Lily, The Neighbor Child and One Sleepy Boy

On the 5th of July, the little great nephews came to our house, and we dragged them to the park. They didn't take much convincing. 

We had to go to the park as Lily was returning from five long weeks with Idaho Conservation Corps clearing hiking trails in Idaho and Washington. Grace had been despondent to spend the summer without her Lily, and we had missed her cute face as well. I, personally, need her to boost my ego as she is always the most excited for any of my new knitting projects. She was excited to come home to her friends, family, and dependable running water.

All the groups who returned looked tired and dirty, but also so very happy. Lily was crying and laughing while hugging everyone. They all worked hard, developed very strong opinions about hand tools, made some good friends, and Lily developed a passion for working trails. We were just glad to have Lily back to running in and out of the house.

The little guys were exhausted from the holiday, but tried to sit through part of the program. Big dude gave up and went to play on the playground, while little dude just gave up and went to sleep.

  

After my back gave up, we moved him to a bench, where he slept on.

After the program finished, and we played a little more, we loaded the sleeping boy up in the van, got him home, unloaded him, and put him in our bed where he kept sleeping for at least another couple hours.

The late night of fireworks caught up with us all, so we were happy he was sleeping but also just a little jealous.