Today(Thursday) I got inspired by a “Plum Dimple Coffee Cake” I saw a recipe for and I happened to have a whole bunch of plums from Costco, so we did some baking.

Here, Josiah is tasting the flour, which Chloe thought was hilarious and “gross”.

Working hard to mix…the recipe required about 10 minutes total of mixing time, and the end result was very unspectacular.  I much prefer my sour cream coffee cake recipe given to me by Heather E years ago.

The finished product after we were finished with it for bedtime snack. 

Uncle Andrew has been staying with us for most of the week.  Here he is playing “And Is It So” (Eventide) for us on the piano.  Not bad!

We had a fun get-together to celebrate “Granny’s” 80th birthday on July 26th.  Grandma C. put on an amazing spread of food and we all hung out in the backyard which was gorgeous with all her carefully-tended gardens.  It was a nice chance to see extended family that we don’t see very often!

We got to meet Melissa for the first time.  She is my cousin Marty & Joanne Anstey’s daughter.

Chloe and Hannah being giggly girls.

“Mommy, can you see me?”

Granny and Miriam.

Here’s a very poor quality video of (left to right) Peter, Marty, Andrew, David, Daniel, and Jamie making music together.  I was holding Brianna while trying to take this video, so that’s my excuse. :)  Notice the cool green instrument Daniel is playing…I believe it’s called a “melodica”.

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“It sounds like a storm” (she really said that)

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“Wow! I’m just like Daddy!”

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“I don’t know about that note…it’s kinda’ flat…”

(He’s listening to “Bidle” as he calls it-it’s a recording of a little girl singing Jesus Loves Me…the Bible tells me so)

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“There, she’s doing better now.”