"Tent is down!," Secret Beach, and Papaya's fish hook wound

Hallmark week: we put the tent down and we are all living in the house!!

Lek has been busy mudding in one of the rooms, two rooms are painted after literally building the room from bare beams: electric work, insulation, sheetrock measured, cut and put up, mudding and sanding done and then the paint!!  Whew.  We have had many friends come and pitch in at different points, helping us along, and our kids spend a lot of time right now holding Baby Zsa, making and cleaning up after meals and maintaining "life" when I try to take some time to work on the house.

Q-dawg is crazy busy with appraisals (blessing!!) and literally spends every waking moment either working on appraisals, on the house or serving in his church calling.  Fortunately we can do some of those things together and it is fun to see it unfold.

Some views of Lake Ontario from what we call "Secret Beach" (a Zy-borg favorite): ("Zy-borg" is the fun way our local church members created to tell our two families apart.  We are "Quinn-lings.")

Lek took all these shots.  Beautiful, eh?

 A view of the older kids' former "crash zone" in the Zy-borg's basement.

 Fun with the Zy-borgs at a local park...

 We observed the "adult supervision" part, at least :).

 Back in Utah, we had an incident with Papaya at the lake during a family reunion for my mom's side of the family...fish hooks, no fun!  She was very brave as they had to push the hook in more to cut off the prongs and then drag it out.  Sorry if this is a re-post.  I couldn't find the previous one and wanted to document her bravery.  She didn't yell or scream...just let them do it while she cried, poor dear!

A brave smile!

Nasty!!!

Visiting the Moore's farm

We had a great visit to the Moores, down south-east of us here in New York on their own, beautiful 125-ish acre farm.

It was a very comfortable situation, if you ever are in the vicinity and need a fantastically peaceful bed and breakfast :)!  Spooner, Baby Zsa and Papaya thought so, anyway, as you can see in the following pictures:

Hava the photographer at work:

Hava captured an awesome moment :)

Here are some more Hava shots...

Liliputian and Duke

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, right?  Hava likes weeds :).

Pipalicious after one of our New York downpour soakings.

I like the shadows on this one!

Little Spooner was apparently caught unawares

Hava is apparently also wondering who is taking pictures now :)

Here is Brother Moore allowing the kids to hold his brand new chicks... so adorable!

Papaya poser :). "Here, mommy!  Take a picture of me."

Hava's turn

 

 

 

It was really so wonderful waking up to absolute quiet and peace aside from the gentle noises of nature.  Watching the rainstorms sweep up and over their hill and the spectacular sunsets just added to the beauty.

The kids had a great time with Zach, who drove them around in "the Gator," their old ground "get-around" mobile.  He would take them around the property and to the "haunted forest," a huge stand of tall dead pines that remind me of the scene from "Anne of Green Gables" where they are wandering through the forest.

Angie made some delicious meals and Jeff was great at keeping the kids out of trouble between electric fences and adventurous youngsters wandering to visit animals.  I was able to weed (loved it!) and just take a deep breath in life.