June - Officially Summer!

And so it begins..."homeschooling" (by request), swim team (even for Margaret!), diving boards and slides, VBS, lax camp (hosted by Coach Killian), trips to the river, the mountains, and the beach...how to fit it all in!  

But first, dinner date with Daddy:)  Apparently there were some compliments at Chick-fil-A!  

Teaching Matthew about dress-up...

Oh, Shit...to be blunt!

Story time in Children's Church

Lighting the Christ candle for prayer time.

The last week of school was BUSY for Andrew.  He had lax camp every night from 6:30-8:00pm and his first swim meet Wednesday (which, thanks to a tornado, turned into round 2 on Thursday night!). I gotta say, I don't miss lugging everyone 5 houses daily at 7:15am, but I do miss the biking outfits chosen and Matthew's sweet, silent, unsolicited waves goodbye to Mr. Rose and the bus.  

First bloody nose in lax!  Some other kid needs to learn how to get a ground ball and not come up into Andrew's face with an empty net!  He handled it calmly, but apparently there was quite a lot of blood...which would continue to be problematic in the pool the rest of the week!

And the once beautiful garden (thanks to Mom's advice, counsel, and transplanting!) is now a ground cover of weeds and grass again...still a work in progress!  The colors of my garden...green (with weeds), then brown (soil reappears), and finally white (with preen).  

My weeding buddy caught four TINY frogs in a matter of minutes!  We were wishing Anne was around for some good ole fashioned fun.

A beautiful Starry Nights at Veritas Vineyard....

why don't we do this more often???

Waiting for their Dental appointments.  It is AWESOME having a reader...and a pink phone.  They LOVE our family dentist.

Our first experience with a pediatric dentist was not a good one, but now they go to ours and love it so much they ask when we get to go next.  

Since April, Andrew has been planning lax camp---specifically for June 17---at our house, with Coach Killian.  Invitations were hand written and sent by school cubbies.  Thankfully, Margaret was content inside with me doing her "home school summer workbook" and Matthew took a long nap.  It was only 95 that day, but the boys did great and Michael was in his element, to say the least.    

Bitty Baby has made reappeared lately and has her own sleeping formation on the floor.  Evidently, she needed to be smothered this day.  And yes, Margaret does dress up for nap and bedtime every day:)

United Way Family Volunteer Day - it's not fun taking Matthew anywhere these days, but Margaret enjoyed this (though she wouldn't let me take a picture of her drawing pictures for troops or for the soup kitchen).  

The advantage to having Daddy volunteer for Children's Church is that he's right there to take a picture of little Miss Margaret in her favorite white dress as she sings "Jesus Loves Me", waiting for her buddies to come join her on the steps.