The End of the Season

This year H played coach pitch baseball through the local community center. Last night, their coach arranged for them to sit in the VIP box and be "baseball buddies". They were right next to the dugout and got to get autographs and a hat.



Before the game, they ran out with the players and stood next to them for the national anthem.


Here he is running in after the anthem.


I think this was his favorite part of the entire baseball season. Next fall, we've him signed up for soccer. I think baseball is not fast enough for him. And, he loves watching the World Cup.

Merry Mid-Summer!

It's finally summer!

It's so beautiful here, temperatures are in the 80's and low 90's.

The ice cream truck has started to make it's appearance.

Cherries are in season...

*sigh*

Summertime and the living is good!

Please send more of these my way.

Yes, I'm finally posting. Last week I finished finals at school and this last weekend I rushed about doing things that I could finally allow myself to do. In the last weeks, I have been doing other things and luckily, I've photographed some of it.



My friend Elane had a last minute get together at her house the night before my French Oral Exam. We had to go, Elane is such a great hostess and we knew other friends would be there. We had grilled sausage and sangria. My first mosquito bites of the season occured there. I'm such bug bait. Who needs citronella when I'm around to attract all the mosquitos...



My niece E came over last week. She's so funny and smart. Yeah, yeah, yeah...all babies are smart, it's just I forgot how smart they can be. They hide behind all that cute-ness and then BANG! they're into the book shelf. I love it when she visits.



With local schools out, the community events that mark the arrival of summer have begun. We went to the local concert at the park on Friday last. It was jazz and they sounded good. It was aweful windy though and we left at 8:30 to warm up at home.



Saturday, we went to the local Master Gardener's Garden Faire. They have a demonstration garden at the library that you can walk through. They had guides and vendors and food. The kids dyed their hair green in the children's garden. We ran into the Shmoos there. I bought some organic blueberries for a snack and the kids bought very expensive ice cream.



Afterwards, we picked up Troy and headed off to a birthday party. It was lots of fun as well. I ended up spilling a full glass of wine on myself and I wasn't even tipsy at the time. My hand just had to teach me a lesson appearently and *splash*. It did wash out of the dress thank goodness.



Father's day we woke up and went to my parent's house for brunch and afterwards, the kids went swimming. We came home and crashed with full bellies and pretty much laid low for the rest of the day.

My week is filled with fun stuff and now that I've got more free time, I'll be more faithful at posting.