My first blog post... will probably be boring, but I am learning! Right now everyone is spread all over... Maggie is at the Fine Arts Academy in Springfield... that's her on the left in her 'Clowning Around' class. Hopefully when she gets home tomorrow she will be able to teach us all how to juggle and make balloon animals.Dexter is in California visiting family there. Christopher is in Texas hanging out and waiting for EFY to start. Devon's 19th birthday was last weekend, and so we sent a new bike to help him get to the job training that he is going to start soon... I also sent him a lot of candy, and a toothbrush, toothpaste, flossers, and mouthwash... hopefully he gets as much use out of those as he does the candy!
The little kids are here and enjoying summer. We have been over to a friend's house and picked blueberries, blackberries and green beans (and picked up chiggers). We have also made our own little garden on our deck. We have cute little watermelons growing up a trellis... they are only little sugar baby watermelons, and we are supporting them with pantyhose. There are also cucumbers, crookneck squash, zucchini, cantaloupes, tomatoes, radishes, carrots, and broccolini. Should be really cool when everything is finally ready to be harvested!
Asa started tennis last fall and played in his first tournament a few weeks ago. He has been going to tennis camp every day and absolutely loves tennis. He has another tournament this weekend, and is such a little competitor. Asa is intensely goal oriented, and has made being a great tennis player his goal. My garage door has gotten a big beating from his practicing!
Jack has been doing piano and is working on the 'spongebob
theme' right now. He also loves art and has taken to photography.
He is so funny. At Asa's tennis tournament he was given the
camera,and so he found a basket full of little rubber tennis ducks, and it was all over from there...
his fun for the rest of the day was placing the little ducks all over the place and taking pictures of them. The were like little yard gnomes all over the tennis complex. One day Jack took a box of chalk out to the front sidewalk and made it colorful. It took a lot of work, but it was really pretty until it rained!
Seven also did the piano camp and is going to start taking lessons, and she loves loves loves swimming this summer. Her only problem seems to be finding someone to go swimming with her when she wants to get in the pool. That problem will soon be solved when Grandmama will be coming to stay with us for a few weeks. Seven is excited that she will have someone who wants to swim with her all the time.
Girls' Camp is coming up, Lance is going to be riding the TA120, and there are a lot of other fun things planned for the summer. Check back soon and hopefully we will have more to blog about!
