Good friends, and good food!!

Here is Lacey wearing the same boots that Jeff wore as a little one! Korbin wore them, Kailyn wore them, and now it's Lacey's turn. She is in love with the boots!

This is a sample of our wonderful fruit and vegetable harvest! The tiny pumpkins are called pie pumpkins. I discovered them last year at the grocery store, and it just grew out of our compost!! In the picture there are chinese eggplant (they made a wonderful eggplant parmesan with the homemade tomato sauce from the millions of roma tomatoes we're getting!  There is also plenty of cucumber, bell pepper, and basil, oregano, rosemary and chives. It's so much fun for me to go outside pick something, and cook it!! (I never appreciated that growing up!) What's in the basket with a handle is all that we picked in one evening.

Rebecca, Anna and Joel came to visit us today. The kids played as Rebecca and I sorted through my scrap fabrics and organized them into the zipper bags that came with sheets inside. (Rebecca is so clever!) Anyway, as we were working on this, I had showed her something in my craft room. Now to see anything in that room required a degree in acrobatics, the room was really really really a disaster. Not even a path. When we were later rounding up kids so that they could leave, I walked into the room, which, from the outside of the closed door I was marveling that 4 kids could fit in there in the state it was in, I opened the door, and to my shock and delight found it stunningly CLEAN! 

Because of such a thing I was very inclined to keep up the momentum after they left and turned the bed into a sort of day bed (it's the bottom of a bunk) and I love it!!!! I even hung lots of things on the walls that have been on the floor around the room, brought an extra nightstand downstairs to have a side table for a guest, and hung some dry-erase boards that were given to me so that the kids could do handwriting in a fun way. Thank you, Kailyn and Anna!!!!!