We are out at the acreage for the second weekend in a row. One of my friends that I grew up with is having his wedding reception here tomorrow night and I wanted to go! With Mr. Stannix being so busy all weekend, I only felt a little guilty. He's busy every day this weekend at a seminar and with that and hockey and other things I'd hardly get to see him! I am not looking forward to having the bed all to myself tonight. I always miss him a lot when we're apart. After eating lunch, tidying the house, and pulling dinner out of the freezer for Mr. Stannix, the kiddos and I loaded up in the car and headed home (my old home that is). The drive was beautiful and relaxing. As the children slept in the back I started getting sleepy myself and finally pulled over to grab some skittles and a juice. Sadly, Hyrum woke up, but it's better than me falling asleep! My skittles almost lasted the whole way there, but the last 20 minutes was hard. Usually Mr. Stannix does all of the driving. Did I mention how much I miss him? We arrived safe and sound except Camilla's eyes were practically watering because she had to go pee so badly. She's a trooper she is.
We spent the late afternoon outside. Gramma, the kiddos and I walked up to the apple orchard while Grampa mowed the lawn. The children jumped and rolled and ran through the grass. There is nothing like wide open spaces when you're a kid. We picked a few of each kind of apple to bring back to the house and snack on. Fresh apples are so delicious! Then we all went out front and watched Grampa mow the lawn. Eventually he came by and the kids each took turns riding with him on the mower.
They had a blast! Hyrum likes the mechanics of the whole thing and liked to watch and figure out how it worked. Camilla loved trying to take over the steering and doing donuts in the middle of the lawn. Grampa had her giggling pretty good. When Camilla wasn't riding she was rolling down the hill with her baby. When Hyrum wasn't riding he was sneaking over to the quads and trying to climb on for a ride. I just enjoyed sitting on the hill out front and catching up with my Mum while we munched fresh apple slices. It's always good to be home!
Camilla kept asking me before we came why we were going. I told her it was because we were going to a wedding and she immediately said, "Oh! Can baby come? She LOVES weddin's, mom..." I am in love with her and the things that she says. Her little doll has become her real life baby. Even when we're driving in the car, baby is belted in between the two of them for the whole drive. Baby even sometimes eats with us at the dinner table and tastes Camilla's food. The other day she asked me to take a picture of her and baby sitting on the couch holding hands. Just before I took it she looks at her baby and says, "Say cheese, baby!". I keep asking her why baby doesn't have a name yet and she told me that "she will have a name when she's older, but right now she's too little". The other thing that made me laugh was when she was chatting with Auntie Emma on the phone tonight. A few of my favorite lines were "What are you up to?", and "I thought you just texted me, but you didn't" followed by throwing her head back and laughing. She's such a character.
The evening brought playing on the back deck while Grampa barbequed and killing house flies with the fly swatter (Hyrum's new favorite thing to do). Dinner time has never been so entertaining. Now I am just hoping that all this fresh country air tuckered them out enough that they'll sleep in a little bit tomorrow... Right?
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