Summer

 Hazel eating leftover watermelon.

 I got this out for Edison to play in now that he's big enough and I think it was all a little overwhelming for him!

 Sometimes my day starts like this. I knew this summer would probably be one of the hardest since I have all four children home with me. I'd say the hardest part is the constant cleaning, cleaning, and cleaning up. But the rest has been pretty good so I'm counting my blessings.

 The girls and I studied the letter M for mountains. And boy do we have great access to those! At Mount Ogden park, there's a little stream where I showed them the little water hoppers that I always believed were minnows! Later I found out that minnows are a type of fish....whoops.

 I decided to start taking the girls on a weekly field trip these last few weeks of summer and visit the places that I love around Ogden. For the Letter N, we visited the Nature Center and spend some time with these beautiful birds.

 Coming up on four months.

 The girls put this together while I was chatting with a neighbor.

 Fighting over the boy.

 At the Nature Center, I got one small gift for each of the girls and Hazel picked a peacock feather. I showed her how to make it into a pen (a small business idea I had when I was seven).

 Helping mom shuck corn.

 Best picture ever! I love this. She was sliding down a slide at our favorite park and the static made her hair stick out. Pure happiness right here.

 Hazel kept trying to get her hair to do the same.

 Eating green beans from the garden.

 

Another one of my favorite things in Ogden is the weekly Farmer's Market in the summertime. Hazel got dressed up for it this time (sometimes you just have to let them be themselves with their own fashion sense...)

 

Our favorite horse. He can dance and "talk" and is always fun to visit.