this past month has been pretty awesome. combine a family reunion, wedding, and football in the rain and you get a pretty fun time. we had the most amazing rain storm a few weeks ago! we were actually on our way out the door to go swimming and within minutes a HUGE storm moved in. we had tons of thunder and lightning all night and since we didn't get to go swimming, we decided to get wet anyways.

success! . . . auger likes broccoli :)

thomas brought in a few loads of gravel just before the wedding so we could make the swingset area look nice. only one problem, we couldnt get the truck inside the cement square without breaking anything. so we had to dump it outside of the area and use buckets and a small tractor and the four wheeler to move it all in.

skyler and lisa's wedding turned out wonderful of course. here are a few candids from the parties

my two boys looked really nice in blue :)

wow this past month has been crazy! thomas and i had my whole family up for the week of the fourth of july. we had nine people staying in our little teeny three bedroom house. needless to say, we all got very close and personal for awhile. we were sad to see them leave, then shortly after, greg and adena had to go back to california. man we are sure gonna miss them too. speaking of leaving . . drew and ariel are packing up as we speak! they leave today at eleven. jolyn is also gone to cali, along with terry and elaine still in seattle so we are getting pretty lonely up here in royal city lol.
auger is still just growing. his 18 month clothes are starting to get snug haha. he took his first steps last week. we have seen him take up to six steps so far but he is not real interested in walking cuz he can crawl too dang fast! we have to coax and bribe him pretty good. this morning his top tooth finally finally broke through. i thought it would never come! he also says dada quite well now and occasionally says mama but who really knows if he means it or not right? lol
thomas and i are staying at terry and elaine's for awhile. we get word on friday hopefully when they will be coming home. living in a big air conditioned house with tv, internet, and five extra people is a bit of a change for us ha ha. but we have loved it. hope the kids dont get too sick of us. chase and connor brought home some fresh crab the other day. we cooked it up for drew mostly lol. i had never had it but it was pretty dang good. auger didn't agree with me on that though.
i have to do a garden update lol. my squash is on finally! my lettuce went to seed cuz i never eat salad unfortunately. my basil is going crazy. my tomatoes are huge! but none of them are quite ready yet. everything else seems happy enough but that is all that is producing so far.
auger is definitely turning into a little farmer. tractors are his favorite thing besides his daddy haha. he rides with thomas all the time and pushes his little toy tractors everywhere

we went to seattle last weekend with drew and ariel. we went to the red sox vs mariners game and thomas almost caught a foul ball! it seriously landed like three feet from me. i was like "thomas why didn't you shove me out of the way and catch the ball?!?!" he said he didn't actually think it was that close to us, it was too good to be true lol. then the kid in front of us that ended up with it sat and looked at it the whole time so thomas was dying lol. oh well maybe next year. we went to pike place market with drew and ariel the next day and discovered the gum wall. it was amazing ha ha.

thomas' hair before i cut it. sorry i didn't get an after shot lol but man it was pretty long before.

we had to cut augers hair too. it was just too long on the sides and in the back. i had to constantly tuck it behind his ears so i decided no more!but we just ended up cutting the sides not the top.

this was before his hair cut. you can see how long the sides were

once again these pictures got loaded in reverse order, so look at them from bottom to top if you want them in chronological order. augers update: he is growing like a weed! he is 9.5 months old now and wearing 18 month clothes. he is a crazy fast crawler and he cruizes around everthing he can hold onto. he is getting tan and his hair is bleaching out. we feed him just about everthing now, and just recently he decided that he no longer wants two naps.
thomas is just working away. everything seems to be going pretty well on the farm. thomas is also getting tan ha ha but his hair does not bleach out at all lol. i, on the other hand, am getting my nice red glow for the summer. i have been working in the garden lots and spending as much time as i can with drew and ariel while they are here.
these are the best of my pictures for the last month. . .

last night drew, ariel, rick, and jolyn all came over for dinner and to help us rip out our giant stump in the middle of the driveway. rick brought his chain saw and thomas brought the tractor. after lots of digging and cutting and pulling, they finally ripped it out.
drew drove the tractor for a bit :)

this is the final product

they ripped it in half before it came out

auger loves the tractor

auger is still working on figuring out how to drink from a cup

he loves drew and ariel. . . and he really wanted those strawberries

our visit to seattle . . .

royal sunsets . .

he loves strawberries

could you resist this ?????