"the field"

One of my favorite things about our house sitting up on the hill and looking down onto "the field" is the pretty sunsets that we see. And when there is humidity in the air, we see that too. The whole field fills up with fog, put that with a pretty sunset, and you get quite a site, and an occasion for me to take millions of pictures.
Last night was just such a night, so here are a few of the pictures.

The girls wanted to walk into the fog, so we went down the hill into the field, we walked around in it until the sun was just about to go down and leave us in the dark. On the way back to the house I snapped this picture,
and even as I was taking it it reminded me of another picture, so I had to dig it out and scan it in. They were probably 1 and 3. Time flies, but sisters are forever.

Hopper Farm Happenings

Because I know you're dying to know, here's an update on all things growing here on Hopper Farm.
The chickens are getting big and kinda cute.



I'll have to try to get a better picture of this, but these are Asain Green beans and they are super long, like 10-12 inches. They have a really good flavor too, next year I'll plant many more of these.


regular green beans using our fence to climb up.


This baby watermelon is one of the cutest things I've ever seen, seriously, adorable.

A little bigger one.
baby pumpkin.


lots and lot of cucumbers, which have magically (ha) turned into lots of pickles. 3 gallons, lots of quarts and pints, I don't know, I lost count.

Tomatoes are so close, one is was getting orangish yesterday...
we have just a few stalks of corn, but they are coming along.
TONS of yellow squash. I told the girls just to assume from now on that everything has yellow squash in it.
Nikolas does a great job chillin in his playpen while we work in the garden. This time he just fell asleep and had a little nap outside.




Faron planted a ton of Potatoes, unfortunately it was in some really bad soil, so when he harvested them they were really small. We are still enjoying eating them but he thought it was a lot of work for some of them to be marble size, cute though.


The girls and I planted a sunflower forest and have been watching them get taller and taller, this week on finally bloomed. They are so huge and cool.

Boys

Xander and Papa like to shave together. It happens most mornings, this is just the first time I've taken pictures of it. Xander has a razor with the lid on it and he's gotten pretty good at shaving all his shaving cream off.


He very much likes this tradition and is very disappointing on days that he misses it, or if for some reason it's not a shaving day.

After a shave they take a shower. This is the first time Kole has gotten in on this boyness. He didn't get to shave, but he did get to shower.

Peeking out of the shower curtin.

Father's Day part two

Finally, father's day conclusion. We were in St. Joe. Lots more cousin play, swimming bbq etc.
Grammy had to go buy a second pool so everybody could fit. They were in and out all day.

This picture cracks me up, cause it's Isaiah going behind some bushes to take off his underwear, so that he doesn't go in the pool with it. :)

Taking a break from the water to watch a movie, and wear a flower headband.

In the evening the kids went out to catch lightning bugs. Isabella was catching them like crazy, she had a bucket full.
Xander was swinging his bucket to catch them in it, it actually worked a couple times.
He really tried to get Miah to catch or touch it, but Miah is very antibug, so he spent the whole time saying "no, a bug a bug a bug, don't touch it, a bug!"


Monday Grammy and Pop took me and the kids to the new play area at the mall. The kids got to take full advantage of Grammy and Pop's Grandparentlyness as they put quarters into the rides. With Mama, you can sit on the ride, but it ain't movin'.



Here's the new play area at the mall. Isabella and Sophia are actually too big to play on it! They are over the height limit, so I told them to be cool and make sure they weren't in the way of little kids. It wasn't very crowded so it worked out, this time.




It was a lovely weekend.