and sweeter every day.  What a blessing our little Susanna Quinn has been.  Her smiles, happy spirit and singing coos make our days fill with joy.  May she continue to blossum in these areas with the light of Jesus shinning through.  As a parent the prayers for new heart that love Jesus are suddenly so deep and so filled with longing.  Come our Savior and work!

Summer is finally here in Manistee, so I have set out to make some goals.  On the top of the list this year is to become as hippie-like as possible and simply enjoy every minute of every day being a wife, mom and the great outdoors.  One thing I've learned so far about this ambition is it actually takes a lot of work.  If one wants to spend the days relaxing with the kidos, then nap times, before morning wake-up time and after bedtime the work load is pretty intense.  Hippies are harder workers than I thought.  Here is an example of some hippie like moments from this summer so far.

We have play time until 10:00 when Susie takes her morning nap.

The beach is the prime spot for hippies to chill, leading me to my second goal of spending every good day at the beach.

An afternoon at a folk music festival.  This was the hippie hang out for sure.  After the afternoon here I learned that I need a few more long skirts (organic of course).

Naked children of course helps the whole hippie feel.

We hippies don't do antibiotics for thrush in baby's mouth.  We prefer Gentian Violet and a very purple baby for a day or two.

And a communal bath.  It goes along with that communal living thing.  Now if only I could get rid of my schedule for baby and my lists of goals, we then may have truly reached hippieness