WE GREW A GIANT SUNFLOWER

It was Eden's...

WE HUNG OUT WITH THE DAWSON'S

Holy moly that's a lot of kids!!

WE REBUILT THE PLAYSCAPE

Breakfast in the playhouse

WE WENT TO THE CRAPPY, EXPENSIVE SAFARI

A friendly Brad Wilkes-type offered to take our picture.
We decided to let him take it despite this.
Just kidding Papa...


Eden's butt-crack and goats..

Ava took these

WE MADE DRESSES

I took them to the fabric store, let them pick out what they wanted, we found an "easy" pattern. Then I spent the entire day making those dresses.
My back hurt and I was cranky by the time Erik came home. I asked him to please slap me if I ever decided to do something so foolish again. But they did look very sweet.

AUSTIN ZOO

This picture cracks me up. Ava was freaked out by the goats in the petting zoo portion. Erik, Safa, Eden, and I were all in with the goats. Safa and Eden were feeding them. Ava stood outside, facing the opposite direction, pouting, and the goats STILL wanted her. Such an Ava moment.

THIS DAY SUCKED

This is the picture Ava took after I took the pics of Safa. I was hanging on by a thread...I didn't realize she got captured my emotional state until I looked at the pictures later. Hilarious.

If you look closely, you can see lots of towels hanging on the fence. This is because it took every towel in the house to clean up the flood in the laundry room when the washing machine overflowed. It took a long time to clean up and while I was busy, so was

Safa. She seized the opportunity of a mother on

the verge of a nervous breakdown.

This is what she did when I asked her to show me how she felt about being so muddy...

Eden under the banana tree

A post-swim flop...