August Photos

Sooo, what kind of pictures do I have here today? I feel like I am writing a school essay titled "What I did on summer vacation", except mine is called - "What did I do in August? I can barely remember even though it's only August 26th...let me check the pictures, maybe they will spark my memory" Long title, but then again, I was never very good at titles.


Here is Rufus in the garden...these Echinacea really last such a long time and the yellow finches LOVE them. And boy do they propagate!!

We had some friends visit at the beginning of August - there were six adults and eight children. The kids were soo sweet and it was a joy to play with facepaint with them...Declan chose the leopard face

My little butterfly...

The princess...

The whole painted gang (minus the two unpainted babies)

One of our friends' sons is really into superheroes and he brought along his black Spiderman costume and Declan was delighted to show off his OWN black Spiderman costume. Some serious male bonding ensued.

And here are all of the Quayles (visiting all the way from Texas). Check out Colleen, she is such a cool gal - let her daughter try her hand at painting a butterfly on her face! Tony and Colleen are some of our oldest friends and we were so bummed when they moved to Texas. Now we see them once a year (if we are lucky) when they come "home" to visit family in the summer.

And here we are...

We visited my grandma a couple of times this month - we really need to get out there more often!!! She just turned 94 and I feel so lucky and blessed to have her in my life - I better start showing it even more! Here's Brendan playing with the dollhouse in her living room (kept there just for the grandbabies)

And Declan in her living room, showing off his angelic "pose"

And Declan in her front yard, practicing his tree climbing. My grandma lives on 17 acres and there are loads of great trees to climb, but you have to watch out for poison ivy and "gardener snakes" (as Declan calls them)

And here is Brendan walking up the hill to my grandma's house. I love this shot because I have so many fond memories of this place. We visited my grandma every Sunday of my entire childhood and I spent a week or two every summer staying with her and my grandpa. All that land was sooo fun to explore and she always had a dog or two running around to play with. What joy I experienced there!

We also had a couple of campouts in our backyard. I say "we" but I really mean Brian and Declan. Brendan and I slept in the house. I'm just not crazy about sleeping in a tent with a baby. Which is why the tent was in our backyard and not at some campground somewhere. But Brendan did enjoy the novelty of the tent and of eating our dinner in the backyard.

He also enjoyed the cicada that Declan caught - here it is:

And closer still...

The "men" and their tent...

And Daisy enjoying the comforts of our air mattress in the tent

No camp-out would be complete without s'mores, so we borrowed my parents' fire pit and roasted some marshmallows. (We also caught a mass of fireflies, but I have no pics of that)

My boys in the sandbox - that was certainly used A LOT in August!

We spent hours and hours in the garden...

Random...but cute

We went to my 20th high school reunion and had a blast.

We went swimming at our community pool and at Kathy's new boyfriend's house. Good times...

And more fun at the zoo...here is Declan on the train...

Me and Brendan on the train....

And the boys checking out a peacock

The End