Grandma's pie and peony

                                               Grandma's pie was delicious!

                                                    Grandma grows beautiful flowers!

Clean hair

It's not every day the girls get a hair washing, in fact, two or three weeks may go by between proper hair washings.  I thought the girl's eyes were interesting in this picture. 

Memorial Day

Since Steve had the day off for Memorial Day we decided to go kayaking.  What a blessing to be able to go just two blocks away.  Despite the proximity, it is still a monumental effort to get everything packed and unpacked.  We weren't gone longer than two hours though because of the heat.

Quilting

I've discovered a new store called Tuesday Morning near our home.  They had some great deals on these squares.  It limits the options for quilting but when you are beginning that is actually a good thing since the possibilities are endless.  My three older ones have been very enthusiastic about this so long as they don't have to take out any seams.  Actually, I feel the same way, so long as I don't make any mistakes, sewing is great fun.

Painting

On Mondays we are getting together with a group of friends to quilt, a total of eight kids are learning to use the machine, do color combinations, piecing and having fun together.  I was too busy during the quilting to take any pictures but I will try to remember on another week.
Here we are painting the tipi we made out of old sheets from goodwill.

Water Play

Water makes the hot weather more enjoyable.  Some friends came over to share in the fun.  Playing in sand is also so much more fun when you add water.
You can see the tipi in the background.  We painted that later in the week.

Drums

I don't know what prompted the kids to take out the pans and 'play' on them.  They've done it every morning for the last three days.  It is such great fun but I do hope it wears off soon or we are going to have to allow only the youngest two to play them, otherwise it gets too loud.
Today was the first day of summer vacation.  I have a whole list of activities for the summer but I think we will not start that quite yet, sometimes it's good to just relax.  They actually slept in till 6:30 but my internal clock still woke me up at 6.  I enjoyed a half hour of quiet in the morning.