Sunday Showcase

It is completely beyond me that we are a whole week into summer vacation already.  Maybe because mama had to wrap up a few loose ends at work and has only officially been off for one day.  Or maybe because it's been generally cloudy and the she beast of all viruses has slowly taken us one victim at a time.  For whatever reason our summer has come upon us like a slow whimper.  Not that we haven't rallied with every sun break, fever break, and work free moment.  I'd say that given all that's been stacked against us we've done pretty well for ourselves.  Deep down we probably all know how lucky we are to have been shaken free from any real demands and woven together, even if it's huddled up coughing under a blanket and cloudy skies.

Stopping for dinner after the Wednesday night farmers market.  I couldn't love this picture any more.

 Catching an ostrich ride on the Oaks Park carousel

 So happy Tia is here!

 Annual berry picking for my serious helper

 Make your own pizza /crazy outfit night?

 I don't know where he saw it but I-bear is obsessed with doing the sprinkler dance...in the bathtub...at the grocery store....out to dinner.  

 I'd like you to meet preacher Ken.  Preacher Ken shows up at mama's bedside whenever she is feeling sick.  His pulpit is always a soap dispenser and his sermon style is a mix of both conservative and pentecostal exhortation.  Sometimes preacher Ken calls us to love our neighbor or be "ba-a-a-a-pti-i-i-ized by the spirit!"  But then again sometimes he calls me to get out of bed and make chocolate chip waffles.  It's a little suspicious.

She has such a weird sense of humor.  I wonder where she could possibly get it from?