bricks, bikes, buzz & blueberries...(but not in that order)

Lately, everytime I drive by the temple I find myself saying,  "Ah... So pretty!  Oh... No camera!  Uh... So sad!" 
Well, tonight that wasn't the case.  Camera:  on my lap!
So, as a result, here's what I got!

I had the camera since having just come from the Music Fest Concert with our dearest musician and eldest child. 

He'd been practicing those buzz drills on his trumpet mouthpiece all week and valiantly doot-doot-dooting those scales with gusto.  I couldn't wait to hear the rest! 

Luck would have it that he got THE Marcellus Brown as one of his instructors for the week, along with a cousin-ish relative of mine (the charming Randy Brown) and WHAT an awesome experience.  ManITellYa... that camp was worth every red cent I paid.
Love you CSI.  and C.D., and J.W, and all of you.

After such a gathering, what restless bunch of kids wouldn't want (or deserve) a treat?  And since he was the one doing all the work, the musician himself got to choose.  And, wouldn't you know it - - even with all the frozen yogurt we get around here, he still chose to go to Kiwi Loco.  

Some of you have been asking how it's going.  I usually repsond with "Well, it's a little loco," for a reason.  Ha!  (understatement). 
It IS fun, though!  However time-consuming, life-consuming and a constant work in progress it is.  Confession:  We're having a blast.   

And!  Apparently we're appealing to the biker dudes (and dude-ettes) too!
Maybe we can be featured on Wild Hogs 2. 
We've got plenty of parking space for a greasy biker showdown.

We waited in that out-the-door line tonight along with everyone else, and threatened our children with the same empty threat they always get:  "if it's more than 3 bucks, you're buying your own."

On the way home, like I said, I was SO grateful to have had my camera.

This time I had Doug drop me off so we wouldn't get a ticket for stopping in the street, like I narrowly-avoided the last time I tried capturing the temple at sunset.

No....this time, I chose to climb a brick wall in my flip flops and while walking along it to get various angles, I tripped and fell off (landing on my feet thank the heavens) almost breaking my neck AND camera. Whew! Why the drama? Really. I just wanted a couple pictures.
sigh...


{love} ♥ summer.
always and forever.
until next time...

june schmune...

Seriously, yesterday morning, I turned on the heater and this afternoon, we decided to break out the waterslide. 

Bring on the excessive towel laundering and cheap bathing options.  I've told them to soak it all up, because next week we'll probably have snow.