1st half of the summer

Lots of much deserved relaxation

 Jump off the dock onto the floatie game.  Lots of time spent perfecting this!

 Party boat rides.  This was before it warmed up

 Making pizza for dinner.  I decided it would be a good time for the older two to do some meal planning and cooking since we have a little more time in the summer and they really should know how to cook for themselves.  It didn't go over well, you would have thought I was making them shovel crap, but it was a bit better once they accepted it.  Ainsley isn't a big fan of cooking taco's...said they tasted different after seeing the raw meat.  Reggie enjoyed bbq'ing quite a bit and took the easiest meals he could.

 Biking around the lake

 Reggie/Ryan time at the races

 Playing in the sand.  Lots of that this summer

 I had to take a picture.  He assured me it is to rehabilitate his partial knee replacement.  I told him its o.k. to continue and be healthy by exercising!!!

 Regal movie day!  My kids only ate 3 tubs of popcorn!

 Hmmm.   A mystery.  Mom and I were driving and an owl flew over which was amazing and then I looked down and saw this on the window.  A drop from the owl?  Or a crawl out from the engine where it was living?  I was going to pull over and put the wiper on to get rid of it but mom flipped the wiper wand before I pulled over and it took flight over the top of the car, ha ha!

We also had some visitors in our pantry.  After we figured it out, they were quickly caught and the family of five is no longer snacking on all our food!  They seemed to really enjoy pumpkin seeds.

 Splash wars.  Lots of this and tag

 Warming up and resting

 Trampoline time!  Many, many hours spent on this.  Grandma surprised the kids with a trampoline this summer and it was so much fun for all the kids.  Stella and Ruby came over a lot and they had fun talking about Harry Potter, tubing and playing in the water

Happy birthday Dad!