summer is...

  We've been enjoying our sunny days at much as possible. It was actually really gloomy and sprinkly today but it gave me a much needed change to work on our garden (which is mostly containers this year), I just camped out under the carport and potted tomatoes, peppers, mint, catnip, cucumbers, and many more tomatoes... We had to go all over town to three different places before I actually found some decent looking ones. No sungolds though, oh well, next year for sure.

   Making so much sun tea. Mostly green and white ones.

 Date night, fancy (strong!) margaritas and many salsas at senor moose.

 Love these faces. Makes me so happy when we aren't on a schedule and can just hang out and be together.

 A "shandy" is beer and lemonade. Sometime I add a little hot sauce, a salted rim is good too!

 best ever gluten free biscuits. We'll be making more for dinner tomorrow. I will hopefully have a fresh batch of strawberry jam (berry picking tomorrow!)...

 the tiniest pool. She loves it.

 Real beach, I really sunburned my legs and tops of feet, ouch. We just stopped by unexpectedly and I only had a little tube of sunblock for the kids. It was worth it. Thankfully I had a paper parasol so my face, shoulders and arms were spared.

  Looks like we may be getting a new kitty in our family. We'll see, Papa is sleeping on it... cross your fingers. xo m

wind, water, sand...

  I haven't been blogging in some time.  This fall and winter have been so full of numerous colds and illnesses working their way through myself and the children. Luckily Papa seems immune (crossing fingers) to our germs but gosh, I've been feeling awful, rundown and then just tired. When we are all well at the same time we've been enjoying morning bike rides down to the beach. The last time we went there was a family cooking breakfast at one of the fire pits, sounds like a good idea-sometime soon!

 It was unusually cold this morning and then the sun came out. It seemed like the first sunbreak in weeks.  The light was looking so lovely as it poured into the kitchen this afternoon.
  now, to bed early for me...