Summertime

I always feel like summer is finally here once the 4th of July arrives. We had a great day hanging out with our favorite Saunders family, enjoying food and the awesome fireworks show from Vets Stadium right behind their house. We reminisced about "back in the day" when my family and a bunch of other friends hung out at their house doing the same thing. Back then however, we were allowed to light off fireworks, and believe me, we did. I feel like I am getting old! It was so wonderful to see Jeff, Amy, and Kayla last week. It really stinks that they are so far away. I think everyone in the family is counting down the days til Christmas when they will be back, especially Grandma :) Some people have said that Kayla looks like me. I will let all of you be the judge of that... The sopping wet puppy is Sadie Mae. We went swimming at Jeff's cousins house last week. Since we think she has a good deal of lab in her, we thought we'd see how she liked the pool. It was so stinking cute to watch her "doggy paddle." I am not sure if she loved it, but she didn't freak out either. Soto of course, still detests the water. He spent the afternoon trying to make sense of the tortise in the yard. A big congrats to Jon and Aubrey on finding out that they are most likely having a baby girl, yeah!!! Babies are so wonderful and we couldn't be happier for them!!