New School, First Day

The first day of school at Gesu was a smashing success! Estelle wore her new jumper (and has worn shorts since then). She is in 3rd grade with Mrs. DeLaney. George is in 2nd grade with Miss Lenz. I remember when I was in 3rd grade with Miss Ethridge! Yikes...

George is getting ready for his first cross country meet on September 6th - he has to run 3/4 mile. Estelle's first soccer game should be September 7th. Our family is BUSY!!

Summer Fun

The kids went to 2 different VBS weeks this summer - Outrigger Island was a blast, with a pool party afterwards.

Both kids got bold and went off the high diving board. George was a crazy man!

John's company picnic was in Saline, with a pool and a bounce house on the day Estelle got done with her week of camp in the Irish Hills of Michigan. Her favorite part about that was the horseback riding. She wants to go back next summer - for one week - whereas George wants to stay for 2 weeks after having attended "first timers" weekend. He loved swimming in the lake - with the little fishies (that he described as "the size of my pinky when I was 3 years old").

While Estelle was at camp, George grew so now he is taller than she is. Oh boy!

We had a busy week last week with lots of people in from out of town for a big meeting ... and we had them over for dinner in the back yard. Good thing we had the tent set up because it did rain for a little bit but overall it was a wonderful summer night.

Sunday we had another pool party and Estelle found the vanilla cupcakes with yellow frosting which she ate with great joy.

I got a sweet rental car in the California desert.

And finally, saving this for the ... ahem ... bitter end ... here was our view on the highway Sunday afternoon as we returned from the pig roast in Chicago ... our welcome back to Toledo showed plenty of Toledo pride! :)

YIKES!!