We have a swimmer!

Lucas has been taking swim lessons at Lifetime all month. On his last day of this session, he actually swam! Put his face in and paddled and kicked all at the same time - without the floaty barbell! I almost cried. It's a beautiful thing! His teacher, Rachel, is adorable with a capital A but she's taking next month off. Boo ... hope he gets another good teacher!

Happy Father's Day

This Father's Day, we sent Jacob off on a week-long, sleep-away Boy Scout camp in east Texas. I am pretty sure we overpacked for him, and I'm also pretty sure we'll have forgotten something very important. I just won't know about it until he returns Saturday. No electronics allowed so we cannot talk to him or text, but his Scoutmaster is there and promised to send periodic emails and photos. I can't wait for those and I'm slightly anxious about it. I hope Jacob is so busy and having such a good time that he forgets to be homesick. If I timed it right, he should get two letters from home during mail call. 

Super Dad!

This pie is for my Dad...lemon meringue always makes me think of you! Happy Father's Day!

They're Baaccck!

The neighbors that lived across the street moved to Germany last summer and came back for a visit. So we tried to get the old 'hood back together ... including friends that have moved a short distance away but we don't see them nearly often enough! 

(Catherine, Julie and Sarah - and Catherine's yet-to-be-named hedgehog)

We had a nice BBQ hosted by the Donohos and were able to laugh like old times and talk about how much the kids have grown. LOL, that makes us sound old!

(Clockwise from Lucas, Peyton, Connor, Riley, Chase, Julie, Ethan, Zac, Jacob and Sarah)