This and That

This is going to be one of those posts.  The kind with never ending pictures and not a whole lot of story behind them with lots of randomness.  But, in the interest of our blog book, aka the "family journal" and catching up in one quick post, here it goes:

It doesn't seem to matter when Grace is here the carnival comes to town.  She's been here in the Spring, and the carnival comes.  Summer and the carnival comes.  We are always happy regardless of when it comes because it gives the kids something to do.

Grace and Miki

Jill and Grace on the "swingy ride"

Miki testing her muscle

Grace showing her strength

 All three girls with their prizes

After the carnival we headed to Patio for a large ice cream cone.

Sweet little Georgia in her bouncy thing

July has been a pretty wet month.  Grace and Miki love playing in the rain, and I looked out to see what they were up to.  They had our gardening tote filling it up with rain water so that they could dump the rain on each other.

They took turns standing above the other and dumping the water.

Jill caught on to what they were doing and had to join the fun.

Grace and Miki

 The girls spent a lot of time at the pool this summer, so they were always putting on sunscreen.  They developed a more efficient way of putting it on, very smart girls.

We have a bird watcher in our house.  She loves them.  So, when our cat had one her mouth and went under the deck and down a window well to get away our bird watcher wasn't having any of it.  She went down to the library, opened the window, and in came our cat.  With a cup of water the bird was set free.  Listening to it all from upstairs it sounded like a war zone!  With mission accomplished, the pretty yellow bird was set free.

July was the month for giving our kittens away.  The girls were of course sad about it, even though we let them keep two.  Before giving them up they wanted their pictures taken with them.

Sam was fond of these two

Mik and Jill loved them all

 When summer comes the girls spend a lot of evenings on the tramp.

Tennis tournaments are always a sign of summer coming to an end.  Miki and Jill both played this summer, Sam plays in high school.  It's always very hot making an umbrella and water a must.

Sam and Miki in the shade of our umbrella

waiting for Miki's match

Miki



 Miki won her first match

Jill getting ready for her match.  Such a concentrated look on her face.

Jill

Both girls did very well in their matches and had a lot of fun during the summer.  It was Miki's first year, and Jill's third year.  Now we're getting ready for school to start.