Sneakin A Peek Into Our Lives: Busy Days

I can't believe August is almost over already. Seems like I was just waitin for that baby to come and now he's been here for 2 weeks. And what a busy 2 weeks they have been. Here is the short and sweet summary of them all before the collection of pictures. Boppa and gramma Jo + A. veevee and U. Andrew came the Saturday Elliott was born and then they all left again on Sunday afternoon except Gramma Jo. She stayed about a week and a half. While she was here she canned 14 quarts of peaches for us, we had Mr Tech and Sjo +3 come and visit us. They stayed with N&V but we had all to dinner Fri. night. Seven kids, all 2 and under in one small house is pretty hectic. :D But we all survived. Dana did great dealing with 4 toddlers wanting her attention at once. Sat. we went to the park by N& V's to get out of the house, and that evening A. veevee came to join us. Sun. the family came to dinner one last time before heading back to Seattle. for a few days. Monday gramma Jo went home for a break after spending hours of baking canning and shredding zuchinni and preparing garden vegetables in my kitchen and A. veevee took over. She made jars and jars of blackberry & blueberry jelly after getting off to a bad start with that project...but we won't get into that story. And she spent abv few days sewing for Kate and I. Thursday I ended up running out to collect Mr. Wise Guy from work because he dislocated his finger tip and needed to go to the hospital for an X-ray and such. (he rode the bus so didn't have a car) He now has a brace to wear for the next 2 weeks. Thankfully I had just fed Elliott, and Kate was finishing up a bath when the call for help came in so I was able to leave them all with Susie and run...and Susie was just finishing up the jelly so all worked out fine. Boppa & Gramma Jo came very late thurs. night to pick her up and left Fri. evening. I decided to go peach picking with them at a field in the near vicinity Fri. morning before they left, and ended up picking 4 more boxes to add to the 2 boxes the Muncks had generously picked for us. Susie stayed home to finish her sewing before she had to leave so I left Elliott with her. Kate did amazingly well for a hot tired toddler in a peach field and fell immediately asleep in the car on the way home. That evening after my family left we went to the fair for a couple of hours and Miss Kate enjoyed all the animals. Those pics will come in a different post than this one tho. Sat. we spent the day canning peaches. Mr Wise Guy ended up doing most of the peeling and cutting (in spite of his finger brace) and many hours of work later we had canned a total of 35 quarts of peaches. And here we are 2 weeks later... I have been feeling great most of the time, only lacking in sleep a little. But my wonderful husband is very thoughtful about making sure I get as much sleep as possible. Seems I never get to bed before 11 or 12 these days...but at least I get to sleep in. Now for the pictures.

Miss Kate have Bible reading with Puppy, Ellie, & Ruffy in Gramma Jo's bed at night.