Dwayne’s work party was held at Remlinger Farm again this year–great location, even if we had 50 shades of rain that day.  Piper loved the petting zoo, especially this mara (related to a capybara), and the joey that never played peekaboo, though we were assured he existed in Mama Wallaby’s pouch.

  

Piper and Wes love making things, which, in addition to regular screen addition, accounts for their love of Minecraft Creative Mode.  But that mode occasionally extends beyond the screen.

Here, Wes makes himself more armor, to go with the entire armory he has created out of garage scraps this year. 

Piper made Kyla a purse for carrying around her tablet.  As with our best ideas, they don’t always work for their original purpose, but Kyla has found it perfect to carry her flip phone and bandaids around her easily.  Both have come in handy for her!

 

  

Down to the Maxwelton Parade, for what is now officially Too Many Years. We got crowded and we got candy.  But, we also got some cute family shots. The first one is repetitive, but Wes is smiling, so I can’t just delete it.   

Later that evening, we invited some of our neighbors over for ribs and company.  It’s really our first time using the pergola, with it’s lights, fire pit, and swings–and Dwayne and I loved it!

 We celebrated the first official day of summer vacation by dropping Wesley off at camp, and taking Grandpa to the zoo.

I took and deleted a ton of pictures, because I really don’t need more butterfly pictures or blurry lemurs.  But boy, was I smitten with this Bear’s attitude!  Rock on, Grizzly.