what a month June has been!

we are just so busy.

swimming.

visiting friends.

picking blueberries down the road.

tracing our bodies with chalk on the deck.

celebrating a much wanted pregnancy with our dear friends (with bux's EDD)!

having the flu.

ushering a long black snake out of our house after ez spotted it.

farmer's marketing.

jumping on our pull out couch.

going to birthday pool parties that include locopops.

painting on the little picnic table outside.

bowling.

not eating sugar.

maxing out how many library books we can check out (50).

learning to chart.

deeply appreciating our next door neighbors.

not wearing clothes.

watching our garden grow.

learning empathy (aka having thrush).

stacking firewood from fallen trees on our land.

eating coconut milk ice cream.

celebrating a much anticipated pragnancy with a dear friend (due on my birthday, even)!

camping at the OBX.

buying christmas and birthday gifts way too early b/c of huge sales.

enrolling ez in nursing school. (she desperately wants to go to va. tech and cried for a hour last night b/c we could not drive to blacksburg. somehow, they agreed to enroll her via distance education. she's learning to take temps this week.)

listening to bands at duke gardens.

feeding ourselves with spoons and forks and our hands.

planning to miss our law school bound friend.

making posicles.

picking blackberries from our backyard and raspberries from our front yard.

falling in love with nikki mcclure, again.

studying midwifery.

visiting church every once in a while.

dreaming of bali.

catching and releasing mice.

awaiting our trip to water country usa with my mom! (we got 25% off coupons at the library today! so awesome.)

re-connecting with BSW friends.

welcoming my 'big brother' to the neighborhood!

planting and planting.

picking up new words each week.

seeing the movies "cheaper by the dozen" 1 and 2.

eating garden fresh foods.

laughing in the bed late at night with ez about what to name our next (not in my body, yet) babe.

applying sunscreen and bug spray.

overhearing frogs.

cheering on the bulls.

researching which woodstove to by for the winter.

keeping my phone close for the two babies who are coming soon.