Summer Fun

It was another busy summer filled with a lot of fun activities, in addition to all those already posted (like visits from friends and family and our vacation to Williamsburg). Of course there was also some time for just enjoying the nice weather (like playing in our new turtle sandbox and swimming in the local pool.)

Our summer started with Daddy's cousin Hannah's wedding in May (Morgan's first!); it was a beautiful event in a historic building in Leesburg, VA. It was so hot, but we did our best to stay cool. Great-Grandma Brown and Great Uncle Jim made the trip from Phoenix...Grandma and Pop-Pop were there too.

For 4th of July, we went to Carlisle, PA stopping in Hershey along the way for the tour at Hershey's Chocolate World, delicious chocolate-peanut butter milkshakes, and a walk-through of the Hershey garden. Once in Carlisle, we had a great time at the local carnival with Grandma, Pop-Pop, Aunt Stephanie, Unclie Matt and Cousin Olivia before heading to the fireworks.

We also had a couple play dates with Morgan's BFF Emma. Our first play date was at Winterthur to visit the enchanted children's woods for their summer festival. Then we visited the Philadelphia zoo...the girls loved running from animal to animal, but I think a favorite that day were the playful otters.

We had a lot of fun planting a raised garden this year, starting our veggie plants from seeds, and taking care of it throughout the summer. In one box, we planted our favorite vegetables (zucchini, snow peas, hot peppers and red sweet peppers) and in the other box we planted a bunch of herbs, strawberries and raspberries. The zucchini especially did really well; some of the leaves and vegetables were almost as big as Morgan! Everything was so tasty and we had fun with all sorts of different recipes that it really was a huge help in getting Morgan to love fruits and veggies. The pictures below are from us enjoying one of our strawberry harvests with our neighbor John (aka Mr. W).