Summer???

Tacos! Black beans are a favorite around here!

Broccoli is another favorite! She's helping me make dinner here. She loves to help!

Putting together the new grill! Happy Father's Day Brian!

Chasing her chickens around the garden. We have 4 babies and 2 adults now. She loves them!

Bundled up to play in the yard. It's a lightweight fleece at least! (good grief!)

Glad I posted those pictures in my last post. That was our week of sunshine. Since then it's been rain, rain, oh and more rain. Sometimes it gets to be a bit much. Is it too much to ask for sunshine during the summer months? Apparently. I can't tell you how much we are looking forward to our trip to Ohio and Washington next month! Be prepared with your shades folks because this Alaskan family is going to glow in our shorts!

We've had Brian home for a couple of weeks now. It is so nice to have him here! Fiona is pretty attached to him these days. As soon as he's home from work she's all about Papa. If we visit him at work she cries when we leave him. We've been playing lots of Bocce in the yard these days (between rain showers!) and Brian always plays with her in arms or on his shoulders. Somehow he still wins everytime!

Fiona is talking up a storm! We have hit a language explosion. She repeats anything we say! I feel like I can't keep up with teaching her new signs fast enough too. She remembers them way better then we do! The phone rang yesterday and I said "where's the phone?" and she echoed, "yeah, where's the phone, here it is!" We just hung a framed photo of her in our bedroom the other day. She was crawling into bed and pointed to it and asked "who's dat baby?" What?! Who told her she could grow up so fast?! I'm used to her 2 word sentences of hi papa, stuck mama, help peas, nu-nu yeah yeah, and more peas. But these big sentences are new. Pretty cool!

She's fighting a bit of a stomach bug right now. Hopefully it will go fast and she'll be feeling and sleeping like her old self again soon. We're all a bit tired today.

PS. when uploading photos for this post I clicked on the "last 12 months" button on my iphoto. Pictures from our Montana trip were right on top! Remember how fun that was?! Ma and Pa, hope you have a great trip there this week! Think of us when you are swimming in the hotsprings!