Summer Fun with Friends

We spent the morning with a bunch of friends trying to keep cool! Our friends the Keyes backyard is much better than any park... they have it all from a swimming pool, play yard to sandbox... not much more kids could ask for on a hot day!! What a fun morning! 

Lucky Pappa!

For Father's Day, Campbelle and Christian surprised their pappa with his favorite football (or soccer to some of us) club's jersey - Liverpool! He is a lucky dad!! (And I think Campbelle and Christian are equally as lucky!). Also, notice Leif's new spectacles!! Very hip, very cool guy! 

Rain, Rain has gone away!!

Yeah, we finally had a day of decent weather... although it was only 65 degrees! The sun was partial out, so we were outside!! 

Scuba Girl

We were at the aquarium with some friends a few days ago and Campbelle can't pass up an opportunity to dress up! 

Look out Mia Hamm....

Campbelle started soccer classes this morning. It was a rainy day, and besides from her being overally concerned that the balls were dirty, she looked like she was having a blast. Christian was a bit jealous and wanted in on the fun too; so once the other class was done he enjoyed some goal time! Leif has been watching the World Cup games on tv all weekend long, so last night we were talking to Campbelle about her soccer class starting tomorrow. She said "Then I will score a goal and be on TV just like those big guys." We'll give her a few years, but you never know!! :-) 

5 Year Anniversary

Leif and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary last weekend. Amazing to think it's been 5 years... alot has happened over that time, both good and bad- but all of which has made us grow as individuals and as a couple.

On our wedding day, Pastor Dianne shared with us the following reading; and we read it quite often and know and feel that our days together, do truly keep getting sweeter:

It takes years to marry completely two hearts, even of the most loving and well motivated. A happy wedlock is a long falling in love. Young persons think love belongs only to the brown-haired and crimson-cheeked. So it does for its beginning. But the golden marriage is a part of love which the Bridal day knows nothing of.

A perfect and complete marriage, where wedlock is everything you could ask and the ideal of marriage becomes actual, is not common. Perhaps it is as rare as perfect personal beauty. Men and women are married fractionally, now a small fraction, then a large fraction. Very few are married totally, and then only after some forty or fifty years of gradual approach and experiment.

Such a large and sweet fruit is a complete marriage that it needs a long summer to ripen in, and then a long winter to mellow and season it. But a really, happy marriage of love and respect between a noble man and a wise woman is one of the things so very handsome that if the sun were, as the Greek poets fabled, a God, he might, now and then stop the world and hold it still, in order to feast his eyes on such a wonderful spectacle.

Theodore Parker (1810-60)
US clergyman and reformer

 

Wondering where we're at....

Yes, we are still stuck in crabsville plumbing land!! Luckily, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Painting was almost completed today and hopefully by tomorrow night we can start to unpack and move back in. We brought all our stuff home (high chair, pack-n-play, play-doh, etc...) from Gina's and took our last nap there today. Thank goodness for her - I'm not sure what we would have done for the past 4 weeks without her! We are also fortunate to have great friends that have 'housed' us during the day several times throughout the weeks... thank you guys! All in all it hasn't been too terrible... and on the positive side, my house will get a thorough cleaning and much needed organization over the next few days. And Campbelle and Christian will think it's Christmas as they discover all their old toys and books again. :-)