Beautiful!!!

Beautiful Sophia & I had a chance to spend the day together, ( with my Mom & sis Michelle) at my Beautiful cousin Kristin's wedding. Anna was able to spend the day with Daddddda doing all kinds of farm things, wish I had some pics of their day!. 

Saturday felt like a day for just the 2 of us at "the Ocean". Really it was Lake Superior. It was a wonderful day! Here is Sophia in her party dress. Since it was 60 degrees on this July afternoon on the shore, we wore pants & sweaters over our party dresses. :)

Sophia enjoying the surf....

& enjoying the sand!

and the dancing!!! We really like the square dancing! So much twirling & clapping & stomping & swinging!

& the Beautiful couple!!!! We love you Kristin & Michael!!!!!

The "Naughty Funny"

My girls are VERY good at what I like to call "naughty-funny"- the naughty behavior that should be disciplined, but it is clever & amusing that it is difficult to punish.

Above, is Sophia, after she had been on the porch obviously creating herself into a fancy, Sunday hat wearing, butterfly. This was 2 days after she had hid under the table drawing sun flowers on both knee caps & stems & leaves down each calf. Agh.

close-up of the naughty-funny girl. She used dry-erase markers to create the green & black on her face, hands, belly legs & feet. Very hard to squelch the creativity in process, but what is a mom to do?
The above photo, is naughty-funny caught in action. Anna was trying to get Brutus to eat the popscicle, & when he wouldn't she rubbed it on his head.

Brutus refusing the offered treat.

Anna trying STILL after he has tried to ignore her by pretending to be asleep, even with sticky orange  goo  in his fur.... since this episode, he has had blue wall paint on his face & stickers on his ears & paws. :)

2 dogs +2 kids = no work done :)

packing the wagon of supplies to try & get the playhouse painted.... Sophia is wearing the "Painting hat" that I was trying to get both girls to wear so that the paint didn't get in their hair like on Sun....
Anna who had the paint in the hair Sun, wouldn't wear the "hat"  that is her "Whatever, I don't think so Momma" face. 
The outside of the playhouse, that really is a converted ice fishing house that Vance & his highschool buddy built when he was in high school. Now all we need is a window, curtains, little table, sink, stove & tea set, oh & chalk board paint. :)
The inside, not finished because, by golly, there is sliding to be done....

Strawberry pick'n

Sunday we spent the morning at a pick-your-own strawberry patch. I had mentioned it to Vance in passing, & he found this one close by. Thanks hon, for listening!  Good times. Sunshine, team work & a good reason to make strawberry shakes. :) We had to have a system to keep Anna busy, otherwise she wanted to eat them all! When we went to pay, it was SO obvious that she had taken a few, her face was COVERED in red stains from her forehead to her chin. Oh Anna, we love you!