Summer Fun

Here are few fun photos of Camden enjoying the last month of summer. He loves the sprinkler now that he can walk. While he will run around the sprinkler on his own, he enjoys it much more when Mommy participates (which is hard to do with a camera in tote).


Camden has two hats - one OshKosh hat and this Gap hat that I found for $.25 at a yard sale. We keep his hats hanging on his bedroom door knob. Lately, the first thing Camden will grab when we awakes in the morning is this Gap hat. The hat size is 24 mos. so it is a bit big on him. He places it well upon his head and gets the bill just right. You know he has the hat on perfectly when you can't see his big blue eyes. He walks around with his chin pointed upward so that he can see where is going. Can you picture him walking around the house and yard with this hat on?



I think he's laughing at his silly outfit. By the way, I do ensure his outfit matches when we are out and about, but when we are at home - any combination of the wardrobe goes!

Well, if you can't tell how Camden looks when toddling around, here is a snapshot of it - too funny!

Fun Weekend In the Capital

We just had another great weekend! Camden and I had the opportunity to spend time my previous co-workers. Thank you Carrie and Aidan for having us on Friday and sharing your pool. We also celebrated Aunt Allie's 23rd birthday at Red Lobster - it was so yummy. It seems like Red Lobster is "the pick" when our family celebrates birthdays. All of us love it so why not?

On Saturday I got to celebrate with Amanda (another previous co-worker) as she is about to welcome a new baby girl. While at the shower we got to see Brooke and Elizabeth too!

We spent time at the State Fair checking out all the animals and eating yummy food, but the highlight of the State Fair this year was that Uncle Miles was the tractor pull announcer. Pappy, Daddy, and Uncle Miles do share a important hobby - watching tractor pulling!

Here are a few photos of the weekend that I hope you enjoy.




Oh, I almost forgot my personal highlight of the weekend - visiting Archiver's (it is a HUGE scrapbooking store). I made several purchases and cannot wait to use my new purchases. Hopefully in the next day or two I can carve out an hour or two so that I can use my supplies. I'll be sure to share when my pages are complete.

What a Bummer........

Our life has finally slowed a bit since my busy time at work is over - at least until next quarter.

Last week I worked my normal part-time work schedule. However, my days off I spend in the kitchen canning green beans and corn. Boy, canning and freezing is hard work! Really, I do enjoy preserving the food from our garden; however, after nearly 80 bags of corn and 100 quarts of green beans along with several bags of broccoli and zucchini, jars of carrots, beats, and pickles, I'm beginning to get tired of of gardening, freezing, and canning. And, we still have tomato juice and salsa to do in a few weeks or so. We will be saving money on groceries this winter so that is a major plus!

Sorry, I digressed! As a reward for working lots of hours, my boss was generous and allowed our team to take a week off to rest and catch up on family time. So, I've been off work since last Thursday and will not return until Thursday. I certainly can handle working only one day a week on a regular basis, couldn't you?

During "my break" I have been able to catch up on some much needed play time with Camden and scrapbooking. Camden and I haven't done anything too special other then spending time together outside (his favorite place to be). We played in the water hose several times this weekend. Although the water is fridged, he thinks it is so fun to get sprayed and spray Mommy. We've take rides in the wagon, on the lawn tractor, and on his combine (breaking in for the harvest season). Today, we were BUMMED OUT as we had our laundry basket packed with a picnic lunch and we were going to meet Daddy at the park for lunch since Daddy is surveying for the next few weeks. We hoped in the car and before we made it to the park it began to storm. So, we turned around and came home and resumed with our picnic on the kitchen bar. At least Daddy was able to come home and enjoy lunch with us. I guess we'll try again next week on one of days off.

We are looking forward to playgroup tomorrow. We haven't seen our friends in a month due to working and gardening. We sure do miss them. I think Camden will have a great time this week since he now walks around on his own and he can actually follow and play with the other kids.

Did I mention that this past weekend was Scrapbook Weekend? Well, it was, and this is what I accomplished along with getting ALL my photos organized and in photo boxes so that everything is ready for scrapping!

Okay, here are the photos for this post. One of my sweet farmer boy and others of my successful scrapbook day! I'll go now before I get off onto another tangent. Plus, Camden is awaking from his nap and we have more playing to do.