Back to School

This school year our family theme is...

· “ Learn of me, and listen to my words; walk in the meekness of my Spirit, and you shall have peace in me.” (D&C 19:23)

We had a feast to celebrate the beginning of this momentous occasion.
These little guys stole the evening spotlight.

"Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire."
-William Butler Yeats

The evening was spent dining on...

greens, beets, walnuts, blue cheese, lemon vinaigrette salad
almond-crusted salmon with caramelized onions
tomato dill couscous

and...

delicious conversations.

So watch out world, here they come...

...after dessert of course.

Cheers to this year!

Water Love

Last week James took his swim vest off after a little dip.
After he had a quick snack, he wanted to get back in.
The thought of trying to slip him back into his wet swim vest with one hand while juggling Anna with the other seemed impossible.
So I told him I would just hold him and help him in the pool.

Well, to my surprise he didn't need any help.
He swims!
I was shocked.
How long has he been able to do that?

Nostalgia

Remember this?

A Love Note to Summer

Dear Summer,

Please do not fade too quickly.
We have not yet eaten enough popsicles.

We still have plenty of barefoot playing to do.

We love to celebrate your warm evenings with friends and fireflies.



Your showers are refreshing and
they smell so good.

We love enjoying your bounty.

And your warm rays just fills our our souls with light.
We love our Summer fling.
We are not ready to kiss you good-bye.

While Christian was in Austin

We boarded a train at South Station in Boston.

24 hrs later, we got off in...
can you figure it out?
Here are some clues.

We played in some fountains.

Rode bikes along the magnificent mile, and learned about architecture.

Visited several museums,

and the "free" zoo.
How much does "free" cost Mom and Dad?

We ate some of this,

and rode the Ferris Wheel.

Then, there was the evening of perfect weather, with a picnic dinner and concert..."free" again.

There were lots of fountains to cool off in.

Route 66 starts here.

Biking was by far the best way to get around here.

This is a big hint.
Have you guessed it?
It starts with a "Chi"

and ends with a "cago".

And now we have all the memories to smile and savor.

We've Been On Vacation