summer love: campfire love

Learning to love my video feature on my camera.  In my other life I am a cinematographer.

I love that you can hear the adults discussing a crossword problem in the background. Whenever we go camping we find ourselves around the campfire with a good crossword.

Bean is obsessed with smores. It is her reason for living when the campfire is lit. I cannot even eat my dinner in peace because of her impatience.

I also feel the need to clarify that the sassy girl she is channeling is not her norm. She only surfaces whenever the camera is in her face. Well, maybe she comes out more often. Lord help me. If you listen carefully you can hear my muffled guffaw.

Anyway...

Summer for us = one good camping trip complete with smores and crosswords.  (Even if Queen Sass emerges around the campfire.)

friday summer love: summer camp's smelly success

We picked him up on Sunday after a week away from us at summer camp.
He and his buddy didn't shower, brush teeth, change underwear.
He had a blast.
You cannot imagine what it was like for me to open his duffle bag in the laundry room
and be greeted with the smell.
I actually chuckled.
Apparently he wasn't trying to impress any of the girls.

friday summer love: visiting old friends

This past week we visited old friends.
She walked amongst them, giving each a name, greeting them with a pat-pat.
I do believe this is becoming her favorite summer destination.
Mine too.


p.s. I can' believe how much she has grown in the last year.
Next year she'll be as tall as her friends!

summer love: a blue sky and a pink hat

Just a little bit of our day yesterday.
Yes, it was this beautiful.
It was a day to wear your pink hat just to celebrate all that blue.

Happy Summer Love Friday.
T

summer love berry bus

Just a little snapshot of one of our annual summer kick-off traditions: pik-yor-sef, and et-yor-sef berry pickin'.

This is week two of my summer love series. Fridays, a few photos of our summer fun, few words.

Stay tuned for more summer love berry bus photos on Monday. (Oh yes, there's more evidence of eating before paying.)

Have a happy weekend!
t

friday: summer love

I am leaving the umbrella Friday posts behind and stepping onto the Summer Love Bus on Fridays. Few words, just snapshots of our summer captured in digital goodness.

Yesterday was our first official summer vacation beach day. The weather was perfect. One summer love bug was ready to fly...

Happy summer!
Happy Friday!
t