Take Me Out To The Ball Game

 Each year as part of our Christmas present, our Nana gives her grandkids money so they can do a sporting event together. She's been a lifelong sports fan, particularly football and baseball and that passion has filtered down. She has a family of dedicated Red Sox fans. Avery kept asking when we were going to Fenway and she looked at their schedule for possible dates. It was a last minute thing, but Saturday magically worked for everyone. As a bonus, the weather, in the middle of July (!) was cloudy and cool....63 degrees at game time, 4:05 pm....unheard of!

There were 17 of us between the four families and we met up at the park. Its such a gift to have our family be our friends. We had such a great day hanging out and cheering on our team.

Here's some big fans and cute kids.... :)

H's first time at Fenway and a professional sports game.

Babe Ruth's daughter, who is nearly 100 years old threw out the first pitch!

July's 10 on 10

We've had five summers of craziness in a row and finally this summer it seems we are finally able to take things down a notch. We're a little unsure of how that feels, what it looks like, but this day is evidence that we're figuring it out. Daily, we are grateful to be here and not where we were a year ago.

10 pictures on the 10th day of the month (Sunday)!

{Document a snapshot of your life & find beauty among the ordinary things in your day! }

Ginger and I are starting to get a morning routine down....she's proving to be a good companion.

We worked a little, we played a little and for some of us, those are the same thing...work and play. :)

Alayna slept over, so there was Barbies and salon and doggie happening.

Aiden helped me scrape paint on the porch.

H and R went to the gym together and when they got back they were talking about "some old dude" who was lifting a lot of weight. Shaun showed H a couple videos...not sure what they were but they had "some old dude" and there was laughter coming from the room.

Avery's been diligently working through her online math summer work.

Aiden spends hours studying water...the motion, the flow. #HisFather'sSon

On any given day, its a pretty sure bet the bikes will come out at some point.

Card and board games happened most of the afternoon into the evening.

Project 365, Week 28

We had a purposefully quiet week, for the most part. H was away at camp and the kids did't have any built-in activities. Thank you, God for summer!

July 4

We walked down to Main Street for the (very popular) local parade. The kids marched with the church to promote Mega Sports Camp. Aiden rode in the float and the girls walked alongside with Uncle Nathan, handing out candy.

These were three of my favorite during the nearly two hour parade!

We had a quiet afternoon at home, worked on a project and were just together. Then, water balloons.

July 5
I forget why I let them do screens, but they were so cute snuggled up together.

July 6
We did a kid exchange, which meant Aiden had a buddy over. Amanda played with them for a while but then I shooed her away so they could get boy time. After a bit, Aiden's friend said to me, actually I kind of want to do the tea party.  So...that's what they did. (I documented it in case I need it for future reference. ;)

Yay for time at the river! We so enjoy our evening time there. Ginger is learning to love it. :)

July 7
We got a call from H's two-week camp that it would be good if we picked him up a day early so we had a family game of Star Wars Monopoly before Shaun made the trek.

July 8
Fun with friends.

July 9
With special thanks to our Nana and Grandpa John, we made it to Fenway!

July 10
Look who is getting big!