit challenging care wise for them, but we managed.  oh, and i forgot to mention that starting when we returned from the california trip, owen's sleep went crazy.  we have always been very fortunate {many thanks!} that he has been a GREAT sleeper.  however, those days were long gone and thus started the extremely long time it took for him to get to sleep, then waking up every hour or so, and getting up for good super early.  this continued until about two weeks ago ... i don't want to jinx anything so i will just leave it at that.  what a stage!  henry and owen share a room, and henry has been in our guest room {termed the "zeus" room for the paint color} for what seems like kind of a long time.  eek!  another reason for lack of blogging ... many nights spent working with little o ... 

 

on to pictures

another beautiful sunset and view of the house from our driveway

so coming home one evening from work, the sunflower field looked like the below ...

... and the very next morning they all popped ot and looked like this!

what a special time of the year

cotton on the right of the driveway, sunflowers on the left ... love it!

view of the yellow tips from our porch

happy fourth of july!

we were home and helping my sister move.  it was a nice day and got to see most everyone in the immediate fam  

 the boys watching the tractor {the gentleman across the street farms the cotton and sunflowers on our land} and every time the tractor headed for the fields, it was a majoy deal.

painting on the deck



 henry's masterpiece {he said this was a sailboat}

 and owen's masterpiece {he said this was a pond with ducks}

early july kicked off with the birth of three sweet babies ... our twin nephews on the 9th and our good friend the bentley's little girl on the 10th.

then we headed out of town to sarasota / siesta key to meet the perlins for our annual trip {which we missed last year}!