summer days | photo dump

Summer is officially over, but boy, we had fun!

 

 

Celebrating our 9th wedding anniversary.

 

Squirt bottles = endless cool off fun!

Visits to Great Grandma.

This must have been in the drought stricken heat of summer - her flowers show it.

 

 

Great Grandma's pelican, Frederick, gets hugs, kisses and lots of head-patting by Lucas & Hannah. 

 

Chic.

 

My monkey on the monkey bars.

Oh so many pool days!

And lots of pool snacks.

Pig tails.

 

Picnics.

Charlie and Lucas.

 

Grown up time = golf.

Lots of walks that had a mid-point at a park.  Any park.

 

On this day we were in Ames running errands.  Lucas spotted the park from a block away and asked if we could go. 

I had no reason to say no, so I drove around the block, parked and played. 

Fun to have that kind of flexibility to say yes.

 

Rock climbers at another park.

I bet we saw a dozen different parks throughout the summer.

Wishing Cameron a happy birthday on FaceTime.  Hannah kept trying to sit next to her!

 

Chillin'

 

 

One of the best summer treats! 

 

Ella and Hannah.

 

monkey see, monkey do.

World's best helper.  Loves to clean the garage. 

 

Lucas and Jonah, best buds.

Celebrating Jonah's birthday.

 

 

More golf.

Library Legos = entertainment for more than 30 seconds.

 

 

Library Train = entertainment for more than 3 minutes.

 

 

 

Hannah tackles, hugs and drags this bear around the library.

 I can only imagine that 50 other kids do this every week, too. Poor bear.

 

 

Trip with Maggie and Dave to celebrate Dave's completion of Graduate School of Banking. 

 

 

This picture just makes me laugh. 

 

 

Walks at the Lake.

 

 

Making a wish.

 

 

Summer swinging.

 

Riding a pretend horse at another park.

 

Ready for fall...