Home Tour: Porch

This winter when I did the home tour, I did not photograph the porch.  It was snowed in!  Every summer our porch becomes an additional room of the house.  We eat every meal outdoors and the kids like to play out here with their toys and board games.  New homes have decks, and those are very nice, but I can't say how much I love the old fashioned charm of our porch.  It is a feature of the parsonage I will miss if (when) we move away.

Cousins

Cherries

A pretty bucket of pies.

30 on the Fourth

Happy Birthday Lily

Visit

I took exactly 6 pictures when our good friends came for a visit a couple of weeks ago.  This is the only photo worth its salt.  I was too busy laughing, eating, or corralling kids to even think of grabbing my camera.

Thank you for everything J and L.  Our time together always goes too quickly.

Beach Morning

Why do we have the beach to ourselves you ask?  Because it is 64 degrees and a bit breezy.

Purplish-blue lips?  Check.
Chattering teeth?  Check.
Let's go swimming!