Traditional Summer Fun

Summer isn't complete without at least one outing to a baseball game.  K isn't a big baseball fan but she loves all the junk food as evidenced by her orange lips and teeth from too much orange drink and and too many Doritos.

Michigan

Fourth of July weekend.  Tons of fun with Bev, Peter, Mackie, Allison, Lila and new baby Maxine.

Mackie teaching K to skim board

Taking a car ferry across Lake Michigan

Happy 4th!!!!

We are off on a road trip to visit many cousins.  Our road trip includes crossing Lake Michigan on a car ferry.  Will post a lot of pictures when we return.  This picture was taken during K's first week in America.  The picture was taken at a party that celebrated Winston (our Jamaican) becoming an American citizen.  K and Winston became citizens the same week.  When K traveled to the United States from Kazakhstan she came here on a visa but became a citizen as soon as she entered the country.  I had an envelope of paperwork that I got at the American embassy in Kazakhstan that said "DO NOT OPEN".  In customs in Atlanta there is a special area where we went and handed over the paperwork and after a short wait they gave me back some papers and said "Welcome to America" to K.  A few weeks later K got a letter from George Bush welcoming her to America.  This letter is one of her prized possessions.  She loves to read the letter and says "George Bush, JUNIOR!" and giggles after the Junior.  Happy 4th!

Decatur Beach Festival

Sand. Food. Games. Bands. Very hot. And a giant gorilla. The end.

Summer Fun

It is too hot around here to do anything other than swim. This adorable little guy (Jake) came over to swim yesterday. I love his look of determination, he wanted to get in the deep water with K in the worst way.

Hot, hot, hot!!!!!!

It was an oppressively hot weekend here in Atlanta. Luckily these three cuties were in town so K had plenty of swim buddies. Edison, Katie and Evie are the grandchildren of the sweet woman (aka Grancat) who I bought my house from.

Cousins!

We had cousins in town this week. K is C-R-A-Z-Y about these guys. And they are oh soooo tolerant of her. That is Bill on the left who is going to go to Emory this fall. We are so excited! His mother thinks we are going to keep an eye on him for her. That is little brother John on the right. Picture from my iPhone on our obligatory trip to the World of Coke.