parade and relativity

yes, she's letting that baby nibble on a sucker. p.j. liked it.

Tonight was the community parade.

Woo. Hoo.

Why is it so damned cold here still? What happened to summer?


That's Heidi, p.j., and John. Look at how dark and cloudy it was.

The parade was fun.



The men above, and a discussion below





The sirens were a little loud.









Dannell directed Tim to a better spot for catching candy.


Kirsten was there and offered us gum, and as the package was passed around and quickly consumed she laughed about our freezie conversation last week.

kirby and julia, the back of their heads

We buy freezies when we go to the lake, usually a box of 100. We stop on the way in at the grocery store where we buy the shrimp, and I hurry up while everyone else waits in the car.

There are probably ten people in the family who eat freezies, and in three days, they can easily eat 100. That's 3-4 freezies each in a day, not an excessive amount when you do the math.

Anyway, last time we went to the lake, we grocery shopped in the city and the shrimp is the same, but we could only find bags of 25 freezies. We bought four bags, and in Jay's ranting about this, he said, "Why do they even sell bags of 25? It's stupid. Twenty-five? That's just going to make kids angry."

Whaaaat???

We get used to our super size family, and forget. Yeah.

Just like a 12 pack of gum--that's just gonna piss people off.


But nobody was pissed off tonight except Julia who wanted to jump on the backs of her brother and her nephew, and we said no. That's enough weight for Dad to pull, plus it wasn't your idea.

June is almost over.

How can that be so?

Six days left?

Oh, summer, you sweet thing, please come back. love, Val