The Powells Place

Phone Download

I have found it so much easier to snap photos with my phone these days and realized I hadn't updated our blog in a long time! We have had a fun summer going lots of places all over Wilmington, spending lots of time at the beach, and Samuel has been spending a lot of time making art in the afternoons.

Samuel got some fun art supplies for his birthday. Here he is wearing his safety goggles while watercoloring, using stamps and colored pencils. He wanted lots of options!

Still our favorite places to be in Wilmington and one of my absolute favorite views!

Charlie feeding himself. He was quite proud of his work, thankfully he has gotten better at aiming the spoon for his mouth!

Taste testing the cookie dough to make sure the cookies will be delicious

Every little boy needs lots of fire trucks. Charlie loves to line them up on the windowsill.

Samuel is dressing himself these days. This was his outfit of choice on Friday!

Garden Harvest

This year we planted several varieties of tomatoes, onions, garlic, cucumbers, peppers and sunflowers. My sunflowers are pretty huge and have been making our house beautiful over the past couple weeks. Our blackberry bushes have also been giving us some delicious fruit! Today we harvested a bunch of tomatoes, pepper and onion. Can't wait to keep harvesting and making yummy summer dishes!

A Fireman Birthday

Samuel had his 4th birthday last week and had been asking for a Fireman Birthday for many months! He knows where every fire station in the city is and even knows and points out each of the hydrants we pass! We went to our fire station and met the firemen, learned about fire safety and even let the kids climb into the trucks. They all seemed to have a great time. Samuel has asked every day since we left when we can have another birthday there!

Charlie and Pops were quite the pair, he was happy to have a buddy!

Charlotte pretty amazed by the big firetruck!

Driving the truck!

Thanks to a nasty GI bug I wasn't able to make Samuel his firetruck cake he wanted, but orange and red cupcakes were still delicious!

To the Mountains We Go!

We took a weekend to get away to my family's mountain house in western NC. We all had such a great time exploring, playing at home, hiking and boat riding. We had great food, lots of laughs and a great time with family!

Pops working on Samuel's first hiking stick.

Charlie loved the new toys BeBe had to play with

Samuel at the nature center with the HUGE bear!

Charlie was beside himself to be on the boat! He smiled from ear to ear the whole time and kept moving from one adult to another to share with them what he saw.