Here a few things we've been up to this August...(what a beautiful summer we're having!)
I hesitated to post this picture just because our back yard looks like a junkyard! But all that furniture behind us is actually Hazel's new bedroom set that I need to paint (one fine day) and our grill in the background is just nasty. But we had a LOVELY dinner outside in the nice weather! I wish we would have done this more often this summer because I didn't have to worry a bit about food falling on the floor or onto the chairs or any of that typical stressful stuff. I'd love to build a larger picnic table for this patio and eat out there every night during the summer. Wouldn't that lower my blood pressure?
That same night we tossed these cuties into the tub and got some great hair shots.
I love these pics.
My little tellitubbies (sp?)
David has officially started a business in Mozambique, Africa.
That's been a big dream of his for a long time and I can't believe he's actually doing it.
His plan is to grow this business into a cold food storage transportation company in southern Africa, but he's starting with ICE CREAM. He's emulating a company in north-western Africa called FanIce, which also started with selling ice cream in the streets and has grown into a large and successful business. We're excited.
So of course he had to find the perfect/easiest/most cost efficient recipe for vanilla ice cream.
And he had a house full of willing taste testers.
Our freezer was soon full of several different flavors of vanilla ice cream, not my favorite luckily or I'd have finished them all off.
And lastly, this picture that makes me smile because I know what it took to reach this part of the evening with these girls. We had a chaotic dinner (am I the only one that struggles at mealtime??), then a crazy family night where both David and I were really fighting to keep their attention AND keep the spirit...Then we sent them outside with their family night treat and suddenly all was calm and okay in the world.
Oh, bother. I love my life.
