Getting wood

We are prepping for winter in the Parsons household and therefore took another trip to the mountains to get wood (this time with Greg's new chainsaw). We had a little picnic and the girls and I played while Greg did all the hard work.

Here is our picnic in the truck
Enjoying a cucumber and spicy chips

Munching on a Cheeto

Greg in action

Thank heavens this new saw cut so much better than the old one. Made the day go by quickly

There was a little mountain stream which I showed Allie. She is into this thing now when ever I show her something little she says, "oh how cute" so that is what she had to say about the stream too.

I think I bribed her to take this picture-she doesn't want to pose for pictures at all right now.

This was her work-playing with this dirt.

Yes-I let my 10 month old crawl on the ground and find 2 random sticks and chew on them-try stopping her. The girl has an agenda all her own.

See my sticks mom!!!

Cheese for the camera

One more cute pose.

We had a great time-the mountains were gorgeous and the weather was perfect and Allie even did all her business in her potty (our first outing during potty training). Good to be with my family.

Cutting Wood

On July10th, we went up to the mountains to cut a load of wood for the winter. This is a project that is difficult at best, and extra difficult with two small children and a chain saw that refuses to start-however we were able to get almost a full truck load of wood. I put Brailie down on a blanket with some toys but now that she is crawling she went right to the edge and found the grass, flowers and weeds and probably ingested enough foliage to take care of her veggie intake for a couple of days. I am thinking I am just going to give the girl a leaf of lettuce each day for lunch and let her munch away-what a little rabbit. I snapped a few of these pictures in between loading wood.

Just like Uncle Daniel

This kept Allie entertained for a few minutes.

Cute girl

At our last stop Allie was just dancing and singing and doing her own thing up and down the road. It was the cutest thing in the whole world. I took a video of it but Blogger is not letting me load videos (dumb thing). I was so proud of her for entertaining herself for probably 15 minutes while Greg tried to get his chain saw going.

On our way home we stopped and had a picnic on the side of the road in the mountains and Allie was sure she wanted to walk home. We promised her ice cream if she would just ride with us in the truck. She fell asleep not too long into the drive and so we decided to just keep going and not stop in Moad after all for the treat. Wouldn't you know the first thing she said when she woke up back at home was, "I want my ice cream." I guess she is getting too old to forget those kinds of things. Too old and too smart.