What's growing in the garden these days?

AOIFE!! She loves to sit in the garden and dig up "wormies!" I have had to stop her from eating said wormies about 50 times this summer. When she finally gave up on eating worms, she turned to pulling out my plants. If only she knew which ones were the weeds, and pulled them instead!

We were so delighted to have our friends Heather and Gabbie home for the summer from their teaching post in Senegal. Aoife is wearing a Senegalese dress and having a ball out in beautiful Sandy, OR!

Eggies!

Our friends moved out to the country and are raising 9 chickens. On our recent trips out to visit, Aoife has been lucky enough to collect the eggs. She couldn't be more delighted with this farm task, and often reminisces about the times she got to "holda eggies."

Oregon Country Fair 2009

Every year we go to the Oregon Country Fair, and this year was no exception. Except we got there the day after flying home from Ireland. Except that we were totally jet lagged. Except that it was the biggest rain storm I'd ever seen. Except that there was so much mud everywhere you couldn't walk two feet without slipping and landing smack down in a giant mud puddle. No matter, we just partied in the van!

An amazing father, a wonderful father-in-law, a devoted and loving grandfather. We miss you, Granda!!

in the garden

It seems all those encouraging words from Aoife ("grow peas, grow!") worked! Each day, Aoife and I go out and eat ourselves some peas straight from the garden!

Popsicles!

We've had some very hot days lately. Fortunately, Aoife has volunteered to be the official popsicle taster at our house. That's very brave of her, since I am constantly making up new creations to freeze. So far, all but one has been a success!!