Recycling

Here Eliana is wearing a dress that use to be mine when I was a little girl. My Aunty Beryl brought it back from Papua New Guinea for me and it's now still going strong!

Got the chop

My hair falls out like crazy after giving birth so I finally went and got it cut yesterday ($5 at Empire Beauty School!). It has the added bonus of being out of reach of Lilah's little grabbing hands :)

Peach pickin'

There is a neat farm about 40 minutes from Louisville called Hubers. They grow all their fruit in season and allow people to come out and pick it fresh from the trees/vines. We made a trip out the other day during peach picking time.

Fruit tastes sooo good when ripened on the tree! Buni, below, thoughtfully decided to coordinate his t-shirt with the peaches for photos :)

Eliana had a ball on the tractor and running up and down the rows of peach trees. She also loved keeping me on my toes as I tried to prevent her from putting rotten peaches from the ground in our fruit box! Thankfully her Aunty Jael was around to help do some chasing :)

Jael and her brother, David, from Switzerland, won the prize for best fruit finders.

A lot of people pick boxes of peaches to make pies, jams, tarts and other wonderful creations that I can't think of right now. All of our peaches are destined for our freezer and eventually for peach smoothies.

The PeaPod

I would like to recommend one of the most useful gifts we've been given. The Lakelins gave us a PeaPod, pictured below. It is an easily transportable 'tent' for infants and toddlers to sleep in. It has already come in handy many times and I'm sure that number will soon turn into countless times. It is very light, easily folds into the size of a large frisbee, comes with a self inflating mattress, and pops open into it's full size in about 3 seconds!

We have used it for Lilah to nap/sleep in while travelling, for Eliana (who loves it) to sleep in when we stay late at a friend's place, and for shade cover and protection from the sand for Lilah while at the beach in Michigan.

Thanks so much, Lakelins! It gives smiles all round!

A trip to Michigan

A couple of days after returning from Australia, we took a trip to Michigan to visit Nate's side of the family. Eliana got to meet her new cousin, Nora (below with Aunty Sara), and Lilah got to meet the Michigan crew.

Below Lilah is with her great Grandma Heintzleman.

Nate's cousins, Shannon and Hannah, who just turned 13! Happy Birthday girls :)

Lilah's great Aunty Sue :)

And Grandma Triplett

It was quite nice to visit Michigan in the Summer. We saw many other relatives, too, but unfortunately didn't snap any photos with them... Now we are home, sweet home in Kentucky and getting ready for Nate's (hopefully) last semester before heading overseas!