Well, Riley has officially been on summer break for a month now! We are truly loving having her home everyday. She is so full of life and spirit, and I feel so grateful to get to spend this time with her. I really missed her during the school year. She and Abby start their day with the morning ritual of letting the chickens out to free range. They follow them and pet them and are just taken with them for at least 2 hours. They then hang out in their clubhouse made out of stacked hay bales, run around barefoot and squeal with either fear, delight, or disgust at every new bug that finds their way into their paths. When it becomes too hot to be outside, they move inside after devouring dripping popsicles and we get creative in the kitchen with snacks and homemade sprite. Imagine my delight when Riley discovered she LOVES my hand made dolmas
(stuffed grape leaves).

The girl has at least one daily, like a vitamin.

She has taken up T-ball for the summer and loves the athletic aspect as well as playing around with some of the girls from her Kindergarten class

Their team is the honey bees, how sweet is that?

But she and Abby can’t turn down a ride on their favorite sorrel mare, Tamers given the opportunity, even in gail force winds!

And, what would summer be without your BFF coming over to play all day and sleepover and dress up like princesses?

Not summer, I’d say. Just like, it wouldn’t be summer without making mud soup and mud pie every evening as the sun goes down!