catching up

I downloaded pictures off the camera this afternoon and found some I had forgotten about, so this is going to be a random post of random pictures from the last couple of months.

For Mother's Day my husband and Rachel bought me tomato and basil plants. A couple of week ago my first tomato was finally ready to pick. It was just a cherry tomato, but doesn't it look delicious? It was! (and incidentally, just today my husband picked my first full sized tomato-I can't wait to use it!)

A few weeks ago my husband stained Rachel's swingset. We bought it used, and knew from the start that it needed staining. He finally tackled the project one weekend, and it looks almost brand new now!

A couple of weeks ago Rachel wanted to 'make someping, Mommy," so we made banana mini muffins. The camera was handy, so I snapped a couple of pictures.

And way back in June we celebrated my older brother's 40th birthday. No 40th birthday party is complete without bubble blowing....

...and light saber fighting....

(notice Rachel's light saber in this last one is a plastic baseball bat....)