Happy Birthday Da-doo!

Happy Birthday, Kyle! We had a nice evening, which included Kyle grilling some nice steaks and a "birthday cake" of rice krispies treats and cookie dough ice cream. And Evangeline not getting to eat steak but getting to eat rice krispies treats and cookie dough ice cream.

Then she said "please" really sweetly several times in hopes of getting more ice cream. Then she wouldn't say it for the camera.

Summer Day

Today was hot. But the mosquitoes died down enough for us to spend some time in our back yard, dancing in the sprinkler. While going out to the parks is fun, playing in our own yard on a lovely summer day is just perfect.

She licked the sprinkler a lot. Also, you can see the tree that
Kyle chopped down in the background.

Helping Dad with the garden.

Tomato break

Scuppernongs!

Scuppernong break

Now we're talkin. Watch out mud.

Watch out mud pt. 2.

Banana peppers

Beautiful Bushy Basil. Evangeline likes to eat this, too.

Birthday Party

We went to a birthday party for one of my parishioner's grandkids today. They really know how to put on a good cookout birthday party. There really is only one thing wrong with this scenario. Today is July 10th. It is hot. It is really hot. I can't really begin to describe the hotness. And apparently, the people here in Greensboro think it is okay to sit outside. We did this twice this week! I'm not even pregnant and I think it is way too hot to be outside. These people are crazy.

As we were leaving the park, we noticed that pretty much every shelter had a different colored group of people. Does it count as diversity if the Hispanics, Asians, blacks and whites are all at different structures within the same park? I feel like this isn't what I learned about in my college "values and virtues" class. Evangeline doesn't care.

She got these glasses at the last party, and does like to wear them. Unfortunately, they slip down her nose and she instantly becomes a librarian shushing the popular kids who have better things to do than read books.

I Don't Usually Wear Hats

Or shoes really. But today I went on a trip to Virgina for a fly fishin' lesson. So, I wore both hat and shoes. When I came home, Evangeline looked really surprised that I was wearing a hat, and she promptly removed it and placed it upon her own head, since she is normally the hat wearing one around these parts. She had to check out my suspicious shoes too.

We Were Wrong

We said at one point that Evangeline's hair might look like Joe Biden's. It's actually Frasier Crane.

A Video of the Artist As a Toddler Girl

Fun Fourth

We dutifully went down to the "Fun Fourth" doings in downtown Greensboro today. It was extremely hot. We saw some of our neighbors there, ate a snowball, and listened to some music. We didn't really stay that long because it was so hot, but now we know what Greensboro gets up to on the Fourth. We'll probably go and eat a snowball next year.

Downtown. (And there is a smudge on the camera lens
I keep meaning to clean off.)

Going through the sprayer.

Much better.

Deciding whether to dance.

Um...

Found some kids to play with

Wondering if his dad is seriously going to let
this girl hassle him.

Yep.