Summer season, in a nutshell.

Oh how the lovely days of summer linger on buzzing and warm, so that you almost forget it will be cold and dark for the next 9 months of the year.  What did I do with the sunny days?  We turned 32, followed by the fireworks of the 4th.  We weeded, sowed, and watered to enjoy a sweet garden that I am now ready to tear apart and rearrange.  We escaped to the beach for weekends of sunshine and sand in between our toes.  Some weekends we worked hard on projects like finishing the fence and stacking a tree's worth of wood.  Hanna was born!  We have been spending Tuesday afternoons strolling the farmer's market down the street and cooking up amazingly fresh and healthful meals with our own vegetable farm share.  We picked a fraction of the blueberries at the farm, but have pilfered many other fruits from the trees in our neighborhood.  We picked a new school for Leo and made a new schedule for our work routines that still manages to keep 3 out of 4 of us at home most days.  Finn has learned to talk, wrestle, and belly swim, but still runs with his arms tucked up like a football star.  Oh yes, we had a lovely wedding weekend that was every bit of fun that it should have been after a very long engagement and intense 4 years of child raising.  And finally, to cap it all off, my favorite, a trip to the old Puyallup Fair.