'Cause I've got a lot of 'ketchup'!
Our anything-but-lazy summer has turned me into a very lazy blogger. Let's zoom through the past few weeks to catch up, and I'll do my best to blog more often.
Ava and I spend lots of our days at the pool in M's neighborhood.
After a round of swimming lessons and lots of time spent with friends in the pool, Ava is really starting to swim with confidence.
Popsicles by the pool with sweet friends
Floating! This is huge because she's finally relaxed enough in the water to successfully stay on top of the water.
Ava has enjoyed our backyard birdfeeders.
She started her own little field journal to record the different 'pets' that we see on the feeders.
A few Saturdays ago our outdoor youth activity was moved indoors, due to thousand-degree temperatures. We decided to make fresh pasta for our families for dinner.
Ava, seasoned soux chef, was a big help.
Mixing
and kneading
Even the boys got in on the pasta-making fun
HLS makes ladles look good
Scooping out the cut pasta as soon as it floats to the top. The girls were amazed at how quickly fresh pasta cooks.
While the next batch of pasta was being mixed, we threw together a very basic tomato sauce.
The all-boy pasta making group
Perfect pasta wells
Girls rolling out pasta like old pros
Boys cutting pasta sheets into spaghetti
Preparing bags of pasta and sauce to send home
Dinner!
100% Ava approved
Mimi, Coach, and Aunt Jaryn came to see us for a few days, and to take Ava back to my parents in Texas. We were so excited to have Coach on OWC's kids nature walk.
The kiddos hunted for a real and fake bugs hidden along the trail.
Ava and I reuse the fake bugs to hide around the house and terrify HLS.
Cooling off in the shade
Determined to find and catch a squirrel
Ava captured a Coach instead
On Sunday, July 10, I headed with a group of our youth to camp in Brownwood, Texas.
I was so inspired by our bunch the entire week. Where were these folks when I was in high school? Their enthusiasm, kindness, and inclusiveness set the tone and pace for our time together.
Through the sweatiest conditions, their high spirits never faltered.
The more time I spend with the next generation of kiddos the more I know that our futures really are in capable hands. What an amazing bunch of leaders!
2 comments:
That camp looks like it on the HPU campus: that is where I went to college! What a wonderful summer you are having. (I am working for the first summer in FOREVER, but loving it...!)
I'm in awe of you. How did you handle the heat? I would have puked for sure. I miss you.
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