Hyper speed Summer

So I just realized that's it's been well over a week since I've posted. I dont' know about you, but this summer is rocketing past us. Unfortunately, I don't have much to show for the past week or so. We've been pretty busy, but I haven't really captured too much on film. So I'll start off with a flashback. Craig spilled water on our end table and this picture ended up getting pretty wet. I figured I'd better scan it before anything else happens to it. This was taken right before we left for Texas, Chloe was five. It's one of my favorites. Actually, it was one of the photographers favorites too and I was asked to sign a waiver so they could put it up in the photography studio at Penny's. Those of you in So Cal should go by the Laguna Hills mall and see if it's still there. Okay, so here's a snapshot of what we've been up to.

Logan and Roger have been enjoying some quality time together.

Same for Roger and Chloe.

Can you guess which child he likes more?

We've been swimming quite a bit and going to several different water parks. We ended up getting season passes to Splash Town, but I never bring my camera, so no pic's of that. But I did take it to a smaller local water park. The kids had a great time.
There was a huge bucket that dumped water every few minutes. This kids LOVED it. I went over to get a picture. Luckily, there was an umbrella that you could stand under if you didn't want to get hit.

Yeah, I wasn't under it.

Needless to say, this is the last picture I got at the water park.
(Gotta love Sony. After the camera dried out, it was right as rain.)

Daisy turned 10 last week. Here's her cake.
I'd been wanting to try this design for a while. I really loved the way it turned out.
It's definitely one of my favorites.

Well, it WAS one of my favorites.

The poor thing met a horrific end in the Chuck E. Cheese parking lot.

(You can still see some of it there as well as down the side of Dawn's truck.)

Thank God it wasn't me that dropped it!

Daisy took the whole thing so well, I decided to whip up another one.

So here's the Daisy Cake II. I literally threw this thing together in about an hour. Not as pretty as the first, but what can I say . . .

But even without a cake, everyone seemed to have lots of fun.

And as always, some of us may have had more fun than necessary.

Surprisingly enough, Chloe still agreed to be photographed with me.

Rewind a few days and here we are celebrating our 4th of July.
We started out BBQing at Dave and Brandy's (you'll need to hop over to their blog to see some cute pics of the kids) . Then we settled in at our corner to watch the fireworks.

The kids enjoyed playing with a few poppers and sparklers we had left over from Uncle Gary's past spending sprees

But But the real show was our neighbors. They spent over $2000. and it really was spectacular.

We even had a few people drive over from other neighborhoods just to watch.
And of course the kids had fun, just running around like hooligans in the dark.

One thing missing was that Trent wasn't here this year.

We sure missed him!

Chloe, Sophie and I are heading to Splash Town again tomorrow while Logan is at Dinosaur Camp with his friend A.J. Here's to another great week!