As promised here are some pictures of Barb's visit in June. We went to the beach and built a sand castle and looked at tide pools.

Sarah really isn't into the beach yet, but she did manage to get a nap.

Ezra and Sarah were cute together. We're so glad they were able to come see us!

This week it is hot, hot, hot at our house so we are doing stuff like swimming and saving our yard work for the evenings as the sun is going down. The kids did a huge load of weeding for me and earned Blizzards from Dairy Queen. Of course we are all looking forward to fireworks tomorrow night!

Last weekend we went to Washington to visit with family and attend Brian's wedding. Part of the fun was a day at the cabin to play at the lake. Here are Danny and Megan in the float tube.


Brian and Meaghan are the cutest couple ever (besides Tom and me). We're so glad she is finally officially part of our family!

All the nieces were flower girls, except for my Megan, who was sick with the stomach flu the whole wedding day. She was a relatively good sport as we dragged her along to the day's events anyway.

So this begins our summer vacation. The kids are really enjoying sleeping later in the morning. They help with the housework in the morning and then play in the afternoon. We went out to the strawberry farm this last week and picked 4 gallons of berries and probably ate almost 1 gallon as we went. We have also been enjoying having Barb here with her kids, and we all went to the beach on Saturday. I'll have to post some pictures of that later.