Dave and I took our three girls and Kali and Caroline to the beach for a very relaxing week. Despite the little afternoon showers we had plenty of sunshine. Here’s a photo Erica snapped with her iPhone of me and Dave at Cobalt restaurant for supper one night.
I will be sharing more photos this week. I certainly didn’t shoot a bunch, but the girls got some nice shots of us at various times, as well as a little photo shoot at the pool with Kali and Caroline.
Every few weeks we’re going to take photos of Caroline in Krista’s lap. I got the idea when I shot this photo of Krista during a maternity shoot.
She weighed seven pounds one ounce at birth and here she is at three weeks old at eight pounds five ounces.
My mother in law Nettie with our sweet baby Caroline. She is so in tune with what Granny is telling her!
I hope everyone has an amazing week!
Our Fourth of July was celebrated in a very traditional way, Dave, Alexa and I stayed home and barbecued, Krista, Zach, Kali, Caroline and my mother in law Nettie came over for lunch. Alexa, her friend Lauren and I made a dessert buffet together that morning. Thanks to the inspiration I found on Pinterest, it was all very easy to pull together.
Our favorite girls are spending the night while Zach and Ian are at a baseball tournament this weekend. Krista, Kali and baby Caroline had supper with us and are spending the night. How wonderful it is to have them all here with us! Sweet dreams pretty girls!
Kali went to sleep first because she has her first alter server practice at morning mass.
Sweet Caroline is still awake, a little fussy but tired and Mama is trying to get her to sleep. Here she is all bright eyed and bushy tailed! She and her big sissy have matching gown fabric and they’re just too cute!
I’m still in love with everything Jenn at Shabby Miss Jenn Designs creates and this week we have a new digital scrapbooking kit to add to our wonderful arsenal of materials. I created this sweet little layout using photos of Kali at one of our summer vacations to the beach that took place over the 4th of July 2010. I know I will be using this kit a whole lot this year!
Kali sure has grown a whole lot in the last two years! Can’t wait for our family 4th of July celebration at our home this year! I’m planning some fun for everyone of us!
Caroline is such a sweet baby girl and so very good too, she hasn’t fussed much with colic yet and is eating so good that she’s already gained over a pound in her first month! When Kris, Zach, Ian and Kali came over with her yesterday for lunch we took a few photos of her that I couldn’t wait to share. She has changed so much in just a month, she still favors both of her siblings a little bit, but looks like her own little self now.
I got a nice big batch of sweet corn from my Daddy this past week and cleaned and cooked it up. I have about four quarts of corn in the freezer!
Between one of our pecan trees and a few orange trees are two fig trees. One is a Celeste and the other is a Brown Turkey. The Celeste makes larger figs but the Brown Turkey has a higher sugar content, mixed together they make a very scrumptious batch of preserves.
Dave did a fantastic job of topping the fig trees and cleaning out the middle branches to make picking easy, my Daddy has been picking figs in our orchard for the last few weeks and he picked a nice big bowl full for me to preserve.
Added my sugar to the pot and stirred it in, it made a yummy sugary concoction that was soon to be extra delicious.
Then I stirred it all together and let it simmer on low for about an hour and a half.
As it cooked it became extra delicious smelling in our home.
It yielded about three quarts from the six pounds of figs and I put them in storage containers and stuck them into the fridge. I gave one to Davey and kept the other two. We love adding a few heaping tablespoons to our barbecue sauce mixture to give it a bit of sweetness and it always turns out fabulous. Thanks to my Daddy for picking my figs, I’m going to have to share a bit of their goodness with him!
