First, I had to share a recent quote from Olivia. Seth was channel surfing and came across the movie Rambo and decided to watch for a bit. Olivia watched with him for a bit and then said, "That is the most sweatiest guy I've ever seen."
The very last Friday of summer vacation, I managed to squeeze in a trip to the Ingalls Homestead with the youngest 3 kids. We've been trying to get there for 2 years and it's surprisingly difficult to find even one day in the summer where all the kids are free. We ended up having to go without Elena. There was no chance Sam ever would have made it between sports and work. Our friends joined us and we had a great time. Olivia absolutely loved it - I think the kids would have happily spent several days there.
And most exciting, Seth has finally started his lifelong dream of building a treehouse. He's been collecting wood for years and we finally decided he needed to just build it or get rid of the lumber. We were a little worried he'd build it only to have the trees die shortly after (we've had bad luck with trees lately). But after doing some research, we discovered that Norway Pines often live 250-300 years so we're optimistic they will last another 100 years at least. Of course, like everything he builds, it's neither small nor simple. He got phase one done pretty quickly. It's been entertaining to watch people drive by and then suddenly slow down or stop when they notice it. Our local paper got several calls from people asking them to cover it, so they came out and got a few pictures for the paper. Seth doesn't love the attention, but it's been kind of hard to avoid.
