Peaches

Savannah, Meg, and Chelsea picking peaches.
Grandma and Meg peeling peaches


This is the 3rd year now that we have benefitted from our little peach tree in our backyard. The whole family looks forward to all the bottles of "yummy peaches". I have always gone to my mom's house because she has all the stuff and helps out a lot and we make a day of it. The kids really helped this year in picking the peaches and also wanted to come to Grandma's and help bottle them. Now, we have 60 quarts of peaches in our food storage. Unfortunately that will probably only last our family about 6 months. I also have some in the freezer for shakes, peaches n' cream, and pies. YUMMY!

First day of preschool

Meg at her new preschool Taylor's tots
Meaghan and her friend Josh after their first day of preschool


It was Meaghan's first day of preschool today. It was a long morning because she goes in the afternoon and it doesn't start until 12:30. When I told her she wouldn't be going until after lunch she told me her pancake she had just eaten for breakfast could be her lunch instead then we could go already. She got herself dressed, shoes on, brushed hair, had her brand new backpack on and was waiting outside for a long time before it was finally time to walk to school. It was really cute to see all her little friends that were going to the same school walking together. Their backpacks were all about as big as them and you could just see a head and little feet running. When preschool was over Meg's teacher said "is Meg always such a great cleaner?". I had to laugh because Meaghan can't stand things to be messy and is always telling me "this place is a mess, Mom, we have to clean up." I hope she stays that way.

Liberty Park

Aubrey and cousin Katie
Kamryn and Meg selling "lemalade"
Meg and Aubrey all wet
Cousins eating ice cream


My sisters invited me to go to Liberty Park with our non-school age kids. It was so much fun. I haven't been there in years. They have a fun little place in the middle of the park called "canyons" it has several little streams that all feed into a very small pond that the kids can float boats, sticks, or whatever you have down. It was a nice day, not too hot and not very many people. I wish I would have thought about it and put my kids in their swimsuits like everyone else did but, oh well. We then went to one of the many playgrounds there which also had a place to play in water as well as swings, slides and other fun stuff. Our dad came with us so he could watch all the grandkids playing together and having fun. We then went out to lunch. It was a fun spur of the moment thing to do before the 3-4 yr old's start pre-school next week.