Summer Lovin' 2012

Another summer has already coming to an end all too quickly!  Mike and I enjoy our summers with our boys immensely and try to take advantage of the precious time together as much as we possibly can.  Here are some of the highlights from Summer 2012:

Family reunion at Ft. Robinson, NE

Swimming at the Pirate Swimming Pool in the hotel in Sioux Falls (Easton's 1st time swimming!)

Visiting Aunt Summer & Chase in Iowa (Easton's 1st time at the beach!)

Reading books from the Bookmobile

Visiting Scott & Adie in North Dakota

Playing at home

T-ball



4th of July

Reptile Gardens

Helicopter ride with Papa Gary!

Eating finger foods (or trying to anyway!)

Mike and Scott turn 30!

Xavier learned to tie his shoes (and earned the toy he'd been promised if he learned to tie his shoes this summer)

Going to the drive-in 

JWF Memorial Bean Bag Tournament

It always saddens me to see summer come to an end and have to start spending so much time away from my boys again.  I tell Mike that we must be doing something beneficial in the schools though otherwise we would have won the lottery by now (not winning the lotter is God's way of keeping us in our jobs)!

And because summertime is so wonderful, it deserves two quotes!

"Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."  ~Henry James

"Summertime is always the best of what might be."  ~Charles Bowden