The days are just packed

When you get home late from work, and it's been a few hours since the little one ate supper, and you turn your head for a second...

 School just keeps happening.  I keep waking up to my alarm and thinking, ugh, we have to do this again!  Haha.  Cecily loves it though, and wakes up and is out the door no problem.  And I'm very spoiled; Sharon and Marie have been picking her up in the mornings so we just have to go get her at noon.
I don't mind shopping and running errands with only two kids along.  They are under there, somewhere.

 We've been enjoying the lovely weather.

 The raspberries rarely make it into the house. This one does not discriminate, she's an equal opportunity picker, be it a pale pink berry, or white...

 Afternoon fun with the bubble mower.

 We didn't make any plans for labor day weekend, so we got a lot done in the yard and garden and had plenty of time left for relaxing.  Bob is running out of low branches to trim off the ash- the rest will have to wait for a chainsaw.

 The girls are so helpful.

 And such hard workers!

 Littlest miss in the dress Shelly brought back from India. So long ago.

 We went to the farm on Labor day.  Jakey was home, Shelly stopped in, the girls got a bunch of Farm Progress Show loot from Grandpa...  I went shopping for a little bit and the girls got to swim one last time with Grandma.

 The proper way to eat homemade ice cream is to wear it.

 Silly girls.

 They were 'sneaking' up on me.  I couldn't see them because they were sneaking.

 Don't mind the crazy selfie- we sent Cecily off to Kindergarten and then we three went to "teaching school!"  Here's to another year of attempting to teach chemistry.

 So one of our bathroom fans quit working and we replaced it.  The old fan was round and had a round hole, the new fan was square and smaller than the round hole.  So I got to patch the ceiling.  I love being covered in spackle and sanding dust late at night.... don't I look lovely in that handkerchief?

 We took the girls to Restmor to visit Grandpa Beutel.  It was a lovely day, and they had a great time exploring the courtyard and playing with a visiting dog.

 Thankfully, Willow is a very laid back dog and put up with our crazies.

 ...It's like herding cats....

 Oh look, a decent picture of our three ring circus with Grandpa.

 This one has discovered that she can reach our phones while they are charging if she climbs up into the stroller.  So ornery. So smart.

Sunday evening we got to spend some time at David and Jenna's.  The girls enjoyed their trikes AND wore themselves out running up and down their TWO staircases.  (I may have a small case of house envy- beautiful old house in the country with amazing woodwork and two stairs. sigh.  haha.)  It was an enjoyable evening.
We need some decent climbing trees.  Poor girls have to settle for a bush.  

 We surprised Cecily on Tuesday and picked her up from school and went straight to the park for lunch. Cecily ate fast and was off to the monkey bars....

Why are the bathrooms so far from the playgrounds??  We had to make two separate trips and each time I had to haul them all along... good times.
Anyway.
Blessings.