summer slideshow

Hello, there...(if anybody's still there...) In an attempt to chronicle a sampling of our 2014 summer, I emptied the camera card and found some blog-worthy shots.

Here's my biker boy sweeping sidewalks:

 ...and my other biker boy out having fun:

 What a boy does when a neighbor dumps a truckload of dirt on their yard:

 Jada, during a puzzling and nondescript illness--she refused food for a few days, even a popsicle.  But apparently sleep was more necessary:

 Jada's first portrait--a rather flattering portrayal of my most prominent features.  (You can I'm smiling because of the visible teeth.) 

 And here she is struggling again, not feeling like her social self:

 Back to playing.  Her inadvertant face decor, from dirty hands sweeping away her runaway hair:

 Surreal display of stormy clouds from underneath:

 A recorder lesson taking place:

 Today's trip to the nature center:

 a little stick house to play in:

 togetherness...in this big world:

 Jada's death grip on Cami, on a high bridge (perhaps she has her Grammy's fear of heights?)

 Looking at the fish below:

 more hand-holding:

 And of course my second-born would be the object of this experiment.  I had to call it off when the sand started getting shoveled into his ears:

Hope your summer's been great too!