Summer 2012 Highlights

What an eventful and busy summer we had!  I thought I would share some pictures from at least part of our summer.  It seems to have flown by so quickly!  The kids are back in school now and hopefully the weather will start cooling off soon!!  

Back in July we traveled to Oklahoma for Aubrey Grace's birthday.  AG is the kids only cousin and this is her very 1st birthday, so it was a very special day!  We had a great time with family and were showered with hospitality and lots of good food!!  Miss AG got lots of fun presents and of course ate lots of cake!  Here is a pic of the kids with AG before the cake!

After being laid off in July, I had lots of time at home with the kids for the last half of the summer.  It was a big transition for all of us.  Kason loved the summer daycare that he was in when I was working. They went on lots of fun field trips and got to play all day long.  Here is a picture of Kason and Trey, one of his buddies from daycare on his last day at daycare.  

One of our weekend summer excursions took us to Grapevine Mills Mall.  We had lots of fun buying school clothes and took a break to ride the carousel.

At the end of July, Kason went to Mavs Basketball camp.  While he was there, KB and I met Jamie and baby R for lunch.  It was a great visit and so good to get the kids together.  R is such a happy, beautiful, precious baby!  Our family has definitely been blessed with pretty babies!  :)

This was Kason's second year at Mavs Camp.  He loves it so much!  They really do a great job of organizing the camp.  He learns so much every year.  Basketball is his favorite sport - it is fun to see him in his element!

This year at Mavs camp, there was a special surprise --  DIRK WAS THERE!!!  He stopped by to visit with the kids and shoot some hoops.  What an exciting day!!!

One day, KB's friend Gabriella came over to play.  Katie and Gabriella had a great day playing dress up and doing other fun girl stuff.  As you can see below, even Tucker joined in on the fun!  :)

In late July, we went with our good friends the Rackleys to spend some time on Lake Travis outside Austin.  We rented a house with a pool and enjoyed 4 days of fun in the sun!  We rented a boat and jet ski one day.  We had the lake almost all to ourselves!  It was a great mini-vacation with great friends!

Towards the end of the summer, KB went to cheer camp.  She had lots of fun learning Bobcat cheers and playing with her friends.  Here is a pic of KB and her friend with Bobcat Bennie!

It was a fun summer!  Now we are looking forward to a great fall!