This Summer, Day 20

Today we visited the beautiful and fun yard and pool of our friends the Schinkels!  Another family from First Trinity, the Bolengs, also went to swim and enjoy the great lunch that Gretchen made for us.  The kids had a great time together; it's so nice when they get to spend time together outside of church.  We are blessed and thankful to have such great families at First Trinity!

Daisy was a little tired on the way home.

Virginia's swim meet at Fox Chapel was rained out after six events due to a wicked and beautiful thunderstorm.

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Virginia received a late-night makeover from her big sister, Ruby.  Virginia is always beautiful, but tonight she looks glamorous, and WAY TOO OLD!

 Oh yes, and we also had late-late night waffles and bacon the end.

This Summer, Day 19

On Monday, we made a paltry attempt at laundry and ran a fun and productive errand to Target, but the day's real accomplishment is setting up the water zone on our front yard hill:

 The cow belonged to Russ's Grandma Polly.  His tail wags and sprays. It is a rare item and always a conversation piece!



Daisy and Paddy were supposed to hold hands and cross the road together!  Daisy didn't follow protocol:

We crossed to play in the yard and pool of our neighbor, Nicholas!

This Summer, Day 18

WARNING:   PHOTOS OF A LIGHT SABER BATTLE TO FOLLOW

After church we slurped some noodles at Noodles and Company, then cooled off a bit at the pool.

In the evening, Russ and Leah went into the city to see two films together, The Bling Ring and a documentary about the commercial fishing industry, Leviathan.  Leah's description of Leviathan insures that I will never see it, even though she wasn't awake for the whole thing and couldn't give a complete review.  The Bling Ring, I think, she and Russ found OK but not terrific.

The other girls and I had a french fry and story picnic in the backyard:

Then, the real excitement began when the neighborhood Jedis came over for a light saber battle with the two youngest Lucases.

This Summer, Day 17

We all went swimming at the pool we joined this summer, the Ingomar Swim Club.  It was a beautiful day there!  We ordered pizza for lunch.  Daisy got a new swim vest and she swims sometimes in the baby pool and sometimes with the big guys.

It was the night of the super moon, and we went out late to view it, although it was covered in a haze and wasn't as sharp and clear as we were hoping it would be!

This Summer, Day 16

AN   EVENTFUL DAY

It began with the baking of this blueberry pie:

Later, we got to see's the last-day performance of Leah's Summer Studio group at Saltworks:

They did scenes from Treasure Island and she played Ben Gunn, the shipwrecked man.  She did a great job of portraying the character with a glazed look in her eye and a slightly crazed, eager edginess.

Later still, Ruby and a group of friend went to see Monsters University.  Here she is with two of them:

Leah also went to see the film later in the day.

Later still, we had friends over for dinner, Jesse, Tess, and Pippa Carter.  Daisy enjoyed introducing our bunny, Sidney, to her friend and having someone her size to play with in the yard!