Team Dinner

Ads hosted a really thoughtful team dinner on night one of the league meet.  We had about 15-20 teens over and he cooked for them all.  

B invited his buddy over for pizza and watermelon.

 

League Swim Meet and the Banquet

Its hard to believe the swim season is almost over (it is for B, but not the big guys).  The past two days were League.  I got zero photos of the older kids but they did great.  This is B and his cute relay team.

Last night was the banquet.  Bri is in Spain and the big guys went with friends, so B and I went out to dinner with his friend and his friends parents.  But, B really wanted a photo with him and Lexi before, which proved to be difficult.

And the afterparty was a blast for these guys and all the big kids.  

 

A Lovely Bench

My good friends mom passed away a few months ago and in her memory, she dedicated a bench for her in City Park.  We had a lovely ceremony for her with all good friends.  The next morning, Brian and I ran around the park and I showed him the bench.

 

Early July

We were able to escape to the mountains for a few days while LT was in Durango.

But came back for the 4th at the pool (with an extra kid for the day and night).

Birthday dinner celebration.

Complete with a double rainbow.

A special gift wrapped in some extra specialized wrapping paper.

Annual ladies day was a bit different this year with several severe rain storms, but in the end, the weather cleared out and it was sunny and funny.

 

A few end of June randoms

B needed a haircut and decided he wanted to match LT, so they have the same haircut.

"Helping" the 8 and under swim practice.

We hosted yet another Lego camp and this year, LT was one of the instructors!

Love this girl

What has become an annual happy hour when one of our lifelong friends visits from whatever fun country she is currently living in.

Two buds at Ken Caryl.

 

Saying Goodbye

Jochi was such a wonderful addition to our family and we miss her so much already, but her family needed her back, and for that we are so happy for her.  We weren't expecting/looking/even wanting an exchange student this year, but she fell into our laps (for what we thought was going to be 2 months).  Little did we know, she did not want to leave us to go to her last family and so we were gifted an extra 3 months with her.  While she is not with us physically, we are all anxiously waiting a time that works for us to go visit her and Nacho in Argentina!  

Typicaly Jochi, her bag was FILLED to the brim and over weight, so we spent our last minutes with her throwing and tossing things she really didn't need to take home.

 

Seattle

We flew up to Seattle a earlier this week for our nephew/cousin's graduation.  We had a perfect view of Rainier.

A fathers day walk to a troll.

B loved the tree in Ying's front yard.

The actual graduation was long and huge, but so proud of this guy!

It was followed by a beautiful graduation party at one of Ying's restaurants celebrating Nicholas and 4 of his friends from his swim team. 

Each parent of the graduates gave a quick speech about these kids.  At the end, B decided he wanted to give a speech as well (in front of all 70 people!)