Summa Summa Summa Tiiiime

My little green friend. Look how his legs are
poking into the petals.

I love summer. It is such a wonderful time of year. Kids have off school, teachers have off school, you can eat on the deck, take late night walks, and swim in the pool. Christopher and I moved into our house last August so we were not here to witness the beautiful flowers of all shapes and sizes that bloom in the early summer. Annie's mom Martha always comes and tells me the names, but I never remember. I just know that I love them. :-)

Some type of hydrangea. This is what I want my bouquet to be, but pink. All pink hydrangeas and nothing else.

These pretty little buggers grow on vines that have taken over our sidewalk area. We cut them all down at the end of last summer and they shot right back up again this year. More bloom each day - they're all over our neighborhood.

Now that Christopher is on more of a normal work schedule (he worked EVERY SINGLE NIGHT for three weeks straight) I have made the executive decision that we are going to start having sit-down dinners the two nights he is home in the evening. One can be a family dinner (that means us + Robin) and then one has to be just the two of us. We started last night by having grilled chicken, grilled veggies, rice - all sorts of goodies. Here's our girl showing off her cooking skills! (She really just grabbed the tongs for the photo....)

I love how Christopher looks like he's going to whack her - and even better, looks like he's sporting a comb-over.

Grilled veggies on the new veggie-griller thinga-ma-bobber that Mama and Daddy got me for graduation. YUM!

A happy Robo.

Tonight Christopher and I had London Broil, corn on the cob, potatoes and green beans. (Hospital habits die hard... 1 protein, 2 starches, and a veggie). It was delicious. Then I forced him to walk the neighborhood with me. It was fabulous. Although most of my summer has been bottled up in job-search frustrations, today was a great reminder of why this season is so fun. :-)