more of summer

summer has been stretched from all sides. we are holding onto the end of it and it-bobby went back to work today and grant started baseball practice for 'fall ball' but we are still enjoying the long days and relatively nice temperatures. the contrast from last summer's drought is evident in the bugs and the green. 

 the garden keeps growing and the weeds do too-i picked my very first big red ripe tomato this evening!

 the kids and i spent a week in OK and had fun playing with cousins...

 unfortunately ben has a rough go after his 15 month vaccines-he developed a very high fever while we were there-nana always makes it better...
 we celebrated ryan's birthday the first night we were there-it was fun to include a 2 others with july birthdays!

 bobby finished the deck while we were away-and we got to try it out to celebrate sharon's birthday and a belated congrats to perry and asa!
 these are misplaced-emily had a soccer tournament in june-and i never posted the pics...it was a sweltering day and she played 4 straight games-yikes.