Summer Days

Ramping Up For Summer

Cheesy, I know.  

The boys found a big pile of mulch behind their school.  It turned into a bike ramp for the bigger two, and just a hill to ride up for the Half-Pint.  

At some point Brother KP could even stand upright on the mound without gravity taking over!  Half-Pint managed to bury his front wheel and face-plant into the mulch.  LP crashed out of camera range on the back side of the mulch pile - so a good time was had by all!

Gravity getting the best of Brother KP

A pensive moment contemplating Newton's Law

LP getting up over the pile

Racing towards the jump....

....  stuffing the front wheel - and his face - into the pile...

... and loving it all!

A Horrible Day At The Beach

I don't really care for beach days.  I find I need something to do other than stare out at the water.  Lots of other people love hanging out at the beach so I bravely faced the elements, as well as some questionably attired patrons along the shore,  I didn't take any pictures of those people - to protect the innocent and young readers of this blog... both of them.

The weather was great.  The water was warm.  The company was pretty good, too.

The staircase down to the beach

The boys attacking a sand castle

Bigger boys jousting in kayaks

Getting artsy with filters

The gang playing in the lake

E-Bomb going all out to catch the frisbee!

Sorry, getting artsy again with the beach grasses

Late in the afternoon we had the beach to ourselves.  I bet we
would in February, as well.

Hatchet Jack performing seagull patrols

A couple of gulls narrowly avoiding a mid-air collision

Best way to keep this one out of trouble is to bury him in the sand!

Other Stuff That Happened...

The window-lickers went to day camp at the church.  They scrambled their way up the top of the climbing wall.  Half-Pint's comment; "It's not as high as the rope at home so it was easy."

Half-Pint raced his uncle up the wall!

Brother KP got a sunburn on his back.  I went to check on him be heading to bed myself and found this:  wearing track pants, sleeping half-standing. half-flopped on his bed with a little pillow tucked under his shirt to keep it from touching his back.

Canada Day fireworks!  My dad and I got crafty and glued a bunch of these piddly little sparklers to a board so we could light a bunch at a time.  Flip the board, light a bunch more.  It was a SPEC-TAC-U-LAR display!  Nah, wasn't that great - but still fun.

Oh yeah, the big show!

Not every picture I have of E-Bomb are of him about to land
in water.

Someone got older, and seems to have mellowed out a little bit.  Perhaps she's a nice person after all.  Probably not.

Remember that time she stole my chair...

Oh, one more thing....

We caught some fish, too!

Hey - this one is bigger than the lure she used!