Summer...

I love summer in our yard...

The birds are finished making babies and my houses are empty...
The flowers are in full bloom...

The herbs are yummy...

And the tomatoes are popping up all over the vines...

The kid toys are strewn all over the yard...

And I am enjoying the new planting boxes...

A few fires have been made...

And all is good in our world...

Shawn goes to Camp...

Shawn and Daddy are headed off to Scout Summer Camp...

I hope Shawn doesn't have to carry Dad's pack very far...

Lasagna...

Had a craving for lasagna tonight...

Had a great time harvesting the herbs from my own garden...This lasagna had spinach, Italian sausage, ricotta, motz, romano, alfredo sauce and red gravy.

It was super yummy!! Of course we didn't eat the lasagna alone...there was garlic bread...

and watermelon....of course...it is summer after all...

Summertime...

This is where my children spend a lot of their summer.
Jumping on the trampoline.

This year the kids have added a new dimension to the trampoline experience.

It's called "The Butt".

Any time I pull out the camera now I get..."The Butt".

Unless I say..."Cut it out...no one wants to see your butts."

And then I get this...I have no idea what this is...maybe the butts weren't so bad after all.

There...that's better...a nice face picture.

And right as I was taking the trampoline pics this giant bird flew over our house. This was the best picture I could get on such short notice but it was pretty cool.

Welcome to summertime...

Catching up...

School is almost out and my time will be limited so I wanted to catch up on some blogging.

Tim and I were so excited to meet one of our Facebook friends and his wife a few weeks ago. It's funny when you get to know someone on the computer and then meet them in person. We were very fortunate to genuinely enjoy the real "Marty" as much as the online version...

Of course no blog post would be complete without a quick Cricket photo.
Austin's class took a Field Trip to the zoo the other day. He begged me to let him take the camera with him to document the day. At first I was reluctant but I am glad I ended up letting him take it as it was really interesting to see things from his perspective.

Someone took a few pictures of him which was really nice.

And he took a bunch of animal photos. I was so impressed with his vision in the pictures. He did a great job framing them and choosing what to photograph. (well...except for the 27 photos of blue..."Look Mom, a seal. Look Mom, a dolphin. Look Mom, a walrus.")

He has now decided that he would like to become a photographer.

Mom thinks that is a great idea!!

Happy Summer everyone...it's going to be a crazy one around here...