Peach Party

It was time for one of our favorite summer highlights!  We got new shirts again for The Peach Tree...KEEP CALM and EAT A PEACH.  They turned out so cute!

Our favorite Mimi and Auntie BB!

These are some of my favorite girls EVER.

Loved seeing you B&C out there at the Peach Party!

These are my cousins kiddos with our kiddos.  

Our older two have had an adorable bond that goes way back to when they were babies.

Now our little ones melt our hearts in a whole new way.

They are the cutest!

 One of our favorite babysitters, Miss Julie!

Ice cream with some of our sweetest friends.

I can't get enough of these 3 girls together.  Love them!

Our cutie patootie loved his snow cone a little too much!  HA!

Go Wawona!!

Wawona proudly supports our own Children's Hospital of Central California.  Wawona's wonderful employees helped raise money for the fourth year in a row.  Way to go Wawona!!!

 The Smittcamp family with the Children Hospital's CEO Todd Suntrapak

After the presentation, we got to drive Aubrey back to class.  She was a lucky girl and got to take a break to come be apart of the fun. :)

Peach workin' days!

We are in the thick of peach season over here.  We are workin', thinkin' and definitely eatin' peaches pretty much every day, all day over here.  

Some days the best way to see daddy (and Big Papa) is to go to visit him at work!

Thank you Brian and Kristi for the cool sunglasses!

Peach Party tonight!!

Tonight in Old Town Clovis we are celebrating our annual Wawona's Peach Party!  Come say hi and enjoy some samples of our favorite fruit at the Farmer's Market tonight from 5:30 to 8:30.  Can't wait to see you there!  :)

Lots of updates!

We have been a little MIA here on this blog.  Definitely not intentional!  I am not quite sure if I have a good excuse, but one thing I have realized is when you take a break, it is easy to think blogging is just one more thing to do in our busy world, so why do it?  :) The thing I do LOVE about blogging, is this documents our world, our life, our memories.  I started our blog 4 years ago when Aubrey Rose was born and I absolutely love being able to look back at sweet memories.  Even more so, I would love for my kids to have a place to go to see the fun things we did as they grew up.  So I press on!

And where best to begin?

We will start with a picture of my two favorite little ones.  These two precious babies have been keeping me on my toes and there is nowhere else I would rather be.

Our sweet 4 year old girl...

Our busy one year old boy...

We have had lots of walks and park fun...

some of our favorites are with our cousin Jedidiah.

 

 But our absolute favorite is when Daddy can meet us for lunch on his golf cart!

At home, we have been doing a ton of work, especially in the backyard...

One more view...

We are finishing the brick work this week!  Almost done!  YAY!
Another thing that has taken up WAY more time than I would have ever expected was landscaping.  There are TOO many options!  Once you choose a flower, then there are a bunch of varieties to choose from too!  Felt like never ending!

Outside of the home, we got to work a shift at our family fruit stand, The PeachTree.  The kids loved it!  And I loved watching Aubrey work because she wanted to, not because she was asked.  :)

At the end of the day, I asked her what her favorite part was, she said, "That will be one dollar, two dollars, ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS!!!"  Hahaha!!

We got to help Daddy at his work too.

In the midst of the work days, we have had some sweet family time as well.

U is for Underground Gardens.  AMAZING opportunity here in our valley!  We loved it!  We HIGHLY recommend you check it out.  The kids loved it.  Well, maybe not the 1 year olds, but the 4 year olds did!

One last project is one of my favorites.  Blake's mom and I started a little business.  It is called My Sweet Threads.  We specialize in personalized embroidered anything!  Towels, baby clothes, burp towels, bibs, t-shirts, swimsuit cover-ups, anything!  Check out our Facebook page HERE for more ideas.  The possibilities are endless.  If you see something embroidered that you want to replicate, check with us, hopefully we can help!

I loved these cute Valentine shirts Linda made for Aubrey and Austin for Valentines Day.  We have some fun 4th of July options too!  So fun!

Like I said, the possibilities are endless!  :)  

So hopefully I caught you a little up to speed on our world.  Lots of fun in between, but at least you know we are still here.  :)

Thankful

This was a cute ad for Wawona which was in a magazine for Children's Hospital Central California.  Love these kiddos!  And we love that we have such an amazing children's hospital just down the road. We are so thankful.

Love those peaches!!

Peach season is still in full swing over here.  At our house, peaches have been offered with almost every meal and snack lately.   We say, "Yummy in our Tummy!!"  :)  I love opening my fridge and seeing a box of fresh peaches...  

I also LOVE opening my freezer and seeing these from TRADER JOE'S!!!

 Of all the products Wawona produces, these Peach and Strawberry Pops (pictured above) MIGHT be my FAVORITE and Trader Joe's sells them!!  There is no sugar added too!  DELICIOUS!!

We have been having fresh peaches, frozen peaches, Peach Pops, peaches dipped in cool whip, peaches with cottage cheese, peaches in our desserts, we even made our delicious peach crisp....YUMMY in our tummy!

And just in case you are wondering, none of us have gotten tired of peaches. :)  Maybe we would get tired of peach season if it was all year long (you know...burning the candle at both ends can't last forever), but as far as peaches, we are big fans of having them any time of the year!  :)

Little bit of everything...

Lately, we have been having a little bit of everything around here...  

A little out of town.

A lot at home.

 A little backyard dinners. 

A lot of swim parties.

A little birthday fun with friends and family.

A lot of sweet cousin time.

We have even had a little Barney fun.  (Yes, I love you. You love me. Yes, THAT Barney. HA!!)

A little crawling from our 5 month old.

A LOT of drooling and chewing on EVERYTHING from that same 5 month old.

A little training for our 3 year old. 

A lot of correcting too,

but A whole LOT of hilarious comments that make me laugh when I lay my head down at night.

However, can you guess what we have had the most of lately????  PEACHES!!!

Peach season is in FULL swing over here.  They are coming in by the truck loads.  BIG truck loads.  Day and night.  Aubrey Rose and I have been seeing those Wawona trucks all over town and we have even had friends call asking us to tell the Wawona trucks to get out of the fast lane.  HA!!!!  It is peach season!  We need those peaches and fast!!  Aubrey and I play the game of if the bins are empty or full.   HA!  Love it!

And since every blog post is even more fun with pictures, here are a couple.  The other night after dinner we laid out on the grass and I played with my camera settings...

Peach Party 2011

The Peach Party 2011 was a success!  Here are a few pictures from the evening...

Sweet Blake bought Aubrey Rose her own snow cone.  B, you are the best!  Thank you for making her feel so special!!!

The DeManby's