June in the Summertime

Scout spends the better part of each day bug pet hunting- she has several jars full of caterpillars, spiders and earwigs. Yesterday, she tried to coax a mouse out of the garden bed...

Our deck removal project is stretching into eternity as we hit a delay, getting the HOA approval is an extra step we didn't plan on.  I'm really hoping we wrap the project up in time to use the space this summer.

And cousins... so many cousins this week. We had an average of 11 children in the house until Dan and Mark took the children camping. At which point I headed to mom's house so she could watch Scout and Moses while I tried to hit some deadlines. We visited Grandma Dawn which necessitated her babysitting 7 children while I earnestly hunted down a bathroom for Lydia) and had a moose in the front yard, blew a tire and almost lost the spare wheel, lots of excitement.