A Thousand Words Thursday - Red Sox Bear

Short of burning all our Red Sox gear (due to their horrible showing in the play-offs), we decided to make a bear/scarecrow. Here is the bear/scarecrow we came up with:

He only lasted one day though, because it rained on him all the next day. And my daughter didn't want the bear to get ruined. So we'll have to come up with something different this weekend.

A Thousand Words Thursday

Even though the kids have been back to school for over a week, I'm having a hard time letting Summer go. It really went by fast. And on top of it we had kinda lousy weather this Summer. The news reported it was the 4th rainiest Summer in over a hundred years!

We had a some good weather though. And when I want to think of Summer I look at this picture of my daughter. We were at the sprinklers at the park, and her Grammy bought her an ice cream from the ice cream man. This is what happened:

A Thousand Words Thursday - Camping

We're going on a little camping trip, starting tomorrow through Sunday. We go a lot to a place that's only about 45 minutes from our house. It made me think of how every year I get a picture of the kids up on the lifeguard chair.

Here's one I found that actually says its from 2005. Wow the kids have grown so much since then.