Summer 2014 Part I

 Fishing with the cousins at Grammy and Papa's.

 Reddi-wip time!

 Yeah! Our tye die t-shirts are done from the block party.

 

 The kids got to choose recipes to make each week during the summer. This is one Lulu choose: Cinnamon Critters.

 Freshening up the landscaping.

Buddy's choice for his first recipe: Snail Roll-Ups.

Swimming at Stacy's.

 Buddy returning from a friend's Star Wars themed birthday party.

 Hussein kicking back at the cabin with a homemade margarita.

The one thing Hussein really wanted to have again while back in the States was a root beer float. Yum!

 Lulu and her friend at the beach.

 The kids hung up paper bricks representing money raised to build homes in Haiti at VBS.

 Watching the Back to the 50's cars drive down Snelling at Dino's with Hussein and Charissa.

Hussein's last day :(

Hopefully it won't be another 6 years until we see him again.

Buddy got crafty and made pirate accessories.

Trying out the lumberjack at the new Nelson's in St. Paul.

 Swim time at Grammy and Papa's.

 Success!

 Special picture with Aunt Terry who was in town from Dallas.

Buddy played soccer this summer on the city sports and rec league.

Another recipe. This was Buddy's choice: crushed fruit cereal mixed in to yogurt.

Lulu's choice was mini pizzas.

We picked strawberries at a berry farm near our cabin. They were the sweetest, most delicious strawberries I've ever tasted in my life.

I have some work to do.

 The six wild blueberries we picked from our yard at the cabin.

 Lulu's 1st grade teacher, Lin Laoshi, tutored her in math this summer. She always brought something fun and extra for her to learn, too. This is a Chinese yoyo. She kept telling us to watch videos on YouTube of people doing it, and it is amazing! She said growing up in Taiwan, they would do activities on the yoyo at school in the mornings.

 Homemade duct tape purse.