Four Part Harmony

Yes, once again the weeks have gotten away from me and it’s been a while since I got around to putting up any new photos.

We did have a nice last few weeks of summer out here in Oregon. We went on a couple more camping trips.

Did some hiking.

Some exploration.

Anna started her second year of preschool.

Milo helped send her off on her first day of school for the year. He’s been enjoying coming along when we drop her off and pick her up.

We’ve had a bunch of friends stay with us. Anna was super excited to have her former next door neighbor and bestest friend Nora stay with us for a few days.  We put sleeping bags down for them in Anna’s room and they stayed up until 11:00 chattering and telling stories.

We harvested the end of our summer veggies and our squash and have been planting some seeds for fall and winter. We have a nice looking patch of overwintering broccoli, carrots, parsnip some onions, leeks, swiss chard…we also planted some of the garden in clover for next early spring.

We also harvested our first crop of apples off the apple trees we planted this spring. Three apples. A decent haul really, I didn’t think we’d get any. These three all came off one tiny branch of yellow delicious. They’re pretty tasty!

Both kids will be sad to see the last of the tomatoes gone. Picking and eating them was a favorite backyard activity this summer.

We’ve still been getting some pretty good weather lately. The kids had an afternoon painting session in the backyard recently.

And we’ve been on a few bike rides.

This past week, my mom was in town and she had her camera out quite a bit (ours is still on the blink so we haven’t been taking many pictures lately). Anna and Milo of course were very excited to have Grandma Jackie around, and they had a lot of fun over the course of the week. Before she left we downloaded all of her pictures onto our computer, since we didn’t really have any pictures of her trip. I think my mom likes taking the little movies with her camera more than she likes taking pictures because there weren’t nearly as many pictures as there were little 10-30 second long little video clips. This turned out to be kind of a good thing because it caused me to just spend the last two hours or so making this:

Hope you liked it! Hope the fall is finding you all well and happy and above all healthy.