My husband played baseball throughout his youth and had told me that he had dreamed of having a son to play catch with one day. This year his dream has come to life in our backyard. Our precious son, seven and half years of rugged boy-ness, is on a coach pitch baseball team. He is a quick study, after ten minutes of instructive demonstrations and hand manipulations, he was catching nearly every ball.
We love summer around our house. And I mean LOVE IT. We love the beautiful flowers, the long days with no school, the freedom and the butterflies. { If you look closely there is a black butterfly at the top grouping of flowers. } The kids had been searching for weeks so they were so excited to spot their first butterfly of the season.
Happy summer (just 5 1/2 more days of school for my kids) and good reading. :)
Our favorite place to eat as a family is Hinode Japanese Steakhouse. And everyone but Ryan loves sushi rolls. We have a few favorites, but Christi has one favorite, the Springfield Roll. She has become quite the sushi master, eating 6 or 8 pieces at a sitting, using chopsticks for kids no less. What a difference from my childhood of going to Pizza Inn every two weeks or staying the night with Jean 2 so I could go to McDonald's on Fridays.
Ryan, my precious boy, loves to have his hair blow dried. So when we went to get haircuts, he made a deal with the stylist...She could style his hair however she wanted if she would first blow dry his hair. I think he looks rather handsome. ;)
I am breathless when I look at this picture of Bria. She's so grown up, too grown up. I know she's only 13, but I feel like I'm going to turn around tomorrow and be standing at her gradution. After a tough adjustment year organization wise that affected her grades and a productive year of making LOTS of new friends, things are about to relax as summer approaches. I am so proud of who she is, strong and brilliant.
Nicki has green eyes. That's not so unusual unless you take into account that only one other person on both sides of the family has green eyes..and that's my mom. I always loved my mom's green eyes, so exotic to me since all of ous kids had dad's dark brown eyes. When our first child was born, I was surprised to see she had blue eyes, and then when Nicki came along her eyes started blue and then turned to green...I fell in love with them.
Ryan's Primary Family (Kindergarteners and First graders) took an end of year field trip to the Imax Theatre. The show was Underwater Adventures. The screen is gigantic, which made for some pretty tense moments during hunt scenes. Everyone had a great time.
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This, my friends, is my new favorite picture of my youngest. She kept asking me to take her picture this day and posed each time. All of a sudden there was this Angel that appeared on my camera screen.
"She utters not a single word, but in her eyes conversations are heard."
Christy and I went to Daddy's work to buy a new van and while we were there Daddy showed us a new addition to the Automotive family. There are six baby robins living in a small shrub outside the door of the Pontiac side of the carlot.
By the way, we like our new van, too! :)
