Not even close to all the things, but some things.

Behold a photo dump of happenings here: 

Grandma Lynda spent two glorious weeks here playing with us. It was wonderful and I cried when she left. We took adventures to museums, parks, treats, Monte Ne, the pool and enjoyed every minute of her visit. Soren particularly loved playing with Grandma as shown above with his sticker covered legs. I was really sick the first week she was here and took full advantage of grandma's presence by remaining as slothful as possible. I slept in, napped, and went to bed early every day that she was here and the effects were amazing. 

We picked up Gaby for a date with Corbin on Monday, while Reese and Q went to a birthday party. 

It's Thursday and there is still a significant amount of residual face paint on Quincy. That might be an indication of how well these kids are enjoying my lazy summer parenting. It will wash off when we hit the pool tomorrow, right? ;) 

The garden was neglected for like a month but it has miraculously survived. I never got around to staking or caging up my 20 tomato plants but they're doing just fine all sprawled out and spilling over the garden bed like cucumber vines (which ironically did get staked up to a trellis) I took a count-at-glance and got to 150 beautiful plump tomatoes in just one of the boxes. It's going to be a good year, I can feel it. I picked the first two last night.  Hopefully enough will be ripe by next Thursday to take my traditional baguettes and tomatoes with fresh mozzarella with basil and balsamic vinegar to the RS pool party. 

One sad discovery about the garden this year has been that what I thought were butternut seeds were actually more crookneck yellow squash. I need to muster up the energy to rip out the broccoli, spinach and green beans that are done and plant a fall butternut crop so we can get our favorite soup on next winter. 

We discovered these tiny beauties in my hanging fern. Room for four more on the Ft Willy porch! 

My beautiful grandmother, Myrtle Tenney passed early Tuesday morning. I am full of relief and happiness for her. She was the greatest woman and a perfect example of showing gratitude in all things and a constant giver of unconditional love. She was a truly amazing and inspiring woman and I loved her so so much. Soren and I fly out this weekend to Tucson and then will drive down to Lordsburg, New Mexico for her funeral and burial. I so wished to be able to take all the children with me to this little town where my many ancestors are all laid to rest. The Virden cemetery is full of some incredible Hatches and Tenneys. I would love to show my Corbin Mac where his great uncle Mack and namesake is buried. I want to show my daughters the tiny school and adobe homes and dessert where my mother and grandparents spent their childhoods. I'm looking forward to seeing my great Auntie June, and honor my Auntie Ruth who died not long before my grandma. Both of my sisters, both brothers, all of my aunts and uncles, and all 21 of my cousins will be together in one place, even if it's only for a few hours, it will be fantastic. I have a pretty great family. We'll still be missing several spouses, but it will be the first time in 7 years that all of my parents children will have been together. I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone and telling fun stories.