Sweet Summer Review

Wow. I'm back. Betcha didn't think that would happen . . .
neither did I.

But I've received complaints, encouragement, snide comments, begging, and finally, some serious "pushing" from Ron to get this blog caught up.

It's not that I don't want to, it's just that, well, um,

I have Katie.

Enough said.

Moving on to our summer in review . . . it was a wonderful, glorious, sun filled, fun filled, family filled, summer.

At the end of last summer, when Kelsey and I looked back at the previous 10 weeks and realized that we had spent 7 of them in bed with mono, we immediately began making plans for the Summer of 2008. Big plans. Lots of them. Involving the beach and friends and family and food and fun. And what do you know - it worked! The best laid plans really did come to pass - nothing short of miraculous!

Here's a quick recap of how we spent our summer vacation:

Emily turned seven and we celebrated with a tea party!

Katie got a new swimsuit and she just knew how darn cute she looked:

Emily and Kelsey were in a dance recital. Emily performed a tap routine while Kelsey did a ballet number with her best friend. The girls did great and we were sooooo proud:

We went to the beach . . . alot . . . with friends and without . . . alot . . . and it was great . . . every time:

Katie was busy looking cute:

We celebrated the 4th of July:

Daddy read "The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and The Big Hungry Bear" to Katie about a bajillion times:

Ron changed jobs this summer, so we took advantage of a couple of days off and headed for a quick vacation down to Pismo Beach. We hadn't gone away like that in aaaaaages, and boy, did we have a crazy good time:

Katie "learned" how to bowl:

Emily continued her obsession with skirts and leggings:

The girls practiced doing hair on Katie:

We watched High School Musical 2 with crazy and fun friends:

and I learned how to scrapbook digitally . . . just what I needed, I new hobby:

Whew. If you hung in there 'till the end, you must really love our family (or really think Katie is super cute - which she is!!!).
Thanks for sharing our summer memories with us . . . we're so grateful to God for providing us health and a wonderful place to live where we can enjoy all He has created!

Comments

[Stacey]

Wow, finally a post. Everyone looks wonderful!!!!!!

[Rachelle]

Glad to see you are "back". Looks like your summer was fun....and busy. Everyone still looks very cute! We are starting to get used to having a 1 1/2 year old around. It is still a big challenge, but fun.

[Jenny]

YAY!!! What a great summer!! And look how big and beautiful your girls are! We still need to meet- how about a Disney day??

[Amy B. & Amelia AiChun]

Yay! You're back! Looks like you had a terrific summer, and yep, Katie Mei is as cute as ever. Amelia loves the book about the mouse and the red, ripe strawberry, too, and it is an every night read at our house. Good to see you post again. I would love to hear more about the digital scrapbooking sometime. Post about that!

[Val in MD]

We have a live one!!! :o) So glad to see you posting again, and I'm glad health is returning. I hope your Summer '08 will include the Shangrao Reunion in July. I'd love to meet you in person! Katie looks like she's really growing!

[Karen]

I'm so glad your back! Love your update! Sounds like a spectacularly fun summer...great pictures!