lots and lots

our saturday

in iPhone photos






1: after planting last weekend, we mulched our front walkway, 2: new flowers, 3: foxglove
4: daylily, 5: hydrangea, 6: montana (periwinkle)
7: off for lunch and errands, 8: yummy sandwich*, 9: curious about my yummy sandwich
10: afternoon nap, 11: grilling out, 12: winding down

*w/ brie, alfalfa sprouts, avocado, tomato, and basil pesto mayo on a puff pastry

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!

snapshots

of our long weekend

ecstatic to be starting off a long weekend

the mustang

our little squealer

fresh hydrangea blooms

itsy, bitsy spider

overgrowing spirea

mr. serious

fresh strawberries

stella

setting sun



american tradition







honoring the memory of our military servicemen

playing hard to get

pool time

interested in the pool

not so sure after all

grilling

worn out baby

participating in wordless wednesday, black and white wednesday, and wordless wednesday, but with words

signs of summer

My drinks of past years are now replaced by refreshing, but alcohol free, drink varieties.



This poor bee drowned in my lemonade.  I left my lemonade sitting on the deck and when I came back to get it, the bee was kicking his legs fighting for life. I was afraid to pour it out for fear that, if he could fly, he would sting me. Poor, poor bee - bless his heart!



The summer sunset from my porch swing - love this time of year, and really love my porch swing!



I attempted this cheese danish recipe from Life in Grace. It is super easy, and tastes amazing. Everyone should try this!  I used fresh strawberries instead of the strawberry preserves. You could put any number of things to top this and it would still be wonderful!

What are your signs of summer?

fire up + fire down

With the beautiful weather Saturday, we decided it would be the perfect weekend to fire up the fire pit for the first time and the grill for the final time for the year.  It was just cold enough for a fire but not so cold you had to get close enough to the fire to worry about the sparks burning holes in your clothes.  It was a nice change from the usual Saturday night of going out to dinner, driving around town, watching tv, having a few drinks.. etc.  We connected with nature, but not in the literal sense.


Everytime Matt stomped his feet, sparks flew from the fire, and we both yelled "fireflies" with our best Japanese accent. An imitation of the hibachi chefs at our favorite local Japanese restaurant... you know, when they shake the salt over the open flame coming out of the cone of onions they have meticulously stacked. The salt makes sparks and they say, "fireflies". If you haven't heard it, think the way Molly Shannon says "superstar" in the SNL skit.




Believe it or not, this photo was taken pretty early in the evening!



It was a fun evening!  We got to talk and interact like we normally wouldn't because there were no distractions other than making sure Mason's tail didn't swing into the fire.  We had a few close calls!  Here's to hoping Matt feels up to lighting the fire pit again before Winter hits hard!