Just Us Girls

These past few weeks, it's been just us girls at home. Andy hopped aboard a charter plane (followed by several more planes, a rental truck, a school bus, and then a pack mule) to fight wildfires out in Washington and Oregon. This is his 5th trip out west to fight fires but his first since the girls have been born

We have been trying to stay busy in his absence.

We hit Delgrosso's with the rest of the crew. (Happy Birthday to two studs: Eli and Oliver!)

We went blueberry picking with Grandma. (Except some of us did more eating than picking. I won't name names but it is becoming a pattern.)

In Andy's absence we were in charge of all garden duties. Evidently, rabbit poop is like steroids to a garden. It felt like overnight it transformed from this:

To this:

Thankfully, I had some excellent child labor help and I do rock the pressure canner.

We've had picnic lunches and ice cream for dinner, pedicure parties and playdates, movie nights and pajamas days, but we are more than ready for Daddy to be home.

One more day...