For My Dad

My father died today. I don't know how else to commemorate this day other than to just write it here.  He was eighty-eight. He always said he would live to be a hundred, and I believed him.  So it was a bit of a shock to hear.  It makes me all the more grateful for the one year we lived in St. Louis.  Of all the places The Man could have chosen and gained admission, we ended up in the place where my father had just moved two years earlier. Who knew he would only have one more to live after that?

He had a lot of faults, but he was a good father and I look forward to seeing him again one day.

Summer Goings On

This summer has been somewhat busy.  Here's a bit of a recap:

The Boy had soccer camp for a week and weekly practice for the rest of the summer.  At camp, he got to shoot goals with a soccer playing goat while wearing the ginormous T-shirt the camp provided.  I don't even know why they bothered to ask me his shirt size.

We all went to the zoo.

We borrowed the neighbors power wheels every time they went out of town.

The Boy and the Girl are both in swim lessons and having a blast. 

  We are spending time at the beach where the Boy learned to boogie board and is testing out his surfing skills.

And we went to the dentist.  :)

Fourth of July

We had a really fun Fourth! We spent the morning at a very cute, hometown parade.  A lady was kind enough to lend her extra chair situated right in front to the kids.  The Boy got to high five the Statue of Liberty.

They also saw a number of Disney characters including The Incredibles, Peter Pan, Mickey and Minnie, and Mary Poppins.

After the parade, we had burgers at a local dive.  It was soooooo good.  Then I took the Boy to see Despicable Me 2 at the theater while The Man and the Girl did some shopping.

We skipped the big fireworks show over the ocean because it's late and the fog rolls in making it hard to see anyway.  We stuck to sparklers and snap pops in our back yard. Great day!