Summer Snapshots

7/8/09 - 10:11:12

For the Elizabeth Kartchner blog challenge... it was a nice cool morning to mow the lawn.

More fun

Cody and Gunnar watching the show.

Jake helped the girls light their fireworks, but they came up with the coordinating dances and poses all by themselves (see below). Cute!

Fireworks Fun

Belle was pretty preoccupied until she got her loose tooth out, then she moved on to the fun stuff.

Gunnar loved playing with his ball and Lola (thankfully Lola didn't bite a hole in it!).

My new favorite pic!

It's summertime

It's official! I've just checked out from school for the year- woo hoo! Last night was Belle's first softball game and even Lola got to go along (with a very tight hold on her leash)

Dad's $500 Haircut

Okay, I'm overdue to add to add the story to these pictures... Last Sunday there was a benefit dinner and auction for some friends of ours who lost their house to a fire. It was a very successful event and lots of fun to see the community of Harwood come together to help this family.

One of the highlights for me, though, was when my dad got his haircut by Chris (who's house burned down). About 2 1/2 years ago when dad retired from the military he started growing his hair long. In my opinion it never really suited him and he's taken his fair share of teasing from friends and family. So at one point during the benefit somebody asked what it would take to get him to cut off the ponytail, "$500" he replied (and probably thought nothing of it). But we decided to hold him to his word! One of the auction items was a bear that dad chainsaw-carved, after it sold, the auctioneer asked dad to stand up and he announced that dad would cut his hair if we raised $500. It only took about 15 minutes of passing a hat around to reach our goal!

n

New Boots

Dad found a pair of cowboy boots for Gunnar, we were all surprised to see that they fit and he loved wearing them! Learning to walk in them was a bit of a challenge though.