Grandmommy was here!!!

I'm a bit late in putting up pictures, but my mom was here at the end of August/early September. We had a great time and her visit was full of picking blackberries, visits around Kiltarlity, a Loch Ness Cruise and much more! I really feel like she got a good look into our everyday life here. She played outside with the boys alot, met our neighbors, read books in the morning and before bed. The boys loved it and so did I! I have a few more pictures after this, but here is enough to give you an idea of what we did.

Rainy days...

Well, it's the inevitable here in Scotland. Even it you get lots of sunny days, a rainy one is on the horizon. One rainy day the boys and I were inspired by our animal book. Dan became a zebra, Caleb was a lion (but sleeping at this point), and of course Mommy had to join in the fun so I became a parrot (despite what else I may look like...parrot was what I was going for :)

Fun...

One of the many tasks of living in Scotland is making sure that you have enough wood (''sticks'' as they say here) for the winter. The boys have had alot of fun helping Daddy ''shift'' the wood to the shed. Here are some pictures of Caleb running around behind our house one fine work day. Also, we've had the please this summer of seeing Gordon almost weekly. He and Joe meet in Dingwall to work at HTC for the day then the two come here for dinner. The boys absolutely love it when Gordon arrives. They also love it when Gordon reads them books....thanks Gordon!

Cookie Bouquets

Some of you may remember that I use to love to make cookie bouquets. Well, it has taken me a while to find all of the supplies needed to make them here, but I've finally done it! Some friends just had a baby and this is the bouquet made for their sweet Amy. It's fun to pick up baking and decorating them again. It's also fun because people here have never seen or heard of them before :)

Sunny days....

We've been blessed with some wonderful weather this summer and a few weeks ago it was too good to pass up the opportunity to do something fun. Soooooo....we took a bus to Clachnaharry (on the edge of Inverness closest to us). We walked down the pier and then had a great picnic along the water. We ended our outing by playing in the local Kiltarlity school yard. All in all, a perfect day.

Interview with Cabe

All in a Day's Pickin'

We LOVE summers here in Scotland, and one of the reasons is the amazing fruit! What you see in this pictures was all picked today by our very own hands :) We got the raspberries from a friend's garden this morning, the cherries at the trees in front of the Post Office at lunchtime, and the blueberries in the woods by our house after dinner. We haven't been here in July to get to enjoy cherries and blueberries before and they're fabulous! Once again we seem to be the crazy Americans who care to pick them, but we can't help it! We plan to keep picking!