On Produce, Cobblestones, and Dinner

 

Usually we get just a few produce items from our small garden in a day, but since it's been sorely neglected lately, we brought in a whole bunch today.  Makes one think of how much we'd get if we truly tended to it and watered it daily. :)

 

 

We've been keeping busy working hard and playing hard.

For part of our father's day gift to Dad, we helped him put in a cobblestone patio last weekend.  Looking back, we can fully appreciate a hard day of physical labor and the wonderfully intense ache it leaves for days.

 

A few weeks ago, we spent a weekend away with Grandpa and Grandma, enjoying some special time together and new experiences.  One of which was this cute little Italian restaurant with incredible food.

Eliza

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's

Day

to our wonderful Dad!

We love you!!!

-

~Katelyn and Eliza

Snapshots of life lately

There is no way we can write about all that has been going on lately, so to catch-up on our neglected blog I figured we could post some pictures and snippets of what we've been up to.

We've been...

...spending time with family and friends...

Now that this semester of school is done, we've had more time to catch-up and enjoy time with the people we love! Grandparents have returned from their winter---or should I say summer ;) ---down south and were greeted with lots of hugs! We have also been enjoying some fun movie nights. Oh, and of course we've made some time for shopping among the many other things! :)

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...making music again...

We have been taking our violins out of their cases much more often than we were during school which is so much fun!

We've also been singing together, especially for Grandpa! ;)

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...campaigning for Dad...

This has been keeping us busy...especially Katelyn because she has been going to some of the conventions, handing out campaign literature!

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...planting herbs and planning our garden (which will hopefully be bigger and better than last year)...

Yep...this is as far as we've gotten in planting so far this year. However, our plans are bigger. ;)

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...cleaning, organizing, rearranging furniture, and otherwise preparing for graduations...

Yesterday, we went to Denise's to make truffles for graduation. It was a perfect day to be inside baking when there was a continuous sprinkling rain outside! A few minutes ago, I caught Mom fixing our off-balance dishwasher and I just had to throw this picture in here! :) We've been getting all sorts of house projects done lately.

(Katelyn's LPN graduation ceremony will be a future post because this post is becoming ridiculously long!)

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...and enjoying the snowfall in May!?!?!?!...

(which, thankfully, has since melted away)

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Hopefully this helps to make up for our lack of posts lately and will get us back on track for posting more often...we'll see! :)

~Eliza

On the Road Again!

It's campaign season again at our house!

And I am loving it!

Last weekend Dad and I went down to our Congressional Convention.

He was a delegate and I was an alternate. (Actually I was elected alternate even though I wasn't at our county convention! Dad nominated me and they voted me in!)

We also had a table for people to come and get literature.

The people there were great! Dad was able to speak for a few minutes and when he went up there he was greeted with clapping and cheering. I was so proud!

In two weeks we get to go the the State convention.

On a side note:

It was very funny because people kept asking if I was Dad's campaign manager. When I told them that I was his daughter they didn't believe it. I guess Dad looks too young (or else I look too old!). But campaign manager is better than when people used to ask me if I was his wife! NO, he is my dad!

(Edit: Now I just found out that I am his campaign manager for the State Convention! So I guess I am his daughter and campaign manager, that is pretty good!)

~Katelyn