more hot weekend pictures

Alicia's grandma was here for the weekend.  This picture is Alicia's mom and grandma floating, but snapped just as their heads overlapped in the frame.

Dan skiing. I took a video, but it is pretty bouncy and jumpy, and I don't know where it saved to.  I will find it.

 

They're working on hamburgers for the Jack's Basket picnic.

Jack's Basket is an organization that provides support to families welcoming newborns with Down Syndrome, which can be an unsure, intimidating time in a family's life.  They do fantastic, reassuring

work and have fun doing it.

The kids table:

The other table, plus others scattered in lawn chairs and on the deck stairs:

Here are her cousins, a rowdy crew:

And here she is.

When her sister saw her fresh incision after open heart surgery she pondered for a moment and then asked, "Did a tiger scratch her?"

Ummm, no.  That did not happen.  (There are no tigers roaming the halls of Children's Hospital.) 

Life can be confusing. Or not. 

It was a great weekend, so hot at first, so that when the sharp winds hit, we were only grateful for any breeze of any kind.  Today was much less oppressive, but summer has surely arrived.

June, you sneaky devil, hiding out in May and then arriving with a big, "Ta-DA!"

We'll take it.

Love, Val