I hope everyone had a great summer. I know we sure did (despite the 46 and counting days of 100+ temps - outside, not in my kids... although last week...) I thought I'd catch everyone up on our summer with some pictures.
We played in our kiddie pool
Ruby loved the water
We planted a perennial flower garden in front of our house. Thankfully, all but the butterfly bush (top left), and one of the phlox (bottom left) made it through the oppressive heat!
Andy and I left the kids with my parents for a day and went to the Sand Dunes to ride our dune buggy. It was a wonderful break from the kids and was SO nice to spend some one on one time with the hubs!
Here we are out on the sand.
Andy & I celebrated our 6th Anniversary! God has blessed us so immensely these past 6 years!
Our parish celebrated its 125th Anniversary with an outdoor mass. Yes, it was 100 degrees outside, no, nobody that I know of fainted.
We babysat for my niece and nephew for 4 days. It was a lot of fun and gave me a good idea of what life would be like with 4 kids. I LOVED IT!
My nephew celebrated his 5th birthday. He and Ira are just 10 weeks apart! Hopefully they will be lifelong buds!
We played slip and slide!
We went to Paradise... er... Galveston, TX. It is our very favorite vacation spot of all. Here are the kids at our favorite restaurant, Bennos. Ruby was kissing Ira over and over. He couldn't stop laughing.
Again with the kissing. Sheesh, it's like they love each other or something!
Sweet Ruby is growing up so FAST!
We rented a condo in Galveston right off the beach. It had 2 awesome swimming pools. It was our first time down there in a condo as opposed to a hotel. I don't think we'll ever stay in hotels again! It was AWESOME having a room for the kids, a room for ourselves, and a full kitchen! It was a vacation for us too! When the kids went to bed, we got to stay up and hang out instead of the hotel, where it's lights out for everyone at 8:00!
We had a street artist on the Strand draw a picture of Ira and Ruby. I think he did a pretty good job, don't you?
We got to ride on a ferry from the island to the Bolivar Peninsula. And for the record, I was copying Ruby's expression, not vice-versa.
We got home from vacation to this produce from our garden.
My sister and I dressed our daughters like twins. They are a 14 weeks apart in age, but couldn't act more like each other. I'm pretty sure they could pass as twins any day of the week.
We hosted the girls when our parish had the Totus Tuus program. It is always a joy to be a part of that program!
Ira took swimming lessons. I can't believe how much his skills/comfort level/abilities in the water grew over the summer. He'll be ready for level 2B next summer!
Ruby ate holes in her toast. I don't know why, but that is how Ruby eats toast (or muffins, pizza, rolls, breadsticks) every time.
We got us a new baby cousin!
Well, that just about sums it up! Like I said, I hope your summer was as great as ours! I hope to get back to more regular blogging now, but as always, the fam. comes first. God bless!
