Not the blog, just the attempt at continuing with pictures from where I left off in May. Given the hundreds of photos that have been taken over the last 3-4 months, I am far too overwhelmed and constrained by time to try to post pictorial evidence of all our summer activities! Suffice it to say we had fun times. We enjoyed a trip to Kentucky in May, where we camped with Fred's family, visited Shaker Town in Harrodsburg, KY and a few other central Kentucky hot spots, and just generally had a wonderful time with the family up there. We see them far too seldom, so we relish what time we do get to spend with them.
Summer also saw the completion of our storage building project, which has morphed into something far more detailed and customized than we originally intended. Rather than just a space in which to store yard items, our new structure looks like a guest house, complete with flower boxes on the windows and mini-blinds. (the flower boxes were my idea. the mini-blinds were not). :) Fred has enjoyed tinkering around with tools and woodworking projects, but thankfully the lure of the man-cave has not sucked him away from the family for excessive amounts of time. Not yet anyway. I may have to retract that statement whenever we get electricity up there.
June brought with it the sadness of losing my grandfather, who lived a long life of 88 1/2 years. He was a very talented craftsman who could build anything out of wood. Beautiful things. I hope he would be happy to know that Fred feels so honored to have inherited many of his woodworking tools and machines. Although our own workshop is new and without its own history yet, whenever I enter, I feel the presence of my grandfather and all the years of love and labor that went into the work he created using the very tools that we now possess. Let the legacy continue...
In July, we packed up and headed to Destin, FL, for our annual family beach trip. Had we been down there any longer than a week, I believe Audrey truly would have transformed into a fish. She pretty much left the water only to eat and sleep, and only when forced to do so. Lila Kate enjoyed the trip as well, and it was considerably easier to manage a toddler at the beach than a 4-month-old infant, which was her age at last year's beach trip. That's right, Miss LK decided to try out that nifty little thing we call walking at nearly 15 months of age! Finally.
So, now we are back in the swing of school, which is going well. Audrey is also taking ballet once a week, which she absolutely loves. I have been eager to start spending time around horses again, and fortunately I've gotten that opportunity through our friend Dena at Storybook Farm. Once a week, the girls and I head over there to do "horsey" things. Well, Lila takes her nap, Audrey plays with Dena's daughters, and I do the horse stuff. Love it. Can't wait to start taking riding lessons again, which I had to abandon 2 years ago when I learned of Lila's impending arrival.
So that's pretty much the gist of our daily lives up until now. I will work on putting up a few recent photos of the girls in another entry. Take care.
