July brought more fun & adventures, another trip to our favorite historic village with Marci & kids

The final baseball game, one of the families got a new puppy – Mari was on cloud 9

Coach & son:)

Swim season was in full swing. This year, Ezra moved up to the 9/10 year olds and did well, still in the “point” heats even though he was only 9.

It all clicked for Tobin, Ethan got him breathing at the side and he actually won 2 races at one of the meets!  Looking forward to him still being able to swim “8 & under” next year:)

Mari this year figured out how to use those long limbs and has an effortless looking stroke. She just LOVES to swim!

We celebrated Christmas in July with my family

Kush really excited about a chicken!

New rip stick for Tobin

Ashley & Andrew — now engaged:)

The girl granddaughters (only one from each family) – we have a lot of boys!

One of Mom’s lovely garden beds

On the scavenger hunt

Cousins playing 4 square

And, our garden flourished!  We had more dill than you could believe, I guess this butterfly liked it.

Check out the beans!  Our neighbor girl would come over and harvest with me:)

At this picture, we still weren’t sure what this was.  I had planted melon but the fruit growing seemed too big – more on that in later posts

And, once again, the tomatoes and carrots were great, even with the later start.

And, that wraps up another month:)