Table and chairs for 5, please.

I have a dining room table and six chairs! Not the greatest picture, but you get the idea.

Quinn also has a special spot now. We bought a "space-saver" high chair. Saving space wasn't necessarily the priority, but we liked the idea of having her sit at the table with us. I think she approves. :-)

Gotta love a bonfire.

Our friends Ray and Laura are in town for a visit. Tonight we did a little bonfire in the backyard with the neighbors. Mmmm ... s'mores. I've been wanting s'mores since I got back from the lake last weekend but it has been windy.

Ray played football with Noah and Trev. Football is a loose term. It was more of a "let's pile on Ray" sort of game.


Note G and his lawnmower, completely ignoring them. G actually mows in pattern sometimes - he is quite fascinated with mowing and watches Bob from the window so he sees Daddy go back and forth. Little mimic.



Quinn scootched around and looked cute. As usual.



Plenty of s'mores were eaten by all, and now the kids are in bed. Yay!

Here's a couple of quick shots from last weekend at the lake.

Mark - getting some air.



Turner on the boat (where he likes to take a nap).



The kids watching tv as the night wore down.

July is here.

It is actually cool today - in the 60's this morning. A nice break for the heat!

As I type this, Quinn is licking the legs of the table and the boys are playing some sort of yelling/running/action figure game that involves lots of growling. We have also taught G to speak like a pirate. It is too funny.

Last week was busy. The kids and I went to stay with Mark and June at the lake for a few days. We had a blast. Mark and June are awesome hosts and I love hanging out with them. G literally did not wear a pair of shoes from Thursday until Saturday. Now that is a good trip. I took a ton of pictures but I need to look through them and pick some good ones to post. Maybe in the next day or so.

Then on Saturday it was Rock-fest in our town. Griffin LOVED the parade. He was a candy-seeking machine. Noah had fun too, especially when the Pepsi people gave him an entire 12-pack of pop. It was Africa-hot and humid but definitely worth it. We also stayed up late to watch fireworks (well, late for the kids - ha!). It is always a good show. The neighbor kids and our kids had glow sticks and ran around the backyards in the dark like little crazy people.


I am in scrapbooking crunch time right now. I am doing page samples for an upcoming trade show, and I am about half done. Here's a layout that went up at 2peas today ... I designed the paper in the background in one of my digital kits. I made the flowers for another kit - both kits can be found here and here.