family photo shoot

since my brother and his family are here in town visiting for a few weeks, we decided we needed to update the lake family photo. last time we had a lake family photo it was just the 4 lake's (dad, mom, son and daughter)

i don't have the actual pictures to share yet :( but we've gone from 4 lake's to.......7 lake's and 3 bell's! quite the transformation, don't you think?

here's a few iphone pictures we snapped while were out, i love iphones!

this week i'm working on our dining room transformation, on a major budget. hopefully i can share pics by next week.

new fruit!

my little man has discovered a new fruit! ORANGES! he loves them!

it's so cute to watch him suck all the juice out of them :)

Our 4th of July

little island beach

We spent some time at the beach with our best buds this morning, the little boys had a good time playing in a bucket of water :)

Supervised thank you John :)

Em had a little snack of sand, he seemed to enjoy eating it, or rather us telling him no?

The water was a little chilly, but Emerson took Daddy for a little walk

SHARKKKK!!!!!

new instagrams

awww shucks!

my sweet mama, sweet little boy and my sweet self! decided to partake in a little country adventure

"doing corn"

silver king corn that is!

i recently learned that you can "do" lots of things, one of my co-workers is a country girl and has being talking about "doing" potatoes, corn, onions, peas and any other veggie you can imagine. being a city girl to the core, but interested in expanding my horizons, i inquired...."what do you mean, doing corn...?" she replies "oh, you know canning or freezing, puttin' it up!"

so puttin' it up, is what we did

we shucked, cleaned, blanched, bagged and "put up" in the words of my country friends about 60 ears of corn.

we even rescued this little caterpillar.

Thanks for all the down home fun mama! Job well done :)