Summertime is a strange time around the Maxwell house. It’s the busy season for Daddy, which means he works a lot, weekdays and weekends. It is also the concert season. So when Daddy isn’t working, he’s planning and attending the next “show”. It’s too hot and too crowded for parks and all things that we normally enjoy crowd free. So we take lots of trips to Mamaw and Papoo’s house and take advantage of a few friends who generously offer us access to their pools and/or boats on the lake. We began our summer with a huge celebration..the High School Graduation of my nephew Joshua!
We attended a very chilly mountaintop ceremony and ushered Josh into the “real world”
We are all very proud of Joshua and we wish him all the luck and happiness he deserves.
Next up…the holidays! We were thrilled to be invited to join the Tabak family for Memorial Day on lovely Lake Lanier.
We spent a fun filled day cruising the lake on his boat. We were also treated to another fun filled day during the July 4th weekend. We joined several other lucky recipients and had a great time hanging at the dock. Daddy and Seager got a special treat
when Mark fired up the wave runners. Seager gathered up enough courage to join all the other crazy adrenaline junkies and jump from the two-story dock
and he also got in a little fishin’. Emphasis on little!
And Dagon? Well, he was just Dagon.
It was a great day and many, many thanks go to the sweet Tabak family for all their hospitality!
But before we headed to the lake we got a visit from Uncle Steve and family. They joined us in our trek to downtown Kennesaw to watch the fireworks.
Being a former pyromaniac, I knew the conditions were ideal for pyro and was kind of jealous of the folks that were shooting the show.
I was right, it was a perfect night for fireworks.
In the summer of 2010, it was the small things that caught my attention and prompted me to get out the “toy”. This day, for instance, was priceless.
What more can a couple of boys ask for after breakfast than a front row showing of backhoe digging. So they pulled up a chair and enjoyed the show! I was just glad that the water company finally decided to fix their leak in our front yard. I only called four times in as many months. They kept saying it must be a spring that just started bubbling up after all these years. Yeah, maybe black gold will bubble up next summer! Black Gold…Texas Tea… Government, what a joke.
Another day found me cleaning out a drawer full of panty hose. Now considering I haven’t worn pantyhose in 20+ years, it would make sense that the drawer was long overdue for a clean out. What happens next? My brilliant older child grabs a black pair, puts it on his head and says “What kind of crazy hat is this Mommy?”
Now that is funny! It is amazing how many things that are normal to us grownups are completely foreign to kids. Now, as long as he never pulls them over his face and announces he needs something from the convenience store, we’ll be doing good! Hysterical!
It’s been a strange summer, weather wise. No drought this year! I have very fond memories of playing in the rain as a child. I am so thankful that my boys also enjoy the simple pleasure of a summertime rainstorm. They love to run, splash and play in the rain but were overjoyed and thrilled with a nighttime rain that did not involve thunder and lightning.
I loved the look on Dagon’s face as the gutter completely overflowed!
Continuing with the wet’n’wild theme, Beverly and Don Marshall are generous enough to allow us access to their wonderful pool and kid-friendly back yard.
They extended that generosity with an invitation to the 4th Annual Redneck Olympics.
I offered up myself and my “toy” to document this much anticipated event as a thank you for all the pool days over the course of the summer.
I took about 800 pictures that day. I whittled those down and created a fun-filled slide show to share with all the attendees. There were a lot of laughs and a lot of good memories that will forever be burned into the minds of folks who thought they might not remember everything that happened. Now they will have documented memories(uh oh.) It was a great event and an enjoyable project for me!
So, these are just a sampling of our summer fun. Mostly it was just your typical summer fun… and this picture of the Daddy and Frank just about says it all!
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