More Summer Stuff

   

This is just one of the two big trees that have fallen lately.  Don’t know why since it was during a time with no wind storm or anything and this one looked healthy.  We noticed another one down yesterday.  Plus, one day last week I was standing at the driveway and heard the sound of cracking wood and saw with my own eyes a huge branch coming down from another tree in the woods.  Lots of firewood for us, but why are these trees breaking?  A little scary considering how much time we are out in the woods here right by the house and that’s where these are coming down.  Hmm….

 

Unfortunately, this picture’s exposure is not too great, but this day I was on the mower and looked up to see Caroline on the driveway which is not unusual at all, but it was funny how she was so color coordinated with the background.  Her shorts were the color of our house and her shirt the same as the impatiens. 

  

What she was working on was the pie throwing game she dreamed up for her birthday party.

 

Here’s the before, the day she created it. 

Here’s the during.

 

Kitties were loving the cream.

Things are still fun.

But soon, they turned. 

  

And here’s the after.

Not so smiley and happy by the end.

Speaking of befores and afters… here’s her room.  Gracious.

Much better!

Sam and Grant’s room got a makeover this week too, but I can’t say Grant was smiley about it at all.  Sam liked it.  Who wouldn’t like a neater and cleaner space?  I don’t have the curtain rod up yet so no pics.  Maybe later after I get done ruining Grant’s life forever. 

Scenes from Caroline's 8th birthday.  Kitti from Hungary was over.

Caroline loved her dress from Grant.  He kinda changed up the typical gift giving approach by wearing both the gift bag and the gift. 

Paints and clay from Sam, and an iTunes gift card from Jack. 

That she immediately lost. 

[But I will say her lost DS showed up recently, 8 months missing, when we got the new fridge and moved out the old one.  Guess I had put it in timeout on top and totally forgot.  Oops.]  

The next day, she had a small party with her girlfriends.

    

Pictures and cards from her aunts and grandparents made the perfect b-day decorations. 

And then the next day was Fathers Day.  Here’s Sam with my dad, looking lots better than six months ago when his heart surgery was going on.

 

OK, we’re almost caught up with the summer happenings but not quite….catch ya again soon!