4th of July Fun!

For the 4th year in a row, we spent 4th of July weekend with Grandma and Papa in NC and what a beautiful weekend! Lots of fun on the boat, pool, and hanging with family! The fireworks were beautiful - quite the production for little Washington!

Waiting the fireworks on the boat!

playing in the water before the fireworks

They played hard and rested Harder! (look close, all 3 are in this pix!)

Everyone rested hard! LOL This is mom & dads new room - beautiful!

Fishies

Everyone is now swimming and swimming well! It is amazing, I can even sit and relax while both kids are in the water! Yippee!!

Riley joined the swim team this year and is doing Great! She has place in the top 5 in the 25 Free each week and last week swam and placed in the 50 free! The backstroke has not gone so well, since she refuses to get in the water! We make it a little further each week, so we are hoping that this week will be the one where she gets over her fear! No matter what, even with storms each week (which makes for very late/long meets) she is having a blast!!

This is Ri coloring late into the evening waiting to swim her first race. Riley with Ashley and Abby

Riley with Leigh - Riley adores Leigh!

Now that we go to the 'swim team pool', the kids have discovered the diving board.
This pix is Kyles 1st time jumping off! As soon as he did it, Ri ran into line and did it as well!
A friend turned to me and said, "Kyle is Riley's test crash dummy!!"
And there goes Ri!

Kyle swimming to the stairs! Whew, he made it!

The end of Kindergarten!

It is amazing, Riley's first year of Kindergarten is over!! What a year! She has loved every minute and learned soooo much! She is an excellent student and looking forward to her 1st grade year! We are so lucky to have had Mrs. Sullivan this year and thank her for ALL her hard effort and patience (which you need to have a lot of when you teach 22 5 and 6 year olds!)!

Riley and buddy Marissa

Riley with Mrs. Sullivan
Singing for the parents

Our class gift for Mrs. Sullivan - sailing into Summer

USA Day (aka Field day)

The kids also sang Wonderful World and had drawn pix of various images in the song.

(which happens to be the song we danced to at our wedding!)

DelFest 2011

As always, I'm BEHIND so the next few entries are my catch up on all our summer fun!!
The summer kicks off with DelFest as it has for the past 3 years and every year it gets better and better! The kids are wonderful little music lovin hippies and suck up the heat and mud with the best of them! All three are becoming excellent hoopers as well!!

This is the first time Riley has ever touched a worm!

Hanging at camp!

This pix is of Riley watching a solo, up close and personal banjo performance from one of our tent neighbors - she is in awe!

LOTS of mud this year!!